Lead Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends 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 £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 352 399
Rank change year-on-year -26 +47 +108
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 14 12 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.081% 0.072% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.078% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 12
10th Percentile £444 £583 £580
25th Percentile £537 £645 £691
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £725 £781 £884
90th Percentile £750 £800 £950
UK median daily rate £663 £700 £713
% change year-on-year -5.36% -1.75% -3.39%

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 15,543 15,349 19,680
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.78% 92.26% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,622 8,804 13,026
10th Percentile £206 £219 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,534 1,055 1,281
10th Percentile £13.77 £15.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.25 £19.74 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +85.11%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +58.28%

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Lead Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies 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 November 2025.

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

Lead Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies 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 November 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
North of England -29 10 £600 -10.28% 11
Yorkshire - 6 £569 - 2
West Midlands -22 2 - - 6
North West -24 2 £608 -9.16% 9
Midlands -33 2 - - 7
North East - 2 £725 -
South West +6 1 £700 +12.00% 1
South East +1 1 - - 6
Lead Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, Lead 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 8 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (57.14%) TOGAF
2 6 (42.86%) BiZZdesign
2 6 (42.86%) Centrify
2 6 (42.86%) CISM
2 6 (42.86%) CISSP
2 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 6 (42.86%) Confluence
2 6 (42.86%) Cryptography
2 6 (42.86%) CyberArk
2 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 6 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (42.86%) Incident Response
2 6 (42.86%) JIRA
2 6 (42.86%) Master's Degree
2 6 (42.86%) PhD
2 6 (42.86%) Privileged Access Management
2 6 (42.86%) SABSA
2 6 (42.86%) Secrets Management
2 6 (42.86%) Security Operations
2 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Thought Leadership
2 6 (42.86%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 6 (42.86%) TOGAF Certification
2 6 (42.86%) UML
2 6 (42.86%) Visualisation
2 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (35.71%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (42.86%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Azure AI
2 2 (14.29%) OCI
3 1 (7.14%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Back Office
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (57.14%) TOGAF
2 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 6 (42.86%) Cryptography
2 6 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (42.86%) Incident Response
2 6 (42.86%) Privileged Access Management
2 6 (42.86%) SABSA
2 6 (42.86%) Secrets Management
2 6 (42.86%) Security Operations
2 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Thought Leadership
2 6 (42.86%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 6 (42.86%) UML
2 6 (42.86%) Visualisation
2 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (35.71%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
4 4 (28.57%) Dependency Management
4 4 (28.57%) Project Governance
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) CISM
1 6 (42.86%) CISSP
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
1 6 (42.86%) Master's Degree
1 6 (42.86%) PhD
1 6 (42.86%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) BiZZdesign
1 6 (42.86%) Centrify
1 6 (42.86%) CyberArk
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Foundry
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft