Salesforce Solution Architect Contracts

Salesforce Solutions Architect
UK

The median Salesforce Solutions Architect daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 545 656
Rank change year-on-year +17 +111 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Salesforce Solution Architect 25 25 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.064% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.069% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 18
10th Percentile £511 £579 £509
25th Percentile £525 £616 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £655 £638
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +2.75% -8.93%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £716
90th Percentile £770 £756 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £663 £550
% change year-on-year -11.32% +20.45% -16.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - £30.75
Median hourly rate £91.69 - £31.50
75th Percentile £98.56 - £32.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £91.69 - -

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 30,107 36,433 50,404
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 92.93% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,087 23,537 34,777
10th Percentile £282 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,495 2,061 1,513
10th Percentile £13.62 £14.16 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.05 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £38.95
% change year-on-year -42.71% +12.71% +83.08%

Salesforce Solution Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Salesforce Solution Architect in the UK

Salesforce Solution Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Salesforce Solution Architect.

Daily rate trend for Salesforce Solution Architect in the UK

Salesforce Solution Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Salesforce Solution Architect over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Salesforce Solution Architect in the UK

Salesforce Solution Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Salesforce Solution Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Salesforce Solution Architect in the UK

Salesforce Solution 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 Salesforce Solution Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +8 18 £550 -16.67% 12
UK excluding London +9 10 £588 -11.32% 4
Work from Home +26 8 £650 +4.63% 4
London -2 8 £650 -7.14% 7
South East - 7 £738 - 2
North of England -10 1 - - 1
Midlands -11 1 £425 -34.62%
East Midlands - 1 £425 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 -

Salesforce Solution Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, Salesforce Solution 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 Salesforce Solution Architect in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (36.00%) Agile
4 8 (32.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 7 (28.00%) Lightning Web Components
5 7 (28.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (28.00%) Apex Code
6 6 (24.00%) Migration
6 6 (24.00%) Visualforce
6 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (24.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 5 (20.00%) TOGAF
7 5 (20.00%) ETL
7 5 (20.00%) SAP
7 5 (20.00%) CRM
8 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
8 4 (16.00%) Marketing
8 4 (16.00%) JIRA
8 4 (16.00%) DevOps
9 3 (12.00%) Microservices
9 3 (12.00%) Pardot
9 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
9 3 (12.00%) Strategic Roadmap
9 3 (12.00%) Salesforce Einstein
9 3 (12.00%) Data Migration
9 3 (12.00%) Data Integration
9 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Integration Services

Salesforce Solution 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 3 (12.00%) SAP PM
2 2 (8.00%) Avolution ABACUS
2 2 (8.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (8.00%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 6 (24.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 3 (12.00%) Salesforce Einstein
4 2 (8.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) Azure
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (8.00%) Big Data
3 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Marketing
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.00%) General Ledger
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (24.00%) Visualforce
3 2 (8.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (8.00%) Kafka
3 2 (8.00%) Middleware
3 2 (8.00%) REST
3 2 (8.00%) SAP PI
3 2 (8.00%) SOAP
4 1 (4.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.00%) IoT
2 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Agile
2 7 (28.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (24.00%) Migration
3 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.00%) CRM
4 5 (20.00%) ETL
4 5 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (16.00%) DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (12.00%) Data Migration
6 3 (12.00%) Microservices
6 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.00%) Scrum
6 3 (12.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (8.00%) ArchiMate
7 2 (8.00%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Ansible
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 5 (20.00%) SAP
3 3 (12.00%) Pardot
4 2 (8.00%) MuleSoft
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) Conga
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) Virgin Media