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 £631, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 92 84
Rank change year-on-year +25 -8 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 197 64 133
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.19% 2.11% 2.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.48% 2.31% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 42 90
10th Percentile £481 £501 £480
25th Percentile £506 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £620 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -0.80% -2.15%
75th Percentile £738 £723 £700
90th Percentile £775 £759 £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 5,656 2,767 5,333
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 91.11% 92.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,422 1,817 3,123
10th Percentile £303 £220 £250
25th Percentile £417 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -0.10% +0.10%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £706 £660 £688
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 197 566
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.20 £12.88
25th Percentile £25.00 £15.56 £18.61
Median hourly rate £51.24 £31.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.67% -37.00% -4.40%
75th Percentile £80.06 £62.24 £67.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £79.38
England median hourly rate £45.56 £29.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year +57.09% -26.58% -12.22%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +6 125 £625 -0.40% 11
Berkshire +14 98 £650 +5.69% 8
Buckinghamshire -19 27 £500 -28.57% 2
Hampshire -13 23 £650 +8.33% 7
West Sussex -2 16 £700 +115.38% 2
Kent +16 15 £645 +17.27% 2
Surrey -13 11 £663 +12.77% 6
East Sussex - 6 £611 -
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 38 (19.29%) ERP
2 35 (17.77%) Azure
2 35 (17.77%) Roadmaps
3 29 (14.72%) Enterprise Architecture
4 28 (14.21%) Agile
4 28 (14.21%) Security Cleared
4 28 (14.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 27 (13.71%) Microsoft
6 26 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (12.18%) Integration Patterns
8 22 (11.17%) Architectural Design
9 21 (10.66%) Oracle
10 19 (9.64%) Architecture Governance
10 19 (9.64%) SAP
11 18 (9.14%) AWS
11 18 (9.14%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (8.63%) SaaS
13 16 (8.12%) Data Modelling
13 16 (8.12%) Migration
13 16 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (8.12%) Zero Trust
14 15 (7.61%) SC Cleared
15 14 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (6.60%) Decision-Making
16 13 (6.60%) TOGAF
17 12 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
17 12 (6.09%) ServiceNow
18 11 (5.58%) Architectural Patterns
18 11 (5.58%) Middleware
18 11 (5.58%) Oracle Fusion

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 4 (2.03%) Documentum
2 3 (1.52%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.54%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (2.54%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.52%) Maximo
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (1.02%) Avolution ABACUS
4 2 (1.02%) Cognos Controller
4 2 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.51%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.51%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 35 (17.77%) Azure
2 18 (9.14%) AWS
3 17 (8.63%) SaaS
4 7 (3.55%) Entra ID
4 7 (3.55%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.05%) GCP
5 6 (3.05%) IaaS
5 6 (3.05%) PaaS
6 5 (2.54%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (2.54%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (2.54%) dbt
6 5 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (2.54%) Snowflake
7 4 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.03%) OCI
7 4 (2.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.05%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.52%) Internet
2 3 (1.52%) IPsec
2 3 (1.52%) LAN
2 3 (1.52%) MQTT
2 3 (1.52%) RFID
2 3 (1.52%) VoIP
2 3 (1.52%) WAN
3 2 (1.02%) Firewall
3 2 (1.02%) MPLS
3 2 (1.02%) Network Security
3 2 (1.02%) PBX
3 2 (1.02%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (1.02%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.51%) NAS
4 1 (0.51%) SAN
4 1 (0.51%) TETRA
4 1 (0.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.03%) GIS
1 4 (2.03%) Power BI
2 3 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.02%) Flink
4 1 (0.51%) Ataccama
4 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (1.52%) ERwin
1 3 (1.52%) Git
2 1 (0.51%) JIRA
General
1 35 (17.77%) Finance
1 35 (17.77%) Retail
2 33 (16.75%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.63%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.60%) Manufacturing
5 10 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.06%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.55%) Banking
8 5 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.52%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.52%) Legal
10 2 (1.02%) Billing
10 2 (1.02%) Police
10 2 (1.02%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Automotive
11 1 (0.51%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.58%) Middleware
1 11 (5.58%) Oracle Fusion
1 11 (5.58%) REST
2 6 (3.05%) ADO
2 6 (3.05%) MACH
2 6 (3.05%) SOAP
3 3 (1.52%) .NET
3 3 (1.52%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.02%) OAuth
4 2 (1.02%) RESTful
5 1 (0.51%) CSS
5 1 (0.51%) CSS3
5 1 (0.51%) HTML
5 1 (0.51%) HTML5
5 1 (0.51%) JSON
5 1 (0.51%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.51%) OpenID
5 1 (0.51%) SAML
5 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.64%) Operational Technology
2 5 (2.54%) Mainframe
2 5 (2.54%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.03%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.03%) CMDB
3 4 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.52%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.52%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.02%) EPoS
5 2 (1.02%) SCADA
5 2 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.51%) Replication
6 1 (0.51%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (19.29%) ERP
2 35 (17.77%) Roadmaps
3 29 (14.72%) Enterprise Architecture
4 28 (14.21%) Agile
4 28 (14.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 26 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (12.18%) Integration Patterns
7 22 (11.17%) Architectural Design
8 19 (9.64%) Architecture Governance
9 18 (9.14%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (8.12%) Data Modelling
10 16 (8.12%) Migration
10 16 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (8.12%) Zero Trust
11 14 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (6.60%) Decision-Making
12 13 (6.60%) TOGAF
13 12 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (5.58%) Project Delivery
14 11 (5.58%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.03%) Java
1 4 (2.03%) JavaScript
1 4 (2.03%) SQL
2 2 (1.02%) Bicep
3 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.51%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (14.21%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.61%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.57%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.06%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.52%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.52%) Degree
6 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.51%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.51%) NVQ Level 4
7 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.55%) QA
2 5 (2.54%) NCSC
3 3 (1.52%) IFRS
3 3 (1.52%) NIST
3 3 (1.52%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.02%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.02%) SEPA
5 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.51%) GAAP
5 1 (0.51%) GDPR
5 1 (0.51%) GRC
5 1 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (3.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.52%) FortiGate
2 3 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.52%) Terraform
3 2 (1.02%) MOM
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 27 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.66%) Oracle
3 19 (9.64%) SAP
4 12 (6.09%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.55%) VMware
7 4 (2.03%) Cisco
7 4 (2.03%) ESRI
7 4 (2.03%) Google
7 4 (2.03%) Sage
8 3 (1.52%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (1.52%) Citrix
8 3 (1.52%) Foundry
8 3 (1.52%) IBM
8 3 (1.52%) Palantir
9 2 (1.02%) Cognos
9 2 (1.02%) Databricks
9 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.02%) Remedy
10 1 (0.51%) Avaya