Solutions Designer Contracts in London

Solution Designer
England > London

The median Solution Designer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 - 466
Rank change year-on-year - - +63
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 20 0 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% - 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 6
10th Percentile £409 - £575
25th Percentile £479 - £672
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.02%
75th Percentile £663 - £841
90th Percentile £708 - £850
England median daily rate £488 £513 £725
% change year-on-year -4.88% -29.31% +20.83%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Solutions Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Designer in London

Solutions Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Designer in London

Solutions Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Designer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Designer in London

Solutions Designer
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 Designer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 4 £600 -
Solutions Designer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Solutions Designer 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 Designer in the job title.

1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Middleware
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.00%) Azure API Management
4 3 (15.00%) Generative AI
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (15.00%) Customer Experience
4 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (15.00%) Web Services
4 3 (15.00%) ITIL
4 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) Information Security
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365

Solutions Designer 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 2 (10.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure API Management
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (15.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) PaaS
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) 5G
1 2 (10.00%) LTE
1 2 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.00%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Postman
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Middleware
2 3 (15.00%) Web Services
3 2 (10.00%) Ajax
3 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.00%) Bootstrap
3 2 (10.00%) LDAP
3 2 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (15.00%) Agile
2 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (15.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (15.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (15.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (15.00%) DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (15.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (15.00%) Information Security
2 3 (15.00%) ITIL
2 3 (15.00%) Migration
2 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (15.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (10.00%) Data Management
3 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (10.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) CCIE
4 1 (5.00%) CCNP
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.00%) PMP
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Temenos
4 1 (5.00%) VMware