Microsoft Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 392 445
Rank change year-on-year +60 +53 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Solutions Architect 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.005% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.005% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile - - £563
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £700 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +33.33% -12.50% -2.83%

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 11,868 18,942 22,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 92.49% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,590 11,550 15,489
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 848 2,258 1,140
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.72 £17.86
Median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% -5.73% +115.78%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £36.65 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.96% -18.56% +88.21%

Microsoft Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Microsoft 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 Microsoft Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
South East - 1 £700 - 4
Microsoft Solutions Architect
UK

Microsoft Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, Microsoft 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 Microsoft Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft