Solutions Architect Contracts

The median contractor rate for a Solutions Architect was £550 per day in advertised job vacancies during the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Solution Architect UK
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	137	99	96
Rank change year-on-year	-38	-3
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect	858	1270	1207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.82%	2.36%	2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category	1.92%	2.49%	2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted	529	859	738
Median daily rate	£550	£525	£525
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.76%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£424	£413	£413
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£675	£675	£675
UK excluding London median daily rate	£525	£500	£500
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	2	12
Median hourly rate	£57.50	£43.83	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+31.20%	+25.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.19	£40.27	£32.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£60.00	£49.27	£57.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£57.50	£42.65	£59.50
% change year-on-year	+34.81%	-28.31%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles UK
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	44648	51085	52304
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	94.78%	94.85%	94.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	98420	117801	120925
Median daily rate	£438	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.94%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£263	£250	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£600	£588
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£399	£365
% change year-on-year	+0.25%	+9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4481	5171	7481
Median hourly rate	£18.69	£17.50	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+6.80%	+6.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£10.50	£10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£48.75	£45.00	£41.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.50	£16.00
% change year-on-year	-	+9.37%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Solutions Architect.

Contractor daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Solutions Architect over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

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 Solutions Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-44	801	£550	+4.76%	143
UK excluding London	-37	477	£525	+5.00%	81
London	-39	360	£575	-	68
South East	-16	143	£550	+12.82%	18
North of England	-13	109	£519	+9.21%	25
Midlands	-10	78	£518	+3.50%	19
East of England	-14	58	£525	+9.37%	5
South West	-3	47	£510	-7.27%	8
Wales	+19	22	£513	+20.58%
Scotland	-10	20	£475	-	5

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, Solutions Architect contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1	434 (23.77%)	Finance
2	343 (18.78%)	Agile Software Development
3	270 (14.79%)	Microsoft
4	263 (14.40%)	TOGAF
5	220 (12.05%)	SOA
6	215 (11.77%)	Java
7	202 (11.06%)	Banking
8	198 (10.84%)	Retail
9	197 (10.79%)	Oracle
10	190 (10.41%)	Stakeholder Management
11	188 (10.30%)	Microsoft Azure
12	178 (9.75%)	Enterprise Architecture
13	166 (9.09%)	SAP
14	161 (8.82%)	Security Cleared
15	147 (8.05%)	Amazon AWS

16	140 (7.67%)	Windows
17	138 (7.56%)	CRM
18	132 (7.23%)	Migration
19	127 (6.96%)	Web Services
20	126 (6.90%)	SC Cleared
21	124 (6.79%)	.NET
22	120 (6.57%)	E-Commerce
23	109 (5.97%)	IT Strategy
24	103 (5.64%)	SQL Server
25	101 (5.53%)	Analytics
26	94 (5.15%)	Data Centre
27	92 (5.04%)	Linux
28	91 (4.98%)	ERP
29	89 (4.87%)	ITIL
29	89 (4.87%)	Technical Architecture

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	83 (4.55%)	SharePoint
2	62 (3.40%)	CMS
3	40 (2.19%)	Confluence
4	36 (1.97%)	Skype for Business
5	35 (1.92%)	Oracle SOA Suite
6	34 (1.86%)	WebSphere
7	25 (1.37%)	Adobe Experience Manager
8	23 (1.26%)	Elasticsearch
9	22 (1.20%)	BizTalk Server
10	17 (0.93%)	JBoss
11	15 (0.82%)	WebLogic
12	14 (0.77%)	Apache Spark
12	14 (0.77%)	MS Exchange
13	13 (0.71%)	Documentum
14	12 (0.66%)	Exchange Server 2013
14	12 (0.66%)	Oracle Workflow
15	10 (0.55%)	Apache
15	10 (0.55%)	Cloud Foundry
15	10 (0.55%)	Drupal
15	10 (0.55%)	SAS

Applications
1	34 (1.86%)	MS Visio
2	23 (1.26%)	Microsoft Office
3	13 (0.71%)	Microsoft Excel
4	10 (0.55%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	4 (0.22%)	Microsoft Project
6	2 (0.11%)	SPSS
7	1 (0.055%)	EngageOne

Business Applications
1	56 (3.07%)	Dynamics CRM
2	15 (0.82%)	Dynamics AX
3	14 (0.77%)	SAP HR
4	11 (0.60%)	SAP SD
5	10 (0.55%)	SAP Hybris
6	9 (0.49%)	Magento
7	8 (0.44%)	Oracle BPM
7	8 (0.44%)	SAP ERP
7	8 (0.44%)	Teamcenter
8	7 (0.38%)	Oracle EBS R12
8	7 (0.38%)	SAP HCM
8	7 (0.38%)	SAP Retail
8	7 (0.38%)	SAP S/4HANA
8	7 (0.38%)	SAP WM
9	6 (0.33%)	Eloqua
9	6 (0.33%)	Maximo
9	6 (0.33%)	Oracle ERP
9	6 (0.33%)	Oracle Financials
9	6 (0.33%)	Unica
10	5 (0.27%)	Oracle EBS

Cloud Services
1	188 (10.30%)	Microsoft Azure
2	147 (8.05%)	Amazon AWS
3	78 (4.27%)	Office 365
4	63 (3.45%)	SaaS
5	47 (2.57%)	PaaS
6	35 (1.92%)	IaaS
7	31 (1.70%)	Cloud Computing
8	13 (0.71%)	Amazon S3
8	13 (0.71%)	Dynamics 365
9	12 (0.66%)	SuccessFactors
10	8 (0.44%)	OpenShift
11	7 (0.38%)	Azure Active Directory
12	6 (0.33%)	Amazon EC2
12	6 (0.33%)	Silverpop
12	6 (0.33%)	Veeva
12	6 (0.33%)	Virtual Private Cloud
13	5 (0.27%)	AWS CloudFormation
13	5 (0.27%)	Force.com
14	4 (0.22%)	IBM Blueworks
14	4 (0.22%)	Yammer

Communications & Networking
1	45 (2.46%)	WAN
2	40 (2.19%)	Firewall
3	38 (2.08%)	LAN
4	32 (1.75%)	Skype
5	31 (1.70%)	Internet
6	22 (1.20%)	MVNO
7	19 (1.04%)	DNS
8	15 (0.82%)	SAN
9	14 (0.77%)	HTTP
10	13 (0.71%)	LDAP
11	11 (0.60%)	VPN
12	10 (0.55%)	Cisco Nexus
12	10 (0.55%)	Network Security
13	8 (0.44%)	SSL
14	7 (0.38%)	SMS
15	6 (0.33%)	BGP
15	6 (0.33%)	Intranet
15	6 (0.33%)	MPLS
15	6 (0.33%)	NAS
15	6 (0.33%)	VoIP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	103 (5.64%)	SQL Server
2	62 (3.40%)	Big Data
3	48 (2.63%)	Relational Database
4	45 (2.46%)	Data Warehouse
5	38 (2.08%)	PostgreSQL
6	36 (1.97%)	NoSQL
7	28 (1.53%)	Hadoop
7	28 (1.53%)	Oracle Database
8	26 (1.42%)	MongoDB
9	23 (1.26%)	MySQL
10	18 (0.99%)	Apache Cassandra
11	17 (0.93%)	SQL Server Integration Services
12	15 (0.82%)	Power BI
13	14 (0.77%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
14	12 (0.66%)	SAP HANA
15	11 (0.60%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
16	10 (0.55%)	DB2
16	10 (0.55%)	RDBMS
17	9 (0.49%)	BusinessObjects
17	9 (0.49%)	QlikView

Development Applications
1	47 (2.57%)	JIRA
2	21 (1.15%)	Jenkins
3	11 (0.60%)	Selenium
4	9 (0.49%)	Git (software)
4	9 (0.49%)	Maven
5	8 (0.44%)	Visual Studio
6	5 (0.27%)	Talend Open Studio
6	5 (0.27%)	Team Foundation Server
7	4 (0.22%)	Atlassian Bamboo
7	4 (0.22%)	Rational Rose
8	3 (0.16%)	Ant
8	3 (0.16%)	Oracle APEX
8	3 (0.16%)	Oracle Forms
8	3 (0.16%)	Subversion
9	2 (0.11%)	JUnit
9	2 (0.11%)	Mockito
9	2 (0.11%)	MorphX
9	2 (0.11%)	Octopus Deploy
9	2 (0.11%)	PowerDesigner
9	2 (0.11%)	TeamCity

General
1	434 (23.77%)	Finance
2	202 (11.06%)	Banking
3	198 (10.84%)	Retail
4	72 (3.94%)	Telecoms
5	54 (2.96%)	Marketing
6	52 (2.85%)	Manufacturing
7	41 (2.25%)	Billing
8	37 (2.03%)	Back Office
9	26 (1.42%)	Investment Banking
10	23 (1.26%)	Legal
11	20 (1.10%)	Pharmaceutical
12	14 (0.77%)	Law
13	12 (0.66%)	Publishing
14	10 (0.55%)	Front Office
14	10 (0.55%)	Retail Banking
15	8 (0.44%)	Advertising
16	7 (0.38%)	Electronics
17	6 (0.33%)	Digital Economy
17	6 (0.33%)	Financial Institution
18	5 (0.27%)	Games

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	127 (6.96%)	Web Services
2	124 (6.79%)	.NET
3	82 (4.49%)	Middleware
4	78 (4.27%)	REST
5	52 (2.85%)	HTML
5	52 (2.85%)	SOAP
6	44 (2.41%)	Spring
7	43 (2.35%)	JSON
8	37 (2.03%)	XML
9	30 (1.64%)	RESTful
10	28 (1.53%)	HTML5
10	28 (1.53%)	J2EE
11	27 (1.48%)	CSS
12	23 (1.26%)	Java EE
13	22 (1.20%)	JPA
14	20 (1.10%)	CSS3
15	19 (1.04%)	JMS
16	18 (0.99%)	SAML
17	17 (0.93%)	OAuth
18	16 (0.88%)	Ajax

Miscellaneous
1	94 (5.15%)	Data Centre
2	89 (4.87%)	Analytical Skills
3	50 (2.74%)	Management Information System
4	39 (2.14%)	Mobile App
5	37 (2.03%)	Enterprise Software
6	34 (1.86%)	Public Cloud
7	32 (1.75%)	Private Cloud
8	30 (1.64%)	Computer Science
9	25 (1.37%)	User Experience
10	24 (1.31%)	Greenfield Project
11	22 (1.20%)	SWIFT
12	20 (1.10%)	Market Risk
13	17 (0.93%)	Virtual Team
14	15 (0.82%)	Hybrid Cloud
15	14 (0.77%)	Client/Server
15	14 (0.77%)	Fintech
15	14 (0.77%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
15	14 (0.77%)	Mainframe
16	13 (0.71%)	NHS
17	12 (0.66%)	FMCG

Operating Systems
1	140 (7.67%)	Windows
2	92 (5.04%)	Linux
3	31 (1.70%)	Unix
4	30 (1.64%)	Windows Server
5	20 (1.10%)	CentOS
6	18 (0.99%)	Windows Server 2008
7	16 (0.88%)	Windows 10
8	15 (0.82%)	Windows Server 2012
9	12 (0.66%)	AIX
10	11 (0.60%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10	11 (0.60%)	Solaris
11	10 (0.55%)	Android
12	7 (0.38%)	Apple iOS
12	7 (0.38%)	Windows 7
13	5 (0.27%)	Mac OS X
14	4 (0.22%)	VMS
14	4 (0.22%)	Windows Server 2003
15	2 (0.11%)	HPUX
15	2 (0.11%)	pSOS
15	2 (0.11%)	SUSE

Processes & Methodologies
1	343 (18.78%)	Agile Software Development
2	263 (14.40%)	TOGAF
3	220 (12.05%)	SOA
4	190 (10.41%)	Stakeholder Management
5	178 (9.75%)	Enterprise Architecture
6	138 (7.56%)	CRM
7	132 (7.23%)	Migration
8	120 (6.57%)	E-Commerce
9	109 (5.97%)	IT Strategy
10	101 (5.53%)	Analytics
11	91 (4.98%)	ERP
12	89 (4.87%)	ITIL
12	89 (4.87%)	Technical Architecture
13	76 (4.16%)	Microservices
14	75 (4.11%)	Project Management
14	75 (4.11%)	Scrum
15	73 (4.00%)	Data Modelling
16	72 (3.94%)	DevOps
17	69 (3.78%)	Content Management
17	69 (3.78%)	Waterfall

Programming Languages
1	215 (11.77%)	Java
2	79 (4.33%)	SQL
3	50 (2.74%)	Python
4	45 (2.46%)	JavaScript
5	42 (2.30%)	C#
6	41 (2.25%)	Ruby
7	27 (1.48%)	Bash Shell
8	19 (1.04%)	C++
9	15 (0.82%)	Scala
10	13 (0.71%)	C
11	11 (0.60%)	ABAP
12	9 (0.49%)	Shell Script
13	8 (0.44%)	Apex Code
13	8 (0.44%)	PL/SQL
13	8 (0.44%)	R
14	7 (0.38%)	Perl
14	7 (0.38%)	PowerShell
15	5 (0.27%)	PHP
15	5 (0.27%)	VB
16	4 (0.22%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	161 (8.82%)	Security Cleared
2	126 (6.90%)	SC Cleared
3	81 (4.44%)	Degree
4	29 (1.59%)	DV Cleared
5	17 (0.93%)	Cisco Certification
6	15 (0.82%)	CISSP
6	15 (0.82%)	Microsoft Certification
7	11 (0.60%)	BPSS Clearance
7	11 (0.60%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8	9 (0.49%)	CCIE
8	9 (0.49%)	CISM
9	8 (0.44%)	MCSE
9	8 (0.44%)	VCAP
10	7 (0.38%)	PMI Certification
11	6 (0.33%)	CCNA
11	6 (0.33%)	PMP
11	6 (0.33%)	VCP6
12	5 (0.27%)	AWS Certification
12	5 (0.27%)	ITIL Certification
13	4 (0.22%)	ISSAP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	30 (1.64%)	PCI DSS
2	29 (1.59%)	QA
3	22 (1.20%)	SEPA
4	16 (0.88%)	GDPR
5	13 (0.71%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	9 (0.49%)	Data Quality
7	8 (0.44%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	8 (0.44%)	MiFID
8	7 (0.38%)	SLA
8	7 (0.38%)	Solvency II
9	5 (0.27%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
10	4 (0.22%)	IFRS
11	3 (0.16%)	COBIT
12	2 (0.11%)	HL7
12	2 (0.11%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12	2 (0.11%)	JSP 440
12	2 (0.11%)	PMO
12	2 (0.11%)	SNOMED CT
12	2 (0.11%)	TARGET2
13	1 (0.055%)	FedRAMP

System Software
1	60 (3.29%)	Active Directory
2	50 (2.74%)	Docker
3	42 (2.30%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	27 (1.48%)	Hyper-V
5	10 (0.55%)	Microsoft App-V
6	9 (0.49%)	LXC
7	8 (0.44%)	vSphere
8	5 (0.27%)	DFS Replication
8	5 (0.27%)	Virtual Desktop
9	4 (0.22%)	HDFS
9	4 (0.22%)	Oracle RAC
9	4 (0.22%)	Virtual Machines
9	4 (0.22%)	XenApp
10	3 (0.16%)	NFS
10	3 (0.16%)	vCloud
10	3 (0.16%)	VMware ESXi
10	3 (0.16%)	XenDesktop
10	3 (0.16%)	XenServer
11	2 (0.11%)	KVM
11	2 (0.11%)	SRDF

Systems Management
1	40 (2.19%)	Puppet
2	27 (1.48%)	Ansible
3	25 (1.37%)	Terraform
4	21 (1.15%)	SCCM
5	20 (1.10%)	Opscode Chef
6	7 (0.38%)	Kubernetes
7	6 (0.33%)	SCOM
8	5 (0.27%)	MOM
8	5 (0.27%)	Nagios
9	4 (0.22%)	Hadoop YARN
9	4 (0.22%)	vRealize
10	3 (0.16%)	Forefront Identity Manager
10	3 (0.16%)	Microsoft Clustering
10	3 (0.16%)	Microsoft Intune
10	3 (0.16%)	QRadar
10	3 (0.16%)	ZABBIX
11	2 (0.11%)	Cacti
11	2 (0.11%)	HP Quality Center
11	2 (0.11%)	Oozie
11	2 (0.11%)	SCOrch

Vendors
1	270 (14.79%)	Microsoft
2	197 (10.79%)	Oracle
3	166 (9.09%)	SAP
4	64 (3.50%)	VMware
5	57 (3.12%)	IBM
6	42 (2.30%)	Pega
7	33 (1.81%)	Adobe
8	32 (1.75%)	Cisco
8	32 (1.75%)	Salesforce.com
9	25 (1.37%)	Citrix
10	22 (1.20%)	Red Hat
11	20 (1.10%)	HP
11	20 (1.10%)	hybris
12	16 (0.88%)	Guidewire
12	16 (0.88%)	Sitecore
13	15 (0.82%)	MuleSoft
14	13 (0.71%)	webMethods
15	12 (0.66%)	Genesys
16	11 (0.60%)	Splunk
17	10 (0.55%)	Reuters