Solutions Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Solution Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solution Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 394 423
Rank change year-on-year +61 +29 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 24 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.052% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.056% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 15
10th Percentile £350 - £565
25th Percentile £463 £475 £599
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £531 £668
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -20.41% +11.72%
75th Percentile £534 £606 £781
90th Percentile £675 £618 £828
UK median daily rate £488 £538 £693
% change year-on-year -9.30% -22.38% +15.42%

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 12,381 19,636 21,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.37% 92.47% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,743 11,699 14,909
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 2,517 1,118
10th Percentile £13.49 £12.56 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.96 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £58.58 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

Solutions Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Designer in the UK excluding London

Solutions Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Designer in the UK excluding London

Solutions Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Designer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Designer in the UK excluding London

Solutions Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Designer in the UK excluding London

Solutions Designer
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 Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 +55 11 £480 -12.73% 16
Scotland +5 7 £517 -12.00% 2
North of England +31 6 £475 -5.00%
North West +10 4 £475 -5.00%
North East - 2 £505 -
Solutions Designer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, Solutions Designer 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 Designer in the job title.

1 11 (45.83%) Business Strategy
2 10 (41.67%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Finance
3 8 (33.33%) Azure
3 8 (33.33%) Microservices
4 7 (29.17%) Telecoms
4 7 (29.17%) Billing
4 7 (29.17%) Web Services
4 7 (29.17%) UML
5 6 (25.00%) REST
5 6 (25.00%) AWS
5 6 (25.00%) Degree
5 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (20.83%) TM Forum
6 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
6 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (20.83%) Customer Experience
6 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
6 5 (20.83%) JSON
6 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (20.83%) Data Integration
6 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (20.83%) Frameworx
6 5 (20.83%) CRM
6 5 (20.83%) Salesforce
6 5 (20.83%) Service Delivery
7 4 (16.67%) Firewall
7 4 (16.67%) ITSM

Solutions Designer 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 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) GCP
4 3 (12.50%) SaaS
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub
6 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) BGP
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
1 4 (16.67%) MPLS
1 4 (16.67%) Network Security
1 4 (16.67%) OSPF
1 4 (16.67%) VLAN
1 4 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (8.33%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Postman
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (29.17%) Billing
2 7 (29.17%) Telecoms
3 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) Web Services
2 6 (25.00%) REST
3 5 (20.83%) JSON
4 2 (8.33%) Middleware
4 2 (8.33%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Frameworx
1 5 (20.83%) TM Forum
2 4 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (16.67%) IoT
3 3 (12.50%) Operational Technology
4 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Business Strategy
2 10 (41.67%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Microservices
4 7 (29.17%) UML
5 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 5 (20.83%) CRM
6 5 (20.83%) Customer Experience
6 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
6 5 (20.83%) Data Integration
6 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (20.83%) Service Delivery
6 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (16.67%) Edge Computing
7 4 (16.67%) IT Strategy
7 4 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 4 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
7 4 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
7 4 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) CCIE
2 4 (16.67%) CCNP
2 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.67%) JNCIE
2 4 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Salesforce
1 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.67%) Cisco
2 4 (16.67%) F5
2 4 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 2 (8.33%) BT
3 2 (8.33%) Openreach
3 2 (8.33%) Virgin Media
4 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft