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 10 December 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 101 84
Rank change year-on-year -9 -17 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 361 385 528
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.53% 2.47% 2.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.74% 2.64% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 240 374
10th Percentile £455 £485 £500
25th Percentile £563 £536 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £644 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £761 £738
90th Percentile £840 £863 £800
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.82 £65.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +27.97% -12.67% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025. 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 68 £669 +2.85% 21
East London +7 6 £688 -4.51% 1
West London -9 5 £625 -12.28% 9
South London - 4 £750 - 1
North London - 2 £800 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 2025, 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.

1 149 (41.27%) Azure
2 82 (22.71%) AWS
3 70 (19.39%) Microsoft
3 70 (19.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 64 (17.73%) Roadmaps
5 56 (15.51%) Security Cleared
6 55 (15.24%) Enterprise Architecture
7 54 (14.96%) Agile
7 54 (14.96%) TOGAF
8 52 (14.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 48 (13.30%) Technical Leadership
10 47 (13.02%) SC Cleared
11 43 (11.91%) DevOps
12 40 (11.08%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (10.80%) Microservices
13 39 (10.80%) Migration
14 38 (10.53%) GCP
15 34 (9.42%) SaaS
16 32 (8.86%) AI
16 32 (8.86%) SAP
17 30 (8.31%) Data Modelling
18 28 (7.76%) Integration Patterns
18 28 (7.76%) Middleware
18 28 (7.76%) SDLC
19 26 (7.20%) Salesforce
20 25 (6.93%) ERP
21 24 (6.65%) Architectural Design
21 24 (6.65%) Data Architecture
21 24 (6.65%) ServiceNow
22 23 (6.37%) 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 (3.88%) Confluence
2 12 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.39%) CMS
5 3 (0.83%) NServiceBus
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.28%) Appian
7 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.28%) Drupal
7 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.39%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (5.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.66%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (1.66%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.83%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.83%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.83%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.83%) SAP PM
5 3 (0.83%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.83%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.55%) Endur
6 2 (0.55%) Maximo
6 2 (0.55%) SAP BRIM
6 2 (0.55%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.55%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.28%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 149 (41.27%) Azure
2 82 (22.71%) AWS
3 38 (10.53%) GCP
4 34 (9.42%) SaaS
5 20 (5.54%) Entra ID
6 19 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 14 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.77%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (2.77%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (2.77%) PaaS
9 10 (2.77%) Snowflake
10 8 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (1.66%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.39%) Azure API Management
12 5 (1.39%) Fivetran
12 5 (1.39%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.88%) Firewall
2 9 (2.49%) WAN
3 8 (2.22%) VPN
4 7 (1.94%) DNS
5 6 (1.66%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.39%) BGP
6 5 (1.39%) DHCP
6 5 (1.39%) LAN
6 5 (1.39%) MPLS
6 5 (1.39%) Network Security
6 5 (1.39%) OSPF
7 4 (1.11%) VLAN
8 3 (0.83%) 5G
8 3 (0.83%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.55%) 4G
9 2 (0.55%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (3.60%) Data Lake
3 7 (1.94%) Power BI
3 7 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.11%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.83%) Big Data
5 3 (0.83%) Metadata
5 3 (0.83%) SAP BW
5 3 (0.83%) Tableau
6 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.28%) Redis
7 1 (0.28%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (3.60%) JIRA
2 3 (0.83%) Git
2 3 (0.83%) GitLab
2 3 (0.83%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.55%) Chocolatey
4 1 (0.28%) MLflow
4 1 (0.28%) Spinnaker
General
1 121 (33.52%) Finance
2 112 (31.02%) Social Skills
3 36 (9.97%) Banking
4 35 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 34 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (4.16%) Billing
7 15 (4.16%) Legal
8 13 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (3.60%) Retail
8 13 (3.60%) Telecoms
9 11 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.49%) Marketing
11 8 (2.22%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.94%) Back Office
12 7 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.66%) Law
14 5 (1.39%) General Ledger
15 4 (1.11%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.83%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.76%) Middleware
2 19 (5.26%) .NET
2 19 (5.26%) REST
3 10 (2.77%) OAuth
4 9 (2.49%) RESTful
5 8 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 8 (2.22%) JSON
5 8 (2.22%) Kafka
6 7 (1.94%) OAuth2
6 7 (1.94%) SOAP
7 6 (1.66%) Node.js
7 6 (1.66%) React
7 6 (1.66%) Web Services
7 6 (1.66%) XML
8 5 (1.39%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (1.39%) OpenID
8 5 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.11%) gRPC
9 4 (1.11%) SAML
10 3 (0.83%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.77%) FMCG
5 9 (2.49%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.39%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.39%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.39%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.39%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.39%) Taxonomies
10 4 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.11%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.11%) PDA
10 4 (1.11%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.66%) Windows
2 4 (1.11%) Linux
3 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (19.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 64 (17.73%) Roadmaps
3 55 (15.24%) Enterprise Architecture
4 54 (14.96%) Agile
4 54 (14.96%) TOGAF
5 52 (14.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 48 (13.30%) Technical Leadership
7 43 (11.91%) DevOps
8 40 (11.08%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (10.80%) Microservices
9 39 (10.80%) Migration
10 32 (8.86%) AI
11 30 (8.31%) Data Modelling
12 28 (7.76%) Integration Patterns
12 28 (7.76%) SDLC
13 25 (6.93%) ERP
14 24 (6.65%) Architectural Design
14 24 (6.65%) Data Architecture
15 23 (6.37%) CI/CD
15 23 (6.37%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 23 (6.37%) Python
2 15 (4.16%) Java
3 11 (3.05%) C#
3 11 (3.05%) SQL
4 10 (2.77%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.49%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.39%) Bash
6 5 (1.39%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.55%) R
8 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.28%) Go
8 1 (0.28%) PHP
8 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 56 (15.51%) Security Cleared
2 47 (13.02%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.82%) Degree
4 12 (3.32%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.49%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.11%) CCNP
9 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.11%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.83%) CCIE
10 3 (0.83%) CCSE
10 3 (0.83%) CISSP
10 3 (0.83%) JNCIP
10 3 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.09%) GDPR
2 9 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.22%) NIST
4 6 (1.66%) QA
5 5 (1.39%) COBIT
5 5 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.39%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.11%) GRC
7 3 (0.83%) MiFID
7 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.55%) NCSC
8 2 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.28%) EMIR
9 1 (0.28%) PMO
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (3.32%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.77%) Docker
3 3 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.55%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.55%) vSphere
5 1 (0.28%) Ceph
5 1 (0.28%) Firmware
5 1 (0.28%) Lustre
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (4.71%) Terraform
2 13 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.94%) Ansible
4 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.55%) SCCM
7 1 (0.28%) Grafana
7 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 70 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.86%) SAP
3 26 (7.20%) Salesforce
4 24 (6.65%) ServiceNow
5 20 (5.54%) Oracle
6 17 (4.71%) Databricks
7 15 (4.16%) Google
8 10 (2.77%) Workday
9 8 (2.22%) Cisco
9 8 (2.22%) IBM
10 5 (1.39%) F5
10 5 (1.39%) IFS
10 5 (1.39%) Juniper
11 4 (1.11%) Adobe
11 4 (1.11%) Concur
11 4 (1.11%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.11%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.11%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.11%) Remedy
11 4 (1.11%) Zscaler