Senior Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends 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 £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 323 384
Rank change year-on-year -62 +61 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 9 24 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 14
10th Percentile £488 - £573
25th Percentile £521 £513 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £675 £643
Median % change year-on-year -19.63% +4.97% -7.31%
75th Percentile £675 £769 £684
90th Percentile £681 £838 £733
UK median daily rate £625 £725 £615
% change year-on-year -13.79% +17.89% -12.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% - -
75th Percentile £47.50 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -30.77% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 16,495 13,472 18,234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 92.34% 93.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,135 8,008 11,848
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £373 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% -2.65% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £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 1,657 759 1,280
10th Percentile £13.95 £15.33 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.26 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.94
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -29.26% +77.99%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.38 £76.58
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +41.93%

Senior Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Senior Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Solutions Architect job vacancies 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 29 December 2025.

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

Senior Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Solutions Architect job vacancies 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 29 December 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 -45 6 £568 -31.21% 6
Yorkshire -42 3 - - 5
Scotland +1 2 £543 -
North West -20 2 £568 -12.69% 1
North East -7 1 - - 1
South East -8 1 £650 -18.75% 3
Senior Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 December 2025, Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Network Security
4 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) CRM
5 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
5 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub
5 2 (22.22%) Google
5 2 (22.22%) GRC
5 2 (22.22%) IaaS
5 2 (22.22%) Internet
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) PaaS
5 2 (22.22%) Product Management
5 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
5 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 2 (22.22%) SaaS
5 2 (22.22%) Secrets Management
5 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Terraform
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) IaaS
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
3 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Product Management
3 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 2 (22.22%) Secrets Management
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GRC
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) SAP