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 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 49 118
Rank change year-on-year -16 +69 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 108 166 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.26% 3.58% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.49% 3.84% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 111 60
10th Percentile £450 £463 £513
25th Percentile £509 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £631
Median % change year-on-year - -4.95% +2.02%
75th Percentile £696 £680 £700
90th Percentile £737 £738 £788
England median daily rate £625 £650 £665
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.26% +6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - £66.00
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £90.00 £66.75
% change year-on-year -30.00% +34.83% +13.14%

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 3,095 4,323 5,348
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 93.27% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,046 2,712 3,751
10th Percentile £230 £263 £280
25th Percentile £365 £390 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 401 158
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.19 £12.53 £17.85
Median hourly rate £24.50 £20.77 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.96% -30.77% +57.89%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £49.40
90th Percentile £77.88 £62.50 £66.21
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £44.77
% change year-on-year -18.73% -17.54% +94.63%

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 19 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 19 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 -7 85 £600 -4.00% 41
Yorkshire -13 20 £600 +4.35% 29
North East -6 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 19 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 29 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 26 (24.07%) Roadmaps
3 25 (23.15%) AWS
4 23 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (19.44%) Banking
6 20 (18.52%) Azure
7 19 (17.59%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (16.67%) Agile
9 17 (15.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (15.74%) Finance
9 17 (15.74%) Architectural Design
10 16 (14.81%) Migration
10 16 (14.81%) TOGAF
11 15 (13.89%) Microsoft
12 13 (12.04%) Enterprise Architecture
12 13 (12.04%) Degree
12 13 (12.04%) Security Cleared
13 12 (11.11%) Software Engineering
14 11 (10.19%) QA
14 11 (10.19%) GCP
14 11 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (9.26%) Public Cloud
15 10 (9.26%) SC Cleared
15 10 (9.26%) Legal
16 9 (8.33%) Computer Science
16 9 (8.33%) SAP
16 9 (8.33%) Microservices
16 9 (8.33%) SDLC
16 9 (8.33%) 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 (4.63%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.93%) Appian
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (6.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.78%) Magento
2 3 (2.78%) Sage 200
3 2 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.85%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.93%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.93%) Maximo
4 1 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.93%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (23.15%) AWS
2 20 (18.52%) Azure
3 11 (10.19%) GCP
4 6 (5.56%) Serverless
5 5 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (3.70%) Amazon Glacier
6 4 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.78%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.85%) Azure App Service
8 2 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.85%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.85%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) ATM
2 1 (0.93%) Internet
2 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.93%) NAS
2 1 (0.93%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.85%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.93%) GIS
3 1 (0.93%) MySQL
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.93%) GitLab
General
1 29 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.44%) Banking
3 19 (17.59%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (15.74%) Finance
5 10 (9.26%) Legal
6 7 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.48%) Telecoms
7 6 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.78%) Automotive
9 3 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.85%) Military
11 1 (0.93%) Aviation
11 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.48%) Kafka
1 7 (6.48%) Middleware
2 5 (4.63%) .NET
3 4 (3.70%) .NET Framework
3 4 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (3.70%) RESTful
4 2 (1.85%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.85%) LDAP
4 2 (1.85%) OAuth
4 2 (1.85%) OpenID
4 2 (1.85%) React
4 2 (1.85%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.93%) JSON
5 1 (0.93%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.93%) Next.js
5 1 (0.93%) RAML
5 1 (0.93%) REST
5 1 (0.93%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.26%) Public Cloud
2 4 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.78%) Replication
3 3 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.85%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.93%) IVR
5 1 (0.93%) Life Science
5 1 (0.93%) NHS
5 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.70%) Windows
2 3 (2.78%) HPUX
2 3 (2.78%) Linux
2 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.78%) Solaris
3 1 (0.93%) Android
3 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (24.07%) Roadmaps
2 23 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (16.67%) Agile
4 17 (15.74%) Architectural Design
4 17 (15.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (14.81%) Migration
5 16 (14.81%) TOGAF
6 13 (12.04%) Enterprise Architecture
7 12 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 11 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (8.33%) Computer Science
9 9 (8.33%) DevOps
9 9 (8.33%) Microservices
9 9 (8.33%) SDLC
10 7 (6.48%) CI/CD
10 7 (6.48%) High Availability
11 6 (5.56%) Containerisation
11 6 (5.56%) Event-Driven
11 6 (5.56%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.41%) Java
2 4 (3.70%) C#
3 3 (2.78%) PHP
4 2 (1.85%) Bicep
4 2 (1.85%) C++
4 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.93%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.93%) Python
5 1 (0.93%) Scala
5 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (12.04%) Degree
1 13 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.93%) CCNP
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.93%) CISSP
6 1 (0.93%) HP ASE
6 1 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.19%) QA
2 5 (4.63%) GDPR
3 4 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.85%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.85%) SEPA
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (5.56%) Docker
2 3 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (5.56%) Terraform
2 2 (1.85%) Ansible
2 2 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.93%) Grafana
3 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.33%) SAP
3 8 (7.41%) Google
4 5 (4.63%) MuleSoft
4 5 (4.63%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.78%) IBM
5 3 (2.78%) Sun
6 2 (1.85%) Concur
6 2 (1.85%) Dell
6 2 (1.85%) ESRI
6 2 (1.85%) HP
6 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.85%) Unisys
6 2 (1.85%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.85%) VMware
6 2 (1.85%) Workday
7 1 (0.93%) Brocade
7 1 (0.93%) Databricks
7 1 (0.93%) EMC
7 1 (0.93%) Pure Storage