Solutions Architect Contracts in the East Midlands

Solution Architect
England > East Midlands

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the East Midlands is £460 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 43 71
Rank change year-on-year +4 +28 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 28 39 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.62% 3.89% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.85% 4.11% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 36 17
10th Percentile - £538 £386
25th Percentile £445 £577 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £668 £563
Median % change year-on-year -31.09% +18.67% +20.32%
75th Percentile £575 £718 £588
90th Percentile £760 £838 £621
England median daily rate £650 £665 £625
% change year-on-year -2.26% +6.40% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 £66.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year +34.83% +13.14% +6.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 727 950 1,292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 94.72% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 740 954
10th Percentile £166 £207 £180
25th Percentile £263 £329 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £509
90th Percentile £625 £700 £595
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 52 90
10th Percentile £11.82 £11.80 £9.74
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.19 £14.61
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.46 £18.88
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +8.40% +28.80%
75th Percentile £26.15 £30.50 £29.22
90th Percentile £51.91 £64.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the East Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the East Midlands

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the East Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the East Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Northamptonshire +22 21 £445 -24.26% 5
Nottinghamshire +7 2 £750 +13.21% 7
Leicestershire +5 2 £594 +3.26% 1
Lincolnshire -2 1 £775 +9.15% 2
Solutions Architect
England

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 East Midlands region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 18 (64.29%) AWS
2 17 (60.71%) Banking
3 14 (50.00%) Architectural Design
4 13 (46.43%) Finance
5 11 (39.29%) Azure
6 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 7 (25.00%) Progress Chef
6 7 (25.00%) DevOps
6 7 (25.00%) Git
6 7 (25.00%) JIRA
6 7 (25.00%) Java
6 7 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 7 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (25.00%) Microservices
6 7 (25.00%) Data Lake
7 6 (21.43%) IT Strategy
7 6 (21.43%) Technology Strategy
7 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 6 (21.43%) Credit Risk
8 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
8 5 (17.86%) Business Strategy
8 5 (17.86%) API Design
9 4 (14.29%) React
9 4 (14.29%) Public Cloud
9 4 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (14.29%) SDLC
9 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
9 4 (14.29%) Android
9 4 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design

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

Applications
1 1 (3.57%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) AWS
2 11 (39.29%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) SaaS
4 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 7 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.29%) DB2
3 2 (7.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Git
1 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 7 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 17 (60.71%) Banking
2 13 (46.43%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.57%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) .NET
1 4 (14.29%) React
2 3 (10.71%) OpenAPI
2 3 (10.71%) RAML
2 3 (10.71%) RESTful
2 3 (10.71%) Swagger
3 1 (3.57%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Credit Risk
2 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 4 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Android
1 4 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 7 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 7 (25.00%) DevOps
2 7 (25.00%) Microservices
3 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
3 6 (21.43%) IT Strategy
3 6 (21.43%) Technology Strategy
4 5 (17.86%) API Design
4 5 (17.86%) Business Strategy
4 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
5 4 (14.29%) Agile
5 4 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.29%) Project Management
5 4 (14.29%) SDLC
5 4 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (14.29%) Waterfall
6 3 (10.71%) ETL
6 3 (10.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (14.29%) C
3 3 (10.71%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
1 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) PMO
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce