Solutions Architect Contracts in the West Midlands

Solution Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £575, 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 57 65 78
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 40 46 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.97% 2.36% 2.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.28% 2.59% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 32
10th Percentile £400 £600 £589
25th Percentile £459 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +1.96% -
75th Percentile £600 £741 £688
90th Percentile £624 £825 £699
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +8.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,221 1,776 2,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.22% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,198 1,556
10th Percentile £200 £259 £250
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £702 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 134 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.01 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.02
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%
75th Percentile £28.18 £42.31 £26.82
90th Percentile £35.58 £55.88 £55.63
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the West Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the West Midlands

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the West Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the West Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands 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
Warwickshire +16 18 £600 -25.00% 2
Birmingham +2 9 £438 -32.69% 8
Coventry +4 4 £569 -12.50% 2
Solihull +20 3 £599 - 2
Shropshire -3 1 - - 1
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Solutions Architect
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 17 (42.50%) Microsoft
3 15 (37.50%) TOGAF
4 14 (35.00%) Migration
5 13 (32.50%) Agile
6 12 (30.00%) Power Platform
6 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
7 10 (25.00%) PowerApps
7 10 (25.00%) AWS
8 9 (22.50%) DevOps
8 9 (22.50%) .NET
8 9 (22.50%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (20.00%) Power Automate
9 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 8 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 8 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (17.50%) .NET Framework
10 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (15.00%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (15.00%) Data Integration
11 6 (15.00%) C#
11 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
11 6 (15.00%) SharePoint
11 6 (15.00%) Finance
12 5 (12.50%) Scrum
12 5 (12.50%) Workflow
12 5 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (12.50%) CSS

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) InfoPath
2 3 (7.50%) MS Visio
2 3 (7.50%) Revit
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.50%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 12 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 10 (25.00%) AWS
3 10 (25.00%) PowerApps
4 9 (22.50%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (20.00%) Power Automate
6 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (12.50%) GCP
8 4 (10.00%) Azure Functions
8 4 (10.00%) Serverless
9 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.50%) Azure App Service
9 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) LAN
2 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.00%) WAN
3 1 (2.50%) Network Security
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.50%) Power BI
3 4 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 4 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
1 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) .NET
2 7 (17.50%) .NET Framework
3 5 (12.50%) CSS
4 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 4 (10.00%) HTML
4 4 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
4 4 (10.00%) Middleware
5 1 (2.50%) ADO
5 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.00%) SCADA
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (2.50%) IoT
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) TOGAF
2 14 (35.00%) Migration
3 13 (32.50%) Agile
4 9 (22.50%) DevOps
5 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.00%) Data Integration
8 5 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (12.50%) CRM
8 5 (12.50%) Data Governance
8 5 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (12.50%) Scrum
8 5 (12.50%) Workflow
9 4 (10.00%) B2B
9 4 (10.00%) Business Case
9 4 (10.00%) ERP
9 4 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
9 4 (10.00%) Interface Catalogue
9 4 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) C#
2 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) COBOL
3 1 (2.50%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 5 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.50%) CISM
4 1 (2.50%) CISSP
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) GRC
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
1 1 (2.50%) PMO
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) CASB
2 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Autodesk
3 2 (5.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.00%) Infoblox
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Ariba
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) Informatica
4 1 (2.50%) Qualys
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow