Solutions Architect Contracts in West Yorkshire

Solution Architect
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Solution Architect daily rate in West Yorkshire is £600, 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 46 58 53
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 16 19 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.92% 1.90% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.04% 2.05% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 30
10th Percentile £500 £553 £513
25th Percentile £531 £563 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £688
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -5.45% +7.42%
75th Percentile £710 £731 £775
90th Percentile £725 £765 £801
Yorkshire median daily rate £613 £650 £663
% change year-on-year -5.77% -1.89% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - -
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 526 928 1,593
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 92.89% 97.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 561 1,105
10th Percentile £255 £275 £327
25th Percentile £357 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £641 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 15
10th Percentile £19.61 £11.75 £12.46
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.25 £14.46
Median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%
75th Percentile £55.29 £29.25 £66.88
90th Percentile £100.28 £53.75 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in West Yorkshire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in West Yorkshire

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in West Yorkshire

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds -2 13 £600 -7.69% 11
Bradford +10 1 £670 -4.29% 4
Castleford - 1 £625 -
Halifax - 1 £500 -
Solutions Architect
Yorkshire

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

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 Yorkshire region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) CRM
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (12.50%) High Availability
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (12.50%) Planning and Forecasting
4 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) LDAP
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) ETL
4 2 (12.50%) Unisys
4 2 (12.50%) HPUX
4 2 (12.50%) Solaris
4 2 (12.50%) Linux
4 2 (12.50%) OOP
4 2 (12.50%) C++

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (6.25%) SAP ERP
2 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
1 1 (6.25%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (6.25%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OpenID
2 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
1 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) HPUX
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (18.75%) CRM
2 3 (18.75%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (12.50%) ETL
3 2 (12.50%) High Availability
3 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (12.50%) OOP
3 2 (12.50%) Planning and Forecasting
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) C++
1 2 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Apex Code
2 1 (6.25%) C#
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) Sun
2 2 (12.50%) Unisys
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) ESRI
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) VMware