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 £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 77 41
Rank change year-on-year -6 -36 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 59 42 134
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.71% 2.38% 4.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 2.63% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 26 98
10th Percentile - £463 £525
25th Percentile £525 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% -11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £715 £638 £755
90th Percentile £749 £706 £779
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
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 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 3,189 1,595 3,053
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 90.21% 92.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 989 1,901
10th Percentile £315 £219 £215
25th Percentile £413 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 152 454
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.13 £13.85
25th Percentile £28.25 £20.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £46.73 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.05% -15.04% -14.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £74.50 £72.73 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
% change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%

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 10 June 2026.

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 10 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
Bristol -11 20 £600 +33.33% 4
Somerset -8 12 £604 +0.67% 2
Gloucestershire 0 8 £550 +0.92% 1
Wiltshire -14 5 £598 -4.40% 1
Devon -18 3 - - 1
Dorset -6 1 £725 +3.57%
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 West region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 30 (50.85%) Security Cleared
2 26 (44.07%) SC Cleared
3 13 (22.03%) Azure
4 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
5 11 (18.64%) Integration Patterns
5 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (15.25%) Agile
6 9 (15.25%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (13.56%) Business Continuity
7 8 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (13.56%) Roadmaps
8 7 (11.86%) AWS
8 7 (11.86%) ERP
9 6 (10.17%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (10.17%) Migration
9 6 (10.17%) SQL
9 6 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (10.17%) TOGAF
10 5 (8.47%) Architectural Design
10 5 (8.47%) Confluence
10 5 (8.47%) Data Architecture
10 5 (8.47%) Data Integration
10 5 (8.47%) Data Migration
10 5 (8.47%) Data Modelling
10 5 (8.47%) Decision-Making
10 5 (8.47%) DevOps
10 5 (8.47%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (8.47%) Event-Driven
10 5 (8.47%) Oracle
11 4 (6.78%) Architectural Patterns

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 5 (8.47%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.39%) NetSuite
1 2 (3.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.03%) Azure
2 7 (11.86%) AWS
3 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (5.08%) GitHub
3 3 (5.08%) PaaS
4 2 (3.39%) Boomi
4 2 (3.39%) GCP
4 2 (3.39%) IaaS
4 2 (3.39%) iPaaS
4 2 (3.39%) Serverless
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.69%) Route 53
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) BGP
2 1 (1.69%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.69%) DNS
2 1 (1.69%) EIGRP
2 1 (1.69%) OSPF
2 1 (1.69%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.69%) VLAN
2 1 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.69%) EDRMS
3 1 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
1 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Finance
3 6 (10.17%) Military
3 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) FHIR
1 4 (6.78%) Middleware
2 3 (5.08%) REST
3 2 (3.39%) .NET
3 2 (3.39%) SOAP
3 2 (3.39%) Swagger
3 2 (3.39%) WebSockets
4 1 (1.69%) GeoJSON
4 1 (1.69%) Node.js
4 1 (1.69%) OAuth
4 1 (1.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.69%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.69%) OpenID
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.69%) React Native
4 1 (1.69%) RESTful
4 1 (1.69%) SAML
4 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.69%) Web Services
4 1 (1.69%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.78%) Replication
3 3 (5.08%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (5.08%) NHS
4 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Windows
2 1 (1.69%) Android
2 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.64%) Integration Patterns
1 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 9 (15.25%) Agile
2 9 (15.25%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (13.56%) Business Continuity
3 8 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (13.56%) Roadmaps
4 7 (11.86%) ERP
5 6 (10.17%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (10.17%) Migration
5 6 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (10.17%) TOGAF
6 5 (8.47%) Architectural Design
6 5 (8.47%) Data Architecture
6 5 (8.47%) Data Integration
6 5 (8.47%) Data Migration
6 5 (8.47%) Data Modelling
6 5 (8.47%) Decision-Making
6 5 (8.47%) DevOps
6 5 (8.47%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.17%) SQL
2 1 (1.69%) Bicep
2 1 (1.69%) Java
2 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (50.85%) Security Cleared
2 26 (44.07%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) DICOM
1 4 (6.78%) HL7
2 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.69%) GDPR
2 1 (1.69%) GRC
2 1 (1.69%) IFRS
2 1 (1.69%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Terraform
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.69%) Argo
2 1 (1.69%) CASB
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) Oracle
3 3 (5.08%) SAP
3 3 (5.08%) Workday
4 2 (3.39%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.39%) InterSystems
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.39%) SnapLogic
4 2 (3.39%) Sparx
5 1 (1.69%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco
5 1 (1.69%) Citrix
5 1 (1.69%) F5
5 1 (1.69%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) Huawei
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) Qualys
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.69%) VMware
5 1 (1.69%) webMethods