Solutions Designer Contracts

Solution Designer
UK

The median Solution Designer daily rate in the UK is £517, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 586 654
Rank change year-on-year +118 +68 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 51 14 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.032% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.035% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 10 30
10th Percentile £350 £474 £565
25th Percentile £463 £475 £633
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £513 £684
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -25.05% +13.96%
75th Percentile £606 £539 £791
90th Percentile £675 £606 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £513 £675
% change year-on-year -6.83% -24.07% +15.38%

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Solutions Designer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Designer in the UK

Solutions Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Designer in the UK

Solutions Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Designer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Designer in the UK

Solutions Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Designer in the UK

Solutions Designer
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 Designer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +91 37 £488 -4.88% 17
UK excluding London +66 24 £478 -6.83% 12
Work from Home +68 22 £475 -14.61% 11
London - 20 £600 - 3
South East +49 10 £350 -31.71% 6
Scotland +14 9 £526 -10.55%
North of England +30 5 £475 -5.00% 3
North West +10 2 £475 -5.00% 1
North East - 2 £505 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Solutions Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Solutions Designer 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 Solutions Designer in the job title.

1 20 (39.22%) Finance
2 14 (27.45%) Azure
3 13 (25.49%) Microservices
3 13 (25.49%) Agile
3 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
4 12 (23.53%) Telecoms
5 11 (21.57%) Business Strategy
6 10 (19.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (19.61%) Web Services
7 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
7 9 (17.65%) Salesforce
7 9 (17.65%) Degree
8 8 (15.69%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (15.69%) UML
8 8 (15.69%) Billing
8 8 (15.69%) Customer Experience
8 8 (15.69%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (13.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (13.73%) Banking
9 7 (13.73%) ServiceNow
9 7 (13.73%) REST
9 7 (13.73%) Computer Science
9 7 (13.73%) AWS
10 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (11.76%) Process Improvement
10 6 (11.76%) Network Design
10 6 (11.76%) Middleware
10 6 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation

Solutions Designer 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 (3.92%) CMS
2 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 14 (27.45%) Azure
2 7 (13.73%) AWS
3 5 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Copilot
3 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (9.80%) SaaS
4 4 (7.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (7.84%) Azure Functions
4 4 (7.84%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (7.84%) Serverless
5 3 (5.88%) Azure API Management
5 3 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (5.88%) GCP
5 3 (5.88%) GitHub
5 3 (5.88%) PaaS
6 2 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.96%) Apigee
7 1 (1.96%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) 5G
1 4 (7.84%) LTE
1 4 (7.84%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (3.92%) BGP
2 2 (3.92%) Broadband
2 2 (3.92%) Firewall
2 2 (3.92%) MPLS
2 2 (3.92%) Network Security
2 2 (3.92%) OSPF
2 2 (3.92%) VLAN
2 2 (3.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.96%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Postman
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 20 (39.22%) Finance
2 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
3 12 (23.53%) Telecoms
4 8 (15.69%) Billing
5 7 (13.73%) Banking
6 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.88%) Retail
8 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) Web Services
2 7 (13.73%) REST
3 6 (11.76%) Middleware
4 5 (9.80%) JSON
5 3 (5.88%) OpenAPI
6 2 (3.92%) Ajax
6 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.92%) Bootstrap
6 2 (3.92%) LDAP
6 2 (3.92%) Node.js
6 2 (3.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Frameworx
1 5 (9.80%) TM Forum
2 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) CMDB
4 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.96%) IoT
5 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.96%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.96%) SCADA
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) Agile
1 13 (25.49%) Microservices
2 11 (21.57%) Business Strategy
3 10 (19.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (15.69%) Customer Experience
4 8 (15.69%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (15.69%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (15.69%) UML
5 7 (13.73%) Computer Science
6 6 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (11.76%) Network Design
6 6 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (11.76%) Process Improvement
6 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (9.80%) Customer Service
7 5 (9.80%) Data Loss Prevention
7 5 (9.80%) Design Patterns
7 5 (9.80%) Generative AI
7 5 (9.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) Degree
2 7 (13.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.84%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.88%) CCIE
4 3 (5.88%) CCNP
4 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.92%) JNCIE
5 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.96%) PMP
6 1 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) NIST
2 1 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.96%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
1 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 9 (17.65%) Salesforce
2 7 (13.73%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.88%) Cisco
4 2 (3.92%) BT
4 2 (3.92%) F5
4 2 (3.92%) Fortinet
4 2 (3.92%) Openreach
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle
4 2 (3.92%) SAP
4 2 (3.92%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.96%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) Temenos
5 1 (1.96%) VMware