Senior Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £643 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 452 483
Rank change year-on-year +78 +31 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 17 5 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.021% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.022% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 28
10th Percentile - £616 £554
25th Percentile £606 £622 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £688 £763 £809
90th Percentile £793 £787 £817
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £665
% change year-on-year -3.57% +5.22% -0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £102.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £102.87 - -

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 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
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 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Senior Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Senior Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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

Senior Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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 East - 9 £613 - 5
Midlands +32 4 £675 - 7
West Midlands +28 4 £675 - 5
South West +25 3 £675 -14.01% 1
North of England +26 1 £613 -2.00% 12
North West - 1 £613 - 5
Senior Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 8 (47.06%) Azure
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 6 (35.29%) VMware
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Roadmaps
3 6 (35.29%) NCSC
3 6 (35.29%) NIST
3 6 (35.29%) Public Cloud
4 5 (29.41%) IT Strategy
4 5 (29.41%) Finance
5 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
5 4 (23.53%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (17.65%) Architectural Design
6 3 (17.65%) Release Train
6 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
6 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
6 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
6 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (17.65%) MCSE
6 3 (17.65%) CCNP
6 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
7 2 (11.76%) Business Development
7 2 (11.76%) User Experience

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Public Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Agile
1 6 (35.29%) Roadmaps
2 5 (29.41%) IT Strategy
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (23.53%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (17.65%) Architectural Design
4 3 (17.65%) Release Train
4 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
5 2 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (11.76%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (11.76%) Business Development
5 2 (11.76%) Microservices
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) User Experience
6 1 (5.88%) CRM
6 1 (5.88%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (5.88%) Scrum
6 1 (5.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) CCNP
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) MCSE
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) NCSC
1 6 (35.29%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) BT
3 1 (5.88%) Guidewire
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft