Solutions Architect Contracts 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 during the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 74 59
Rank change year-on-year +31 -15 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 130 103 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.00% 3.03% 3.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.32% 3.27% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 83 86
10th Percentile £525 £563 £525
25th Percentile £575 £613 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £635
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +6.30% +7.46%
75th Percentile £757 £749 £750
90th Percentile £781 £800 £844
England median daily rate £650 £675 £638
% change year-on-year -3.70% +5.88% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £73.00 -
England median hourly rate £89.00 £66.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% +13.14% +6.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 3,009 3,150 3,510
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 92.62% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,887 2,337 2,541
10th Percentile £213 £281 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 248 211
10th Percentile £13.86 £17.72 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £49.92 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.15 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +41.91% +6.35%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £63.05
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.30
England median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -15.56% +88.21% +11.73%

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 3 June 2024.

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 3 June 2024. 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 +41 84 £650 -3.70% 15
Wiltshire -11 28 £750 +7.14% 1
Gloucestershire +7 11 £710 +29.09% 4
Somerset -2 2 - - 6
Dorset - 2 £625 - 2
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, 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 94 (72.31%) Security Cleared
2 60 (46.15%) DV Cleared
3 53 (40.77%) SC Cleared
4 48 (36.92%) Telecoms
5 27 (20.77%) Microsoft
5 27 (20.77%) TOGAF
6 26 (20.00%) ArchiMate
6 26 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
6 26 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 25 (19.23%) Public Sector
8 24 (18.46%) Enterprise Architecture
9 21 (16.15%) Azure
9 21 (16.15%) Juniper
9 21 (16.15%) Cisco
9 21 (16.15%) PBX
9 21 (16.15%) VoIP
9 21 (16.15%) Finance
10 20 (15.38%) Nokia
10 20 (15.38%) Rational DOORS
11 19 (14.62%) Presales
11 19 (14.62%) Decision-Making
12 18 (13.85%) Degree
12 18 (13.85%) IBM
13 17 (13.08%) ITIL
13 17 (13.08%) Strategic Roadmap
14 16 (12.31%) Social Skills
14 16 (12.31%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (12.31%) Migration
14 16 (12.31%) Agile
14 16 (12.31%) Marketing

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.54%) ArcGIS
1 2 (1.54%) Confluence
1 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.08%) Teamcenter
3 3 (2.31%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.15%) Azure
2 15 (11.54%) PaaS
2 15 (11.54%) SaaS
3 11 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (8.46%) Power Platform
4 10 (7.69%) AWS
5 3 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.31%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.77%) IaaS
6 1 (0.77%) Lucidchart
6 1 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.15%) PBX
1 21 (16.15%) VoIP
2 10 (7.69%) SDH
2 10 (7.69%) WAN
3 4 (3.08%) Junos
4 1 (0.77%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.08%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.31%) GIS
3 3 (2.31%) Power BI
4 1 (0.77%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (15.38%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 48 (36.92%) Telecoms
2 25 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 21 (16.15%) Finance
4 16 (12.31%) Marketing
4 16 (12.31%) Social Skills
5 13 (10.00%) Electronics
5 13 (10.00%) Manufacturing
6 11 (8.46%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (6.92%) Aerospace
8 7 (5.38%) Digital Economy
8 7 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.85%) Aeronautics
10 4 (3.08%) Banking
11 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.54%) SOAP
1 2 (1.54%) XML
2 1 (0.77%) Middleware
2 1 (0.77%) Node.js
2 1 (0.77%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.23%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (6.92%) Blackberry
4 4 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.31%) Blog
5 3 (2.31%) Replication
6 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.77%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.77%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.77%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (20.77%) TOGAF
2 26 (20.00%) ArchiMate
2 26 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
2 26 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 24 (18.46%) Enterprise Architecture
4 19 (14.62%) Decision-Making
4 19 (14.62%) Presales
5 17 (13.08%) ITIL
5 17 (13.08%) Strategic Roadmap
6 16 (12.31%) Agile
6 16 (12.31%) BPMN
6 16 (12.31%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (12.31%) Migration
7 14 (10.77%) Computer Science
7 14 (10.77%) DevOps
8 13 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
8 13 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 13 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
8 13 (10.00%) Programme Management
9 12 (9.23%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.85%) SQL
2 3 (2.31%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (72.31%) Security Cleared
2 60 (46.15%) DV Cleared
3 53 (40.77%) SC Cleared
4 18 (13.85%) Degree
5 12 (9.23%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (8.46%) HND
7 7 (5.38%) CCNP
7 7 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.08%) JNCIA
9 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.77%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.08%) QA
2 2 (1.54%) COBIT
2 2 (1.54%) GDPR
2 2 (1.54%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.15%) Cisco
2 21 (16.15%) Juniper
3 20 (15.38%) Nokia
4 18 (13.85%) IBM
5 15 (11.54%) SAP
6 10 (7.69%) Google
7 9 (6.92%) Avaya
7 9 (6.92%) Ericsson
7 9 (6.92%) Ribbon
8 6 (4.62%) VMware
9 5 (3.85%) Oracle
10 4 (3.08%) Ciena
10 4 (3.08%) Dell
10 4 (3.08%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.31%) Adobe
12 2 (1.54%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (1.54%) Mapbox
12 2 (1.54%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.77%) Sparx