Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Solution Architect
England > London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 113 97
Rank change year-on-year +39 -16 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 744 341 424
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.70% 2.55% 2.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.96% 2.75% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 198 254
10th Percentile £504 £463 £478
25th Percentile £556 £563 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £632 £675
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -6.37% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £800
90th Percentile £805 £800 £888
England median daily rate £638 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £36.65 - -
25th Percentile £39.13 - £52.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 - £54.00
75th Percentile £49.63 - £56.00
90th Percentile £52.55 - -
England median hourly rate £71.27 - £91.00
% change year-on-year - - +21.33%

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 18,767 12,400 15,283
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 92.79% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,145 8,291 10,065
10th Percentile £360 £330 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £659 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 198 179
10th Percentile £17.03 £17.00 £17.45
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.14 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.16% -19.61% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.00 £58.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.17 £76.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -1.13%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +9 96 £694 +2.81% 87
West London -21 4 £650 +80.56% 22
South London -13 3 £800 +10.00% 4
North London +1 2 £650 -27.78% 1
East London -2 1 £630 -8.36% 2
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 September 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.

1 234 (31.45%) Azure
2 167 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 137 (18.41%) Migration
4 135 (18.15%) AWS
5 130 (17.47%) Roadmaps
6 129 (17.34%) AI
7 119 (15.99%) Security Cleared
8 109 (14.65%) Enterprise Architecture
8 109 (14.65%) Microsoft
9 101 (13.58%) DevOps
10 100 (13.44%) Agile
10 100 (13.44%) SC Cleared
11 92 (12.37%) Integration Patterns
12 91 (12.23%) Technical Leadership
13 79 (10.62%) Analytics
13 79 (10.62%) CI/CD
14 78 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 71 (9.54%) TOGAF
16 67 (9.01%) Event-Driven
17 64 (8.60%) SAP
18 61 (8.20%) Architectural Patterns
18 61 (8.20%) Data Architecture
18 61 (8.20%) Data Modelling
19 58 (7.80%) Translating Business Requirements
20 56 (7.53%) Architecture Governance
20 56 (7.53%) Microservices
20 56 (7.53%) Power Platform
21 50 (6.72%) CRM
21 50 (6.72%) Infrastructure as Code
22 49 (6.59%) ERP

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 10 (1.34%) CMS
2 8 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.94%) Confluence
4 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.40%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.27%) Camunda
6 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Appian
7 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 27 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.08%) SAP BRIM
4 6 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.54%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.40%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.40%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.27%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.27%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.13%) SAP APO
9 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.13%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 234 (31.45%) Azure
2 135 (18.15%) AWS
3 56 (7.53%) Power Platform
4 49 (6.59%) GCP
5 36 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
6 26 (3.49%) Entra ID
6 26 (3.49%) SaaS
7 22 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (2.82%) Serverless
9 19 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.42%) GitHub
11 16 (2.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (1.75%) PaaS
12 13 (1.75%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.61%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.61%) Snowflake
14 11 (1.48%) Azure AI
14 11 (1.48%) OCI
15 10 (1.34%) Azure Functions
16 9 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.21%) Network Security
2 7 (0.94%) Firewall
2 7 (0.94%) VPN
3 5 (0.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.54%) DMZ
4 4 (0.54%) Wireless
5 3 (0.40%) FTP
5 3 (0.40%) MPLS
5 3 (0.40%) SSL
6 2 (0.27%) DHCP
6 2 (0.27%) DNS
6 2 (0.27%) HTTP
6 2 (0.27%) RFID
6 2 (0.27%) SDH
6 2 (0.27%) SMS
6 2 (0.27%) VoIP
7 1 (0.13%) OSPF
7 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.13%) SAN
7 1 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.30%) Data Lake
2 23 (3.09%) Power BI
3 17 (2.28%) SQL Server
4 16 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (2.02%) Metadata
6 9 (1.21%) Big Data
7 8 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.67%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.67%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.67%) Power Query
10 4 (0.54%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.40%) GIS
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (1.08%) JIRA
2 5 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.40%) Git
4 2 (0.27%) ERwin
4 2 (0.27%) GitLab
4 2 (0.27%) Maven
4 2 (0.27%) MLflow
4 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.13%) MSI
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 155 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 152 (20.43%) Finance
3 67 (9.01%) Retail
4 64 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.32%) Banking
6 27 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (2.69%) Billing
9 19 (2.55%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.88%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.61%) Legal
13 11 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.34%) Marketing
15 8 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.94%) Advertising
17 4 (0.54%) Automotive
17 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
18 3 (0.40%) Aerospace
18 3 (0.40%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.45%) .NET
2 41 (5.51%) REST
3 25 (3.36%) Kafka
3 25 (3.36%) Terraform
4 21 (2.82%) .NET Framework
5 16 (2.15%) Middleware
6 10 (1.34%) SOAP
7 9 (1.21%) OAuth
8 8 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
8 8 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (1.08%) React
9 7 (0.94%) .NET Core
10 6 (0.81%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.81%) SAML
11 5 (0.67%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.67%) JWT
11 5 (0.67%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (0.67%) OpenID
11 5 (0.67%) PySpark
11 5 (0.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 21 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
3 21 (2.82%) Onboarding
4 20 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.28%) Mainframe
7 16 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 12 (1.61%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
11 10 (1.34%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.21%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.08%) IoT
13 8 (1.08%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.94%) NHS
15 6 (0.81%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
16 5 (0.67%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.94%) Windows
2 5 (0.67%) Linux
3 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Android
4 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.13%) CentOS
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 137 (18.41%) Migration
3 130 (17.47%) Roadmaps
4 129 (17.34%) AI
5 109 (14.65%) Enterprise Architecture
6 101 (13.58%) DevOps
7 100 (13.44%) Agile
8 92 (12.37%) Integration Patterns
9 91 (12.23%) Technical Leadership
10 79 (10.62%) Analytics
10 79 (10.62%) CI/CD
11 78 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 71 (9.54%) TOGAF
13 67 (9.01%) Event-Driven
14 61 (8.20%) Architectural Patterns
14 61 (8.20%) Data Architecture
14 61 (8.20%) Data Modelling
15 58 (7.80%) Translating Business Requirements
16 56 (7.53%) Architecture Governance
16 56 (7.53%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (3.76%) Java
2 25 (3.36%) C#
3 21 (2.82%) SQL
4 18 (2.42%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.75%) Python
6 11 (1.48%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.48%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.40%) Bash
9 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.27%) Bicep
10 1 (0.13%) ABAP
10 1 (0.13%) Go
10 1 (0.13%) Groovy
10 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 119 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 100 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.70%) Degree
4 22 (2.96%) Azure Certification
5 21 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
7 13 (1.75%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.67%) CISA
12 4 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.54%) CISSP
12 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.40%) CCSP
13 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.36%) GDPR
2 19 (2.55%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (1.88%) SEPA
4 10 (1.34%) NIST
5 8 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (0.94%) ISO 20022
6 7 (0.94%) PMO
7 6 (0.81%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.67%) NCSC
9 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.54%) QA
10 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.40%) PSD2
11 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.27%) GRC
11 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.34%) Docker
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.40%) vSphere
5 1 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.88%) Ansible
3 9 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.54%) Grafana
5 3 (0.40%) SCCM
6 2 (0.27%) Argo
6 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.13%) Avamar
7 1 (0.13%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (14.65%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.60%) SAP
3 47 (6.32%) ServiceNow
4 46 (6.18%) Databricks
5 39 (5.24%) Oracle
6 30 (4.03%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.02%) Google
8 13 (1.75%) BMC
9 11 (1.48%) IBM
10 9 (1.21%) Cisco
10 9 (1.21%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.94%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.94%) Workday
12 6 (0.81%) TikTok
13 5 (0.67%) Ariba
13 5 (0.67%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.67%) VMware
14 4 (0.54%) Aruba
14 4 (0.54%) Remedy
14 4 (0.54%) Siemens