Solutions Architect Contracts in London

Solution Architect
England > London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 81 79
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 487 772 1,309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.79% 2.99% 3.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.98% 3.14% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 522 838
10th Percentile £485 £519 £513
25th Percentile £525 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £681 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +4.81% +8.33%
75th Percentile £763 £788 £750
90th Percentile £888 £850 £825
England median daily rate £650 £665 £625
% change year-on-year -2.26% +6.40% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £32.49 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £35.09 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.02 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.34% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.94 -
90th Percentile - £88.88 -
England median hourly rate £90.00 £66.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year +34.83% +13.14% +6.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,328 24,595 36,745
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.20% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,803 17,870 26,915
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 283 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.69 £23.12
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.25 £49.80
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Solutions Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in London

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in London

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in London

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 17 May 2024. 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 -32 41 £660 -2.22% 23
West London +20 5 £575 -20.69% 9
Solutions Architect
England

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 143 (29.36%) Agile
2 136 (27.93%) Finance
2 136 (27.93%) Azure
3 132 (27.10%) AWS
4 130 (26.69%) Social Skills
5 81 (16.63%) Security Cleared
6 80 (16.43%) Microsoft
7 76 (15.61%) Migration
7 76 (15.61%) GCP
8 69 (14.17%) SC Cleared
9 66 (13.55%) DevOps
10 56 (11.50%) Python
11 51 (10.47%) Banking
12 50 (10.27%) Microservices
13 48 (9.86%) Data Lake
14 46 (9.45%) Java
14 46 (9.45%) JavaScript
15 45 (9.24%) Public Sector
16 42 (8.62%) Power Platform
16 42 (8.62%) Architectural Design
16 42 (8.62%) Roadmaps
17 40 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
18 37 (7.60%) Degree
19 36 (7.39%) CI/CD
20 35 (7.19%) Software Engineering
21 34 (6.98%) DV Cleared
21 34 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
22 33 (6.78%) SaaS
22 33 (6.78%) TOGAF
23 31 (6.37%) Investment Banking

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (5.34%) Apache
3 13 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.46%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.85%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.44%) Confluence
8 5 (1.03%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.62%) CMS
9 3 (0.62%) SAS
9 3 (0.62%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (2.05%) Distributed Ledger
4 7 (1.44%) Loan IQ
5 5 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.03%) SAP BPC
6 4 (0.82%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.62%) Primavera
7 3 (0.62%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.62%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.62%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.41%) Maximo
8 2 (0.41%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.41%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 1 (0.21%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 136 (27.93%) Azure
2 132 (27.10%) AWS
3 76 (15.61%) GCP
4 42 (8.62%) Power Platform
5 34 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
6 33 (6.78%) SaaS
7 26 (5.34%) Snowflake
8 25 (5.13%) dbt
9 18 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (3.70%) PaaS
10 14 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (2.26%) IaaS
12 10 (2.05%) Boomi
12 10 (2.05%) Serverless
13 8 (1.64%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.44%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.44%) Slack
15 6 (1.23%) Apigee
15 6 (1.23%) GitHub
15 6 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.23%) Internet
2 4 (0.82%) ATM
3 3 (0.62%) CTI
3 3 (0.62%) Intranet
3 3 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (0.62%) SAN
3 3 (0.62%) VoIP
3 3 (0.62%) VSAN
4 2 (0.41%) WAN
5 1 (0.21%) CDMA
5 1 (0.21%) DNS
5 1 (0.21%) DWDM
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
5 1 (0.21%) GSM
5 1 (0.21%) LAN
5 1 (0.21%) MPLS
5 1 (0.21%) RFID
5 1 (0.21%) SDH
5 1 (0.21%) SSL
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.86%) Data Lake
2 27 (5.54%) Amazon Athena
2 27 (5.54%) Big Data
3 25 (5.13%) Apache Arrow
3 25 (5.13%) Dremio
4 24 (4.93%) Apache Ignite
5 20 (4.11%) Power BI
6 16 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.85%) Apache Hive
7 9 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (1.85%) Tableau
8 8 (1.64%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.44%) Impala
10 6 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (1.23%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.03%) GIS
11 5 (1.03%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.03%) MySQL
12 4 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (3.29%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.46%) JIRA
3 2 (0.41%) Git
3 2 (0.41%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 136 (27.93%) Finance
2 130 (26.69%) Social Skills
3 51 (10.47%) Banking
4 45 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.37%) Investment Banking
6 29 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (5.75%) Retail
8 26 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (5.13%) Front Office
10 17 (3.49%) Financial Institution
11 15 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (2.46%) Telecoms
14 11 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.44%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.23%) Local Government
17 4 (0.82%) Marketing
17 4 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
18 3 (0.62%) Legal
19 2 (0.41%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.13%) gRPC
1 25 (5.13%) Protocol Buffers
2 24 (4.93%) NumPy
2 24 (4.93%) Pandas
2 24 (4.93%) SciPy
3 17 (3.49%) Middleware
4 16 (3.29%) .NET
5 11 (2.26%) SailPoint
5 11 (2.26%) Web Services
6 10 (2.05%) HTML
6 10 (2.05%) REST
7 8 (1.64%) .NET Framework
7 8 (1.64%) PySpark
7 8 (1.64%) SAML
7 8 (1.64%) SOAP
8 7 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (1.44%) XML
9 6 (1.23%) LDAP
9 6 (1.23%) RESTful
10 5 (1.03%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.75%) Derivative
2 26 (5.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 25 (5.13%) Equities
3 25 (5.13%) Fixed Income
3 25 (5.13%) Hedge funds
4 12 (2.46%) Blockchain
5 11 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.26%) Mainframe
6 10 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.85%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.44%) IoT
10 6 (1.23%) CBDC
10 6 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.23%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.23%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (1.23%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.95%) Linux
2 7 (1.44%) CentOS
2 7 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.82%) Windows
4 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (29.36%) Agile
2 76 (15.61%) Migration
3 66 (13.55%) DevOps
4 50 (10.27%) Microservices
5 42 (8.62%) Architectural Design
5 42 (8.62%) Roadmaps
6 40 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (7.39%) CI/CD
8 35 (7.19%) Software Engineering
9 33 (6.78%) TOGAF
10 31 (6.37%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (6.16%) Asset Management
11 30 (6.16%) Scrum
12 29 (5.95%) Analytics
12 29 (5.95%) SDLC
13 27 (5.54%) Data Management
14 26 (5.34%) Computer Science
14 26 (5.34%) Data Modelling
14 26 (5.34%) Presales
14 26 (5.34%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 56 (11.50%) Python
2 46 (9.45%) Java
2 46 (9.45%) JavaScript
3 27 (5.54%) TypeScript
4 18 (3.70%) SQL
5 15 (3.08%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.87%) C#
7 9 (1.85%) Scala
8 8 (1.64%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.62%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.62%) Ruby
10 2 (0.41%) C++
10 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.41%) U-SQL
11 1 (0.21%) Bash
11 1 (0.21%) Bicep
11 1 (0.21%) C
11 1 (0.21%) Perl
11 1 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 81 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 69 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.60%) Degree
4 34 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.52%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.62%) MBA
13 3 (0.62%) PhD
13 3 (0.62%) SAP Certification
14 2 (0.41%) CISSP
15 1 (0.21%) CCA
15 1 (0.21%) Chartered Engineer
15 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.21%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.29%) GDPR
2 11 (2.26%) SLA
3 9 (1.85%) QA
4 8 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.82%) COBIT
6 4 (0.82%) ISO 22301
6 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.62%) NIST
7 3 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.41%) IFRS
8 2 (0.41%) PMO
8 2 (0.41%) SEPA
8 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.21%) DICOM
9 1 (0.21%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 12 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.05%) Docker
2 10 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.23%) vSphere
4 5 (1.03%) ACF2
4 5 (1.03%) IAG
4 5 (1.03%) RACF
5 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (4.11%) Ansible
2 17 (3.49%) Terraform
3 12 (2.46%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.26%) Puppet
5 8 (1.64%) Grafana
5 8 (1.64%) Kibana
6 7 (1.44%) logstash
6 7 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.03%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.82%) VxRail
9 2 (0.41%) Ambari
9 2 (0.41%) Oozie
10 1 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.21%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 80 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.75%) Oracle
2 28 (5.75%) SAP
3 23 (4.72%) Google
4 20 (4.11%) VMware
5 19 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.08%) CyberArk
6 15 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.26%) Databricks
8 10 (2.05%) BeyondTrust
8 10 (2.05%) IBM
8 10 (2.05%) Talend
9 9 (1.85%) Dell
10 7 (1.44%) Amdocs
10 7 (1.44%) Cisco
10 7 (1.44%) Informatica
10 7 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.23%) Workday
12 5 (1.03%) ESRI
12 5 (1.03%) Sparx