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 £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 72 99
Rank change year-on-year +5 +27 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 105 125 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.19% 2.62% 2.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.41% 2.81% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 83 91
10th Percentile £450 £500 £513
25th Percentile £516 £531 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +7.44%
75th Percentile £699 £691 £700
90th Percentile £739 £738 £738
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £84.92 - -
25th Percentile £85.06 - -
Median hourly rate £88.74 - £66.00
75th Percentile £95.36 - -
90th Percentile £97.28 - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £88.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -28.41% +33.33% +11.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
North West +8 83 £600 -4.00% 37
Yorkshire -5 19 £613 -5.77% 22
North East -2 4 £725 +20.83% 3
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 North of England region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 26 (24.76%) Roadmaps
3 23 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (21.90%) AWS
4 19 (18.10%) Azure
4 19 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (18.10%) Banking
5 17 (16.19%) Agile
5 17 (16.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (15.24%) Migration
7 15 (14.29%) Finance
7 15 (14.29%) Architectural Design
8 14 (13.33%) Microsoft
8 14 (13.33%) TOGAF
8 14 (13.33%) Security Cleared
9 13 (12.38%) Degree
9 13 (12.38%) Enterprise Architecture
10 12 (11.43%) Software Engineering
10 12 (11.43%) QA
10 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (10.48%) GCP
11 11 (10.48%) Public Cloud
11 11 (10.48%) SC Cleared
12 10 (9.52%) SAP
12 10 (9.52%) Legal
12 10 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (8.57%) Computer Science
13 9 (8.57%) Microservices
13 9 (8.57%) DevOps

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 5 (4.76%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.95%) Appian
Business Applications
1 8 (7.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.86%) Magento
2 3 (2.86%) Sage 200
3 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.90%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.95%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.95%) Maximo
4 1 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.95%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.90%) AWS
2 19 (18.10%) Azure
3 11 (10.48%) GCP
4 7 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
5 6 (5.71%) Serverless
6 5 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon Glacier
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.86%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.90%) Azure App Service
9 2 (1.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.90%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.90%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.90%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.95%) ATM
2 1 (0.95%) Internet
2 1 (0.95%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.95%) NAS
2 1 (0.95%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.86%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.95%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.95%) GIS
4 1 (0.95%) MySQL
4 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.95%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.95%) GitLab
General
1 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (18.10%) Banking
3 15 (14.29%) Finance
4 10 (9.52%) Legal
5 7 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 6 (5.71%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.90%) Automotive
8 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.90%) Military
9 1 (0.95%) Aviation
9 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.62%) Middleware
2 7 (6.67%) Kafka
3 4 (3.81%) .NET
3 4 (3.81%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (3.81%) RESTful
4 3 (2.86%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.90%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.90%) LDAP
5 2 (1.90%) OAuth
5 2 (1.90%) OpenID
5 2 (1.90%) React
5 2 (1.90%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.95%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.95%) Next.js
6 1 (0.95%) Node.js
6 1 (0.95%) RAML
6 1 (0.95%) REST
6 1 (0.95%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Public Cloud
2 3 (2.86%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.86%) Replication
3 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.90%) Mainframe
3 2 (1.90%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.95%) Blockchain
4 1 (0.95%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.95%) Life Science
4 1 (0.95%) NHS
4 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.76%) Windows
2 4 (3.81%) Linux
3 3 (2.86%) HPUX
3 3 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.86%) Solaris
4 1 (0.95%) Android
4 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (24.76%) Roadmaps
2 23 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (16.19%) Agile
3 17 (16.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (15.24%) Migration
5 15 (14.29%) Architectural Design
6 14 (13.33%) TOGAF
7 13 (12.38%) Enterprise Architecture
8 12 (11.43%) Software Engineering
8 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (8.57%) Computer Science
10 9 (8.57%) DevOps
10 9 (8.57%) Microservices
11 8 (7.62%) SDLC
12 7 (6.67%) CI/CD
12 7 (6.67%) High Availability
12 7 (6.67%) Risk Management
12 7 (6.67%) Strategic Roadmap
13 6 (5.71%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.62%) Java
2 4 (3.81%) C#
3 3 (2.86%) PHP
4 2 (1.90%) Bicep
4 2 (1.90%) C++
4 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.95%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.95%) Python
5 1 (0.95%) Scala
5 1 (0.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.38%) Degree
3 11 (10.48%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (7.62%) AWS Certification
5 8 (7.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (7.62%) Azure Certification
5 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.81%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.95%) CCNP
7 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.95%) CISSP
7 1 (0.95%) HP ASE
7 1 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) QA
2 5 (4.76%) GDPR
3 4 (3.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.90%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.90%) SEPA
5 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.95%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (5.71%) Docker
2 3 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.95%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (5.71%) Terraform
2 2 (1.90%) Ansible
2 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.95%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.52%) SAP
3 8 (7.62%) Google
4 6 (5.71%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.86%) Concur
6 3 (2.86%) IBM
6 3 (2.86%) Sun
6 3 (2.86%) VMware
7 2 (1.90%) Dell
7 2 (1.90%) ESRI
7 2 (1.90%) HP
7 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.90%) Unisys
7 2 (1.90%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.90%) Workday
8 1 (0.95%) Ariba
8 1 (0.95%) Cisco
8 1 (0.95%) NetApp
8 1 (0.95%) Red Hat