Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Solution Architect
England > London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 91 80
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 552 363 492
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.15% 2.85% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.40% 3.05% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 231 347
10th Percentile £478 £506 £487
25th Percentile £525 £575 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £750
90th Percentile £813 £814 £838
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £54.35 - -
25th Percentile £58.63 £52.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £64.75 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.92% - +21.21%
75th Percentile £69.06 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.63 - -
England median hourly rate £71.27 £66.00 £87.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% -24.57% +31.09%

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 16,233 11,903 16,666
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 93.50% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,816 8,167 12,054
10th Percentile £350 £339 £325
25th Percentile £425 £427 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 143 343
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.04 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.26 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.75 £64.91
England median hourly rate £45.46 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.06% -8.57% -22.22%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -8 81 £675 -2.88% 24
South London -12 6 £637 -2.00% 1
West London -22 6 £625 +6.38% 6
East London -1 3 £630 - 5
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 23 April 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.

1 156 (28.26%) Azure
2 122 (22.10%) AWS
3 93 (16.85%) Agile
4 91 (16.49%) AI
5 90 (16.30%) Security Cleared
6 87 (15.76%) Roadmaps
7 86 (15.58%) DevOps
8 82 (14.86%) Microsoft
9 77 (13.95%) Migration
9 77 (13.95%) SC Cleared
10 71 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
11 68 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 65 (11.78%) Enterprise Architecture
13 57 (10.33%) Technical Leadership
14 55 (9.96%) Integration Patterns
15 54 (9.78%) CI/CD
16 53 (9.60%) ERP
17 52 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 51 (9.24%) Analytics
18 51 (9.24%) Middleware
19 49 (8.88%) Microservices
20 47 (8.51%) SAP
21 43 (7.79%) Oracle
21 43 (7.79%) Python
22 42 (7.61%) .NET
23 41 (7.43%) GCP
23 41 (7.43%) TOGAF
24 39 (7.07%) Data Modelling
25 37 (6.70%) CRM
26 36 (6.52%) Java

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 15 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.27%) Camunda
3 6 (1.09%) Confluence
4 5 (0.91%) Apache
4 5 (0.91%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.72%) CMS
5 4 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.54%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Appian
7 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.18%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (5.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.91%) SAP EWM
3 5 (0.91%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.91%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.72%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 4 (0.72%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 4 (0.72%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.72%) SAP PP
4 4 (0.72%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.54%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.18%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.18%) Maximo
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 156 (28.26%) Azure
2 122 (22.10%) AWS
3 41 (7.43%) GCP
4 31 (5.62%) SaaS
5 28 (5.07%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (3.08%) Entra ID
8 16 (2.90%) Snowflake
9 15 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (2.36%) Serverless
11 11 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (1.99%) SuccessFactors
12 10 (1.81%) PaaS
13 9 (1.63%) Azure AI
13 9 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
15 7 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.81%) Firewall
2 9 (1.63%) WAN
3 8 (1.45%) VPN
4 6 (1.09%) Network Security
4 6 (1.09%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.91%) DNS
6 4 (0.72%) MPLS
7 3 (0.54%) 5G
7 3 (0.54%) OpenVPN
7 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.36%) FTP
8 2 (0.36%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.36%) IPv4
8 2 (0.36%) IPv6
8 2 (0.36%) LAN
8 2 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.36%) SMS
8 2 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.25%) Data Lake
2 16 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.36%) Power BI
4 12 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.09%) Big Data
7 5 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
7 5 (0.91%) Metadata
7 5 (0.91%) Tableau
8 4 (0.72%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.72%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.54%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.54%) Flink
9 3 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.54%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.36%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.36%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (1.99%) JIRA
2 6 (1.09%) MLflow
3 3 (0.54%) Artifactory
3 3 (0.54%) Git
4 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.36%) Chocolatey
4 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.18%) ERwin
5 1 (0.18%) GitLab
5 1 (0.18%) Maven
5 1 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.18%) Subversion
5 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.18%) VersionOne
General
1 153 (27.72%) Finance
2 133 (24.09%) Social Skills
3 56 (10.14%) Banking
4 54 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 37 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (3.44%) Legal
8 18 (3.26%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.90%) Manufacturing
9 16 (2.90%) Retail
10 14 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.99%) Billing
12 10 (1.81%) Law
13 8 (1.45%) Marketing
14 7 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.91%) Local Government
16 4 (0.72%) Back Office
17 3 (0.54%) Investment Banking
18 2 (0.36%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.24%) Middleware
2 42 (7.61%) .NET
3 28 (5.07%) REST
4 18 (3.26%) React
5 13 (2.36%) AngularJS
5 13 (2.36%) Kafka
6 12 (2.17%) .NET Framework
7 10 (1.81%) Vue
8 7 (1.27%) SOAP
9 6 (1.09%) CSS
9 6 (1.09%) HTML
9 6 (1.09%) OAuth
10 5 (0.91%) OpenID
10 5 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.91%) Spring
10 5 (0.91%) XML
11 4 (0.72%) GraphQL
11 4 (0.72%) LDAP
11 4 (0.72%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.60%) Cloud Native
2 21 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (2.90%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (2.54%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.99%) FMCG
7 10 (1.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 9 (1.63%) Mainframe
8 9 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.63%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.09%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.09%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.91%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.72%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.45%) Windows
2 4 (0.72%) Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (16.85%) Agile
2 91 (16.49%) AI
3 87 (15.76%) Roadmaps
4 86 (15.58%) DevOps
5 77 (13.95%) Migration
6 71 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 65 (11.78%) Enterprise Architecture
9 57 (10.33%) Technical Leadership
10 55 (9.96%) Integration Patterns
11 54 (9.78%) CI/CD
12 53 (9.60%) ERP
13 52 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 51 (9.24%) Analytics
15 49 (8.88%) Microservices
16 41 (7.43%) TOGAF
17 39 (7.07%) Data Modelling
18 37 (6.70%) CRM
19 35 (6.34%) Architectural Patterns
19 35 (6.34%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.79%) Python
2 36 (6.52%) Java
3 25 (4.53%) C#
4 20 (3.62%) SQL
5 12 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.81%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.09%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.54%) Bash
8 3 (0.54%) R
8 3 (0.54%) Scala
9 2 (0.36%) Korn
9 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.18%) C++
10 1 (0.18%) RPG
10 1 (0.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 90 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 77 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.34%) Degree
4 22 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.36%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.91%) CISA
11 4 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.54%) CISSP
12 3 (0.54%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.54%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.36%) CCNP
13 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.36%) CISM
13 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.25%) GDPR
2 10 (1.81%) SEPA
3 9 (1.63%) ISO 20022
4 8 (1.45%) PSD2
4 8 (1.45%) QA
5 6 (1.09%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.91%) NIST
6 5 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.72%) HL7
8 3 (0.54%) TARGET2
9 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (3.44%) Docker
2 14 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.54%) Squid
4 2 (0.36%) Ceph
4 2 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.36%) Lustre
4 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (5.43%) Terraform
2 27 (4.89%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.45%) Grafana
3 8 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.27%) FortiGate
4 7 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.72%) Ansible
5 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.36%) Consul
6 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.36%) SCCM
7 1 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 82 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 47 (8.51%) SAP
3 43 (7.79%) Oracle
4 32 (5.80%) Salesforce
5 28 (5.07%) ServiceNow
6 25 (4.53%) Databricks
7 13 (2.36%) Workday
8 12 (2.17%) Software AG
9 11 (1.99%) Ariba
9 11 (1.99%) Google
10 9 (1.63%) Cisco
11 8 (1.45%) IBM
12 6 (1.09%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.91%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.91%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.72%) IFS
14 4 (0.72%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.72%) Planon
14 4 (0.72%) Yardi
15 3 (0.54%) Sparx