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 £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 383 418
Rank change year-on-year +18 +35 +82
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Solutions Architect 4 8 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.027% 0.038% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.042% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 24
10th Percentile £619 £497 -
25th Percentile £628 £521 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -11.54% +4.92%
75th Percentile £703 £650 £700
90th Percentile £716 £688 £793
UK median daily rate £625 £575 £700
% change year-on-year +8.70% -17.86% +12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 13,550 19,206 22,112
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 92.35% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,375 11,558 15,190
10th Percentile £216 £213 £232
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.81%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 2,340 1,191
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.82 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +91.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £39.55 £43.00
% change year-on-year -33.00% -8.02% +67.45%

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 12 July 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
South West +35 2 - -
South East +42 1 £700 +45.83% 4
East of England +17 1 £625 -
Digital Solutions Architect
UK

Digital Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 13 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, 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 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Sitecore
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps

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:

General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Wallet
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Sitecore