Solutions Architect Contracts 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 75 80
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 64 146 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.13% 2.63% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.31% 2.84% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 95 116
10th Percentile £496 £463 £527
25th Percentile £513 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £713 £699 £751
90th Percentile £788 £738 £813
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £90.40 -
25th Percentile - £91.00 £76.75
Median hourly rate - £92.00 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year - +17.20% +33.05%
75th Percentile - £97.44 £80.25
90th Percentile - £100.70 -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £88.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -28.41% +33.33% +11.86%

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 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect 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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect 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 1 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
Thames Valley +22 49 £640 +2.40% 63
Berkshire +24 42 £625 - 32
Hampshire -12 7 £500 -31.03% 34
Surrey +9 4 £700 +12.00% 16
Buckinghamshire +3 4 £700 +13.13% 24
Oxfordshire +3 3 £775 +10.71% 11
West Sussex +7 2 £475 - 9
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 South East region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.69%) Roadmaps
3 18 (28.13%) Azure
4 17 (26.56%) AWS
5 14 (21.88%) Agile
6 11 (17.19%) Enterprise Architecture
6 11 (17.19%) Migration
6 11 (17.19%) Decision-Making
7 10 (15.63%) Retail
8 9 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (12.50%) Architectural Design
9 8 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
9 8 (12.50%) Data Migration
10 7 (10.94%) SaaS
10 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (9.38%) Microservices
11 6 (9.38%) TOGAF
11 6 (9.38%) Salesforce
11 6 (9.38%) Oracle
11 6 (9.38%) Data Integration
11 6 (9.38%) Use Case
12 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (7.81%) Linux
12 5 (7.81%) Telecoms
12 5 (7.81%) Finance
12 5 (7.81%) IT Strategy
13 4 (6.25%) Thought Leadership
13 4 (6.25%) Power Platform

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (3.13%) Avolution ABACUS
2 2 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.56%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.13%) Azure
2 17 (26.56%) AWS
3 7 (10.94%) SaaS
4 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.25%) PaaS
5 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.13%) Serverless
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.56%) GCP
8 1 (1.56%) IaaS
8 1 (1.56%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.56%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) HTTP
1 2 (3.13%) MQTT
1 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.56%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.56%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Big Data
2 2 (3.13%) MySQL
2 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.13%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (1.56%) GIS
General
1 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Retail
3 5 (7.81%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.25%) Legal
4 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Automotive
6 2 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.13%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Aviation
7 1 (1.56%) Back Office
7 1 (1.56%) Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) PostGIS
1 2 (3.13%) REST
1 2 (3.13%) XML
2 1 (1.56%) .NET
2 1 (1.56%) MACH
2 1 (1.56%) Middleware
2 1 (1.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.69%) Algorithms
1 3 (4.69%) CMDB
1 3 (4.69%) Device Driver
1 3 (4.69%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (4.69%) IoT
1 3 (4.69%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.13%) Infotainment
2 2 (3.13%) Operational Technology
2 2 (3.13%) SCADA
3 1 (1.56%) Data Fabric
3 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.56%) EPoS
3 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.56%) PKI
3 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.69%) Roadmaps
2 14 (21.88%) Agile
3 11 (17.19%) Decision-Making
3 11 (17.19%) Enterprise Architecture
3 11 (17.19%) Migration
4 9 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (12.50%) Architectural Design
5 8 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (9.38%) Data Integration
7 6 (9.38%) Microservices
7 6 (9.38%) TOGAF
7 6 (9.38%) Use Case
8 5 (7.81%) IT Strategy
9 4 (6.25%) ArchiMate
9 4 (6.25%) Dashboard Development
9 4 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (6.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.69%) C
1 3 (4.69%) Embedded C
2 1 (1.56%) Java
2 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
1 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.56%) Degree
2 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Firmware
2 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) Oracle
2 6 (9.38%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.25%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.69%) Cisco
4 3 (4.69%) SAP
4 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.13%) IBM
5 2 (3.13%) VMware
6 1 (1.56%) Amdocs
6 1 (1.56%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.56%) Dell
6 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.56%) Google
6 1 (1.56%) Mavenir
6 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.56%) Rakuten
6 1 (1.56%) Samsung
6 1 (1.56%) Teradata
6 1 (1.56%) Zscaler