Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Solution Architect
South East > Surrey

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Surrey is £574, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 49 72
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 10 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.71% 1.31% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.88% 1.40% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile £503 £582 -
25th Percentile £508 £619 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £672 £688
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% -2.25% +1.85%
75th Percentile £688 £712 £706
90th Percentile - £741 -
South East median daily rate £600 £625 £644
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.91% -0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.55 - -
Median hourly rate £83.82 - -
75th Percentile £90.09 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £83.82 £92.37 £75.00
% change year-on-year -9.26% +23.16% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 347 429 706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 93.67% 96.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 281 567
10th Percentile £204 £203 £186
25th Percentile £236 £265 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -12.62% -0.72%
75th Percentile £551 £545 £600
90th Percentile £674 £630 £693
South East median daily rate £500 £509 £507
% change year-on-year -1.67% +0.35% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 22 35
10th Percentile £24.81 - £24.44
25th Percentile £30.31 £15.96 £44.80
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -51.32% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.75 £75.00 £78.02
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £57.52 £50.53
% change year-on-year -63.86% +13.84% +44.36%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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 Surrey.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Surrey

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Surrey

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Surrey

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 5 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
Redhill - 2 - - 1
Camberley - 2 - - 4
Guildford -4 1 £523 -25.36% 2
Horley - 1 - -
Solutions Architect
South East

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 5 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 Surrey region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (20.00%) CloudFront
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) Datadog
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) GDPR
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Interface Catalogue

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) CloudFront
3 2 (20.00%) Datadog
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Interface Catalogue
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Observability
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bicep
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (10.00%) ITGC
2 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (10.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft