Solutions Architect Contracts

Solution Architect
UK

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £646 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 86 67
Rank change year-on-year +15 -19 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,238 1,677 3,082
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.84% 2.79% 3.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.06% 2.95% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 1,129 2,030
10th Percentile £489 £525 £500
25th Percentile £550 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £646 £660 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% +5.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £734 £750 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £650 £600
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +12.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 3
10th Percentile £54.50 £39.04 -
25th Percentile £71.75 £64.88 £56.50
Median hourly rate £88.00 £66.75 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.84% +13.14% +6.79%
75th Percentile £91.00 £80.06 £76.13
90th Percentile £96.35 £80.25 £84.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £89.00 £76.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +17.11% +28.81% +7.27%

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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Top 18 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 6 months to 25 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 +17 1,029 £650 -2.69% 325
UK excluding London +25 565 £650 - 177
London +6 491 £650 -3.70% 149
Work from Home +22 484 £630 -3.08% 177
South East +1 148 £625 -3.85% 46
South West +36 146 £650 -2.69% 27
North of England +18 119 £625 -3.85% 50
North West +26 82 £625 -3.85% 35
Midlands +2 68 £650 - 25
Scotland +3 51 £650 +0.97% 18
West Midlands +15 46 £650 +4.00% 16
East of England +20 36 £675 -3.57% 10
Yorkshire +2 32 £650 -1.89% 11
East Midlands 0 21 £569 -15.74% 9
Northern Ireland +12 7 £650 +18.18% 3
North East +18 6 £600 - 4
Wales +8 6 £650 +15.04% 1
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 326 (26.33%) Security Cleared
2 313 (25.28%) Azure
3 294 (23.75%) Social Skills
4 275 (22.21%) Finance
5 274 (22.13%) Agile
6 236 (19.06%) AWS
7 225 (18.17%) SC Cleared
8 186 (15.02%) Migration
9 172 (13.89%) Microsoft
10 147 (11.87%) DevOps
11 142 (11.47%) DV Cleared
12 135 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
13 134 (10.82%) Roadmaps
14 129 (10.42%) Public Sector
14 129 (10.42%) TOGAF
15 125 (10.10%) SAP
16 118 (9.53%) Architectural Design
17 117 (9.45%) Degree
18 110 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
18 110 (8.89%) GCP
19 108 (8.72%) Banking
20 97 (7.84%) Microservices
21 95 (7.67%) Enterprise Architecture
22 89 (7.19%) Stakeholder Management
23 87 (7.03%) Java
23 87 (7.03%) Power Platform
24 86 (6.95%) Project Delivery
25 85 (6.87%) Oracle
26 81 (6.54%) Telecoms
27 79 (6.38%) Computer Science

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 25 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.62%) Apache
4 15 (1.21%) Confluence
5 14 (1.13%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.89%) ArcGIS
7 10 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.65%) CMS
10 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.24%) SAS
10 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.081%) Drupal
12 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.081%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.081%) CATIA
3 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 64 (5.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (1.70%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (1.45%) Teamcenter
5 17 (1.37%) Oracle Assets
6 16 (1.29%) Oracle Payables
7 15 (1.21%) Oracle General Ledger
8 13 (1.05%) Loan IQ
8 13 (1.05%) Oracle AGIS
9 10 (0.81%) Distributed Ledger
9 10 (0.81%) SAP SD
10 9 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.73%) SAP ERP
11 8 (0.65%) SAP FI
12 7 (0.57%) SAP CO
12 7 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
12 7 (0.57%) SAP MM
13 6 (0.48%) Adobe Campaign
13 6 (0.48%) SAP HCM
14 5 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 313 (25.28%) Azure
2 236 (19.06%) AWS
3 110 (8.89%) GCP
4 87 (7.03%) Power Platform
5 74 (5.98%) SaaS
6 57 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
7 53 (4.28%) PaaS
8 51 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (2.50%) IaaS
11 23 (1.86%) Snowflake
12 22 (1.78%) OCI
13 19 (1.53%) dbt
14 16 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (1.29%) Serverless
15 15 (1.21%) Entra ID
16 13 (1.05%) Boomi
17 12 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
18 11 (0.89%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.10%) VoIP
2 25 (2.02%) PBX
3 21 (1.70%) WAN
4 17 (1.37%) DNS
5 14 (1.13%) SDH
6 12 (0.97%) Firewall
6 12 (0.97%) Internet
7 10 (0.81%) DHCP
8 9 (0.73%) ATM
9 7 (0.57%) LAN
9 7 (0.57%) SAN
10 6 (0.48%) Intranet
11 5 (0.40%) Junos
11 5 (0.40%) MPLS
11 5 (0.40%) Network Security
11 5 (0.40%) VSAN
12 4 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.24%) MQTT
13 3 (0.24%) NetScaler
13 3 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.20%) Data Lake
2 35 (2.83%) Big Data
3 29 (2.34%) Power BI
4 26 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (1.62%) Oracle Database
7 19 (1.53%) Apache Arrow
7 19 (1.53%) Dremio
8 18 (1.45%) Apache Ignite
9 16 (1.29%) SAP HANA
9 16 (1.29%) SQL Server
10 14 (1.13%) GIS
10 14 (1.13%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.05%) Tableau
12 12 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.89%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.81%) Apache Hive
14 10 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.65%) Impala
Development Applications
1 23 (1.86%) Rational DOORS
2 22 (1.78%) JIRA
3 20 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.24%) Git
5 2 (0.16%) GitLab
5 2 (0.16%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.16%) webpack
6 1 (0.081%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.081%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.081%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.081%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.081%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.081%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 294 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 275 (22.21%) Finance
3 129 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 110 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (8.72%) Banking
6 81 (6.54%) Telecoms
7 53 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
7 53 (4.28%) Retail
8 44 (3.55%) Manufacturing
9 33 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.34%) Marketing
11 26 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
12 25 (2.02%) Investment Banking
13 23 (1.86%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.53%) Front Office
15 16 (1.29%) Electronics
16 14 (1.13%) Local Government
17 13 (1.05%) General Ledger
18 12 (0.97%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.83%) Middleware
2 32 (2.58%) .NET
3 30 (2.42%) SailPoint
4 22 (1.78%) REST
5 19 (1.53%) gRPC
5 19 (1.53%) Protocol Buffers
5 19 (1.53%) SOAP
6 18 (1.45%) NumPy
6 18 (1.45%) Pandas
6 18 (1.45%) SciPy
7 17 (1.37%) HTML
8 16 (1.29%) XML
9 14 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
10 12 (0.97%) .NET Framework
10 12 (0.97%) React
11 11 (0.89%) Node.js
11 11 (0.89%) SAML
11 11 (0.89%) Web Services
12 10 (0.81%) RESTful
13 8 (0.65%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (2.75%) Product Ownership
2 29 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
3 28 (2.26%) Data Centre
4 26 (2.10%) Cloud Native
5 20 (1.62%) Derivative
5 20 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 19 (1.53%) Equities
6 19 (1.53%) Fixed Income
6 19 (1.53%) Hedge funds
6 19 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (1.53%) Mobile App
7 16 (1.29%) Mainframe
8 14 (1.13%) Operational Technology
9 13 (1.05%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.05%) Public Cloud
10 12 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 12 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
11 11 (0.89%) Onboarding
12 10 (0.81%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.91%) Linux
2 31 (2.50%) Windows
3 9 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (0.73%) Unix
4 8 (0.65%) CentOS
5 6 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.40%) Android
6 5 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.081%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.081%) tvOS
8 1 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (22.13%) Agile
2 186 (15.02%) Migration
3 147 (11.87%) DevOps
4 135 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
5 134 (10.82%) Roadmaps
6 129 (10.42%) TOGAF
7 118 (9.53%) Architectural Design
8 97 (7.84%) Microservices
9 95 (7.67%) Enterprise Architecture
10 89 (7.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 86 (6.95%) Project Delivery
12 79 (6.38%) Computer Science
13 71 (5.74%) Translating Business Requirements
14 68 (5.49%) Architectural Patterns
14 68 (5.49%) Data Management
15 66 (5.33%) CI/CD
16 61 (4.93%) Analytics
17 60 (4.85%) IT Strategy
18 59 (4.77%) Presales
19 58 (4.68%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 87 (7.03%) Java
2 59 (4.77%) SQL
3 55 (4.44%) Python
4 52 (4.20%) JavaScript
5 26 (2.10%) TypeScript
6 21 (1.70%) C#
7 20 (1.62%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.97%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.73%) Scala
10 8 (0.65%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.40%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.24%) Ruby
13 2 (0.16%) Bash
13 2 (0.16%) Bicep
13 2 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.16%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.16%) PHP
13 2 (0.16%) SOQL
13 2 (0.16%) U-SQL
14 1 (0.081%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 326 (26.33%) Security Cleared
2 225 (18.17%) SC Cleared
3 142 (11.47%) DV Cleared
4 117 (9.45%) Degree
5 42 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (2.91%) TOGAF Certification
7 33 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.34%) AWS Certification
9 28 (2.26%) Master's Degree
10 25 (2.02%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (0.97%) CCNP
15 11 (0.89%) HND
16 8 (0.65%) SAP Certification
17 5 (0.40%) CISSP
17 5 (0.40%) JNCIA
18 3 (0.24%) MBA
18 3 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.50%) QA
2 16 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.21%) GDPR
4 11 (0.89%) GAAP
4 11 (0.89%) SLA
5 9 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.65%) COBIT
6 8 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.65%) NCSC
7 7 (0.57%) NIST
8 6 (0.48%) ISO 22301
8 6 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (0.40%) SEPA
10 4 (0.32%) PMO
11 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.16%) HL7
12 2 (0.16%) IFRS
System Software
1 32 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.37%) Docker
4 10 (0.81%) vSphere
5 8 (0.65%) IAG
6 7 (0.57%) ACF2
6 7 (0.57%) RACF
7 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.24%) XenApp
8 3 (0.24%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.081%) HDFS
9 1 (0.081%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.34%) Terraform
3 23 (1.86%) Ansible
4 12 (0.97%) Puppet
5 10 (0.81%) Grafana
6 9 (0.73%) Kibana
6 9 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.65%) logstash
7 8 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.65%) VxRail
8 7 (0.57%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.24%) SCCM
10 3 (0.24%) SCOM
11 2 (0.16%) Ambari
11 2 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.16%) Oozie
11 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.081%) Istio
Vendors
1 172 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 125 (10.10%) SAP
3 85 (6.87%) Oracle
4 49 (3.96%) VMware
5 46 (3.72%) Google
6 43 (3.47%) Salesforce
7 40 (3.23%) ServiceNow
8 36 (2.91%) Cisco
9 34 (2.75%) CyberArk
10 30 (2.42%) IBM
11 28 (2.26%) BeyondTrust
12 24 (1.94%) Juniper
13 23 (1.86%) Nokia
14 17 (1.37%) Dell
15 15 (1.21%) Ariba
16 14 (1.13%) Databricks
17 12 (0.97%) Informatica
17 12 (0.97%) Red Hat
18 11 (0.89%) Adobe
18 11 (0.89%) Talend