Senior Solutions Architect Contracts

Senior Solution Architect
UK

The median Senior Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £659 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 643 736
Rank change year-on-year +85 +93 -92
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 36 73 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 42 89
10th Percentile £500 £613 £550
25th Percentile £602 £631 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 £700 £665
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% +5.26% -0.60%
75th Percentile £759 £781 £763
90th Percentile £838 £873 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £643 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -4.73% +12.50% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £102.87 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £102.87 - -

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 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
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 £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Senior Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the UK

Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +83 28 £675 -4.93% 38
Work from Home +123 18 £644 -11.21% 18
UK excluding London +77 17 £643 -4.73% 24
London +63 10 £800 +14.29% 18
South East - 9 £613 - 6
West Midlands +34 4 £675 - 4
Midlands +30 4 £675 - 5
South West +17 3 £675 -14.01% 1
North of England +32 1 £613 -2.00% 9
North West - 1 £613 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 13 (36.11%) Security Cleared
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
2 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (27.78%) Azure
4 9 (25.00%) Agile
4 9 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
5 7 (19.44%) AWS
5 7 (19.44%) IT Strategy
6 6 (16.67%) Public Cloud
6 6 (16.67%) VMware
6 6 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
6 6 (16.67%) NCSC
6 6 (16.67%) NIST
7 5 (13.89%) SAP
7 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (13.89%) Degree
7 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (13.89%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (13.89%) DevOps
8 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (11.11%) SAP Security
8 4 (11.11%) Microservices
8 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 4 (11.11%) TOGAF
9 3 (8.33%) Banking
9 3 (8.33%) Retail
9 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
9 3 (8.33%) Use Case

Senior 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 5 (13.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.56%) Primavera
2 2 (5.56%) Teamcenter
3 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.33%) PaaS
5 2 (5.56%) IaaS
5 2 (5.56%) SaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
General
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Banking
4 3 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Retail
5 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Swagger
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) Node.js
2 1 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.78%) Life Science
4 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Agile
1 9 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (19.44%) IT Strategy
3 6 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 5 (13.89%) DevOps
4 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 4 (11.11%) Microservices
5 4 (11.11%) SAP Security
5 4 (11.11%) TOGAF
6 3 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (8.33%) Fintech
6 3 (8.33%) Matrix Organization
6 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.33%) Project Management
6 3 (8.33%) Release Train
6 3 (8.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.78%) C#
1 1 (2.78%) Java
1 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
1 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 3 (8.33%) CCNP
4 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 3 (8.33%) MBA
4 3 (8.33%) MCSE
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (8.33%) PhD
5 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) NCSC
1 6 (16.67%) NIST
2 2 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) VMware
2 5 (13.89%) SAP
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.56%) IFS
5 1 (2.78%) BT
5 1 (2.78%) Guidewire