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 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 86 82
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 512 364 491
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.03% 2.88% 2.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.27% 3.08% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 242 347
10th Percentile £475 £500 £485
25th Percentile £532 £563 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £738
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £64.75 £52.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £67.75 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £75.94 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £86.63 - -
England median hourly rate £77.55 £66.00 £87.00
% change year-on-year +17.49% -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 15,647 11,822 16,839
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 93.64% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,492 8,101 12,161
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £428 £443
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 240 150 341
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.19 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -21.66%
75th Percentile £60.50 £51.80 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £67.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £41.86 £34.31 £32.50
% change year-on-year +22.01% +5.55% -24.14%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -14 75 £675 +1.47% 41
West London -17 7 £625 +6.38% 6
South London -12 6 £637 -2.00%
East London +3 3 £630 - 1
North London - 1 £700 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 155 (30.27%) Azure
2 123 (24.02%) AWS
3 94 (18.36%) Roadmaps
4 89 (17.38%) Security Cleared
5 83 (16.21%) Agile
6 81 (15.82%) Microsoft
7 76 (14.84%) AI
8 75 (14.65%) SC Cleared
9 73 (14.26%) DevOps
10 72 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
11 68 (13.28%) Enterprise Architecture
12 64 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 59 (11.52%) Migration
13 59 (11.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 53 (10.35%) Microservices
14 53 (10.35%) Technical Leadership
15 52 (10.16%) Integration Patterns
16 51 (9.96%) Middleware
17 45 (8.79%) Python
18 44 (8.59%) Analytics
18 44 (8.59%) ERP
18 44 (8.59%) GCP
18 44 (8.59%) SAP
19 43 (8.40%) CI/CD
19 43 (8.40%) TOGAF
20 38 (7.42%) Oracle
21 35 (6.84%) CRM
21 35 (6.84%) Data Modelling
22 34 (6.64%) .NET
23 33 (6.45%) Architectural Design

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 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.37%) Camunda
3 6 (1.17%) Confluence
4 5 (0.98%) Apache
4 5 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.78%) CMS
5 4 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.20%) Appian
7 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.20%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (5.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.98%) SAP EWM
3 5 (0.98%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.98%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.78%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 4 (0.78%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.78%) SAP PP
4 4 (0.78%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.59%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 3 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.59%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.20%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.20%) Maximo
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 155 (30.27%) Azure
2 123 (24.02%) AWS
3 44 (8.59%) GCP
4 33 (6.45%) SaaS
5 24 (4.69%) Power Platform
6 18 (3.52%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (2.93%) Snowflake
8 9 (1.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (1.76%) Serverless
9 8 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.17%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.34%) Firewall
2 11 (2.15%) WAN
3 10 (1.95%) VPN
4 8 (1.56%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.17%) Network Security
6 5 (0.98%) DNS
6 5 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.78%) MPLS
8 3 (0.59%) 5G
8 3 (0.59%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.39%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.39%) IPv4
9 2 (0.39%) IPv6
9 2 (0.39%) LAN
9 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.20%) DHCP
10 1 (0.20%) SDH
10 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.88%) Data Lake
2 16 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.73%) Power BI
4 7 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.37%) Tableau
5 6 (1.17%) Metadata
6 5 (0.98%) Big Data
6 5 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (0.78%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.78%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.59%) Flink
8 3 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.59%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.39%) GIS
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.39%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.39%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (1.95%) JIRA
2 4 (0.78%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.78%) MLflow
3 3 (0.59%) Artifactory
3 3 (0.59%) Git
4 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.39%) Chocolatey
4 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.20%) ERwin
5 1 (0.20%) GitLab
5 1 (0.20%) Maven
5 1 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.20%) Subversion
5 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.20%) VersionOne
General
1 152 (29.69%) Finance
2 130 (25.39%) Social Skills
3 55 (10.74%) Banking
4 54 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 41 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.30%) Legal
7 20 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (3.32%) Retail
9 16 (3.13%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.93%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.34%) Billing
13 10 (1.95%) Law
14 9 (1.76%) Marketing
15 8 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.98%) Local Government
18 4 (0.78%) Back Office
18 4 (0.78%) Private Banking
19 3 (0.59%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.96%) Middleware
2 34 (6.64%) .NET
3 30 (5.86%) REST
4 17 (3.32%) AngularJS
4 17 (3.32%) React
5 14 (2.73%) Kafka
6 9 (1.76%) OAuth
6 9 (1.76%) Vue
7 8 (1.56%) .NET Framework
7 8 (1.56%) OpenID
8 6 (1.17%) CSS
8 6 (1.17%) HTML
8 6 (1.17%) SOAP
9 5 (0.98%) .NET Core
9 5 (0.98%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.98%) gRPC
9 5 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.98%) SAML
9 5 (0.98%) Spring
9 5 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.59%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (3.52%) Data Centre
4 17 (3.32%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.15%) FMCG
8 9 (1.76%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.17%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.17%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.17%) Taxonomies
11 5 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (0.78%) NHS
12 4 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.56%) Windows
2 4 (0.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (18.36%) Roadmaps
2 83 (16.21%) Agile
3 76 (14.84%) AI
4 73 (14.26%) DevOps
5 72 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (13.28%) Enterprise Architecture
7 64 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 59 (11.52%) Migration
8 59 (11.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 53 (10.35%) Microservices
9 53 (10.35%) Technical Leadership
10 52 (10.16%) Integration Patterns
11 44 (8.59%) Analytics
11 44 (8.59%) ERP
12 43 (8.40%) CI/CD
12 43 (8.40%) TOGAF
13 35 (6.84%) CRM
13 35 (6.84%) Data Modelling
14 33 (6.45%) Architectural Design
14 33 (6.45%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 45 (8.79%) Python
2 31 (6.05%) Java
3 21 (4.10%) C#
3 21 (4.10%) SQL
4 13 (2.54%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.15%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.17%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.98%) Bash
8 3 (0.59%) R
8 3 (0.59%) Scala
9 2 (0.39%) Korn
9 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.20%) C++
10 1 (0.20%) RPG
10 1 (0.20%) X++
Qualifications
1 89 (17.38%) Security Cleared
2 75 (14.65%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.05%) Degree
4 21 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.32%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.73%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.78%) CISSP
9 4 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.59%) CISM
10 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.59%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.39%) CCNP
11 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.20%) CCIE
12 1 (0.20%) MBA
12 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.66%) GDPR
2 8 (1.56%) ISO 20022
2 8 (1.56%) PSD2
2 8 (1.56%) QA
3 7 (1.37%) NIST
4 6 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.17%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.98%) EU AI Act
5 5 (0.98%) SEPA
6 4 (0.78%) HL7
7 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.59%) TARGET2
8 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (4.30%) Docker
2 12 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.59%) Squid
4 2 (0.39%) Ceph
4 2 (0.39%) Firmware
4 2 (0.39%) Lustre
4 2 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.47%) Terraform
3 8 (1.56%) Grafana
3 8 (1.56%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.37%) FortiGate
4 7 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.17%) Ansible
6 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.39%) Consul
7 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.39%) SCCM
8 1 (0.20%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 81 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.59%) SAP
3 38 (7.42%) Oracle
4 33 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 22 (4.30%) ServiceNow
6 20 (3.91%) Databricks
7 12 (2.34%) Cisco
7 12 (2.34%) Software AG
7 12 (2.34%) Workday
8 11 (2.15%) Google
9 10 (1.95%) Ariba
10 9 (1.76%) IBM
11 7 (1.37%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.17%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.98%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.98%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.98%) IFS
13 5 (0.98%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.78%) F5
14 4 (0.78%) Yardi