Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the South West

Solution Architect
England > South West

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the South West is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 74 50
Rank change year-on-year -12 -24 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 43 56 124
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.99% 2.33% 3.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 2.53% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 39 95
10th Percentile £519 £465 £525
25th Percentile £563 £496 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% +3.59%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,924 2,214 2,994
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.07% 92.21% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,349 1,990
10th Percentile £219 £246 £263
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £638 £633 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £707
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 183 313
10th Percentile £14.43 £12.79 £17.70
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.97 £40.85
Median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +15.06% -8.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £73.75 £82.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +50.70%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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 West.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the South West

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in the South West

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the South West

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in the South West

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 8 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
Wiltshire +14 20 £663 -1.85% 18
Bristol -8 19 £663 +19.91% 20
Somerset -1 3 £588 -12.96% 5
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 West region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 32 (74.42%) Security Cleared
2 19 (44.19%) SC Cleared
3 14 (32.56%) DV Cleared
4 13 (30.23%) Azure
4 13 (30.23%) TOGAF
5 12 (27.91%) Roadmaps
6 10 (23.26%) AWS
6 10 (23.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (20.93%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (18.60%) Agile
8 8 (18.60%) Mentoring
8 8 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
9 7 (16.28%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (16.28%) Microservices
9 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
10 6 (13.95%) ArchiMate
10 6 (13.95%) Decision-Making
10 6 (13.95%) DevOps
10 6 (13.95%) Firewall
10 6 (13.95%) Windows
11 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
11 5 (11.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (11.63%) AWS Certification
11 5 (11.63%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (11.63%) Containerisation
11 5 (11.63%) DNS
11 5 (11.63%) GCP
11 5 (11.63%) Load Balancing
11 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Certification

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.33%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.23%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) AWS
3 5 (11.63%) GCP
4 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (2.33%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.33%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.33%) IaaS
5 1 (2.33%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.33%) PaaS
5 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) Firewall
2 5 (11.63%) DNS
3 2 (4.65%) DWDM
3 2 (4.65%) SDH
4 1 (2.33%) BGP
4 1 (2.33%) MPLS
4 1 (2.33%) OSPF
4 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.33%) VLAN
4 1 (2.33%) VPN
4 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) MSI
1 2 (4.65%) Rational DOORS
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.95%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.65%) Finance
5 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Military
6 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) OAuth
1 5 (11.63%) OAuth2
1 5 (11.63%) OpenID
1 5 (11.63%) SAML
2 2 (4.65%) Middleware
2 2 (4.65%) Node.js
2 2 (4.65%) React
2 2 (4.65%) RESTful
3 1 (2.33%) ADO
3 1 (2.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
1 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Wiki
2 1 (2.33%) FMCG
2 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.33%) IoT
2 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Windows
2 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.98%) Linux
4 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.23%) TOGAF
2 12 (27.91%) Roadmaps
3 10 (23.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 9 (20.93%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (18.60%) Agile
5 8 (18.60%) Mentoring
5 8 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
6 7 (16.28%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (16.28%) Microservices
7 6 (13.95%) ArchiMate
7 6 (13.95%) Decision-Making
7 6 (13.95%) DevOps
8 5 (11.63%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (11.63%) Containerisation
8 5 (11.63%) Load Balancing
8 5 (11.63%) RBAC
8 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (11.63%) Strategic Roadmap
9 4 (9.30%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.63%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (74.42%) Security Cleared
2 19 (44.19%) SC Cleared
3 14 (32.56%) DV Cleared
4 5 (11.63%) AWS Certification
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Certification
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (2.33%) CCIE
8 1 (2.33%) CCNP
8 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.33%) CISSP
8 1 (2.33%) JNCIE
8 1 (2.33%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.98%) NIST
2 2 (4.65%) NCSC
2 2 (4.65%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.65%) Docker
4 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 5 (11.63%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.98%) Terraform
4 2 (4.65%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Cisco
2 3 (6.98%) Juniper
2 3 (6.98%) Palo Alto
2 3 (6.98%) VMware
3 2 (4.65%) F5
3 2 (4.65%) IBM
3 2 (4.65%) Nokia
3 2 (4.65%) SAP
3 2 (4.65%) Sparx
4 1 (2.33%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.33%) Foundry
4 1 (2.33%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.33%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.33%) Talend
4 1 (2.33%) webMethods