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 12 April 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 97 71
Rank change year-on-year +8 -26 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 132 62 152
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.33% 2.07% 2.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.54% 2.25% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 40 101
10th Percentile £461 £496 £463
25th Percentile £503 £513 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £789 £738
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.55 - -
Median hourly rate £83.82 - £102.87
75th Percentile £94.77 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £71.27 £66.00 £87.00
% change year-on-year +7.98% -24.14% +28.89%

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 5,205 2,759 5,191
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 92.27% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,263 1,826 3,123
10th Percentile £300 £250 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £613
90th Percentile £706 £663 £688
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 154 469
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.23 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £20.43 £18.32
Median hourly rate £48.50 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.23% -31.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £81.05 £63.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.35 £76.86
England median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.21
% change year-on-year +35.38% -5.00% -21.70%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -14 75 £625 -0.79% 11
Berkshire -11 60 £625 - 6
Hampshire -17 22 £650 +30.00% 5
Surrey +4 17 £663 -5.36% 2
Buckinghamshire -15 15 £500 -28.57% 5
Kent - 7 £625 - 4
West Sussex -10 5 £720 +15.20%
East Sussex - 1 £450 - 3
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 April 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 33 (25.00%) Azure
2 24 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 23 (17.42%) Roadmaps
4 22 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 20 (15.15%) Migration
6 18 (13.64%) Architectural Design
7 17 (12.88%) TOGAF
8 16 (12.12%) AWS
8 16 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
9 14 (10.61%) DevOps
9 14 (10.61%) ERP
9 14 (10.61%) Microservices
10 13 (9.85%) Agile
10 13 (9.85%) SC Cleared
10 13 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
11 12 (9.09%) SAP
12 10 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (6.82%) Containerisation
13 9 (6.82%) SaaS
14 8 (6.06%) Active Directory
14 8 (6.06%) Entra ID
14 8 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (6.06%) NCSC
14 8 (6.06%) Oracle
14 8 (6.06%) Zero Trust
15 7 (5.30%) Architectural Patterns
15 7 (5.30%) CI/CD
15 7 (5.30%) DV Cleared

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 6 (4.55%) ArcGIS
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.79%) Maximo
3 4 (3.03%) SAP ERP
3 4 (3.03%) Workday HCM
4 3 (2.27%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.76%) Avolution ABACUS
5 1 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.00%) Azure
2 16 (12.12%) AWS
3 9 (6.82%) SaaS
4 8 (6.06%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.30%) GCP
6 5 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (3.79%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.27%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.52%) IaaS
9 2 (1.52%) PaaS
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.76%) GitHub
10 1 (0.76%) OCI
10 1 (0.76%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.79%) SD-WAN
2 4 (3.03%) IPsec
2 4 (3.03%) MQTT
2 4 (3.03%) RFID
3 2 (1.52%) Firewall
3 2 (1.52%) Network Security
4 1 (0.76%) DMVPN
4 1 (0.76%) DWDM
4 1 (0.76%) LAN
4 1 (0.76%) MPLS
4 1 (0.76%) NAS
4 1 (0.76%) SAN
4 1 (0.76%) TETRA
4 1 (0.76%) VLAN
4 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.55%) GIS
2 3 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.76%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Git
1 5 (3.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.76%) JIRA
General
1 18 (13.64%) Finance
1 18 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.85%) Retail
3 6 (4.55%) Telecoms
4 5 (3.79%) Banking
5 4 (3.03%) Billing
5 4 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.27%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.52%) Police
7 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.79%) .NET
2 4 (3.03%) ADO
3 3 (2.27%) JSON
3 3 (2.27%) REST
3 3 (2.27%) XML
4 2 (1.52%) OAuth
5 1 (0.76%) Ajax
5 1 (0.76%) COM
5 1 (0.76%) COM+
5 1 (0.76%) CSS
5 1 (0.76%) CSS3
5 1 (0.76%) HTML
5 1 (0.76%) HTML5
5 1 (0.76%) Middleware
5 1 (0.76%) MSMQ
5 1 (0.76%) OpenID
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.76%) RESTful
5 1 (0.76%) SAML
5 1 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.82%) Cloud Native
1 9 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (5.30%) Operational Technology
3 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.27%) LIMS
4 3 (2.27%) NHS
4 3 (2.27%) PACS
4 3 (2.27%) PKI
4 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.52%) CMDB
5 2 (1.52%) EPoS
5 2 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.52%) SCADA
5 2 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.76%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.76%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.55%) Linux
2 5 (3.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (17.42%) Roadmaps
2 20 (15.15%) Migration
3 18 (13.64%) Architectural Design
4 17 (12.88%) TOGAF
5 16 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
6 14 (10.61%) DevOps
6 14 (10.61%) ERP
6 14 (10.61%) Microservices
7 13 (9.85%) Agile
7 13 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
9 10 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (6.82%) Containerisation
11 8 (6.06%) Zero Trust
12 7 (5.30%) Architectural Patterns
12 7 (5.30%) CI/CD
12 7 (5.30%) Order Management
12 7 (5.30%) Supplier Management
13 6 (4.55%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.52%) Bicep
1 2 (1.52%) JavaScript
1 2 (1.52%) Python
1 2 (1.52%) SQL
2 1 (0.76%) Perl
2 1 (0.76%) PHP
2 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.85%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.30%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.79%) RHCE
5 5 (3.79%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.27%) CISSP
6 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) NCSC
2 7 (5.30%) NIST
3 4 (3.03%) NIST 800
4 3 (2.27%) GDPR
5 2 (1.52%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.52%) SEPA
6 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.76%) GRC
6 1 (0.76%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (5.30%) Terraform
2 5 (3.79%) Ansible
2 5 (3.79%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.52%) MOM
5 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.76%) Netcool
5 1 (0.76%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (0.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.09%) SAP
3 8 (6.06%) Oracle
4 6 (4.55%) IBM
4 6 (4.55%) VMware
5 5 (3.79%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.03%) BiZZdesign
6 4 (3.03%) Sage
6 4 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.03%) Workday
7 3 (2.27%) Citrix
7 3 (2.27%) Databricks
7 3 (2.27%) ESRI
8 2 (1.52%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.52%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.52%) Palantir
8 2 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.52%) Tenable
8 2 (1.52%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft