Solutions Architect Contracts in Northampton

Solution Architect
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Northampton is £450, 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 15 12 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 10 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 8.13% 7.09% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.93% 7.32% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 2
10th Percentile £358 - £490
25th Percentile £402 £445 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.98% -6.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £473 £503 £556
90th Percentile £537 £547 £560
Northamptonshire median daily rate £450 £489 £588
% change year-on-year -7.98% -16.77% +6.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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 Northampton with a recognized job title 112 123 125
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 96.85% 92.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 94 96
10th Percentile £266 £333 £200
25th Percentile £358 £356 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £448 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% +11.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £573 £500
90th Percentile £560 £622 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £420 £433 £400
% change year-on-year -2.89% +8.13% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - - £14.93
25th Percentile £13.75 - £15.55
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £16.90
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -17.16% +24.13%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £18.57
90th Percentile - £35.75 £19.38
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £32.25 £14.00 £19.02
% change year-on-year +130.36% -26.37% -17.33%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Northampton

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Northampton

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Northampton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Northampton

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton

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 Northampton region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Banking
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Finance
4 4 (40.00%) Java
4 4 (40.00%) Kafka
4 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (40.00%) Microservices
4 4 (40.00%) Public Cloud
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (30.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 3 (30.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (30.00%) Contingency Planning
5 3 (30.00%) SDLC
5 3 (30.00%) Docker
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon Glacier
5 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) BPR

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Glacier
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Apigee
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (70.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 3 (30.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth
3 1 (10.00%) OpenID
3 1 (10.00%) RAML
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) BPR
3 3 (30.00%) Budget Control
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Contingency Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) IT Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Project Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) SDLC
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk