Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 94 73
Rank change year-on-year +23 -21 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 566 658 1,008
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.73% 2.71% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.94% 2.89% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 463 716
10th Percentile £513 £526 £475
25th Percentile £575 £575 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +12.41%
75th Percentile £713 £725 £675
90th Percentile £762 £799 £750
UK median daily rate £646 £663 £625
% change year-on-year -2.49% +6.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 2
10th Percentile £68.00 £62.85 -
25th Percentile £86.50 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £89.00 £71.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% +20.34% +7.27%
75th Percentile £91.50 £80.19 £61.50
90th Percentile £97.44 £80.25 -
UK median hourly rate £88.00 £66.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year +31.84% +13.14% +6.79%

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 19,245 22,798 29,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 94.05% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 15,968 20,881
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £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 2,208 1,203 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.43 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.63 £18.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

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 Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +4 151 £625 -3.85% 38
South West +34 147 £650 -2.69% 23
North of England +15 118 £625 -3.85% 43
North West +26 81 £625 -3.85% 30
Midlands +10 69 £650 - 24
West Midlands +22 47 £650 +4.00% 14
Scotland +8 47 £648 +0.66% 13
East of England +19 37 £675 -3.57% 10
Yorkshire -7 32 £650 -7.14% 9
East Midlands +1 21 £569 -13.83% 10
Northern Ireland +11 7 £650 +18.18% 3
North East +21 6 £600 - 4
Wales +4 6 £650 +15.04% 2
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 216 (38.16%) Security Cleared
2 129 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 117 (20.67%) Azure
4 114 (20.14%) Social Skills
5 104 (18.37%) DV Cleared
6 100 (17.67%) Agile
7 98 (17.31%) Finance
8 84 (14.84%) TOGAF
9 83 (14.66%) Microsoft
9 83 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (14.66%) Roadmaps
10 72 (12.72%) Telecoms
11 71 (12.54%) Enterprise Architecture
12 65 (11.48%) Degree
12 65 (11.48%) Migration
12 65 (11.48%) Public Sector
13 63 (11.13%) AWS
14 60 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
15 54 (9.54%) SAP
16 50 (8.83%) Architectural Design
17 47 (8.30%) Banking
18 43 (7.60%) Stakeholder Management
18 43 (7.60%) DevOps
19 42 (7.42%) ArchiMate
19 42 (7.42%) Computer Science
19 42 (7.42%) Power Platform
19 42 (7.42%) IT Strategy
20 41 (7.24%) Project Delivery
21 40 (7.07%) Architecture Governance
22 39 (6.89%) Java

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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (2.12%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.59%) Confluence
3 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) CATIA
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.06%) SAP SD
4 5 (0.88%) Oracle Assets
4 5 (0.88%) Oracle Cash Management
4 5 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.88%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.88%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.71%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.53%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.35%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.35%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.35%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 117 (20.67%) Azure
2 63 (11.13%) AWS
3 42 (7.42%) Power Platform
4 38 (6.71%) SaaS
5 27 (4.77%) PaaS
6 26 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (2.47%) GCP
9 13 (2.30%) IaaS
10 12 (2.12%) OCI
11 11 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.88%) GitHub
13 4 (0.71%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.71%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 3 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (0.53%) Azure Stack
14 3 (0.53%) Boomi
14 3 (0.53%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.59%) PBX
1 26 (4.59%) VoIP
2 18 (3.18%) WAN
3 15 (2.65%) DNS
3 15 (2.65%) SDH
4 10 (1.77%) DHCP
5 6 (1.06%) Junos
6 5 (0.88%) ATM
6 5 (0.88%) Firewall
6 5 (0.88%) Internet
6 5 (0.88%) LAN
6 5 (0.88%) MPLS
7 4 (0.71%) SAN
8 3 (0.53%) MQTT
8 3 (0.53%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.35%) Network Security
9 2 (0.35%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.35%) VSAN
10 1 (0.18%) 4G
10 1 (0.18%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.12%) SAP HANA
2 10 (1.77%) Oracle Database
3 8 (1.41%) Big Data
3 8 (1.41%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.06%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.06%) Power BI
5 5 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.71%) GIS
6 4 (0.71%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.53%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.35%) Redis
9 1 (0.18%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.18%) Impala
Development Applications
1 23 (4.06%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (1.24%) JIRA
3 2 (0.35%) GitLab
3 2 (0.35%) webpack
4 1 (0.18%) Git
4 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 114 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 98 (17.31%) Finance
3 72 (12.72%) Telecoms
4 65 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 60 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (8.30%) Banking
7 28 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (4.77%) Manufacturing
9 22 (3.89%) Marketing
10 16 (2.83%) Electronics
10 16 (2.83%) Retail
11 15 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.94%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.41%) Local Government
14 7 (1.24%) Aeronautics
14 7 (1.24%) Digital Economy
15 6 (1.06%) French Language
15 6 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.65%) Middleware
2 12 (2.12%) .NET
3 7 (1.24%) REST
3 7 (1.24%) SOAP
4 5 (0.88%) Node.js
4 5 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.88%) XML
5 3 (0.53%) Kafka
5 3 (0.53%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.53%) OAuth
5 3 (0.53%) OpenAPI
5 3 (0.53%) RAML
5 3 (0.53%) React
5 3 (0.53%) React Native
5 3 (0.53%) RESTful
5 3 (0.53%) SAML
5 3 (0.53%) Swagger
5 3 (0.53%) Web Services
6 2 (0.35%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.35%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.48%) Product Ownership
2 21 (3.71%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (3.18%) Data Centre
4 16 (2.83%) Cloud Native
5 14 (2.47%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.12%) Video Conferencing
7 10 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.77%) Operational Technology
7 10 (1.77%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.59%) Blackberry
8 9 (1.59%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.41%) Digital Media
10 6 (1.06%) NHS
10 6 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.88%) IoT
11 5 (0.88%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.71%) CMDB
13 3 (0.53%) Blog
13 3 (0.53%) Fat Client
13 3 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.71%) Windows
2 7 (1.24%) Unix
3 5 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.71%) Android
4 4 (0.71%) Linux
5 3 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (17.67%) Agile
2 84 (14.84%) TOGAF
3 83 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (14.66%) Roadmaps
4 71 (12.54%) Enterprise Architecture
5 65 (11.48%) Migration
6 50 (8.83%) Architectural Design
7 43 (7.60%) DevOps
7 43 (7.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (7.42%) ArchiMate
8 42 (7.42%) Computer Science
8 42 (7.42%) IT Strategy
9 41 (7.24%) Project Delivery
10 40 (7.07%) Architecture Governance
11 37 (6.54%) Translating Business Requirements
12 36 (6.36%) Decision-Making
13 33 (5.83%) Architectural Patterns
13 33 (5.83%) ITIL
14 29 (5.12%) Business Strategy
14 29 (5.12%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 39 (6.89%) Java
2 22 (3.89%) SQL
3 6 (1.06%) C#
3 6 (1.06%) PL/SQL
4 4 (0.71%) JavaScript
4 4 (0.71%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.53%) Python
6 2 (0.35%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
6 2 (0.35%) SOQL
7 1 (0.18%) Bash
7 1 (0.18%) PHP
7 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 216 (38.16%) Security Cleared
2 129 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 104 (18.37%) DV Cleared
4 65 (11.48%) Degree
5 28 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (4.06%) TOGAF Certification
7 13 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.94%) HND
9 10 (1.77%) CCNP
10 9 (1.59%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.06%) JNCIA
14 4 (0.71%) SAP Certification
15 3 (0.53%) CCNA
15 3 (0.53%) MCSE
15 3 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.18%) QA
2 7 (1.24%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.06%) NCSC
3 6 (1.06%) NIST
4 4 (0.71%) COBIT
4 4 (0.71%) GDPR
5 3 (0.53%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.35%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.18%) GxP
7 1 (0.18%) HL7
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) PMO
7 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 14 (2.47%) Active Directory
1 14 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.88%) Docker
3 4 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.71%) vSphere
4 3 (0.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (0.53%) XenApp
4 3 (0.53%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.41%) Terraform
3 7 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.71%) VxRail
5 3 (0.53%) SCCM
5 3 (0.53%) SCOM
6 2 (0.35%) Ansible
6 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.18%) Istio
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 83 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 54 (9.54%) SAP
3 30 (5.30%) Cisco
4 29 (5.12%) Oracle
5 28 (4.95%) VMware
6 25 (4.42%) Juniper
7 24 (4.24%) Nokia
8 22 (3.89%) Salesforce
9 21 (3.71%) IBM
10 18 (3.18%) Google
11 9 (1.59%) Avaya
11 9 (1.59%) Ericsson
11 9 (1.59%) Ribbon
12 8 (1.41%) Dell
13 7 (1.24%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.06%) Ciena
15 5 (0.88%) Citrix
15 5 (0.88%) Databricks
15 5 (0.88%) ServiceNow
16 4 (0.71%) Informatica