Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Telford

Solution Architect
Shropshire > Telford

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Telford is £673, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 13 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 1.87% 0.68% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 0.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £637 - -
25th Percentile £658 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 - -
75th Percentile £697 - -
90th Percentile £708 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £671 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 669 142 83
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.12% 95.95% 80.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 104 62
10th Percentile £358 £316 £143
25th Percentile £413 £402 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £485
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -4.64% -3.00%
75th Percentile £525 £537 £519
90th Percentile £626 £549 £538
Shropshire median daily rate £469 £463 £470
% change year-on-year +1.41% -1.60% -4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 1 0
10th Percentile £45.05 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% - -
75th Percentile £61.00 - -
90th Percentile £65.25 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £52.50 £31.31 -
% change year-on-year +67.70% - -

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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 Telford.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Telford

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Telford over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Telford

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 Telford region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 11 (84.62%) AWS
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) Problem Management
3 9 (69.23%) Agile
3 9 (69.23%) Architecture Governance
3 9 (69.23%) Oracle
4 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
4 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
5 5 (38.46%) Java
5 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
5 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
5 5 (38.46%) Migration
5 5 (38.46%) MySQL
5 5 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (30.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (30.77%) Oracle Database
6 4 (30.77%) Service Delivery
7 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (23.08%) Denodo
7 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
7 3 (23.08%) SAS
7 3 (23.08%) Talend
8 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (7.69%) AI
9 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
9 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
9 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
9 1 (7.69%) Data Architecture
9 1 (7.69%) Data Quality

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 3 (23.08%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) MySQL
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle Database
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Private Cloud
2 4 (30.77%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Problem Management
2 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) Architecture Governance
3 5 (38.46%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (30.77%) Service Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (7.69%) AI
7 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
7 1 (7.69%) Data Architecture
7 1 (7.69%) Data Science
7 1 (7.69%) ETL
7 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
7 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
7 1 (7.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
1 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Denodo
2 3 (23.08%) Talend