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 6 June 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 90 79
Rank change year-on-year +17 -11 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 168 62 130
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.79% 2.10% 2.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% 2.30% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 39 87
10th Percentile £481 £500 £470
25th Percentile £506 £519 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £699
90th Percentile £775 £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 5,508 2,690 5,199
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 91.12% 92.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,365 1,796 3,066
10th Percentile £303 £223 £234
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £656 £688
England median daily rate £519 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.78% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 173 532
10th Percentile £15.08 £14.20 £12.88
25th Percentile £24.25 £16.95 £18.35
Median hourly rate £50.49 £32.50 £48.20
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -32.57% -3.60%
75th Percentile £80.20 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.33 £38.00
% change year-on-year +56.09% -22.82% -15.56%

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 6 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 6 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 0 108 £625 -0.40% 38
Berkshire +5 82 £625 +1.63% 30
Buckinghamshire -25 26 £500 -28.57% 5
Hampshire -13 19 £600 - 21
Kent +13 15 £645 +17.27% 6
West Sussex -11 10 £750 +130.77% 1
Surrey -14 9 £663 +20.45% 12
East Sussex - 6 £611 - 6
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 34 (20.24%) Azure
2 30 (17.86%) Roadmaps
3 28 (16.67%) ERP
4 26 (15.48%) Enterprise Architecture
5 25 (14.88%) Agile
6 22 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 21 (12.50%) Security Cleared
8 20 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (11.31%) Architectural Design
9 19 (11.31%) Integration Patterns
10 18 (10.71%) SAP
11 17 (10.12%) AWS
12 15 (8.93%) Architecture Governance
12 15 (8.93%) Oracle
12 15 (8.93%) SaaS
12 15 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (8.33%) Migration
13 14 (8.33%) Zero Trust
14 13 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (7.74%) Data Modelling
15 12 (7.14%) Decision-Making
15 12 (7.14%) TOGAF
16 11 (6.55%) DevOps
16 11 (6.55%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (6.55%) SC Cleared
16 11 (6.55%) ServiceNow
17 10 (5.95%) Architectural Patterns
17 10 (5.95%) Data Integration

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 3 (1.79%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (1.19%) Documentum
3 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.98%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.79%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (1.19%) Maximo
4 2 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.60%) Avolution ABACUS
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.60%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.24%) Azure
2 17 (10.12%) AWS
3 15 (8.93%) SaaS
4 8 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.98%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (2.98%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.98%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (2.98%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (2.98%) dbt
7 5 (2.98%) IaaS
7 5 (2.98%) PaaS
7 5 (2.98%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.38%) GCP
8 4 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.38%) Serverless
9 2 (1.19%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.98%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.38%) IPsec
2 4 (2.38%) MQTT
2 4 (2.38%) RFID
3 3 (1.79%) Network Security
4 2 (1.19%) Firewall
4 2 (1.19%) MPLS
4 2 (1.19%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.60%) DMVPN
5 1 (0.60%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.60%) LAN
5 1 (0.60%) NAS
5 1 (0.60%) SAN
5 1 (0.60%) TETRA
5 1 (0.60%) VLAN
5 1 (0.60%) VoIP
5 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.38%) Power BI
2 3 (1.79%) GIS
3 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.60%) Ataccama
4 1 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Git
2 1 (0.60%) ERwin
2 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 29 (17.26%) Retail
2 25 (14.88%) Finance
3 24 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 13 (7.74%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.57%) Banking
7 6 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.98%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.79%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.19%) Legal
10 2 (1.19%) Police
10 2 (1.19%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Billing
11 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.95%) Middleware
1 10 (5.95%) REST
2 7 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (3.57%) ADO
3 6 (3.57%) SOAP
4 4 (2.38%) MACH
5 3 (1.79%) .NET
6 2 (1.19%) JSON
6 2 (1.19%) OAuth
6 2 (1.19%) RESTful
6 2 (1.19%) XML
7 1 (0.60%) CSS
7 1 (0.60%) CSS3
7 1 (0.60%) HTML
7 1 (0.60%) HTML5
7 1 (0.60%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (0.60%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.60%) OpenID
7 1 (0.60%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.52%) Operational Technology
2 5 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (2.98%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.38%) CMDB
4 3 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.79%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.19%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.19%) EPoS
5 2 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.19%) SCADA
5 2 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (17.86%) Roadmaps
2 28 (16.67%) ERP
3 26 (15.48%) Enterprise Architecture
4 25 (14.88%) Agile
5 22 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (11.31%) Architectural Design
7 19 (11.31%) Integration Patterns
8 15 (8.93%) Architecture Governance
8 15 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (8.33%) Migration
9 14 (8.33%) Zero Trust
10 13 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (7.74%) Data Modelling
11 12 (7.14%) Decision-Making
11 12 (7.14%) TOGAF
12 11 (6.55%) DevOps
12 11 (6.55%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (5.95%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.38%) JavaScript
1 4 (2.38%) SQL
2 2 (1.19%) Bicep
2 2 (1.19%) Java
3 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.60%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.55%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.79%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.79%) Degree
6 1 (0.60%) CISSP
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.60%) RHCE
6 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.57%) NCSC
2 5 (2.98%) QA
3 4 (2.38%) NIST
3 4 (2.38%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.19%) IFRS
4 2 (1.19%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.19%) SEPA
5 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) GRC
5 1 (0.60%) PMO
5 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.79%) Terraform
3 2 (1.19%) MOM
4 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.60%) Ansible
4 1 (0.60%) Netcool
4 1 (0.60%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 21 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.71%) SAP
3 15 (8.93%) Oracle
4 11 (6.55%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.98%) VMware
7 4 (2.38%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (2.38%) Sage
8 3 (1.79%) Citrix
8 3 (1.79%) Databricks
8 3 (1.79%) ESRI
8 3 (1.79%) Foundry
8 3 (1.79%) Google
8 3 (1.79%) Palantir
9 2 (1.19%) Cisco
9 2 (1.19%) Remedy
10 1 (0.60%) Avaya
10 1 (0.60%) BMC
10 1 (0.60%) Informatica
10 1 (0.60%) Red Hat