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 19 November 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 97 85
Rank change year-on-year -17 -12 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 348 402 546
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.47% 2.58% 2.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.67% 2.75% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 249 386
10th Percentile £453 £469 £505
25th Percentile £550 £530 £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £750
90th Percentile £815 £888 £825
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
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 £66.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +27.00% -12.00% +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 13,026 14,640 18,669
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 93.86% 93.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 9,471 13,525
10th Percentile £332 £338 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.28% -2.11%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £794 £793
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 156 222
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.35
25th Percentile £21.60 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.89 £37.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.62% -0.93% +11.94%
75th Percentile £49.13 £56.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -13.04% +53.33%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +3 68 £650 -3.70% 91
East London +9 6 £688 -4.51% 4
West London -12 4 £569 -12.54% 9
South London - 4 £750 -
North London - 2 £800 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 144 (41.38%) Azure
2 87 (25.00%) AWS
3 67 (19.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (18.97%) Microsoft
5 62 (17.82%) Roadmaps
6 57 (16.38%) Enterprise Architecture
7 53 (15.23%) Agile
7 53 (15.23%) TOGAF
8 50 (14.37%) Security Cleared
8 50 (14.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 50 (14.37%) Technical Leadership
9 42 (12.07%) GCP
10 41 (11.78%) Microservices
10 41 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (11.78%) SC Cleared
11 40 (11.49%) Migration
12 36 (10.34%) DevOps
13 34 (9.77%) SDLC
14 33 (9.48%) SaaS
15 32 (9.20%) Data Modelling
16 30 (8.62%) SAP
17 29 (8.33%) AI
18 26 (7.47%) CI/CD
18 26 (7.47%) Python
19 25 (7.18%) Integration Patterns
19 25 (7.18%) Salesforce
20 24 (6.90%) .NET
20 24 (6.90%) Data Architecture
21 23 (6.61%) CRM
21 23 (6.61%) Java

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 5 (1.44%) 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%) 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 18 (5.17%) 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
6 2 (0.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.29%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.29%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.29%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.29%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 144 (41.38%) Azure
2 87 (25.00%) AWS
3 42 (12.07%) GCP
4 33 (9.48%) SaaS
5 22 (6.32%) Power Platform
6 16 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (4.31%) Entra ID
7 15 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (4.02%) Snowflake
9 12 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (2.87%) PaaS
11 10 (2.87%) Serverless
12 8 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.30%) GitHub
13 6 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.72%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.44%) Fivetran
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
7 4 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.86%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.57%) 5G
9 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.57%) VSAN
9 2 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.02%) Data Lake
2 13 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.30%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.01%) 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%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.29%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 17 (4.89%) JIRA
2 6 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.86%) Git
3 3 (0.86%) GitLab
3 3 (0.86%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.57%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.29%) MLflow
5 1 (0.29%) Spinnaker
General
1 121 (34.77%) Finance
2 111 (31.90%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.34%) Banking
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 7 (2.01%) Back Office
11 7 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.44%) General Ledger
14 4 (1.15%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.86%) Law
15 3 (0.86%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.90%) .NET
2 22 (6.32%) REST
3 20 (5.75%) Middleware
4 12 (3.45%) AngularJS
5 10 (2.87%) Kafka
5 10 (2.87%) OAuth
5 10 (2.87%) React
6 9 (2.59%) RESTful
7 8 (2.30%) JSON
8 7 (2.01%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.01%) SOAP
9 6 (1.72%) Node.js
9 6 (1.72%) Web Services
9 6 (1.72%) XML
10 5 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (1.44%) OpenID
10 5 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (1.15%) SAML
12 3 (0.86%) gRPC
13 2 (0.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.62%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.03%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.72%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.44%) Data Centre
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%) FMCG
8 4 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.15%) PDA
8 4 (1.15%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.86%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.72%) Windows
2 3 (0.86%) Linux
3 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (19.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 62 (17.82%) Roadmaps
3 57 (16.38%) Enterprise Architecture
4 53 (15.23%) Agile
4 53 (15.23%) TOGAF
5 50 (14.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 50 (14.37%) Technical Leadership
6 41 (11.78%) Microservices
6 41 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (11.49%) Migration
8 36 (10.34%) DevOps
9 34 (9.77%) SDLC
10 32 (9.20%) Data Modelling
11 29 (8.33%) AI
12 26 (7.47%) CI/CD
13 25 (7.18%) Integration Patterns
14 24 (6.90%) Data Architecture
15 23 (6.61%) CRM
16 22 (6.32%) Architectural Design
16 22 (6.32%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 26 (7.47%) Python
2 23 (6.61%) Java
3 13 (3.74%) TypeScript
4 12 (3.45%) SQL
5 10 (2.87%) C#
5 10 (2.87%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.44%) Bash
6 5 (1.44%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.57%) R
8 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.29%) COBOL
8 1 (0.29%) Go
8 1 (0.29%) PHP
8 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (14.37%) Security Cleared
2 41 (11.78%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.46%) Degree
4 12 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (2.01%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.44%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.15%) CCNP
9 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.15%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.86%) CCIE
10 3 (0.86%) CCNA
10 3 (0.86%) CCSE
10 3 (0.86%) CISSP
10 3 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.86%) JNCIP
10 3 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.03%) GDPR
2 9 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.30%) NIST
4 6 (1.72%) 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%) MiFID
8 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.57%) NCSC
8 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.29%) EMIR
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (2.59%) Docker
2 8 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.57%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.57%) vSphere
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 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 66 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.62%) SAP
3 25 (7.18%) Salesforce
4 23 (6.61%) ServiceNow
5 21 (6.03%) Google
6 19 (5.46%) Oracle
7 18 (5.17%) Databricks
8 10 (2.87%) Cisco
8 10 (2.87%) IBM
9 7 (2.01%) Workday
10 5 (1.44%) F5
10 5 (1.44%) IFS
10 5 (1.44%) Juniper
11 4 (1.15%) Adobe
11 4 (1.15%) Concur
11 4 (1.15%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.15%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.15%) Remedy
11 4 (1.15%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.86%) Informatica