Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Solution Architect
England > London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 92 84
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 432 379 470
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.83% 2.79% 2.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% 2.98% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 231 311
10th Percentile £463 £489 £475
25th Percentile £558 £550 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £643 £640
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% +0.39% -5.19%
75th Percentile £739 £769 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
England median daily rate £625 £615 £650
% change year-on-year +1.63% -5.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £63.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.06 £52.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £77.75 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.58% - -
75th Percentile £94.69 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £83.82 £66.00 £81.00
% change year-on-year +27.00% -18.52% +15.71%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 14,143 12,712 17,275
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 93.62% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,424 8,189 12,471
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 140 336
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.98 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £19.05
Median hourly rate £34.14 £36.75 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +27.27% -16.91%
75th Percentile £59.72 £53.75 £49.28
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.95 £65.88
England median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.03% - -9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in London

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in London

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in London over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in London

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in London

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Solutions Architect in London over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Solutions Architect in London

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 15 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -6 76 £675 +3.85% 26
West London -18 5 £625 - 9
South London - 4 £750 - 2
East London -3 1 £630 -9.68% 2
North London - 1 £700 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 February 2026, Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 148 (34.26%) Azure
2 93 (21.53%) AWS
3 75 (17.36%) Security Cleared
4 72 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 71 (16.44%) Microsoft
6 64 (14.81%) Agile
6 64 (14.81%) SC Cleared
7 60 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 59 (13.66%) AI
9 58 (13.43%) Enterprise Architecture
10 56 (12.96%) DevOps
11 49 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 48 (11.11%) Microservices
13 46 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
15 41 (9.49%) Middleware
16 40 (9.26%) SAP
17 38 (8.80%) TOGAF
18 36 (8.33%) GCP
19 35 (8.10%) Integration Patterns
19 35 (8.10%) Migration
20 34 (7.87%) SaaS
21 31 (7.18%) CRM
22 30 (6.94%) ERP
22 30 (6.94%) Salesforce
23 28 (6.48%) Analytics
23 28 (6.48%) Architectural Design
23 28 (6.48%) Degree
23 28 (6.48%) Machine Learning
24 27 (6.25%) CI/CD

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.39%) Confluence
3 4 (0.93%) CMS
3 4 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.69%) Camunda
5 2 (0.46%) Apache
5 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.46%) nginx
5 2 (0.46%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.23%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 24 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.16%) SAP EWM
3 5 (1.16%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.93%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.93%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.69%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.69%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.69%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.46%) SAP BRIM
6 2 (0.46%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.23%) Maximo
7 1 (0.23%) SAP AFS
7 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 148 (34.26%) Azure
2 93 (21.53%) AWS
3 36 (8.33%) GCP
4 34 (7.87%) SaaS
5 19 (4.40%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 16 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.01%) Snowflake
9 10 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (1.62%) iPaaS
11 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.39%) Serverless
13 5 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (1.16%) Fivetran
13 5 (1.16%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.31%) Firewall
1 10 (2.31%) WAN
2 8 (1.85%) SD-WAN
2 8 (1.85%) VPN
3 5 (1.16%) DNS
3 5 (1.16%) MPLS
3 5 (1.16%) Network Security
4 4 (0.93%) 5G
4 4 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.69%) BGP
5 3 (0.69%) DHCP
5 3 (0.69%) LAN
5 3 (0.69%) OSPF
5 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.46%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.46%) 4G
6 2 (0.46%) IPsec
6 2 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.46%) VLAN
6 2 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.55%) Power BI
4 10 (2.31%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.62%) Tableau
6 3 (0.69%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.69%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.69%) Metadata
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.46%) GIS
7 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.46%) Pinecone
7 2 (0.46%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 8 (1.85%) JIRA
2 4 (0.93%) MLflow
3 3 (0.69%) Git
4 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.46%) Chocolatey
4 2 (0.46%) GitLab
4 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 141 (32.64%) Finance
2 114 (26.39%) Social Skills
3 47 (10.88%) Banking
4 40 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 38 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.40%) Legal
7 17 (3.94%) Billing
8 15 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (3.47%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.78%) Marketing
10 12 (2.78%) Retail
10 12 (2.78%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.31%) Law
12 9 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.16%) Back Office
15 4 (0.93%) Electronics
15 4 (0.93%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.69%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.49%) Middleware
2 22 (5.09%) .NET
3 21 (4.86%) REST
4 9 (2.08%) AngularJS
4 9 (2.08%) OAuth
5 8 (1.85%) JSON
5 8 (1.85%) OpenID
5 8 (1.85%) React
5 8 (1.85%) SOAP
6 7 (1.62%) Kafka
7 6 (1.39%) XML
8 5 (1.16%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.16%) SAML
8 5 (1.16%) Vue
9 4 (0.93%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.93%) CSS
9 4 (0.93%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.93%) gRPC
9 4 (0.93%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.55%) Data Centre
3 11 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (2.55%) FMCG
4 10 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.39%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.39%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.39%) Taxonomies
8 5 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.16%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.93%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.93%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.93%) Reinsurance
9 4 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.85%) Windows
2 4 (0.93%) Linux
3 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 64 (14.81%) Agile
3 60 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 59 (13.66%) AI
5 58 (13.43%) Enterprise Architecture
6 56 (12.96%) DevOps
7 49 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 48 (11.11%) Microservices
9 46 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
11 38 (8.80%) TOGAF
12 35 (8.10%) Integration Patterns
12 35 (8.10%) Migration
13 31 (7.18%) CRM
14 30 (6.94%) ERP
15 28 (6.48%) Analytics
15 28 (6.48%) Architectural Design
15 28 (6.48%) Machine Learning
16 27 (6.25%) CI/CD
17 26 (6.02%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.25%) Python
2 17 (3.94%) SQL
3 16 (3.70%) Java
4 15 (3.47%) C#
5 8 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.85%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.16%) Bash
6 5 (1.16%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.69%) R
8 2 (0.46%) Korn
8 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.23%) RPG
9 1 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 75 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 64 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.48%) Degree
4 20 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.31%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.16%) CISSP
10 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.93%) CISM
11 3 (0.69%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.46%) CCNP
12 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.46%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.23%) CCIE
13 1 (0.23%) CSSLP
13 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.79%) GDPR
2 8 (1.85%) QA
3 6 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.16%) EU AI Act
4 5 (1.16%) NIST
4 5 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.93%) ISO 20022
5 4 (0.93%) PSD2
5 4 (0.93%) SEPA
6 3 (0.69%) GRC
6 3 (0.69%) NCSC
7 2 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.46%) TARGET2
8 1 (0.23%) COBIT
8 1 (0.23%) HL7
8 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (4.17%) Docker
2 11 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Ceph
3 2 (0.46%) Firmware
3 2 (0.46%) Lustre
3 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (0.46%) Squid
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (4.63%) Terraform
2 18 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.39%) FortiGate
3 6 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.16%) Ansible
5 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.69%) Grafana
6 3 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.46%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.46%) SCCM
8 1 (0.23%) Consul
8 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 71 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.26%) SAP
3 30 (6.94%) Salesforce
4 25 (5.79%) Oracle
5 19 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.01%) Databricks
7 11 (2.55%) Cisco
7 11 (2.55%) Google
7 11 (2.55%) Software AG
8 9 (2.08%) Workday
9 8 (1.85%) IBM
9 8 (1.85%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.62%) IFS
11 5 (1.16%) Adobe
11 5 (1.16%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.93%) Dell
12 4 (0.93%) Foundry
12 4 (0.93%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.69%) Juniper
13 3 (0.69%) OneLogin