Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the South East

Solution Architect
England > South East

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the South East is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 84 76
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 164 63 139
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.73% 2.15% 2.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.98% 2.36% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 39 93
10th Percentile £481 £500 £463
25th Percentile £506 £519 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £615 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £722 £699
90th Percentile £770 £788 £738
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £103.40 - £90.80
25th Percentile £108.13 - £92.00
Median hourly rate £116.00 - £92.37
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £98.67
England median hourly rate £71.27 £64.50 £89.00
% change year-on-year +10.50% -27.53% +33.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 5,507 2,673 5,175
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.71% 91.14% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,390 1,794 3,079
10th Percentile £300 £225 £234
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £650 £688
England median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 164 513
10th Percentile £15.08 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £24.25 £16.95 £18.32
Median hourly rate £50.24 £33.47 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.12% -30.28% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80.17 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.35 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.43% -21.79% -16.67%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the South East

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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 Solutions Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 May 2026. 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 -3 107 £625 - 28
Berkshire +6 83 £625 +2.88% 21
Buckinghamshire -20 24 £500 -28.57% 5
Kent +9 16 £645 +17.27% 6
Hampshire -21 14 £600 - 20
Surrey -15 11 £663 +20.45% 15
West Sussex -11 9 £750 +130.77% 4
East Sussex - 6 £611 - 3
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2026, 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 34 (20.73%) Azure
2 27 (16.46%) ERP
3 26 (15.85%) Enterprise Architecture
3 26 (15.85%) Roadmaps
4 24 (14.63%) Microsoft
5 21 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (12.20%) Architectural Design
7 19 (11.59%) Agile
7 19 (11.59%) Integration Patterns
8 18 (10.98%) AWS
8 18 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (10.37%) SAP
10 14 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (8.54%) SaaS
10 14 (8.54%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (7.93%) Migration
11 13 (7.93%) Security Cleared
11 13 (7.93%) TOGAF
11 13 (7.93%) Zero Trust
12 12 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (7.32%) Data Modelling
12 12 (7.32%) Decision-Making
12 12 (7.32%) Oracle
13 11 (6.71%) Architecture Governance
14 10 (6.10%) Architectural Patterns
14 10 (6.10%) DevOps
14 10 (6.10%) ServiceNow
14 10 (6.10%) Translating Business Requirements
15 9 (5.49%) Data Integration
15 9 (5.49%) Event-Driven

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.22%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (0.61%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (4.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.05%) SAP ERP
3 4 (2.44%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.83%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (1.22%) Maximo
5 2 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.61%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.61%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.73%) Azure
2 18 (10.98%) AWS
3 14 (8.54%) SaaS
4 8 (4.88%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.66%) GCP
5 6 (3.66%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.05%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (3.05%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (3.05%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (3.05%) dbt
6 5 (3.05%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.44%) Serverless
8 2 (1.22%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.05%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.44%) IPsec
2 4 (2.44%) MQTT
2 4 (2.44%) RFID
3 3 (1.83%) Network Security
4 2 (1.22%) Firewall
4 2 (1.22%) MPLS
4 2 (1.22%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.61%) DMVPN
5 1 (0.61%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.61%) LAN
5 1 (0.61%) NAS
5 1 (0.61%) SAN
5 1 (0.61%) TETRA
5 1 (0.61%) VLAN
5 1 (0.61%) VoIP
5 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.44%) Power BI
2 3 (1.83%) GIS
3 2 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.61%) Ataccama
4 1 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Git
1 2 (1.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.61%) ERwin
2 1 (0.61%) JIRA
General
1 26 (15.85%) Finance
1 26 (15.85%) Retail
2 22 (13.41%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.32%) Manufacturing
4 11 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.05%) Banking
6 5 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.05%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.83%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.22%) Legal
8 2 (1.22%) Police
8 2 (1.22%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Automotive
9 1 (0.61%) Billing
9 1 (0.61%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.49%) Middleware
2 7 (4.27%) REST
3 5 (3.05%) .NET
3 5 (3.05%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (3.05%) SOAP
4 4 (2.44%) ADO
5 3 (1.83%) MACH
6 2 (1.22%) JSON
6 2 (1.22%) OAuth
6 2 (1.22%) RESTful
6 2 (1.22%) XML
7 1 (0.61%) CSS
7 1 (0.61%) CSS3
7 1 (0.61%) HTML
7 1 (0.61%) HTML5
7 1 (0.61%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (0.61%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.61%) OpenID
7 1 (0.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.15%) Operational Technology
2 6 (3.66%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.05%) Mainframe
4 4 (2.44%) CMDB
4 4 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.83%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.22%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.22%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.22%) EPoS
6 2 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.22%) SCADA
6 2 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.61%) PKI
7 1 (0.61%) Replication
7 1 (0.61%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.44%) Windows
2 2 (1.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (16.46%) ERP
2 26 (15.85%) Enterprise Architecture
2 26 (15.85%) Roadmaps
3 21 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (12.20%) Architectural Design
5 19 (11.59%) Agile
5 19 (11.59%) Integration Patterns
6 18 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (8.54%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (7.93%) Migration
8 13 (7.93%) TOGAF
8 13 (7.93%) Zero Trust
9 12 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (7.32%) Data Modelling
9 12 (7.32%) Decision-Making
10 11 (6.71%) Architecture Governance
11 10 (6.10%) Architectural Patterns
11 10 (6.10%) DevOps
11 10 (6.10%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.44%) JavaScript
2 3 (1.83%) SQL
3 2 (1.22%) Bicep
4 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (7.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.49%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.27%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.83%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.83%) Degree
5 2 (1.22%) RHCE
6 1 (0.61%) CISSP
6 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.66%) NCSC
2 5 (3.05%) NIST
2 5 (3.05%) QA
3 4 (2.44%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.22%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.22%) SEPA
5 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) GRC
5 1 (0.61%) IFRS
5 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (2.44%) Terraform
2 2 (1.22%) Ansible
2 2 (1.22%) MOM
3 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.61%) Netcool
3 1 (0.61%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 24 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.37%) SAP
3 12 (7.32%) Oracle
4 10 (6.10%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.05%) VMware
7 4 (2.44%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (2.44%) Sage
7 4 (2.44%) Workday
8 3 (1.83%) Citrix
8 3 (1.83%) Databricks
8 3 (1.83%) ESRI
8 3 (1.83%) Google
9 2 (1.22%) Cisco
9 2 (1.22%) Foundry
9 2 (1.22%) Palantir
9 2 (1.22%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.22%) Remedy
10 1 (0.61%) F5
10 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft