Technical Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Technical Solution Architect
England > Midlands

The median Technical Solution Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £441, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 - 129
Rank change year-on-year - - +58
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Solutions Architect 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.18% - 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% - 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £576 - -
90th Percentile £658 - -
England median daily rate £604 £570 £675
% change year-on-year +5.92% -15.56% +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,917 2,007 2,396
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.42% 92.53% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,842 1,256 1,613
10th Percentile £210 £205 £211
25th Percentile £380 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £460
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.14% -3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £663 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 82 144
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.01 £13.65
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.92
Median hourly rate £21.97 £23.71 £20.26
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +17.06% +15.35%
75th Percentile £25.91 £30.00 £33.56
90th Percentile £35.70 £42.88 £62.75
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £41.23
% change year-on-year -20.00% -15.11% +17.80%

Technical Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Technical Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Technical Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Solutions Architect job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Solutions Architect job vacancies in the Midlands

Technical Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Solutions Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Technical 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 Technical Solutions Architect within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. 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 - 6 £441 - 2
Technical Solutions Architect
England

Technical Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 January 2026, Technical 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 Midlands region featuring Technical Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Business Case
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Intelligent Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Metadata
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Network Design
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Server Building
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) API Management
3 1 (16.67%) Ariba
3 1 (16.67%) B2B

Technical Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) IDoc
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SAP PI
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 2 (33.33%) Business Case
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Intelligent Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Network Design
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Server Building
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Ariba
1 1 (16.67%) SAP