Solutions Designer Contracts in London

Solution Designer
England > London

The median Solution Designer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 402 446
Rank change year-on-year +67 +44 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 15 2 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.011% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.012% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 7
10th Percentile £401 - £650
25th Percentile £452 £813 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £825 £775
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +6.45% +24.00%
75th Percentile £575 £838 £831
90th Percentile £588 - £850
England median daily rate £478 £519 £750
% change year-on-year -7.95% -30.83% +25.00%

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 11,759 16,474 23,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.77% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,963 11,827 17,372
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £676 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 321 274
10th Percentile £19.28 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.50 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.63 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +7 1 - - 1
Solutions Designer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 (53.33%) Serverless
2 7 (46.67%) AWS
3 6 (40.00%) CMS
4 5 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 5 (33.33%) SAML
4 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 5 (33.33%) DynamoDB
4 5 (33.33%) OAuth2
4 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 5 (33.33%) OpenID
4 5 (33.33%) OAuth
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (33.33%) Headless CMS
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (26.67%) Degree
5 4 (26.67%) Middleware
6 3 (20.00%) Salesforce
6 3 (20.00%) Information Security
6 3 (20.00%) Finance
6 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) Azure
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (20.00%) Inventory Management
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (20.00%) Business Strategy

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 6 (40.00%) CMS
2 5 (33.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Serverless
2 7 (46.67%) AWS
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Postman
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Publishing
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) OAuth
1 5 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 5 (33.33%) OpenID
1 5 (33.33%) SAML
2 4 (26.67%) Middleware
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
4 1 (6.67%) Ajax
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.67%) Bootstrap
4 1 (6.67%) LDAP
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
4 1 (6.67%) REST
4 1 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (6.67%) CMDB
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (20.00%) Information Security
2 3 (20.00%) Inventory Management
2 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (13.33%) High Availability
3 2 (13.33%) Microservices
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (6.67%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (6.67%) Design Thinking
4 1 (6.67%) Fintech
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 4 (26.67%) Degree
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow