Solutions Architect Contracts in Cheshire

Solution Architect
North West > Cheshire

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Cheshire is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 44 57
Rank change year-on-year +34 +13 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 59 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 11.50% 1.48% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.42% 1.67% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 3 8
10th Percentile £390 £405 £490
25th Percentile £422 £469 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £590 £588
Median % change year-on-year -21.19% +0.43% +9.81%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £661
90th Percentile £675 £618 £693
North West median daily rate £575 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
North West median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 475 359 542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 88.64% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 232 352
10th Percentile £324 £252 £222
25th Percentile £382 £417 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £571 £566 £550
90th Percentile £645 £606 £631
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 26
10th Percentile £13.49 £16.68 £12.61
25th Percentile £15.36 £20.07 £15.54
Median hourly rate £22.09 £33.00 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -33.06% +51.52% +14.63%
75th Percentile £35.00 £36.13 £31.63
90th Percentile £43.75 £42.00 £35.00
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +55.56% +25.00%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Cheshire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Cheshire

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Cheshire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in Cheshire

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Knutsford - 25 £445 -
Crewe - 20 £613 -
Macclesfield +4 3 £650 +73.33% 2
Warrington +12 1 - - 1
Solutions Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 Cheshire region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 23 (38.98%) Migration
2 14 (23.73%) AWS
3 13 (22.03%) SAP
4 12 (20.34%) Microservices
5 11 (18.64%) Architectural Design
5 11 (18.64%) Java
5 11 (18.64%) Banking
5 11 (18.64%) Automotive
6 8 (13.56%) Finance
6 8 (13.56%) Jenkins
6 8 (13.56%) Agile
7 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (11.86%) SOAP
7 7 (11.86%) Web Services
7 7 (11.86%) Git
7 7 (11.86%) SAP S/4HANA
8 6 (10.17%) RAML
8 6 (10.17%) DevOps
8 6 (10.17%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (10.17%) SaaS
8 6 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (10.17%) Configuration Management
9 5 (8.47%) Active Directory
9 5 (8.47%) Domain-Driven Design
9 5 (8.47%) JIRA
9 5 (8.47%) CMDB
9 5 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (8.47%) Roadmaps
9 5 (8.47%) Design Patterns
9 5 (8.47%) Architectural Patterns

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (3.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (11.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (5.08%) SAP EWM
2 3 (5.08%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.69%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.69%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.73%) AWS
2 6 (10.17%) SaaS
3 4 (6.78%) Azure
3 4 (6.78%) SuccessFactors
4 2 (3.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.69%) Apigee
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.69%) IaaS
5 1 (1.69%) Kong
5 1 (1.69%) PaaS
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.39%) DB2
4 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.69%) OLAP
4 1 (1.69%) OLTP
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.86%) Git
3 5 (8.47%) JIRA
4 3 (5.08%) Gradle
4 3 (5.08%) Maven
General
1 11 (18.64%) Automotive
1 11 (18.64%) Banking
2 8 (13.56%) Finance
3 4 (6.78%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (6.78%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) SOAP
1 7 (11.86%) Web Services
2 6 (10.17%) RAML
3 4 (6.78%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.78%) J2EE
3 4 (6.78%) Spring
3 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.08%) Ajax
4 3 (5.08%) Java EE
4 3 (5.08%) jQuery
5 2 (3.39%) .NET
5 2 (3.39%) Kafka
5 2 (3.39%) React
6 1 (1.69%) Apache Camel
6 1 (1.69%) CSS
6 1 (1.69%) IBM Integration Bus
6 1 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.69%) RESTful
6 1 (1.69%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.69%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) CMDB
2 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.08%) Mainframe
2 3 (5.08%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.39%) SCADA
4 1 (1.69%) DataPower
4 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Life Science
4 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Android
1 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.39%) Windows
2 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) Migration
2 12 (20.34%) Microservices
3 11 (18.64%) Architectural Design
4 8 (13.56%) Agile
5 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (10.17%) Configuration Management
6 6 (10.17%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (10.17%) DevOps
7 5 (8.47%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (8.47%) Design Patterns
7 5 (8.47%) Domain-Driven Design
7 5 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (8.47%) Roadmaps
8 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (6.78%) Project Management
8 4 (6.78%) Risk Management
8 4 (6.78%) SDLC
8 4 (6.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (6.78%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.64%) Java
2 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.39%) C
3 2 (3.39%) SQL
4 1 (1.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (5.08%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (3.39%) Degree
2 2 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.69%) CISSP
3 1 (1.69%) MCSE
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.39%) Docker
3 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) SAP
2 4 (6.78%) Concur
3 3 (5.08%) MuleSoft
3 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.39%) Adobe
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle
5 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Snow
5 1 (1.69%) TSYS
5 1 (1.69%) VMware