Solutions Architect Contracts in the South West

Solution Architect
England > South West

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the South West is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 47 63
Rank change year-on-year -35 +16 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 37 130 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.11% 3.95% 3.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 4.26% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 94 93
10th Percentile £481 £525 £563
25th Percentile £525 £581 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £668
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -2.69% +2.77%
75th Percentile £638 £761 £738
90th Percentile £670 £784 £800
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £67.40
25th Percentile - - £69.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £73.00
75th Percentile - - £76.50
90th Percentile - - £78.60
England median hourly rate £64.50 £89.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -27.53% +34.85% +11.86%

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 1,580 3,052 3,214
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.93% 92.74% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 1,911 2,335
10th Percentile £220 £250 £300
25th Percentile £363 £400 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £724
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 456 254
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.85 £17.56
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.50 £47.00
Median hourly rate £34.34 £55.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.56% -12.70% +30.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.75 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Solutions Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the South West

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect 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 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the South West

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect 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 24 June 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 +18 11 £613 -18.33% 13
Bristol -35 10 £450 -30.77% 24
Gloucestershire +17 5 £545 -23.24% 15
Somerset +2 3 £613 - 8
Cornwall +8 1 £650 - 2
Dorset 0 1 £700 +7.69% 5
Devon - 1 - - 8
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 West region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 21 (56.76%) Security Cleared
2 16 (43.24%) SC Cleared
3 15 (40.54%) Azure
4 12 (32.43%) Enterprise Architecture
5 9 (24.32%) Roadmaps
6 8 (21.62%) DV Cleared
6 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
7 7 (18.92%) Firewall
7 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
8 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (16.22%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
9 5 (13.51%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (13.51%) Agile
9 5 (13.51%) VMware
9 5 (13.51%) RBAC
10 4 (10.81%) Use Case
10 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
10 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
10 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (10.81%) AWS
10 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
10 4 (10.81%) Technology Roadmap
10 4 (10.81%) Strategic Roadmap
10 4 (10.81%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (8.11%) Architectural Design
11 3 (8.11%) Decision-Making
11 3 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
11 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (10.81%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.11%) GCP
5 2 (5.41%) Azure App Service
5 2 (5.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.70%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) Firewall
2 3 (8.11%) BGP
2 3 (8.11%) DNS
2 3 (8.11%) Kerberos
3 2 (5.41%) MPLS
3 2 (5.41%) OSPF
3 2 (5.41%) SD-WAN
3 2 (5.41%) VLAN
3 2 (5.41%) VPN
3 2 (5.41%) WAN
4 1 (2.70%) Network Security
General
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.41%) Banking
3 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Aviation
4 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) .NET
2 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.11%) PKI
2 3 (8.11%) Replication
3 2 (5.41%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) FMCG
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Enterprise Architecture
2 9 (24.32%) Roadmaps
3 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (13.51%) Agile
4 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
4 5 (13.51%) RBAC
4 5 (13.51%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (10.81%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (10.81%) Technology Roadmap
5 4 (10.81%) Use Case
6 3 (8.11%) Architectural Design
6 3 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (8.11%) Decision-Making
6 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (8.11%) Migration
6 3 (8.11%) TOGAF
6 3 (8.11%) User Experience
7 2 (5.41%) Business Strategy
7 2 (5.41%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.41%) Bicep
2 1 (2.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (56.76%) Security Cleared
2 16 (43.24%) SC Cleared
3 8 (21.62%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.41%) CCIE
4 2 (5.41%) CCNP
4 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.41%) JNCIE
4 2 (5.41%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NCSC
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) VMware
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco
3 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.41%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) Juniper
3 2 (5.41%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.41%) Pega
4 1 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) webMethods