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 £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 384 435
Rank change year-on-year +54 +51 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 6 15 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.072% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.078% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 23
10th Percentile - £725 £649
25th Percentile - £744 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £825 £725
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +13.79% +5.45%
75th Percentile - £888 £809
90th Percentile - £900 £865
UK median daily rate £650 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - -
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £91.69 - -

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +39 3 - - 3
South East +47 2 £625 -24.24% 3
North of England +19 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 - -
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 1 May 2025, 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 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (33.33%) Pega
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 2 (33.33%) PaaS
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (16.67%) IaaS
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (16.67%) User Experience
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) PaaS
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Pega
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce