Solutions Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Solution Architect
England > Midlands

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £537, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 70 71
Rank change year-on-year +20 +1 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 73 62 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.67% 2.31% 3.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.07% 2.51% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 41 69
10th Percentile £401 £489 £535
25th Percentile £450 £595 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £706
90th Percentile £630 £788 £780
England median daily rate £625 £650 £664
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.07% +6.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.10 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £30.20 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.09% - -
75th Percentile £30.30 £60.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £90.00 £66.75
% change year-on-year -30.00% +34.83% +13.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,793 2,472 3,119
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 92.10% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 1,671 2,193
10th Percentile £200 £213 £220
25th Percentile £350 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -2.63% +2.70%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £687
England median daily rate £524 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.26% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 215 117
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.83 £12.30
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.94 £19.13 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -4.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £41.67 £52.56 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +95.65%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Midlands +10 43 £600 -10.38% 37
East Midlands +21 29 £475 -13.83% 28
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 Midlands region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 25 (34.25%) Azure
1 25 (34.25%) AWS
2 22 (30.14%) Microsoft
3 20 (27.40%) Migration
3 20 (27.40%) Agile
3 20 (27.40%) TOGAF
4 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
5 16 (21.92%) Power Platform
6 15 (20.55%) Finance
7 13 (17.81%) Banking
7 13 (17.81%) DevOps
7 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (17.81%) CI/CD
8 11 (15.07%) Roadmaps
8 11 (15.07%) Serverless
8 11 (15.07%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (13.70%) Power BI
9 10 (13.70%) Data Governance
9 10 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (13.70%) SQL
9 10 (13.70%) .NET
9 10 (13.70%) PowerApps
10 9 (12.33%) Integration Patterns
10 9 (12.33%) Data Modelling
10 9 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (12.33%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (10.96%) C#
11 8 (10.96%) Scrum
11 8 (10.96%) Enterprise Architecture

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (9.59%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (6.85%) InfoPath
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.11%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.11%) Revit
3 2 (2.74%) Fusion 360
3 2 (2.74%) Siemens NX
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.11%) SAP PM
3 2 (2.74%) Teamcenter
4 1 (1.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.37%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 25 (34.25%) AWS
1 25 (34.25%) Azure
2 16 (21.92%) Power Platform
3 11 (15.07%) Dynamics 365
3 11 (15.07%) Serverless
4 10 (13.70%) PowerApps
5 9 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (10.96%) Power Automate
7 7 (9.59%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (8.22%) Azure Functions
9 5 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (5.48%) GCP
11 3 (4.11%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (4.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (4.11%) Collibra
11 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) Firewall
2 2 (2.74%) LAN
2 2 (2.74%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.74%) WAN
3 1 (1.37%) Network Security
3 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.70%) Power BI
2 5 (6.85%) GIS
2 5 (6.85%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.85%) RDBMS
2 5 (6.85%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.11%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.11%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.11%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.11%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.37%) GitLab
2 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.55%) Finance
3 13 (17.81%) Banking
4 9 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Retail
6 2 (2.74%) Law
6 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.74%) Police
7 1 (1.37%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.37%) Marketing
7 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.70%) .NET
2 8 (10.96%) .NET Framework
3 7 (9.59%) Kafka
4 6 (8.22%) CSS
5 5 (6.85%) ASP.NET
5 5 (6.85%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (6.85%) Entity Framework
5 5 (6.85%) HTML
5 5 (6.85%) HTML5 Canvas
5 5 (6.85%) Middleware
6 3 (4.11%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (4.11%) RESTful
7 1 (1.37%) ADO
7 1 (1.37%) OAuth
7 1 (1.37%) OpenID
7 1 (1.37%) RAML
7 1 (1.37%) REST
7 1 (1.37%) Spring
7 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (8.22%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.85%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (6.85%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.85%) SCADA
4 4 (5.48%) IoT
5 3 (4.11%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.74%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.37%) Derivative
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.37%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.40%) Agile
1 20 (27.40%) Migration
1 20 (27.40%) TOGAF
2 13 (17.81%) CI/CD
2 13 (17.81%) DevOps
2 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (15.07%) Roadmaps
4 10 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (13.70%) Data Governance
5 9 (12.33%) Data Modelling
5 9 (12.33%) Integration Patterns
6 8 (10.96%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (10.96%) Scrum
7 7 (9.59%) Business Strategy
7 7 (9.59%) Data Integration
7 7 (9.59%) Domain-Driven Design
7 7 (9.59%) Microservices
7 7 (9.59%) Workflow
8 6 (8.22%) Decision-Making
8 6 (8.22%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.70%) SQL
2 8 (10.96%) C#
3 6 (8.22%) Java
3 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.48%) Bicep
5 3 (4.11%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (4.11%) Python
6 1 (1.37%) COBOL
6 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (9.59%) TOGAF Certification
2 6 (8.22%) Degree
3 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.37%) CISM
6 1 (1.37%) CISSP
6 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.74%) GDPR
1 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.37%) GRC
2 1 (1.37%) NIST
2 1 (1.37%) PMO
2 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.48%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.48%) Terraform
2 1 (1.37%) CASB
2 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (30.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.85%) Autodesk
2 5 (6.85%) SAP
3 4 (5.48%) Databricks
3 4 (5.48%) Informatica
3 4 (5.48%) Oracle
4 2 (2.74%) ESRI
4 2 (2.74%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.74%) Infoblox
4 2 (2.74%) NetApp
4 2 (2.74%) Qualys
4 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.74%) Siemens
4 2 (2.74%) VMware
5 1 (1.37%) Ariba
5 1 (1.37%) Avaya
5 1 (1.37%) Google
5 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.37%) Splunk