Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Wales

Solution Architect
UK > Wales

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Wales is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 37 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 7 12 7
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 1.46% 2.83% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 3.13% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £440 £509 £413
25th Percentile £500 £563 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £725 £713
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +1.75% +13.10%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £775
90th Percentile £688 - £798
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £646
% change year-on-year - -3.25% -0.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 423 384 412
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.49% 90.57% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 245 313
10th Percentile £178 £162 £161
25th Percentile £270 £213 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +3.03% -8.33%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £551
90th Percentile £613 £645 £649
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 47 24
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.26 £16.30
25th Percentile £16.45 £20.21 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £26.58
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% -3.70% +66.14%
75th Percentile £22.00 £40.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £30.53 £49.25 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Wales

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Wales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Wales

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Wales over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Wales

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Wales.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Wales

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
South Wales -3 4 £600 -17.24% 6
West Wales - 2 £550 -
Solutions Architect
UK

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Wales region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 2 (28.57%) API Design
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 2 (28.57%) BPR
3 2 (28.57%) Change Advisory Board
3 2 (28.57%) CISSP
3 2 (28.57%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (28.57%) ITGC
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) B2C
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) CloudFront

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) CloudFront
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Rubrik
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 2 (28.57%) API Design
3 2 (28.57%) BPR
3 2 (28.57%) Change Advisory Board
3 2 (28.57%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Database Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Due Diligence
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) ITGC
1 2 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 1 (14.29%) Sitecore
1 1 (14.29%) VMware