Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Solution Architect
North West > Merseyside

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Merseyside is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 25 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 7 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 3.38% 3.46% 3.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.65% 3.74% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £493 - £489
25th Percentile £502 £563 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +10.05% -7.11%
75th Percentile £656 £634 £584
90th Percentile £686 £662 £625
North West median daily rate £600 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 192 214 192
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 92.64% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 95 119
10th Percentile £129 £154 £210
25th Percentile £176 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £516 £531 £525
90th Percentile £674 £600 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £476 £500
% change year-on-year -5.46% -4.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 19 14
10th Percentile - £15.22 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £17.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.18 £18.13 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -7.03% +62.50%
75th Percentile £21.34 £23.85 £28.58
90th Percentile £42.17 £36.80 £44.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +6.06% +43.48%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Merseyside.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Merseyside

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Merseyside over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Merseyside

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Merseyside.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Merseyside

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Liverpool +1 6 £538 -20.96% 1
Solutions Architect
North West

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 20 October 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 Merseyside region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 2 (28.57%) API Integration
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) ERP
1 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
1 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
1 2 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) AI
2 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (14.29%) Conversational UI
2 1 (14.29%) CRM
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) IVR
2 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) API Integration
1 2 (28.57%) ERP
1 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
1 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
1 2 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) AI
2 1 (14.29%) Conversational UI
2 1 (14.29%) CRM
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft