Digital Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the South East

Digital Solution Architect
England > South East

The median Digital Solution Architect daily rate in the South East is £688, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 178 217
Rank change year-on-year +17 +39 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Solutions Architect 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.17% 0.023% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.025% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £609 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £480 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.23% - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile £760 - -
England median daily rate £625 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 3,190 4,070 5,255
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.81% 92.19% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,067 2,413 3,561
10th Percentile £204 £245 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £652 £688 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 273 255
10th Percentile £13.18 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.50 £21.15
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £51.90
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% +12.70% +110.93%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £66.97
90th Percentile £71.15 £80.00 £76.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -44.11% -0.46% +71.64%

Digital Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Solutions Architect in the South East

Digital Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Solutions Architect job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Solutions Architect job vacancies in the South East

Digital Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Solutions Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Solutions Architect in the South East

Digital Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Solutions Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Thames Valley +20 4 £688 +43.23% 1
Buckinghamshire - 3 £700 -
Surrey - 2 - -
Berkshire +13 1 £450 -6.25% 1
Digital Solutions Architect
England

Digital Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 October 2025, Digital Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Digital Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 3 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (50.00%) Sitecore
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) CloudFront
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Datadog
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (33.33%) GDPR
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Observability

Digital Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) CloudFront
1 2 (33.33%) Datadog
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Interface Catalogue
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Sitecore