Lead Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £825 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 438 475
Rank change year-on-year +53 +37 -54
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 21 25 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 35
10th Percentile £703 £649 £503
25th Percentile £738 £675 £604
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £713 £661
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +7.74% +20.24%
75th Percentile £888 £814 £744
90th Percentile £915 £870 £795
UK median daily rate £750 £713 £650
% change year-on-year +5.26% +9.62% +4.00%

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 19,305 23,198 30,087
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.06% 95.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,917 16,250 21,111
10th Percentile £213 £223 £200
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £594 £570
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 2,172 1,224 1,504
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.58 £12.01
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.37 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +117.26% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £40.17
90th Percentile £72.86 £73.75 £58.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead 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 Lead Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South West +20 14 £838 +14.33% 1
East of England - 3 - -
Scotland +37 1 £750 +7.14%
North of England - 1 £700 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 £700 -
South East - 1 £825 -
Lead Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Lead 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 Lead Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) Finance
3 10 (47.62%) SAP
4 9 (42.86%) DV Cleared
4 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
5 8 (38.10%) Manufacturing
6 7 (33.33%) Electronics
6 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
6 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (33.33%) Programme Management
6 7 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (33.33%) Marketing
7 5 (23.81%) Release Management
7 5 (23.81%) Change Management
8 4 (19.05%) Agile
8 4 (19.05%) ArchiMate
9 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
9 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
9 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
9 3 (14.29%) JIRA
9 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (14.29%) Confluence
9 3 (14.29%) Migration
9 3 (14.29%) VMware
10 2 (9.52%) TOGAF
10 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
10 2 (9.52%) Military
10 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture

Lead 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 3 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) SAP CO
2 1 (4.76%) SAP FI
2 1 (4.76%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (4.76%) SAP MM
2 1 (4.76%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) OCI
2 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) 3G
1 1 (4.76%) 4G
1 1 (4.76%) IP Telephony
1 1 (4.76%) LAN
1 1 (4.76%) PBX
1 1 (4.76%) Skype
1 1 (4.76%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 8 (38.10%) Manufacturing
4 7 (33.33%) Electronics
4 7 (33.33%) Marketing
4 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
5 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 2 (9.52%) French Language
6 2 (9.52%) Military
7 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
7 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.76%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
1 1 (4.76%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.76%) LIMS
1 1 (4.76%) NHS
1 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
1 7 (33.33%) Programme Management
1 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (23.81%) Change Management
2 5 (23.81%) Release Management
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) ArchiMate
4 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.52%) Requirements Management
5 2 (9.52%) TOGAF
6 1 (4.76%) Cryptography
6 1 (4.76%) Document Management
6 1 (4.76%) Logistics
6 1 (4.76%) PRINCE2
6 1 (4.76%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 9 (42.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) SAP
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (4.76%) Infor
3 1 (4.76%) LabWare
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle