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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 97 81
Rank change year-on-year +26 -16 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 727 390 511
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.68% 2.88% 2.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.96% 3.09% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 228 359
10th Percentile £492 £485 £475
25th Percentile £525 £566 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £775
90th Percentile £788 £800 £888
England median daily rate £625 £625 £638
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -4.14%
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 £61.50 £87.50
% change year-on-year +15.89% -29.71% +32.58%

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 18,343 12,617 16,363
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.26% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,048 8,531 11,676
10th Percentile £359 £331 £330
25th Percentile £445 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £762 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 196 296
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.47 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.73 £22.98 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +13.27% -24.51%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £63.75 £69.13
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.78% -29.55% -6.98%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +15 103 £675 - 30
South London -13 6 £637 -2.00%
West London -11 5 £688 +52.78% 9
East London +1 3 £630 -6.67% 2
North London - 1 £650 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 217 (29.85%) Azure
2 157 (21.60%) AWS
3 127 (17.47%) Migration
4 125 (17.19%) AI
5 119 (16.37%) Roadmaps
6 116 (15.96%) Security Cleared
6 116 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
7 113 (15.54%) DevOps
8 108 (14.86%) Agile
9 101 (13.89%) Enterprise Architecture
10 99 (13.62%) SC Cleared
11 93 (12.79%) Microsoft
12 78 (10.73%) Analytics
13 77 (10.59%) CI/CD
14 74 (10.18%) Integration Patterns
15 70 (9.63%) TOGAF
16 68 (9.35%) Technical Leadership
17 67 (9.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 60 (8.25%) SAP
19 59 (8.12%) .NET
19 59 (8.12%) Data Modelling
19 59 (8.12%) ERP
19 59 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
20 55 (7.57%) Data Architecture
20 55 (7.57%) Event-Driven
20 55 (7.57%) Microservices
21 54 (7.43%) GCP
22 50 (6.88%) Architectural Patterns
23 49 (6.74%) CRM
23 49 (6.74%) Machine Learning

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 13 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.24%) Confluence
3 8 (1.10%) Camunda
4 7 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.83%) CMS
6 4 (0.55%) Apache
7 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.41%) nginx
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.14%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.10%) SAP BRIM
4 7 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.69%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 4 (0.55%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 4 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.55%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 3 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.41%) SAP FSCM
7 3 (0.41%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.28%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.14%) ENOVIA
9 1 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 1 (0.14%) SAP AFS
9 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.14%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.14%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 217 (29.85%) Azure
2 157 (21.60%) AWS
3 54 (7.43%) GCP
4 39 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 30 (4.13%) SaaS
6 28 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
7 24 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (3.16%) Serverless
9 22 (3.03%) Entra ID
10 20 (2.75%) Snowflake
11 17 (2.34%) GitHub
11 17 (2.34%) PaaS
12 14 (1.93%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.65%) IaaS
13 12 (1.65%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.51%) Azure AI
14 11 (1.51%) Azure Machine Learning
14 11 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.93%) Firewall
2 12 (1.65%) Network Security
2 12 (1.65%) VPN
3 8 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.83%) DNS
5 4 (0.55%) MPLS
6 3 (0.41%) FTP
6 3 (0.41%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.41%) SSL
6 3 (0.41%) VoIP
6 3 (0.41%) WAN
6 3 (0.41%) Wireless
7 2 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.28%) DHCP
7 2 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.28%) IPv4
7 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.28%) SDH
7 2 (0.28%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.23%) Data Lake
2 22 (3.03%) Power BI
3 17 (2.34%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.93%) Metadata
6 11 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.38%) Big Data
8 6 (0.83%) Tableau
9 5 (0.69%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.55%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.55%) Flink
10 4 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.41%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (0.41%) GIS
11 3 (0.41%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 14 (1.93%) JIRA
2 6 (0.83%) MLflow
3 5 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.55%) Git
4 4 (0.55%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.41%) ERwin
5 3 (0.41%) Maven
6 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.28%) GitLab
6 2 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.14%) MSI
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.14%) Subversion
7 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.14%) VersionOne
General
1 168 (23.11%) Finance
2 144 (19.81%) Social Skills
3 65 (8.94%) Public Sector
4 59 (8.12%) Banking
5 53 (7.29%) Retail
6 33 (4.54%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (3.30%) Telecoms
8 22 (3.03%) Billing
9 19 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.20%) Legal
11 15 (2.06%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.83%) Local Government
14 6 (0.83%) Marketing
14 6 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.41%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.41%) Automotive
15 3 (0.41%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.28%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.12%) .NET
2 39 (5.36%) REST
3 32 (4.40%) Middleware
4 23 (3.16%) .NET Framework
5 18 (2.48%) React
6 16 (2.20%) Kafka
7 12 (1.65%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.10%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.10%) HTML5 Canvas
8 8 (1.10%) SOAP
9 7 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (0.96%) Vue
10 6 (0.83%) CSS
10 6 (0.83%) HTML
11 5 (0.69%) LDAP
11 5 (0.69%) Spring
12 4 (0.55%) FHIR
12 4 (0.55%) OAuth
12 4 (0.55%) PySpark
12 4 (0.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 27 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.34%) Mainframe
6 16 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 13 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.79%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.38%) NHS
12 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.96%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.96%) IoT
15 6 (0.83%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.69%) Windows
2 3 (0.41%) Linux
3 2 (0.28%) Android
3 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (17.47%) Migration
2 125 (17.19%) AI
3 119 (16.37%) Roadmaps
4 116 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 113 (15.54%) DevOps
6 108 (14.86%) Agile
7 101 (13.89%) Enterprise Architecture
8 78 (10.73%) Analytics
9 77 (10.59%) CI/CD
10 74 (10.18%) Integration Patterns
11 70 (9.63%) TOGAF
12 68 (9.35%) Technical Leadership
13 67 (9.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 59 (8.12%) Data Modelling
14 59 (8.12%) ERP
14 59 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
15 55 (7.57%) Data Architecture
15 55 (7.57%) Event-Driven
15 55 (7.57%) Microservices
16 50 (6.88%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 43 (5.91%) Python
2 40 (5.50%) Java
3 33 (4.54%) C#
4 24 (3.30%) SQL
5 19 (2.61%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 7 (0.96%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.41%) Bash
8 3 (0.41%) R
8 3 (0.41%) Scala
9 2 (0.28%) Bicep
10 1 (0.14%) ABAP
10 1 (0.14%) C++
10 1 (0.14%) Go
10 1 (0.14%) Groovy
10 1 (0.14%) RPG
10 1 (0.14%) X++
Qualifications
1 116 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 99 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.78%) Degree
4 18 (2.48%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.83%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.69%) CISA
12 4 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.55%) CISSP
12 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.41%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.28%) CCNP
14 2 (0.28%) CCSP
14 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.85%) GDPR
2 18 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.20%) SEPA
4 13 (1.79%) ISO 20022
5 11 (1.51%) NIST
6 10 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.10%) PSD2
8 7 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.83%) QA
10 4 (0.55%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.55%) HL7
10 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.41%) NCSC
11 3 (0.41%) TARGET2
12 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.28%) GRC
12 2 (0.28%) PMO
13 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 22 (3.03%) Docker
2 15 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.41%) Squid
3 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 34 (4.68%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.54%) Terraform
3 14 (1.93%) Ansible
4 9 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.10%) Grafana
6 7 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.41%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.41%) SCCM
8 2 (0.28%) Argo
8 2 (0.28%) Consul
8 2 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.14%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.14%) Avamar
9 1 (0.14%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 93 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.25%) SAP
3 45 (6.19%) Oracle
4 41 (5.64%) Databricks
5 40 (5.50%) ServiceNow
6 25 (3.44%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.65%) Cisco
8 11 (1.51%) Ariba
9 10 (1.38%) Google
9 10 (1.38%) Workday
10 8 (1.10%) IFS
10 8 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.96%) IBM
12 5 (0.69%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.69%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.69%) Siemens
13 4 (0.55%) Confluent
13 4 (0.55%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.55%) Software AG
13 4 (0.55%) Yardi