Technical Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 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
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 358 391
Rank change year-on-year -9 +33 +105
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Solutions Architect 6 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.060% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.065% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile £390 - £512
25th Percentile £525 £455 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £719
90th Percentile £695 £641 £731
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -2.08% -14.22% +3.63%

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 13,869 16,817 20,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 92.06% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,472 10,273 14,018
10th Percentile £215 £220 £225
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,239 1,734 1,126
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.05 £13.98
25th Percentile £16.30 £18.91 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +20.00% +75.32%
75th Percentile £54.38 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +64.15%

Technical Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Technical Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

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

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

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

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

Technical 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 Technical Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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 West -7 2 £550 -4.35% 3
North of England -23 2 £550 -4.35% 4
South West +31 1 £750 +17.65% 1
Midlands -11 1 - - 2
West Midlands -11 1 - -
East of England - 1 £300 -
South East - 1 £550 - 2
Technical Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 August 2025, Technical 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 Technical Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
1 2 (33.33%) IVR
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) API Integration
1 2 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (16.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Project Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management

Technical 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) IVR
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) API Integration
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (16.67%) Project Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet