Solutions Architect Contracts in the North East

Solution Architect
England > North East

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the North East is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 August 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
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 30 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 3 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.06% 1.63% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.79% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £558 £532 £503
25th Percentile £569 £543 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £573 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +9.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £629 £538
90th Percentile £618 £657 -
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 256 223 251
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 90.65% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 108 181
10th Percentile £188 £269 £250
25th Percentile £367 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - -12.62%
75th Percentile £549 £550 £588
90th Percentile £634 £650 £710
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 26 8
10th Percentile £11.60 £10.42 £15.28
25th Percentile £12.28 £13.08 £16.81
Median hourly rate £15.25 £46.18 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -66.98% +43.19% +82.67%
75th Percentile £20.63 £49.05 £36.86
90th Percentile £44.00 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.63% +68.64%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the North East

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in the North East

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Tyne and Wear -5 3 £588 +2.62% 2
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 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 North East region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Dell
3 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) VxRail
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Military
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
3 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
1 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) VMware