Solutions Architect Contracts in the South East

Solution Architect
England > South East

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the South East is £618, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 84 80
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 73 129 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.25% 2.26% 2.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 2.44% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 88 117
10th Percentile £506 £484 £516
25th Percentile £553 £575 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £625 £630
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -0.79% +0.80%
75th Percentile £714 £700 £754
90th Percentile £791 £738 £813
England median daily rate £625 £648 £675
% change year-on-year -3.55% -4.00% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £90.80 -
25th Percentile - £92.00 £76.75
Median hourly rate - £92.37 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year - +17.67% +33.05%
75th Percentile - - £80.25
90th Percentile - £98.67 -
England median hourly rate £61.50 £89.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -30.90% +34.85% +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 2,948 5,284 5,526
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 92.41% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,906 3,118 3,817
10th Percentile £213 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £610
90th Percentile £660 £689 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 528 245
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.69 £21.22
Median hourly rate £28.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% - +138.10%
75th Percentile £60.13 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year -30.00% -8.45% +74.76%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +17 48 £650 +4.00% 175
Berkshire +24 38 £625 - 118
Hampshire +3 14 £600 -17.24% 58
Buckinghamshire +3 10 £700 +21.74% 45
Surrey +13 5 £588 -12.57% 33
West Sussex +4 2 £488 -4.88% 30
East Sussex -1 2 £925 +42.31% 14
Kent - 1 £550 - 18
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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 27 (36.99%) Azure
2 26 (35.62%) Social Skills
3 24 (32.88%) Roadmaps
4 18 (24.66%) AWS
5 14 (19.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 13 (17.81%) Migration
6 13 (17.81%) TOGAF
7 12 (16.44%) Agile
7 12 (16.44%) Retail
7 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
8 11 (15.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
9 10 (13.70%) Decision-Making
10 9 (12.33%) Microservices
10 9 (12.33%) Finance
10 9 (12.33%) Big Data
11 8 (10.96%) Use Case
11 8 (10.96%) DV Cleared
11 8 (10.96%) Java
12 7 (9.59%) Architectural Patterns
12 7 (9.59%) Salesforce
13 6 (8.22%) Data Integration
13 6 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (8.22%) Entra ID
13 6 (8.22%) ArchiMate
13 6 (8.22%) Strategic Roadmap
13 6 (8.22%) CI/CD
13 6 (8.22%) Customer Experience

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 3 (4.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Avolution ABACUS
2 2 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.99%) Azure
2 18 (24.66%) AWS
3 6 (8.22%) Entra ID
3 6 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.85%) GCP
5 4 (5.48%) SaaS
6 3 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.11%) PaaS
6 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.11%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.74%) Serverless
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) LAN
1 2 (2.74%) WAN
2 1 (1.37%) Network Security
2 1 (1.37%) VPN
2 1 (1.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) Big Data
2 1 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
2 1 (1.37%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Git
1 3 (4.11%) GitLab
1 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.37%) JIRA
General
1 26 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.44%) Retail
3 9 (12.33%) Finance
4 5 (6.85%) Marketing
5 4 (5.48%) Financial Institution
5 4 (5.48%) General Ledger
5 4 (5.48%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.11%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Legal
6 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.74%) Aviation
7 2 (2.74%) Back Office
7 2 (2.74%) Banking
7 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Advertising
8 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.11%) Kafka
2 2 (2.74%) Middleware
3 1 (1.37%) .NET
3 1 (1.37%) ADO
3 1 (1.37%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.37%) MACH
3 1 (1.37%) REST
3 1 (1.37%) SAML
3 1 (1.37%) SOAP
3 1 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.74%) Device Driver
4 2 (2.74%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.74%) EPoS
4 2 (2.74%) IoT
4 2 (2.74%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.74%) SCADA
5 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.37%) PKI
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.88%) Roadmaps
2 14 (19.18%) Enterprise Architecture
3 13 (17.81%) Migration
3 13 (17.81%) TOGAF
4 12 (16.44%) Agile
5 11 (15.07%) Artificial Intelligence
6 10 (13.70%) Decision-Making
6 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (12.33%) Microservices
8 8 (10.96%) Use Case
9 7 (9.59%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (8.22%) ArchiMate
10 6 (8.22%) CI/CD
10 6 (8.22%) Customer Experience
10 6 (8.22%) Data Integration
10 6 (8.22%) Strategic Roadmap
11 5 (6.85%) Data Migration
11 5 (6.85%) E-Commerce
11 5 (6.85%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.96%) Java
2 2 (2.74%) C
2 2 (2.74%) Embedded C
3 1 (1.37%) Bicep
3 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Degree
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.37%) PhD
6 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.37%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.37%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.37%) NCSC
2 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.74%) Firmware
4 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.59%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.85%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.11%) Cisco
4 3 (4.11%) Oracle
4 3 (4.11%) SAP
4 3 (4.11%) VMware
5 2 (2.74%) Databricks
6 1 (1.37%) Aruba
6 1 (1.37%) Citrix
6 1 (1.37%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.37%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.37%) HP
6 1 (1.37%) IBM
6 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.37%) Teradata
6 1 (1.37%) Zscaler