Solutions Architect Contracts in Somerset

Solution Architect
South West > Somerset

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Somerset 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 22 25 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 2.65% 0.98% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% 1.06% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £653
25th Percentile £575 - £696
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £783
75th Percentile £625 - £801
90th Percentile - - £802
South West median daily rate £575 £650 £670
% change year-on-year -11.54% -2.99% +7.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Somerset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Somerset. 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 Somerset with a recognized job title 131 188 186
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.75% 92.16% 98.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 116 143
10th Percentile £263 £200 £194
25th Percentile £411 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +13.64%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £658
90th Percentile £775 £609 £735
South West median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.63% -2.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 32 15
10th Percentile £13.66 £12.28 £23.60
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.23 £34.95
Median hourly rate £18.51 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% -50.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £19.76 £40.00 £62.06
90th Percentile £20.51 £48.00 £77.97
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +42.54%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Somerset

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Somerset

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset 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
Bath -6 3 £600 - 2
Yeovil - 1 - - 1
Solutions Architect
South West

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

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 Somerset region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) CCIE
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) JNCIP
2 2 (50.00%) JNCIE
2 2 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) IT Governance
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Business Development
2 2 (50.00%) Time Management

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) MPLS
1 2 (50.00%) OSPF
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 2 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (50.00%) Business Development
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) IT Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 2 (50.00%) Time Management
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) JNCIE
1 2 (50.00%) JNCIP
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Juniper
1 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto