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 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 96 81
Rank change year-on-year +4 -15 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 525 357 487
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.02% 2.81% 2.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.26% 3.01% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 225 344
10th Percentile £480 £506 £488
25th Percentile £525 £575 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £639
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +1.76% -5.37%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £748
90th Percentile £813 £820 £821
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.84%
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% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £69.06 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.63 - -
England median hourly rate £71.27 £66.00 £87.00
% change year-on-year +7.98% -24.14% +28.89%

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 16,102 11,872 16,662
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 93.49% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,734 8,142 12,058
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £440
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 £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 142 344
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.21 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £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 £63.10 £50.75 £44.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.88 £64.86
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -18.60%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -17 75 £675 - 48
South London -14 6 £637 -2.00%
West London -23 6 £625 +6.38% 7
East London -3 3 £630 - 3
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 18 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.

1 151 (28.76%) Azure
2 118 (22.48%) AWS
3 90 (17.14%) Agile
4 88 (16.76%) Roadmaps
4 88 (16.76%) Security Cleared
5 86 (16.38%) AI
6 80 (15.24%) DevOps
7 79 (15.05%) Microsoft
8 75 (14.29%) SC Cleared
9 69 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (12.57%) Migration
11 65 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 64 (12.19%) Enterprise Architecture
13 55 (10.48%) Integration Patterns
14 53 (10.10%) ERP
15 52 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 52 (9.90%) Technical Leadership
16 51 (9.71%) Analytics
16 51 (9.71%) Middleware
17 48 (9.14%) Microservices
18 46 (8.76%) CI/CD
18 46 (8.76%) SAP
19 42 (8.00%) Oracle
19 42 (8.00%) Python
20 41 (7.81%) TOGAF
21 39 (7.43%) .NET
21 39 (7.43%) Data Modelling
21 39 (7.43%) GCP
22 36 (6.86%) CRM
23 35 (6.67%) 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 14 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.33%) Camunda
3 6 (1.14%) Confluence
4 5 (0.95%) Apache
4 5 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.76%) CMS
5 4 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.57%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.57%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Appian
7 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.19%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.19%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (5.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.95%) SAP EWM
3 5 (0.95%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.95%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.76%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 4 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 4 (0.76%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.76%) SAP PP
4 4 (0.76%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.57%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.57%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.19%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.19%) Maximo
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 151 (28.76%) Azure
2 118 (22.48%) AWS
3 39 (7.43%) GCP
4 31 (5.90%) SaaS
5 26 (4.95%) Power Platform
6 17 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (3.05%) Entra ID
8 15 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (2.86%) Snowflake
9 10 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (1.71%) Serverless
11 8 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (1.52%) PaaS
12 7 (1.33%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (1.33%) Azure AI
12 7 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.90%) Firewall
1 10 (1.90%) WAN
2 9 (1.71%) VPN
3 7 (1.33%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.95%) DNS
4 5 (0.95%) Network Security
5 4 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.57%) 5G
6 3 (0.57%) MPLS
6 3 (0.57%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.38%) FTP
7 2 (0.38%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.38%) IPv4
7 2 (0.38%) IPv6
7 2 (0.38%) LAN
7 2 (0.38%) SMS
7 2 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.19%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.14%) Data Lake
2 16 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.48%) Power BI
4 12 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.14%) Big Data
7 5 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
7 5 (0.95%) Metadata
7 5 (0.95%) Tableau
8 4 (0.76%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.76%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.57%) Flink
9 3 (0.57%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.38%) GIS
10 2 (0.38%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.38%) Weaviate
11 1 (0.19%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 11 (2.10%) JIRA
2 4 (0.76%) MLflow
3 3 (0.57%) Artifactory
3 3 (0.57%) Git
4 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.38%) Chocolatey
4 2 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.38%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.19%) ERwin
5 1 (0.19%) GitLab
5 1 (0.19%) Maven
5 1 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.19%) Subversion
5 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.19%) VersionOne
General
1 151 (28.76%) Finance
2 128 (24.38%) Social Skills
3 53 (10.10%) Banking
3 53 (10.10%) Public Sector
4 37 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (3.62%) Legal
7 16 (3.05%) Manufacturing
7 16 (3.05%) Retail
8 15 (2.86%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.10%) Billing
11 10 (1.90%) Law
12 9 (1.71%) Marketing
13 7 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.95%) Local Government
15 4 (0.76%) Back Office
16 3 (0.57%) Investment Banking
17 2 (0.38%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.71%) Middleware
2 39 (7.43%) .NET
3 29 (5.52%) REST
4 17 (3.24%) React
5 13 (2.48%) AngularJS
5 13 (2.48%) Kafka
6 12 (2.29%) .NET Framework
7 9 (1.71%) Vue
8 7 (1.33%) SOAP
9 6 (1.14%) CSS
9 6 (1.14%) HTML
9 6 (1.14%) OAuth
10 5 (0.95%) OpenID
10 5 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.95%) Spring
10 5 (0.95%) XML
11 4 (0.76%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.76%) GraphQL
11 4 (0.76%) LDAP
11 4 (0.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (3.05%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.10%) FMCG
7 9 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.14%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.14%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (0.76%) NHS
12 4 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.52%) Windows
2 4 (0.76%) Linux
3 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (17.14%) Agile
2 88 (16.76%) Roadmaps
3 86 (16.38%) AI
4 80 (15.24%) DevOps
5 69 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (12.57%) Migration
7 65 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 64 (12.19%) Enterprise Architecture
9 55 (10.48%) Integration Patterns
10 53 (10.10%) ERP
11 52 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 52 (9.90%) Technical Leadership
12 51 (9.71%) Analytics
13 48 (9.14%) Microservices
14 46 (8.76%) CI/CD
15 41 (7.81%) TOGAF
16 39 (7.43%) Data Modelling
17 36 (6.86%) CRM
18 35 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
19 34 (6.48%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 42 (8.00%) Python
2 35 (6.67%) Java
3 23 (4.38%) C#
4 20 (3.81%) SQL
5 12 (2.29%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.14%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.57%) Bash
8 3 (0.57%) R
8 3 (0.57%) Scala
9 2 (0.38%) Korn
9 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.19%) C++
10 1 (0.19%) RPG
10 1 (0.19%) X++
Qualifications
1 88 (16.76%) Security Cleared
2 75 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.48%) Degree
4 22 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.57%) CISSP
10 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.57%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CCNP
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CISM
12 1 (0.19%) CCIE
12 1 (0.19%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.52%) GDPR
2 8 (1.52%) ISO 20022
2 8 (1.52%) PSD2
2 8 (1.52%) QA
3 6 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.95%) NIST
4 5 (0.95%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.95%) SEPA
5 4 (0.76%) HL7
6 3 (0.57%) TARGET2
7 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
8 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (3.62%) Docker
2 13 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.57%) Squid
4 2 (0.38%) Ceph
4 2 (0.38%) Firmware
4 2 (0.38%) Lustre
4 2 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.95%) Terraform
3 8 (1.52%) Grafana
3 8 (1.52%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.33%) FortiGate
4 7 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.76%) Ansible
5 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.38%) Consul
6 2 (0.38%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.38%) SCCM
7 1 (0.19%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 79 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.76%) SAP
3 42 (8.00%) Oracle
4 32 (6.10%) Salesforce
5 24 (4.57%) ServiceNow
6 23 (4.38%) Databricks
7 13 (2.48%) Workday
8 12 (2.29%) Software AG
9 11 (2.10%) Google
10 10 (1.90%) Ariba
11 9 (1.71%) Cisco
12 7 (1.33%) IBM
13 6 (1.14%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.95%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.95%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.95%) Palo Alto
15 4 (0.76%) Adobe
15 4 (0.76%) Atlassian
15 4 (0.76%) IFS
15 4 (0.76%) Yardi