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 £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 382 442
Rank change year-on-year +65 +60 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 22 17 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.082% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.088% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 4
10th Percentile £463 - £616
25th Percentile £559 £606 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £643 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% -4.73% +12.50%
75th Percentile £813 £688 £763
90th Percentile £875 £793 £787
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £102.87 -
UK median hourly rate - £102.87 -

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 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
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 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

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 2 May 2025.

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 2 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 East +44 7 £588 -4.08% 20
North of England +27 5 £838 +36.73% 26
Midlands +19 4 £613 -9.26% 5
West Midlands +15 4 £613 -9.26% 5
Scotland - 3 - - 3
Yorkshire - 2 - - 11
North East - 2 £838 - 4
South West +41 1 - - 7
North West +14 1 - - 11
Wales - 1 £725 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £700 - 3
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 2 May 2025, 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 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) AWS
3 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 8 (36.36%) Migration
4 7 (31.82%) Finance
4 7 (31.82%) Agile
4 7 (31.82%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
6 5 (22.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (22.73%) AWS Certification
6 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
7 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (18.18%) IoT
7 4 (18.18%) Architectural Design
7 4 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
7 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (13.64%) Signal Processing
8 3 (13.64%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
8 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (13.64%) Multithreading
8 3 (13.64%) Data Migration
8 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
8 3 (13.64%) QA
8 3 (13.64%) TOGAF
8 3 (13.64%) Device Driver
8 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution

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 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) IaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) PaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) General Ledger
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Military
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) IoT
2 3 (13.64%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Device Driver
2 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Migration
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
5 4 (18.18%) Architectural Design
5 4 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (13.64%) Community of Practice
6 3 (13.64%) Data Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Data Security
6 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven
6 3 (13.64%) Multithreading
6 3 (13.64%) Project Management
6 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
6 3 (13.64%) Signal Processing
6 3 (13.64%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) C
1 3 (13.64%) Embedded C
1 3 (13.64%) Java
1 3 (13.64%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) AWS Certification
1 5 (22.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
3 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Firmware
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Bloomberg
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) SAP
2 2 (9.09%) Workday
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) TOWER Software
3 1 (4.55%) VMware