Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Solution Architect
England > London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in London is £626, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 98 80
Rank change year-on-year +22 -18 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 618 356 483
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.42% 2.88% 2.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.69% 3.09% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 214 335
10th Percentile £490 £511 £485
25th Percentile £525 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% - -5.45%
75th Percentile £750 £748 £763
90th Percentile £804 £813 £888
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £52.98 - -
25th Percentile £55.19 £52.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £60.25 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% - +15.34%
75th Percentile £65.19 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £67.33 - -
England median hourly rate £71.27 £63.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year +13.13% -30.00% +34.83%

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 16,751 11,531 16,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 93.34% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 7,870 11,819
10th Percentile £355 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £428 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £757 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.27% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 150 318
10th Percentile £19.23 £20.24 £16.01
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +23.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £46.05
90th Percentile £76.58 £63.88 £65.32
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.23 £37.18
% change year-on-year +53.95% -21.38% -16.94%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +14 101 £694 +2.81% 29
South London -14 6 £637 -0.08% 1
West London -24 6 £625 +6.38% 6
East London -5 3 £630 - 4
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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.

1 170 (27.51%) Azure
2 131 (21.20%) AWS
3 113 (18.28%) Security Cleared
4 106 (17.15%) AI
5 100 (16.18%) DevOps
6 98 (15.86%) SC Cleared
7 92 (14.89%) Agile
8 90 (14.56%) Migration
9 87 (14.08%) Roadmaps
10 77 (12.46%) Microsoft
11 69 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 65 (10.52%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (10.36%) CI/CD
14 60 (9.71%) Integration Patterns
15 59 (9.55%) Enterprise Architecture
16 57 (9.22%) SAP
17 54 (8.74%) Analytics
18 52 (8.41%) Technical Leadership
19 51 (8.25%) ERP
20 48 (7.77%) Microservices
20 48 (7.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 46 (7.44%) Middleware
22 44 (7.12%) .NET
23 42 (6.80%) Event-Driven
23 42 (6.80%) GCP
23 42 (6.80%) Oracle
24 41 (6.63%) Python
25 40 (6.47%) Degree
25 40 (6.47%) Machine Learning
26 39 (6.31%) Architectural Patterns

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 16 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.29%) Camunda
3 6 (0.97%) Confluence
4 4 (0.65%) Apache
4 4 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.49%) nginx
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.16%) Appian
6 1 (0.16%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.16%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (5.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.13%) SAP BRIM
3 5 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.81%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 5 (0.81%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.81%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.65%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 4 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.65%) SAP EWM
4 4 (0.65%) SAP PM
5 3 (0.49%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 3 (0.49%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.49%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.49%) SAP QM
5 3 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.16%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.16%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 170 (27.51%) Azure
2 131 (21.20%) AWS
3 42 (6.80%) GCP
4 28 (4.53%) Power Platform
5 26 (4.21%) SaaS
6 17 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (2.59%) Serverless
7 16 (2.59%) Snowflake
8 14 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.10%) Azure AI
10 12 (1.94%) Entra ID
10 12 (1.94%) PaaS
10 12 (1.94%) SuccessFactors
11 11 (1.78%) Azure Machine Learning
12 8 (1.29%) GitHub
12 8 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.29%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.13%) Amazon SageMaker
13 7 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (1.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.46%) Firewall
1 9 (1.46%) Network Security
2 8 (1.29%) VPN
2 8 (1.29%) WAN
3 6 (0.97%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.81%) MPLS
5 4 (0.65%) DNS
5 4 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.49%) 5G
6 3 (0.49%) FTP
6 3 (0.49%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.49%) SDH
6 3 (0.49%) VoIP
7 2 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.32%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.32%) IPv4
7 2 (0.32%) IPv6
7 2 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.32%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.37%) Data Lake
2 15 (2.43%) Power BI
3 12 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.78%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.46%) Metadata
6 7 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.97%) Big Data
8 5 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.81%) Tableau
9 4 (0.65%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.49%) Flink
10 3 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.49%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.32%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.32%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.32%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (1.78%) JIRA
2 6 (0.97%) MLflow
3 4 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.65%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.49%) Maven
5 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.32%) Git
6 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.16%) ERwin
6 1 (0.16%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) MSI
6 1 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.16%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.16%) Subversion
6 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.16%) VersionOne
General
1 163 (26.38%) Finance
2 119 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 59 (9.55%) Banking
4 48 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.21%) Telecoms
7 23 (3.72%) Billing
8 20 (3.24%) Legal
9 19 (3.07%) Retail
10 16 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.29%) Law
14 6 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.97%) Marketing
15 3 (0.49%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.49%) Automotive
15 3 (0.49%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.49%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (7.44%) Middleware
2 44 (7.12%) .NET
3 29 (4.69%) REST
4 18 (2.91%) React
5 16 (2.59%) .NET Framework
6 14 (2.27%) AngularJS
7 10 (1.62%) Kafka
8 9 (1.46%) Vue
9 6 (0.97%) LDAP
10 5 (0.81%) CSS
10 5 (0.81%) HTML
10 5 (0.81%) SOAP
10 5 (0.81%) Spring
11 4 (0.65%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.65%) FHIR
11 4 (0.65%) OpenID
11 4 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (0.65%) Spring Boot
12 3 (0.49%) LangChain
12 3 (0.49%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.90%) Cloud Native
2 18 (2.91%) Product Ownership
3 17 (2.75%) Data Centre
4 16 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (2.43%) Mainframe
6 11 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (1.78%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.62%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 9 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.29%) FMCG
9 8 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.13%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.13%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.13%) NHS
11 6 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.81%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.65%) Windows
2 2 (0.32%) Linux
3 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (17.15%) AI
2 100 (16.18%) DevOps
3 92 (14.89%) Agile
4 90 (14.56%) Migration
5 87 (14.08%) Roadmaps
6 69 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 65 (10.52%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (10.36%) CI/CD
9 60 (9.71%) Integration Patterns
10 59 (9.55%) Enterprise Architecture
11 54 (8.74%) Analytics
12 52 (8.41%) Technical Leadership
13 51 (8.25%) ERP
14 48 (7.77%) Microservices
14 48 (7.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 42 (6.80%) Event-Driven
16 40 (6.47%) Machine Learning
17 39 (6.31%) Architectural Patterns
17 39 (6.31%) Data Modelling
17 39 (6.31%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 41 (6.63%) Python
2 34 (5.50%) Java
3 24 (3.88%) C#
4 18 (2.91%) SQL
5 11 (1.78%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.78%) TypeScript
6 6 (0.97%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.49%) R
8 2 (0.32%) Korn
8 2 (0.32%) Scala
9 1 (0.16%) ABAP
9 1 (0.16%) Bash
9 1 (0.16%) Bicep
9 1 (0.16%) C++
9 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.16%) RPG
9 1 (0.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 113 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 98 (15.86%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.47%) Degree
4 19 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.10%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.81%) CISA
9 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.49%) CISSP
10 3 (0.49%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.32%) CCNP
11 2 (0.32%) CISM
11 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.21%) GDPR
2 12 (1.94%) SEPA
3 10 (1.62%) PSD2
4 9 (1.46%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.46%) ISO 20022
5 8 (1.29%) QA
6 5 (0.81%) NIST
6 5 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.65%) HL7
7 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.49%) TARGET2
9 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.32%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 22 (3.56%) Docker
2 10 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.49%) Squid
4 2 (0.32%) Ceph
4 2 (0.32%) Firmware
4 2 (0.32%) Lustre
4 2 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (5.18%) Kubernetes
1 32 (5.18%) Terraform
2 7 (1.13%) FortiGate
2 7 (1.13%) Grafana
2 7 (1.13%) Prometheus
2 7 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (0.97%) Ansible
4 2 (0.32%) Argo
4 2 (0.32%) Consul
4 2 (0.32%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 77 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 57 (9.22%) SAP
3 42 (6.80%) Oracle
4 36 (5.83%) ServiceNow
5 31 (5.02%) Salesforce
6 29 (4.69%) Databricks
7 14 (2.27%) Workday
8 11 (1.78%) Ariba
8 11 (1.78%) Cisco
8 11 (1.78%) Software AG
9 10 (1.62%) Google
10 7 (1.13%) IFS
11 6 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.97%) Siemens
12 5 (0.81%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.81%) IBM
12 5 (0.81%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.81%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.65%) Confluent
13 4 (0.65%) Planon