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 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 70 71
Rank change year-on-year +29 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 132 108 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.16% 3.05% 3.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.47% 3.30% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 86 81
10th Percentile £525 £563 £525
25th Percentile £575 £608 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £669 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +7.04% +4.17%
75th Percentile £755 £734 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £650 £668 £625
% change year-on-year -2.69% +6.88% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £73.00 -
England median hourly rate £90.00 £66.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year +34.83% +13.14% +6.79%

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 2,956 3,277 3,495
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 92.41% 95.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,878 2,453 2,501
10th Percentile £210 £271 £225
25th Percentile £397 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% +5.00% +9.14%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £715 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 261 203
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.00 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £49.68 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +36.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £71.25 £72.98 £63.68
90th Percentile £77.75 £83.75 £69.13
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +48 84 £650 -5.45% 20
Wiltshire -5 32 £750 +7.14%
Gloucestershire +5 11 £710 +23.48% 2
Somerset +1 2 - - 4
Dorset +2 1 £625 +4.17% 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 99 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 61 (46.21%) DV Cleared
3 58 (43.94%) SC Cleared
4 48 (36.36%) Telecoms
5 28 (21.21%) Microsoft
6 27 (20.45%) TOGAF
6 27 (20.45%) Roadmaps
7 26 (19.70%) Architecture Governance
7 26 (19.70%) ArchiMate
8 25 (18.94%) Public Sector
9 24 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
10 23 (17.42%) Finance
11 22 (16.67%) Azure
12 21 (15.91%) Juniper
12 21 (15.91%) Cisco
12 21 (15.91%) PBX
12 21 (15.91%) VoIP
12 21 (15.91%) Rational DOORS
13 20 (15.15%) Nokia
14 19 (14.39%) Degree
14 19 (14.39%) Presales
14 19 (14.39%) Decision-Making
15 18 (13.64%) Social Skills
15 18 (13.64%) IBM
16 17 (12.88%) ITIL
16 17 (12.88%) Migration
16 17 (12.88%) Strategic Roadmap
17 16 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
17 16 (12.12%) Marketing
17 16 (12.12%) SaaS

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 (1.52%) ArcGIS
1 2 (1.52%) Confluence
1 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (3.79%) Teamcenter
2 3 (2.27%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.67%) Azure
2 16 (12.12%) SaaS
3 15 (11.36%) PaaS
4 11 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 10 (7.58%) AWS
6 3 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.27%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.76%) IaaS
7 1 (0.76%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.91%) PBX
1 21 (15.91%) VoIP
2 10 (7.58%) SDH
2 10 (7.58%) WAN
3 4 (3.03%) Junos
4 1 (0.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.03%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.27%) GIS
3 3 (2.27%) Power BI
4 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.76%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (15.91%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 48 (36.36%) Telecoms
2 25 (18.94%) Public Sector
3 23 (17.42%) Finance
4 18 (13.64%) Social Skills
5 16 (12.12%) Marketing
6 13 (9.85%) Electronics
6 13 (9.85%) Manufacturing
7 11 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (6.82%) Aerospace
9 7 (5.30%) Digital Economy
9 7 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.79%) Aeronautics
11 4 (3.03%) Banking
12 3 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
13 2 (1.52%) Military
13 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.76%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.27%) SOAP
1 3 (2.27%) XML
2 1 (0.76%) Middleware
2 1 (0.76%) Node.js
2 1 (0.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (7.58%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (6.82%) Blackberry
4 3 (2.27%) Blog
4 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.27%) Replication
5 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) CMDB
6 1 (0.76%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (20.45%) Roadmaps
1 27 (20.45%) TOGAF
2 26 (19.70%) ArchiMate
2 26 (19.70%) Architecture Governance
3 24 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
4 19 (14.39%) Decision-Making
4 19 (14.39%) Presales
5 17 (12.88%) ITIL
5 17 (12.88%) Migration
5 17 (12.88%) Strategic Roadmap
6 16 (12.12%) BPMN
6 16 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (10.61%) Agile
7 14 (10.61%) Computer Science
8 13 (9.85%) Architectural Patterns
8 13 (9.85%) Customer Engagement
8 13 (9.85%) Data Protection
8 13 (9.85%) Digital Marketing
8 13 (9.85%) Programme Management
9 12 (9.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.79%) SQL
2 3 (2.27%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 61 (46.21%) DV Cleared
3 58 (43.94%) SC Cleared
4 19 (14.39%) Degree
5 12 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (8.33%) HND
7 7 (5.30%) CCNP
7 7 (5.30%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.03%) JNCIA
9 3 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.76%) CISSP
10 1 (0.76%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.03%) QA
2 3 (2.27%) GDPR
2 3 (2.27%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.52%) COBIT
4 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (3.79%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.91%) Cisco
2 21 (15.91%) Juniper
3 20 (15.15%) Nokia
4 18 (13.64%) IBM
5 15 (11.36%) SAP
6 10 (7.58%) Google
7 9 (6.82%) Avaya
7 9 (6.82%) Ericsson
7 9 (6.82%) Ribbon
8 6 (4.55%) VMware
9 5 (3.79%) Oracle
10 4 (3.03%) Ciena
10 4 (3.03%) Dell
10 4 (3.03%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.27%) Adobe
12 2 (1.52%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (1.52%) Mapbox
13 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.76%) Sparx