Technical Solutions Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Technical Solution Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Solution Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 322 428
Rank change year-on-year +43 +106 +138
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Solutions Architect 31 13 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.099% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.11% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 4
10th Percentile £348 £545 £555
25th Percentile £456 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £659 £656 £763
90th Percentile £680 £701 £785
UK median daily rate £619 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +3.13% -14.22% +3.63%

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 9,575 12,320 21,234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.57% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,354 8,296 14,964
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.41% -0.93%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 385 512
10th Percentile £12.85 £16.64 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.50 £27.84 £24.74
Median hourly rate £34.48 £45.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.60 £75.00 £78.10
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

Technical Solutions Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Technical 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 Technical Solutions Architect.

Technical Solutions Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Technical Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

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

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, Technical 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 Technical Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 19 (61.29%) TOGAF
2 18 (58.06%) MODAF
2 18 (58.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 17 (54.84%) Presentation Skills
3 17 (54.84%) MS Visio
4 16 (51.61%) Management Information System
4 16 (51.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (51.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (51.61%) Roadmaps
4 16 (51.61%) Architecture Roadmap
4 16 (51.61%) Decision-Making
5 13 (41.94%) Azure
6 12 (38.71%) Java
7 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
8 10 (32.26%) AWS
8 10 (32.26%) GCP
9 7 (22.58%) ServiceNow
9 7 (22.58%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (22.58%) Firewall
10 6 (19.35%) Migration
10 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
10 6 (19.35%) Network Security
10 6 (19.35%) VPN
11 5 (16.13%) Fortinet
11 5 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
11 5 (16.13%) VMware
11 5 (16.13%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (16.13%) Private Cloud
11 5 (16.13%) Data Centre
11 5 (16.13%) Cyber Threat

Technical 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 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (54.84%) MS Visio
2 16 (51.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) Azure
2 10 (32.26%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) GCP
3 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) Firewall
2 6 (19.35%) Network Security
2 6 (19.35%) VPN
3 5 (16.13%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.23%) BGP
4 1 (3.23%) BIG-IP
4 1 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (3.23%) LAN
4 1 (3.23%) OSPF
4 1 (3.23%) SAN
4 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.23%) WAN
4 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
General
1 17 (54.84%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (3.23%) Banking
2 1 (3.23%) Finance
2 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) CSS
1 2 (6.45%) HTML
1 2 (6.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 16 (51.61%) Management Information System
2 5 (16.13%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (16.13%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.13%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) CCTV
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) TOGAF
2 18 (58.06%) MODAF
2 18 (58.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 16 (51.61%) Architecture Roadmap
3 16 (51.61%) Decision-Making
3 16 (51.61%) Roadmaps
3 16 (51.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (19.35%) Migration
5 5 (16.13%) High Availability
6 4 (12.90%) Incident Response
6 4 (12.90%) ITIL
6 4 (12.90%) Network Architecture
6 4 (12.90%) Patch Management
6 4 (12.90%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (12.90%) Security Patching
6 4 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (12.90%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (6.45%) Architectural Design
7 2 (6.45%) Business Strategy
7 2 (6.45%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Java
2 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) CCIE
3 1 (3.23%) CCNA
3 1 (3.23%) CCNP
3 1 (3.23%) CCSE
3 1 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.23%) JNCIE
3 1 (3.23%) JNCIP
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (16.13%) Hyper-V
2 5 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) SCCM
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) ServiceNow
3 5 (16.13%) Fortinet
3 5 (16.13%) VMware
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.23%) F5
5 1 (3.23%) Juniper
5 1 (3.23%) Remedy
5 1 (3.23%) Zscaler
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