Lead Solutions Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Solution Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Solution Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £625, 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 292 330 450
Rank change year-on-year +38 +120 +107
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 12 15 27
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.098% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 14
10th Percentile £535 £501 £558
25th Percentile £569 £544 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £713 £681
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +4.59% +4.81%
75th Percentile £650 £850 £785
90th Percentile £665 £900 £843
UK median daily rate £650 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +11.54%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £91.69 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Lead Solutions Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead Solutions Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Solutions Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lead Solutions Architect.

Lead Solutions Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Lead Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Lead Solutions Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
1 6 (50.00%) RBAC
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (50.00%) Analytics
1 6 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 6 (50.00%) Service Management
1 6 (50.00%) HTML
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (50.00%) Web Services
1 6 (50.00%) ITSM
1 6 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 6 (50.00%) CMDB
2 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 4 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) MTS
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (16.67%) PaaS
1 2 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) IaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (50.00%) HTML
1 6 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (8.33%) SAML
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) CMDB
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Analytics
1 6 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 6 (50.00%) ITSM
1 6 (50.00%) RBAC
1 6 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
1 6 (50.00%) Service Management
2 4 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (8.33%) Converged Infrastructure
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
2 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) SAP