Lead Solutions Architect Contracts

Lead Solution Architect
UK

The median Lead Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 668 713
Rank change year-on-year +107 +45 -61
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 37 51 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.085% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.090% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 36 91
10th Percentile £611 £594 £550
25th Percentile £675 £667 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% +6.12%
75th Percentile £875 £791 £788
90th Percentile £918 £863 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £825 £725 £675
% change year-on-year +13.79% +7.41% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Top 10 Contract 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 27 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
England +122 34 £750 +3.45% 12
London +103 17 £700 -3.45% 5
Work from Home +120 15 £713 +4.59% 10
UK excluding London +54 15 £825 +13.79% 7
South West +10 10 £850 +16.04%
East of England - 2 - -
Scotland +31 1 £750 +7.14%
South East +26 1 £825 +11.49% 1
North West - 1 £700 - 2
North of England - 1 £700 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 17 (45.95%) Finance
2 14 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 14 (37.84%) Public Sector
3 11 (29.73%) SAP
3 11 (29.73%) Agile
3 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
4 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
4 10 (27.03%) Manufacturing
5 9 (24.32%) DV Cleared
5 9 (24.32%) Presales
6 8 (21.62%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (21.62%) DevOps
7 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (18.92%) SLA
7 7 (18.92%) Business Case
7 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
8 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (16.22%) Migration
8 6 (16.22%) Electronics
8 6 (16.22%) Telecoms
8 6 (16.22%) Digital Marketing
8 6 (16.22%) Marketing
8 6 (16.22%) Programme Management
8 6 (16.22%) Azure
8 6 (16.22%) AWS
9 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
10 4 (10.81%) ArchiMate
11 3 (8.11%) Machine Learning
11 3 (8.11%) Infor
11 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.70%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.70%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (2.70%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.70%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) AWS
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 2 (5.41%) GCP
2 2 (5.41%) SaaS
2 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.70%) Alation
3 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.70%) OCI
3 1 (2.70%) PaaS
3 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Big Data
1 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (45.95%) Finance
2 14 (37.84%) Public Sector
3 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
4 10 (27.03%) Manufacturing
5 6 (16.22%) Electronics
5 6 (16.22%) Marketing
5 6 (16.22%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.41%) French Language
6 2 (5.41%) Retail
7 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) .NET
2 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.70%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
2 1 (2.70%) Next.js
2 1 (2.70%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) LIMS
2 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Agile
2 9 (24.32%) Presales
3 8 (21.62%) Customer Requirements
3 8 (21.62%) DevOps
4 7 (18.92%) Business Case
4 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (16.22%) Digital Marketing
5 6 (16.22%) Migration
5 6 (16.22%) Programme Management
6 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
7 4 (10.81%) ArchiMate
8 3 (8.11%) Computer Science
8 3 (8.11%) Cryptography
8 3 (8.11%) Data Protection
8 3 (8.11%) Machine Learning
8 3 (8.11%) Project Management
8 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 2 (5.41%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) C#
1 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (24.32%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) Degree
5 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) SAP
2 3 (8.11%) Infor
2 3 (8.11%) LabWare
3 2 (5.41%) Databricks
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) VMware
4 1 (2.70%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle