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 £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025.

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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 92 85
Rank change year-on-year +27 -7 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 126 91 146
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.24% 2.24% 2.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.61% 2.42% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 58 114
10th Percentile £479 £512 £513
25th Percentile £516 £563 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £633
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.22% -2.65%
75th Percentile £692 £667 £675
90th Percentile £725 £791 £700
England median daily rate £625 £618 £650
% change year-on-year +1.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.55 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £83.82 - £75.00
75th Percentile £91.26 - £77.50
90th Percentile £93.37 - -
England median hourly rate £87.50 £65.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +33.59% -12.67% +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 3,489 3,764 5,096
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.60% 92.57% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,258 2,260 3,358
10th Percentile £205 £245 £208
25th Percentile £380 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £503
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +0.89% +0.60%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £663 £685 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 212 247
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.91 £26.81 £23.00
Median hourly rate £20.79 £57.50 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -63.84% +11.82% +38.49%
75th Percentile £50.00 £72.36 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +53.19%

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 11 November 2025.

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 11 November 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 +13 67 £550 -7.56% 32
Berkshire +21 48 £536 -9.15% 23
Hampshire +14 32 £600 -4.00% 24
Buckinghamshire +12 16 £700 +27.27% 9
Surrey +8 10 £574 -11.97% 5
West Sussex -5 10 £720 +1.05% 8
East Sussex 0 3 £925 +51.02% 17
Oxfordshire -16 3 £550 -15.38% 2
Kent - 1 £550 - 4
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 November 2025, 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 37 (29.37%) Azure
2 32 (25.40%) Roadmaps
3 30 (23.81%) Security Cleared
4 23 (18.25%) DV Cleared
4 23 (18.25%) Migration
5 19 (15.08%) Agile
6 17 (13.49%) Salesforce
6 17 (13.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (12.70%) AWS
7 16 (12.70%) Java
8 15 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (10.32%) TOGAF
10 12 (9.52%) AI
10 12 (9.52%) Architectural Design
10 12 (9.52%) Microsoft
11 11 (8.73%) Analytics
11 11 (8.73%) Asset Management
11 11 (8.73%) Enterprise Architecture
11 11 (8.73%) IBM
11 11 (8.73%) Microservices
12 10 (7.94%) DevOps
12 10 (7.94%) SAP
13 9 (7.14%) CI/CD
13 9 (7.14%) Maximo
13 9 (7.14%) Technology Roadmap
14 8 (6.35%) ArcGIS
14 8 (6.35%) JIRA
14 8 (6.35%) OpenAI
14 8 (6.35%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (6.35%) Service Delivery

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 8 (6.35%) ArcGIS
2 3 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.59%) Documentum
4 1 (0.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) ThingWorx
Business Applications
1 9 (7.14%) Maximo
2 4 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.38%) SAP PM
4 2 (1.59%) Avolution ABACUS
4 2 (1.59%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.59%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.79%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.37%) Azure
2 16 (12.70%) AWS
3 7 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.76%) GCP
4 6 (4.76%) Serverless
5 5 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.17%) SaaS
7 3 (2.38%) Azure Functions
7 3 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.38%) PaaS
7 3 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 3 (2.38%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.59%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (1.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) DWDM
2 2 (1.59%) Firewall
2 2 (1.59%) IPsec
2 2 (1.59%) LAN
2 2 (1.59%) SDH
2 2 (1.59%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.59%) WAN
3 1 (0.79%) 4G
3 1 (0.79%) ADSL
3 1 (0.79%) Network Security
3 1 (0.79%) VPN
3 1 (0.79%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.76%) GIS
2 5 (3.97%) Big Data
3 3 (2.38%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.59%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (6.35%) JIRA
2 7 (5.56%) Git
3 5 (3.97%) GitLab
3 5 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.59%) Postman
4 2 (1.59%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
General
1 40 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.08%) Retail
3 9 (7.14%) Finance
3 9 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.35%) Marketing
4 8 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.17%) Legal
8 3 (2.38%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.59%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.59%) Banking
9 2 (1.59%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.79%) Aviation
10 1 (0.79%) Back Office
10 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.17%) .NET
2 3 (2.38%) Kafka
2 3 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (2.38%) Middleware
2 3 (2.38%) RESTful
2 3 (2.38%) SOAP
2 3 (2.38%) Visualforce
3 2 (1.59%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.59%) REST
3 2 (1.59%) SAP PI
3 2 (1.59%) Swagger
3 2 (1.59%) WSDL
3 2 (1.59%) XSLT
4 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.79%) ADO
4 1 (0.79%) Ajax
4 1 (0.79%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.79%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.79%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.70%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.38%) LIMS
5 3 (2.38%) NHS
5 3 (2.38%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.38%) PACS
5 3 (2.38%) SCADA
5 3 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.38%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.59%) IoT
6 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.59%) PKI
6 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.56%) Windows
2 3 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.40%) Roadmaps
2 23 (18.25%) Migration
3 19 (15.08%) Agile
4 17 (13.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (10.32%) TOGAF
7 12 (9.52%) AI
7 12 (9.52%) Architectural Design
8 11 (8.73%) Analytics
8 11 (8.73%) Asset Management
8 11 (8.73%) Enterprise Architecture
8 11 (8.73%) Microservices
9 10 (7.94%) DevOps
10 9 (7.14%) CI/CD
10 9 (7.14%) Technology Roadmap
11 8 (6.35%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (6.35%) Service Delivery
12 7 (5.56%) Data Modelling
12 7 (5.56%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (5.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.70%) Java
2 4 (3.17%) SQL
3 3 (2.38%) Apex Code
3 3 (2.38%) C#
3 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.79%) Bicep
4 1 (0.79%) Perl
4 1 (0.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 23 (18.25%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.97%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.59%) CISSP
7 2 (1.59%) Degree
7 2 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.59%) NCSC
2 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.79%) HL7
3 1 (0.79%) ITGC
3 1 (0.79%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.79%) NIST
3 1 (0.79%) PMO
3 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.97%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.59%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.59%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.79%) SCCM
2 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (13.49%) Salesforce
2 12 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.73%) IBM
4 10 (7.94%) SAP
5 8 (6.35%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.97%) ESRI
6 5 (3.97%) Virgin Media
7 4 (3.17%) Cisco
8 3 (2.38%) Nokia
8 3 (2.38%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.38%) Sitecore
8 3 (2.38%) VMware
8 3 (2.38%) Workday
9 2 (1.59%) Databricks
9 2 (1.59%) F5
9 2 (1.59%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.59%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.59%) Juniper
9 2 (1.59%) Oracle