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 12 November 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 100 83
Rank change year-on-year -13 -17 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 348 403 551
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.49% 2.60% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.69% 2.77% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 247 394
10th Percentile £454 £463 £503
25th Percentile £550 £526 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £662
Median % change year-on-year - -1.74% -1.64%
75th Percentile £725 £769 £750
90th Percentile £826 £888 £825
England median daily rate £625 £613 £650
% change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £66.00 £52.00 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £54.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.04% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £56.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.82 £65.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +27.97% -12.67% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,919 14,569 18,894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 93.93% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,577 9,421 13,716
10th Percentile £334 £338 £341
25th Percentile £425 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -3.38% -1.00%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £794
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 155 224
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.21
25th Percentile £22.13 £23.80 £21.69
Median hourly rate £26.89 £36.80 £38.08
Median % change year-on-year -26.93% -3.35% +18.99%
75th Percentile £49.13 £57.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +16 69 £650 -2.40% 105
East London +6 6 £688 -4.51% 2
South London - 4 £750 - 1
West London -14 3 £662 +1.85% 15
North London - 2 £800 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 November 2025, 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.

1 147 (42.24%) Azure
2 91 (26.15%) AWS
3 67 (19.25%) Microsoft
4 65 (18.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 61 (17.53%) Roadmaps
6 58 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 53 (15.23%) Agile
7 53 (15.23%) TOGAF
8 52 (14.94%) Security Cleared
9 49 (14.08%) Technical Leadership
10 48 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 44 (12.64%) GCP
12 43 (12.36%) SC Cleared
13 42 (12.07%) Migration
14 40 (11.49%) Microservices
14 40 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (10.34%) SDLC
16 35 (10.06%) DevOps
17 31 (8.91%) AI
17 31 (8.91%) Data Modelling
17 31 (8.91%) SaaS
18 28 (8.05%) Python
18 28 (8.05%) SAP
19 27 (7.76%) CI/CD
20 26 (7.47%) Java
21 25 (7.18%) Data Architecture
21 25 (7.18%) Integration Patterns
21 25 (7.18%) Power Platform
22 24 (6.90%) .NET
23 23 (6.61%) Google

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 18 (5.17%) Confluence
2 11 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.15%) CMS
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.86%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) Apache
7 1 (0.29%) Appian
7 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.29%) Drupal
7 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.44%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (4.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.01%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (1.15%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.86%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.57%) Endur
6 2 (0.57%) Maximo
6 2 (0.57%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.57%) SAP BRIM
6 2 (0.57%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.29%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.29%) Magento
7 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.29%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.29%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.29%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.29%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 147 (42.24%) Azure
2 91 (26.15%) AWS
3 44 (12.64%) GCP
4 31 (8.91%) SaaS
5 25 (7.18%) Power Platform
6 16 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (4.60%) Snowflake
7 15 (4.31%) Entra ID
8 12 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (3.16%) Serverless
10 10 (2.87%) PaaS
11 9 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.59%) GitHub
12 8 (2.30%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.72%) Fivetran
13 6 (1.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.60%) Firewall
2 9 (2.59%) WAN
3 8 (2.30%) VPN
4 7 (2.01%) DNS
5 6 (1.72%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.44%) BGP
6 5 (1.44%) DHCP
6 5 (1.44%) LAN
6 5 (1.44%) Network Security
6 5 (1.44%) OSPF
7 4 (1.15%) MPLS
7 4 (1.15%) VLAN
8 3 (0.86%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.57%) 4G
9 2 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (0.57%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.02%) Data Lake
2 13 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.87%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.30%) Power BI
5 4 (1.15%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.15%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.86%) Big Data
6 3 (0.86%) Metadata
6 3 (0.86%) SAP BW
6 3 (0.86%) Tableau
7 2 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.57%) NonStop SQL
7 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.29%) Redis
8 1 (0.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (4.89%) JIRA
2 7 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.15%) GitLab
4 3 (0.86%) Git
4 3 (0.86%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.57%) Chocolatey
6 1 (0.29%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.29%) MLflow
6 1 (0.29%) Spinnaker
General
1 117 (33.62%) Finance
2 104 (29.89%) Social Skills
3 36 (10.34%) Banking
4 35 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (4.02%) Retail
8 12 (3.45%) Billing
8 12 (3.45%) Legal
9 11 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.16%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.30%) Marketing
11 6 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.44%) Back Office
12 5 (1.44%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.15%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.15%) Law
14 3 (0.86%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.90%) .NET
2 22 (6.32%) REST
3 16 (4.60%) Middleware
4 13 (3.74%) AngularJS
5 12 (3.45%) Kafka
6 11 (3.16%) OAuth
7 10 (2.87%) React
8 9 (2.59%) JSON
8 9 (2.59%) RESTful
9 7 (2.01%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.01%) SOAP
10 6 (1.72%) Node.js
10 6 (1.72%) XML
11 5 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
11 5 (1.44%) OpenID
11 5 (1.44%) SAML
11 5 (1.44%) Web Services
12 3 (0.86%) gRPC
12 3 (0.86%) JWT
12 3 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.62%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.61%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.72%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.44%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.44%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.44%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.44%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.44%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.15%) PDA
8 4 (1.15%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.86%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.86%) Replication
10 2 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.72%) Windows
2 4 (1.15%) Linux
3 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (18.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 61 (17.53%) Roadmaps
3 58 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 53 (15.23%) Agile
4 53 (15.23%) TOGAF
5 49 (14.08%) Technical Leadership
6 48 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 42 (12.07%) Migration
8 40 (11.49%) Microservices
8 40 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (10.34%) SDLC
10 35 (10.06%) DevOps
11 31 (8.91%) AI
11 31 (8.91%) Data Modelling
12 27 (7.76%) CI/CD
13 25 (7.18%) Data Architecture
13 25 (7.18%) Integration Patterns
14 22 (6.32%) Architectural Design
14 22 (6.32%) CRM
15 21 (6.03%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 28 (8.05%) Python
2 26 (7.47%) Java
3 13 (3.74%) TypeScript
4 12 (3.45%) SQL
5 11 (3.16%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.87%) C#
7 5 (1.44%) Bash
7 5 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.57%) COBOL
8 2 (0.57%) R
9 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.29%) Go
9 1 (0.29%) Groovy
9 1 (0.29%) PHP
9 1 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 52 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 43 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.17%) Degree
4 13 (3.74%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (2.01%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.15%) CCNP
8 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.15%) SAP Certification
9 3 (0.86%) CCIE
9 3 (0.86%) CCNA
9 3 (0.86%) CCSE
9 3 (0.86%) CISSP
9 3 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.86%) JNCIE
9 3 (0.86%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.32%) GDPR
2 9 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.30%) NIST
4 7 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.44%) COBIT
5 5 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.44%) EU AI Act
5 5 (1.44%) QA
6 4 (1.15%) GRC
7 3 (0.86%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.86%) MiFID
7 3 (0.86%) NCSC
8 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.57%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.57%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.29%) PMO
9 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (2.59%) Active Directory
1 9 (2.59%) Docker
2 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.57%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.57%) vSphere
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.29%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.29%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.29%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (4.89%) Terraform
2 12 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.01%) Ansible
4 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.57%) SCCM
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) MIIS
7 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.29%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 67 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.05%) SAP
3 23 (6.61%) Google
3 23 (6.61%) Salesforce
3 23 (6.61%) ServiceNow
4 18 (5.17%) Databricks
5 17 (4.89%) Oracle
6 10 (2.87%) Cisco
6 10 (2.87%) IBM
7 6 (1.72%) Workday
8 5 (1.44%) F5
8 5 (1.44%) IFS
8 5 (1.44%) Juniper
9 4 (1.15%) Adobe
9 4 (1.15%) Concur
9 4 (1.15%) ForgeRock
9 4 (1.15%) Informatica
9 4 (1.15%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.15%) Remedy
9 4 (1.15%) Zscaler