Solutions Architect Contracts in West London

Solution Architect
London > West London

The median Solution Architect daily rate in West London is £405, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 August 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
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 35 54
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 3 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.10% 2.24% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 2.36% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 11
10th Percentile £369 - -
25th Percentile £383 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -37.69% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £428 £750 -
90th Percentile £441 £780 -
London median daily rate £650 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.00 £92.50
Median hourly rate - £54.00 £95.00
Median % change year-on-year - -43.16% -
75th Percentile - £56.00 £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - £57.00 £52.02
% change year-on-year - +9.57% -30.64%

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 242 297 614
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.64% 95.19% 97.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 215 492
10th Percentile £250 £228 £225
25th Percentile £366 £363 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -13.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £504 £588 £638
90th Percentile £584 £650 £700
London median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 36
10th Percentile £20.30 £18.13 £25.63
25th Percentile £21.99 £22.28 £42.51
Median hourly rate £25.04 £30.59 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.15% -52.94% +242.11%
75th Percentile £42.25 £65.00 £83.13
90th Percentile £54.10 £67.80 £90.00
London median hourly rate £30.00 £33.07 £39.21
% change year-on-year -9.28% -15.66% +17.92%

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
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 10 August 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 +7 1 £450 -
Solutions Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 10 August 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 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) CCSE
2 1 (33.33%) BIG-IP
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIP

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
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) BIG-IP
1 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
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
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
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 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) JNCIE
1 1 (33.33%) JNCIP
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler