Solutions Architect Contracts in Yorkshire

Solution Architect
England > Yorkshire

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Yorkshire is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 56 59
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 30 49 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.17% 2.92% 2.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.31% 3.25% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 34
10th Percentile £500 £487 £513
25th Percentile £600 £524 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £693 £675 £723
90th Percentile £736 £700 £771
England median daily rate £625 £638 £663
% change year-on-year -1.96% -3.77% +1.92%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £61.50 £87.50 £71.25
% change year-on-year -29.71% +22.81% +12.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,296 1,510 2,070
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 89.88% 97.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 960 1,368
10th Percentile £263 £263 £225
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £619
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 59 37
10th Percentile £16.50 £12.23 £12.17
25th Percentile £18.23 £13.50 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.70% - +6.95%
75th Percentile £25.13 £38.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £49.75 £46.29
England median hourly rate £27.45 £40.33 £44.00
% change year-on-year -31.93% -8.35% +76.00%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Yorkshire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Yorkshire

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Yorkshire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in Yorkshire

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
West Yorkshire +12 26 £625 +8.70% 18
North Yorkshire +12 2 £671 +16.61% 4
South Yorkshire -29 2 - - 7
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 Yorkshire region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Agile
4 5 (16.67%) DevOps
4 5 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (13.33%) Event-Driven
5 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (13.33%) High Availability
5 4 (13.33%) AWS
5 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
5 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) Migration
5 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 4 (13.33%) NHS
6 3 (10.00%) SOA
6 3 (10.00%) C#
6 3 (10.00%) Windows
6 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (10.00%) Data Architecture
6 3 (10.00%) TOGAF
6 3 (10.00%) Degree
6 3 (10.00%) Data Migration

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.33%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (3.33%) SAP ERP
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.33%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.33%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (3.33%) OCI
5 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (3.33%) NAS
1 1 (3.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Riak
3 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.33%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (3.33%) Flink
3 1 (3.33%) GIS
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Digital Health
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) .NET
1 2 (6.67%) LDAP
1 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Beam
2 1 (3.33%) EDI
2 1 (3.33%) FHIR
2 1 (3.33%) JDBC
2 1 (3.33%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.33%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) OAuth
2 1 (3.33%) OpenID
2 1 (3.33%) SAML
2 1 (3.33%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) NHS
2 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.67%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.67%) Replication
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) HPUX
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Agile
2 5 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (16.67%) DevOps
2 5 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
3 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (13.33%) Event-Driven
3 4 (13.33%) High Availability
3 4 (13.33%) Migration
3 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (10.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (10.00%) Microservices
4 3 (10.00%) SOA
4 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) C#
2 2 (6.67%) C++
2 2 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) Scala
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) CCNP
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.33%) CISSP
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) HP ASE
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) NCSC
2 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Brio
2 2 (6.67%) Dell
2 2 (6.67%) Google
2 2 (6.67%) HP
2 2 (6.67%) IBM
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) Sun
2 2 (6.67%) Unisys
3 1 (3.33%) Brocade
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco
3 1 (3.33%) Cloudera
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) EMC
3 1 (3.33%) ESRI
3 1 (3.33%) NetApp
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) VMware
3 1 (3.33%) Workday