Digital Solutions Architect Contracts

Digital Solution Architect
UK

The median Digital Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 July 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
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 579 631
Rank change year-on-year +47 +52 +147
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Solutions Architect 12 14 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.033% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.035% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 57
10th Percentile - £530 £600
25th Percentile £613 £563 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -17.86% +12.00%
75th Percentile £681 £725 £713
90th Percentile £708 £743 £792
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +15.22% -11.54% +4.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 30,054 39,908 53,504
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 93.02% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,145 25,675 37,129
10th Percentile £287 £288 £310
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,391 2,727 1,579
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.00 £14.34
25th Percentile £17.33 £17.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.50 £39.55 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% -8.02% +67.45%
75th Percentile £56.25 £62.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +91.57%

Digital Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Solutions Architect in the UK

Digital Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Solutions Architect.

Daily rate trend for Digital Solutions Architect in the UK

Digital Solutions Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 12 July 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
England +41 12 £625 +8.70% 8
London +31 8 £625 -1.96% 4
Work from Home +30 6 £625 -13.79% 3
UK excluding London +18 4 £663 +15.22% 5
South West +35 2 - -
South East +42 1 £700 +45.83% 4
East of England +17 1 £625 -

Digital Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, Digital 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 featuring Digital Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) SDLC
3 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (16.67%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Banking
6 1 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (8.33%) TOGAF
6 1 (8.33%) Google
6 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (8.33%) QA
6 1 (8.33%) Drupal
6 1 (8.33%) Sitecore
6 1 (8.33%) Azure
6 1 (8.33%) AWS
6 1 (8.33%) Open Source
6 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) CMS
6 1 (8.33%) Scrum
6 1 (8.33%) PHP
6 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (8.33%) Epics
6 1 (8.33%) Sprint Planning

Digital Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.33%) CMS
1 1 (8.33%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) SDLC
3 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (8.33%) API Integration
6 1 (8.33%) Architecture Roadmap
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (8.33%) Epics
6 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 1 (8.33%) Open Source
6 1 (8.33%) Scrum
6 1 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (8.33%) Technology Roadmap
6 1 (8.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Sitecore