Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Solution Architect
England > London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 93 84
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 658 355 509
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.48% 2.88% 2.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.75% 3.08% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 211 348
10th Percentile £493 £500 £475
25th Percentile £525 £568 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -5.63%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £775
90th Percentile £800 £800 £888
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £52.98 - £52.55
25th Percentile £55.19 £52.50 £53.38
Median hourly rate £60.25 £60.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +5.26% +9.57%
75th Percentile £65.19 £67.50 £60.88
90th Percentile £67.33 - £61.85
England median hourly rate £71.27 £64.50 £89.00
% change year-on-year +10.50% -27.53% +33.33%

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 17,568 11,533 16,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.54% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,592 7,808 11,861
10th Percentile £358 £341 £325
25th Percentile £432 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 166 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.12 £15.97
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.30 £20.02
Median hourly rate £39.50 £33.45 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% +20.26% -23.33%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.69 £46.48
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.38 £66.80
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -12.11%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +18 110 £675 -2.88% 50
South London -8 6 £637 -0.08% 5
West London -22 4 £650 +10.64% 24
East London -3 3 £630 +20.00% 7
North London - 1 £650 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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.

1 196 (29.79%) Azure
2 145 (22.04%) AWS
3 126 (19.15%) Security Cleared
4 114 (17.33%) AI
5 109 (16.57%) Migration
6 107 (16.26%) SC Cleared
7 105 (15.96%) DevOps
8 99 (15.05%) Agile
9 97 (14.74%) Roadmaps
10 92 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
11 84 (12.77%) Microsoft
12 79 (12.01%) Enterprise Architecture
13 72 (10.94%) CI/CD
14 66 (10.03%) Integration Patterns
15 63 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
16 62 (9.42%) Analytics
17 58 (8.81%) TOGAF
18 56 (8.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 55 (8.36%) SAP
19 55 (8.36%) Technical Leadership
20 52 (7.90%) .NET
21 50 (7.60%) ERP
22 48 (7.29%) Event-Driven
23 46 (6.99%) GCP
23 46 (6.99%) Infrastructure as Code
23 46 (6.99%) Microservices
24 45 (6.84%) Data Modelling
24 45 (6.84%) Degree
25 43 (6.53%) Data Architecture
26 42 (6.38%) Architectural Patterns

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 16 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.22%) Camunda
3 7 (1.06%) Confluence
4 4 (0.61%) Apache
4 4 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.46%) nginx
6 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.15%) Appian
7 1 (0.15%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.15%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (4.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.22%) SAP BRIM
3 7 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 4 (0.61%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 4 (0.61%) SAP Convergent Charging
6 3 (0.46%) SAP FSCM
6 3 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.46%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.30%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.15%) DELMIA
8 1 (0.15%) Maximo
8 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 196 (29.79%) Azure
2 145 (22.04%) AWS
3 46 (6.99%) GCP
4 33 (5.02%) Power Platform
5 29 (4.41%) SaaS
6 21 (3.19%) Serverless
7 19 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (2.74%) Entra ID
9 17 (2.58%) Snowflake
10 16 (2.43%) PaaS
11 13 (1.98%) GitHub
12 12 (1.82%) Azure AI
13 11 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
13 11 (1.67%) IaaS
13 11 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.52%) Power Automate
15 9 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (1.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.98%) Firewall
2 11 (1.67%) Network Security
2 11 (1.67%) VPN
3 8 (1.22%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.06%) WAN
5 6 (0.91%) DNS
5 6 (0.91%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.61%) MPLS
7 3 (0.46%) FTP
7 3 (0.46%) OpenVPN
7 3 (0.46%) SSL
7 3 (0.46%) VoIP
7 3 (0.46%) Wireless
8 2 (0.30%) DHCP
8 2 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.30%) IPv4
8 2 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.30%) SDH
8 2 (0.30%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.41%) Data Lake
2 18 (2.74%) Power BI
3 14 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.37%) Metadata
5 9 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.91%) Big Data
7 5 (0.76%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.76%) Tableau
8 4 (0.61%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.61%) Flink
8 4 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.46%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (0.46%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.30%) Db2
Development Applications
1 12 (1.82%) JIRA
2 6 (0.91%) MLflow
3 4 (0.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.61%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.46%) Maven
5 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.30%) ERwin
5 2 (0.30%) Git
5 2 (0.30%) GitLab
6 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.15%) MSI
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.15%) Subversion
6 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.15%) VersionOne
General
1 169 (25.68%) Finance
2 133 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 61 (9.27%) Public Sector
4 53 (8.05%) Banking
5 37 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.10%) Retail
7 24 (3.65%) Telecoms
8 20 (3.04%) Billing
9 19 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.89%) Legal
10 15 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.76%) Law
13 5 (0.76%) Local Government
13 5 (0.76%) Marketing
14 3 (0.46%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.46%) Automotive
14 3 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.90%) .NET
2 36 (5.47%) Middleware
3 31 (4.71%) REST
4 19 (2.89%) .NET Framework
5 17 (2.58%) React
6 13 (1.98%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.37%) Kafka
8 8 (1.22%) Vue
9 7 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.91%) .NET Core
10 6 (0.91%) CSS
10 6 (0.91%) HTML
10 6 (0.91%) SOAP
11 5 (0.76%) HTML5 Canvas
11 5 (0.76%) LDAP
11 5 (0.76%) Spring
12 4 (0.61%) FHIR
12 4 (0.61%) PySpark
12 4 (0.61%) SAML
12 4 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 64 (9.73%) Cloud Native
2 23 (3.50%) Product Ownership
3 19 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (2.58%) Mainframe
5 15 (2.28%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.28%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 8 (1.22%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.22%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.06%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.06%) NHS
11 6 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.22%) Windows
2 3 (0.46%) Linux
3 2 (0.30%) Android
3 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (17.33%) AI
2 109 (16.57%) Migration
3 105 (15.96%) DevOps
4 99 (15.05%) Agile
5 97 (14.74%) Roadmaps
6 92 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 79 (12.01%) Enterprise Architecture
8 72 (10.94%) CI/CD
9 66 (10.03%) Integration Patterns
10 63 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
11 62 (9.42%) Analytics
12 58 (8.81%) TOGAF
13 56 (8.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 55 (8.36%) Technical Leadership
15 50 (7.60%) ERP
16 48 (7.29%) Event-Driven
17 46 (6.99%) Infrastructure as Code
17 46 (6.99%) Microservices
18 45 (6.84%) Data Modelling
19 43 (6.53%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 42 (6.38%) Python
2 36 (5.47%) Java
3 26 (3.95%) C#
4 22 (3.34%) SQL
5 14 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.67%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.91%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.46%) R
9 2 (0.30%) Bash
9 2 (0.30%) Bicep
9 2 (0.30%) Korn
9 2 (0.30%) Scala
10 1 (0.15%) ABAP
10 1 (0.15%) C++
10 1 (0.15%) Groovy
10 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.15%) RPG
10 1 (0.15%) X++
Qualifications
1 126 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 107 (16.26%) SC Cleared
3 45 (6.84%) Degree
4 19 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.76%) CISA
12 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.61%) CISSP
14 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 2 (0.30%) CCNP
15 2 (0.30%) CCSP
15 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.26%) GDPR
2 13 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.82%) SEPA
4 10 (1.52%) NIST
4 10 (1.52%) PSD2
4 10 (1.52%) QA
5 9 (1.37%) ISO 20022
5 9 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.61%) HL7
7 4 (0.61%) NCSC
7 4 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.46%) TARGET2
9 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (3.19%) Docker
2 14 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.46%) Squid
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 33 (5.02%) Terraform
2 32 (4.86%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.98%) Ansible
4 7 (1.06%) FortiGate
4 7 (1.06%) Grafana
4 7 (1.06%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.46%) SCCM
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
6 2 (0.30%) Consul
6 2 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.30%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 84 (12.77%) Microsoft
2 55 (8.36%) SAP
3 42 (6.38%) Oracle
4 39 (5.93%) ServiceNow
5 32 (4.86%) Databricks
6 30 (4.56%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.28%) Cisco
8 11 (1.67%) Ariba
8 11 (1.67%) Google
8 11 (1.67%) Workday
9 8 (1.22%) IFS
9 8 (1.22%) Software AG
10 7 (1.06%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.91%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.76%) Aruba
12 5 (0.76%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.76%) IBM
12 5 (0.76%) Siemens
13 4 (0.61%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.61%) Yardi