Digital Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Digital Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £585 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 444 502
Rank change year-on-year +59 +58 -101
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Solutions Architect 10 21 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.048% 0.086% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.092% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 16
10th Percentile £540 £621 £503
25th Percentile £563 £678 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% +7.69% +26.83%
75th Percentile £675 £788 £675
90th Percentile £698 £820 £688
UK median daily rate £580 £714 £625
% change year-on-year -18.74% +14.20% +20.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,271 22,924 30,056
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 94.05% 95.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,866 16,072 21,068
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £594 £573
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,189 1,202 1,498
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.01
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.10 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £41.94
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Digital Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Digital Solutions Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Digital Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Digital Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Digital Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
North of England +36 3 £575 -17.86% 2
South East +6 3 £568 -18.96%
North West +24 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - - 1
Scotland +39 1 £650 -
South West +23 1 £675 -3.57%
Yorkshire +18 1 £575 -22.03% 1
Digital Solutions Architect
UK

Digital Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Digital 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 UK excluding London region featuring Digital Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (30.00%) Architectural Design
3 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 2 (20.00%) CRM
4 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) BDD
4 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (20.00%) REST
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
4 2 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) User Stories
5 1 (10.00%) Mobile App

Digital Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Automotive
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
1 3 (30.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (20.00%) BDD
2 2 (20.00%) CRM
2 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (20.00%) High Availability
2 2 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (20.00%) Microservices
2 2 (20.00%) TDD
2 2 (20.00%) User Stories
2 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
3 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) ERP
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (10.00%) Time Management
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) SAP