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 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 94 88
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 467 367 462
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.88% 2.84% 2.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.11% 3.03% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 237 320
10th Percentile £466 £488 £489
25th Percentile £538 £550 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +1.96% -5.56%
75th Percentile £738 £763 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
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 14,998 12,094 17,012
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 93.68% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,058 8,110 12,281
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £434 £450
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 £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 142 343
10th Percentile £18.09 £21.02 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £19.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +24.37% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60.50 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.31 £65.00
England median hourly rate £37.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.71% +7.69% -23.29%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 73 £650 -0.84% 36
South London -5 8 £750 +15.38% 3
West London -12 7 £625 +6.38% 3
East London -1 1 £630 -6.67% 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 12 March 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.

1 154 (32.98%) Azure
2 100 (21.41%) AWS
3 87 (18.63%) Roadmaps
4 83 (17.77%) Security Cleared
5 76 (16.27%) Microsoft
6 70 (14.99%) SC Cleared
7 67 (14.35%) Agile
7 67 (14.35%) DevOps
8 64 (13.70%) AI
9 62 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 58 (12.42%) Enterprise Architecture
11 55 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 50 (10.71%) Microservices
13 50 (10.71%) Middleware
14 47 (10.06%) Technical Leadership
15 46 (9.85%) Migration
15 46 (9.85%) TOGAF
16 43 (9.21%) GCP
16 43 (9.21%) Integration Patterns
16 43 (9.21%) SAP
17 41 (8.78%) ERP
18 34 (7.28%) CI/CD
19 33 (7.07%) Analytics
19 33 (7.07%) CRM
19 33 (7.07%) Python
19 33 (7.07%) SaaS
20 32 (6.85%) Architectural Design
20 32 (6.85%) Data Modelling
20 32 (6.85%) Degree

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 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.07%) Camunda
2 5 (1.07%) Confluence
3 4 (0.86%) CMS
3 4 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.64%) nginx
5 2 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 30 (6.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.07%) SAP EWM
3 5 (1.07%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.86%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.86%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.64%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 3 (0.64%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.64%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.64%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.43%) SAP BRIM
6 2 (0.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.21%) SAP AFS
7 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 154 (32.98%) Azure
2 100 (21.41%) AWS
3 43 (9.21%) GCP
4 33 (7.07%) SaaS
5 22 (4.71%) Power Platform
6 19 (4.07%) Entra ID
7 16 (3.43%) Snowflake
8 15 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (1.50%) Serverless
13 6 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.28%) iPaaS
14 5 (1.07%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.07%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.14%) Firewall
2 9 (1.93%) VPN
2 9 (1.93%) WAN
3 7 (1.50%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.07%) Network Security
4 5 (1.07%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.86%) DNS
6 3 (0.64%) MPLS
6 3 (0.64%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.43%) 5G
7 2 (0.43%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.43%) IPv4
7 2 (0.43%) IPv6
7 2 (0.43%) LAN
7 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.21%) DHCP
8 1 (0.21%) Internet
8 1 (0.21%) SDH
8 1 (0.21%) SMTP
8 1 (0.21%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (3.00%) Data Lake
2 14 (3.00%) SQL Server
3 13 (2.78%) Power BI
4 7 (1.50%) Tableau
5 5 (1.07%) Electronic Patient Records
5 5 (1.07%) Metadata
5 5 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.86%) Big Data
6 4 (0.86%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.64%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.43%) GIS
8 2 (0.43%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.43%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.43%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.43%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (1.50%) JIRA
2 3 (0.64%) Git
2 3 (0.64%) MLflow
3 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.43%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.43%) GitLab
3 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.43%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
General
1 151 (32.33%) Finance
2 119 (25.48%) Social Skills
3 55 (11.78%) Banking
4 47 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 40 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.50%) Legal
7 20 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (3.21%) Billing
8 15 (3.21%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (3.00%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.78%) Retail
11 10 (2.14%) Law
12 9 (1.93%) Marketing
13 7 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.86%) Back Office
14 4 (0.86%) Private Banking
15 3 (0.64%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (10.71%) Middleware
2 27 (5.78%) .NET
3 24 (5.14%) REST
4 11 (2.36%) AngularJS
5 10 (2.14%) OAuth
5 10 (2.14%) React
6 9 (1.93%) Kafka
6 9 (1.93%) OpenID
7 7 (1.50%) SOAP
8 6 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.28%) SAML
8 6 (1.28%) Vue
9 5 (1.07%) .NET Core
9 5 (1.07%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.07%) CSS
9 5 (1.07%) HTML
9 5 (1.07%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.07%) XML
10 4 (0.86%) JSON
10 4 (0.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (3.21%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.36%) FMCG
5 11 (2.36%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.28%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.28%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.28%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.28%) Taxonomies
9 5 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.07%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (0.86%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.86%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.71%) Windows
2 4 (0.86%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (18.63%) Roadmaps
2 67 (14.35%) Agile
2 67 (14.35%) DevOps
3 64 (13.70%) AI
4 62 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 58 (12.42%) Enterprise Architecture
6 55 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 50 (10.71%) Microservices
9 47 (10.06%) Technical Leadership
10 46 (9.85%) Migration
10 46 (9.85%) TOGAF
11 43 (9.21%) Integration Patterns
12 41 (8.78%) ERP
13 34 (7.28%) CI/CD
14 33 (7.07%) Analytics
14 33 (7.07%) CRM
15 32 (6.85%) Architectural Design
15 32 (6.85%) Data Modelling
16 27 (5.78%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 33 (7.07%) Python
2 19 (4.07%) C#
2 19 (4.07%) Java
3 18 (3.85%) SQL
4 10 (2.14%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.50%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.07%) Bash
6 5 (1.07%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.64%) R
8 2 (0.43%) Korn
8 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.21%) RPG
9 1 (0.21%) Scala
9 1 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 83 (17.77%) Security Cleared
2 70 (14.99%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.85%) Degree
4 24 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.07%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.57%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.07%) CISSP
11 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.86%) CISM
12 3 (0.64%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.43%) CCNP
13 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.43%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.21%) CSSLP
14 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.21%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.21%) GDPR
2 8 (1.71%) ISO 20022
2 8 (1.71%) PSD2
2 8 (1.71%) QA
3 7 (1.50%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.28%) NIST
5 5 (1.07%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.07%) EU AI Act
5 5 (1.07%) SEPA
6 4 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.86%) HL7
7 3 (0.64%) TARGET2
8 2 (0.43%) GRC
8 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.21%) NCSC
9 1 (0.21%) PMO
9 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (4.28%) Docker
2 12 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.64%) Squid
4 2 (0.43%) Ceph
4 2 (0.43%) Firmware
4 2 (0.43%) Lustre
4 2 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (4.93%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.07%) Terraform
3 7 (1.50%) FortiGate
3 7 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.28%) Grafana
4 6 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.07%) Ansible
6 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.43%) Consul
7 2 (0.43%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.43%) SCCM
8 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 76 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 43 (9.21%) SAP
3 31 (6.64%) Oracle
4 29 (6.21%) Salesforce
5 19 (4.07%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.64%) Databricks
7 13 (2.78%) Google
8 12 (2.57%) Cisco
8 12 (2.57%) Software AG
8 12 (2.57%) Workday
9 9 (1.93%) IBM
10 8 (1.71%) Ariba
10 8 (1.71%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.50%) IFS
12 5 (1.07%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.07%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.07%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.86%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.86%) Juniper
14 3 (0.64%) Adobe