Lead Solutions Architect Contracts

Lead Solution Architect
UK

The median Lead Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 546 623
Rank change year-on-year -4 +77 +136
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 13 26 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.067% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.072% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 25
10th Percentile £673 £578 £605
25th Percentile £700 £700 £635
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £750 £875 £819
90th Percentile £773 £1,110 £870
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £750 £750
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - -
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £91.69 - -

All DemandTrendContract 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 29,910 35,903 47,906
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 93.02% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,855 22,735 32,984
10th Percentile £280 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -1.83%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,566 1,849 1,472
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.16 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.58 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.95 £40.00
% change year-on-year -42.78% +9.88% +86.05%

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England +13 11 £725 -4.92% 23
UK excluding London -3 6 £750 - 22
London +17 5 £713 -13.64% 7
Work from Home +16 3 £700 -12.50% 7
South West +17 2 - - 5
North of England -12 2 £750 +7.14% 6
West Midlands -8 1 - - 1
North West -9 1 £750 +7.14% 5
Midlands -10 1 - - 4
South East - 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 2025, Lead 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 Lead Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) Google
3 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Architectural Design
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (15.38%) Azure AI
4 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (15.38%) Vertex AI
4 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
4 2 (15.38%) Pega
4 2 (15.38%) UX Design
4 2 (15.38%) Open Source
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Foundry
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) User Experience
4 2 (15.38%) Target Operating Model
5 1 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) TOGAF

Lead 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure AI
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 2 (15.38%) Vertex AI
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
1 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Back Office
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (7.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Architectural Design
2 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
2 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 2 (15.38%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
3 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
3 2 (15.38%) Open Source
3 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (15.38%) Target Operating Model
3 2 (15.38%) User Experience
3 2 (15.38%) UX Design
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Network Architecture
4 1 (7.69%) Product Management
4 1 (7.69%) Release Management
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Foundry
2 2 (15.38%) Pega
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Zscaler