Solutions Architect Contracts in the North of England

Solution Architect
England > North of England

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the North of England is £615 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 106 71
Rank change year-on-year +37 -35 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 132 122 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.81% 2.10% 3.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.02% 2.20% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 76 137
10th Percentile £500 £513 £475
25th Percentile £530 £547 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £625 £605
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +3.31% +14.15%
75th Percentile £688 £720 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £741
England median daily rate £650 £668 £625
% change year-on-year -2.69% +6.88% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £89.00 £66.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% +13.14% +6.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,370 5,536 6,958
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.30% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,742 3,911 5,115
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £385 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £684 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 160 284
10th Percentile £11.01 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.76 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.63 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +70.11% +4.63%
75th Percentile £46.00 £50.72 £28.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.07 £51.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the North of England

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 Solutions Architect within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
North West +55 92 £615 +0.41% 45
Yorkshire -8 35 £650 - 28
North East +17 6 £600 +6.67% 6
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 of England region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 40 (30.30%) Azure
2 37 (28.03%) Agile
3 34 (25.76%) Migration
4 28 (21.21%) Architectural Design
5 26 (19.70%) DevOps
6 25 (18.94%) Finance
7 22 (16.67%) Degree
8 20 (15.15%) Enterprise Architecture
8 20 (15.15%) Data Management
8 20 (15.15%) Social Skills
9 19 (14.39%) Microsoft
10 18 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (13.64%) Architectural Patterns
11 17 (12.88%) Project Delivery
11 17 (12.88%) Banking
12 16 (12.12%) Computer Science
12 16 (12.12%) SC Cleared
12 16 (12.12%) Security Cleared
12 16 (12.12%) Architecture Governance
12 16 (12.12%) Business Strategy
13 14 (10.61%) Service Design
14 13 (9.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (9.85%) AWS
14 13 (9.85%) Public Sector
15 12 (9.09%) PLM
15 12 (9.09%) IT Strategy
15 12 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (8.33%) SaaS
16 11 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
16 11 (8.33%) Technology Strategy

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (1.52%) ArcGIS
1 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.76%) CMS
Business Applications
1 6 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.52%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.76%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 40 (30.30%) Azure
2 18 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (9.85%) AWS
4 11 (8.33%) SaaS
5 10 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (6.82%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.30%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (5.30%) PaaS
8 6 (4.55%) IaaS
9 4 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.27%) GCP
10 3 (2.27%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.52%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.52%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.52%) Route 53
11 2 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.27%) MQTT
2 1 (0.76%) DHCP
2 1 (0.76%) DNS
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) Internet
2 1 (0.76%) LAN
2 1 (0.76%) VoIP
2 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.79%) Power BI
2 4 (3.03%) GIS
2 4 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.27%) DB2
4 2 (1.52%) Big Data
4 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.76%) Metadata
5 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.76%) Redis
5 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.76%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (1.52%) GitLab
1 2 (1.52%) webpack
2 1 (0.76%) JIRA
General
1 25 (18.94%) Finance
2 20 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.88%) Banking
4 13 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.79%) Retail
6 4 (3.03%) Local Government
7 3 (2.27%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Automotive
9 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.30%) Middleware
2 5 (3.79%) React
3 4 (3.03%) .NET
4 3 (2.27%) Node.js
5 2 (1.52%) Express.js
5 2 (1.52%) Redux
6 1 (0.76%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.76%) JSON
6 1 (0.76%) Kafka
6 1 (0.76%) OAuth
6 1 (0.76%) OpenID
6 1 (0.76%) REST
6 1 (0.76%) SAML
6 1 (0.76%) SOAP
6 1 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.55%) NHS
2 4 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.03%) Mainframe
2 4 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.27%) CMDB
3 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.27%) IoT
4 2 (1.52%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (1.52%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.52%) Robotics
4 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.76%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.76%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.55%) Windows
2 3 (2.27%) Android
2 3 (2.27%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.27%) Linux
2 3 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.03%) Agile
2 34 (25.76%) Migration
3 28 (21.21%) Architectural Design
4 26 (19.70%) DevOps
5 20 (15.15%) Data Management
5 20 (15.15%) Enterprise Architecture
6 18 (13.64%) Architectural Patterns
7 17 (12.88%) Project Delivery
8 16 (12.12%) Architecture Governance
8 16 (12.12%) Business Strategy
8 16 (12.12%) Computer Science
9 14 (10.61%) Service Design
10 12 (9.09%) IT Strategy
10 12 (9.09%) PLM
10 12 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
12 10 (7.58%) TOGAF
12 10 (7.58%) Waterfall
13 9 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.79%) Java
2 4 (3.03%) SQL
3 3 (2.27%) C
3 3 (2.27%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.52%) Python
5 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (16.67%) Degree
2 16 (12.12%) SC Cleared
2 16 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.76%) CCNA
6 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.76%) MCP
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.27%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.76%) Docker
1 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.76%) Istio
2 1 (0.76%) Terraform
2 1 (0.76%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (14.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.55%) SAP
3 4 (3.03%) Oracle
3 4 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.27%) Brio
5 2 (1.52%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.52%) F5
5 2 (1.52%) Mapbox
5 2 (1.52%) Mitel
5 2 (1.52%) OpenText
6 1 (0.76%) Adobe
6 1 (0.76%) Databricks
6 1 (0.76%) Dell
6 1 (0.76%) Fiserv
6 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.76%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.76%) Sophos
6 1 (0.76%) Splunk