Solutions Architect Contracts in West London

Solution Architect
London > West London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in West London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 38 54
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 0
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 3 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.43% 1.41% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% 1.49% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £476 £536 £625
25th Percentile £516 £553 £706
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £725
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -20.69% +7.81%
75th Percentile £666 £628 £738
90th Percentile £709 £701 £793
London median daily rate £650 £650 £675
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West London. 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 West London with a recognized job title 198 336 551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 94.65% 97.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 244 399
10th Percentile £206 £200 £300
25th Percentile £307 £270 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £456 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% -17.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £475 £569 £638
90th Percentile £600 £646 £700
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 52
10th Percentile £20.03 £16.25 £25.13
25th Percentile £20.35 £16.86 £38.88
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.48% -49.22% +197.67%
75th Percentile £30.79 £46.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £53.10 £59.00 £84.75
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in West London

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in West London

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in West London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in West London

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hounslow - 2 £588 -
Solutions Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the West London region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) Scala
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Couchbase
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (33.33%) Couchbase
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian