Lead Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Lead Solution Architect
England > North of England

The median Lead Solution Architect daily rate in the North of England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 165 -
Rank change year-on-year -48 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.18% 0.031% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.033% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £501 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile £720 - -
England median daily rate £688 £650 £713
% change year-on-year +5.77% -8.77% +1.79%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 5,035 3,032 4,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 92.84% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,184 1,945 2,931
10th Percentile £230 £227 £256
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £555 £570 £575
90th Percentile £644 £650 £669
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 145 399
10th Percentile £17.13 £13.58 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.13 £13.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £27.13 £20.46
Median % change year-on-year +65.90% +32.58% -31.80%
75th Percentile £63.45 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.86% +7.69% -22.27%

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Lead Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the North of England

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies in the North of England

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Solutions Architect in the North of England

Lead Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 March 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
Yorkshire - 7 £569 -
North East - 2 £725 -
North West -26 1 £465 - 1
Lead Solutions Architect
England

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 9 March 2026, Lead 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 North of England region featuring Lead Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (80.00%) TOGAF
2 7 (70.00%) BiZZdesign
2 7 (70.00%) Centrify
2 7 (70.00%) CISM
2 7 (70.00%) CISSP
2 7 (70.00%) Computer Science
2 7 (70.00%) Confluence
2 7 (70.00%) Cryptography
2 7 (70.00%) CyberArk
2 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 7 (70.00%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (70.00%) Incident Response
2 7 (70.00%) JIRA
2 7 (70.00%) Master's Degree
2 7 (70.00%) PhD
2 7 (70.00%) SABSA
2 7 (70.00%) Security Operations
2 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Thought Leadership
2 7 (70.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 7 (70.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 7 (70.00%) UML
2 7 (70.00%) Visualisation
2 7 (70.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 6 (60.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 6 (60.00%) Secrets Management
4 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 5 (50.00%) Technical Debt
5 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (70.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) OCI
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (80.00%) TOGAF
2 7 (70.00%) Computer Science
2 7 (70.00%) Cryptography
2 7 (70.00%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (70.00%) Incident Response
2 7 (70.00%) SABSA
2 7 (70.00%) Security Operations
2 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Thought Leadership
2 7 (70.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 7 (70.00%) UML
2 7 (70.00%) Visualisation
2 7 (70.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 6 (60.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 6 (60.00%) Secrets Management
4 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 5 (50.00%) Technical Debt
5 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (40.00%) Project Governance
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) CISM
1 7 (70.00%) CISSP
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
1 7 (70.00%) Master's Degree
1 7 (70.00%) PhD
1 7 (70.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) BiZZdesign
1 7 (70.00%) Centrify
1 7 (70.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft