Solutions Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Solution Architect
England > Midlands

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 69 73
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 70 99 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.60% 3.02% 3.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.82% 3.19% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 69 122
10th Percentile £445 £535 £439
25th Percentile £489 £613 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £731 £706 £697
90th Percentile £778 £780 £800
England median daily rate £650 £663 £625
% change year-on-year -1.89% +6.00% +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
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,482 3,103 4,788
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 94.52% 96.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,681 2,182 3,494
10th Percentile £213 £220 £213
25th Percentile £328 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 118 165
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.35 £10.93
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.06 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.16 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +15.20% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £52.45 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Midlands +12 43 £670 +3.00% 17
East Midlands -1 26 £465 -29.55% 16
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 Midlands region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 26 (37.14%) Azure
2 22 (31.43%) Finance
3 21 (30.00%) AWS
4 18 (25.71%) Banking
5 16 (22.86%) Architectural Design
6 15 (21.43%) Agile
7 10 (14.29%) Microsoft
8 9 (12.86%) Enterprise Architecture
8 9 (12.86%) Social Skills
8 9 (12.86%) Roadmaps
9 8 (11.43%) SC Cleared
9 8 (11.43%) Security Cleared
10 7 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
10 7 (10.00%) Java
10 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
10 7 (10.00%) Windows
10 7 (10.00%) CRM
10 7 (10.00%) DevOps
10 7 (10.00%) Microservices
10 7 (10.00%) Public Cloud
10 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
10 7 (10.00%) Progress Chef
10 7 (10.00%) Business Strategy
10 7 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
11 6 (8.57%) Containerisation
11 6 (8.57%) Technology Strategy
11 6 (8.57%) Power Platform
11 6 (8.57%) Data Lake
11 6 (8.57%) IT Strategy
11 6 (8.57%) Microsoft 365

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (1.43%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.29%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (2.86%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.43%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (1.43%) RMDS
4 1 (1.43%) SAP EWM
4 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.14%) Azure
2 21 (30.00%) AWS
3 6 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (8.57%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (7.14%) SaaS
5 3 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (4.29%) Boomi
6 2 (2.86%) IaaS
7 1 (1.43%) GCP
7 1 (1.43%) OCI
7 1 (1.43%) PaaS
7 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) DNS
1 3 (4.29%) Firewall
1 3 (4.29%) NetScaler
2 2 (2.86%) SAN
2 2 (2.86%) WAN
3 1 (1.43%) IPsec
3 1 (1.43%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.43%) SDH
3 1 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.57%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.71%) DB2
4 2 (2.86%) Big Data
5 1 (1.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.57%) Git
2 6 (8.57%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
General
1 22 (31.43%) Finance
2 18 (25.71%) Banking
3 9 (12.86%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Local Government
6 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Aeronautics
7 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.43%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.43%) Law
7 1 (1.43%) Marketing
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.14%) .NET
2 4 (5.71%) React
3 3 (4.29%) OpenAPI
3 3 (4.29%) RAML
3 3 (4.29%) RESTful
3 3 (4.29%) Swagger
4 2 (2.86%) HTML
4 2 (2.86%) OAuth
4 2 (2.86%) React Native
4 2 (2.86%) SAML
4 2 (2.86%) Visualforce
4 2 (2.86%) Web Services
4 2 (2.86%) XML
5 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.43%) Node.js
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.43%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 5 (7.14%) Credit Risk
3 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.71%) Mainframe
4 3 (4.29%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.29%) Fat Client
4 3 (4.29%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.29%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.00%) Windows
2 4 (5.71%) Android
2 4 (5.71%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.71%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.43%) Linux
4 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.86%) Architectural Design
2 15 (21.43%) Agile
3 9 (12.86%) Enterprise Architecture
3 9 (12.86%) Roadmaps
4 7 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 7 (10.00%) CRM
4 7 (10.00%) DevOps
4 7 (10.00%) Microservices
5 6 (8.57%) Containerisation
5 6 (8.57%) IT Strategy
5 6 (8.57%) Migration
5 6 (8.57%) SDLC
5 6 (8.57%) Technology Strategy
6 5 (7.14%) API Design
6 5 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (7.14%) Project Management
7 4 (5.71%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (5.71%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.00%) Java
2 4 (5.71%) C
2 4 (5.71%) SQL
3 3 (4.29%) C#
3 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.86%) Apex Code
4 2 (2.86%) SOQL
5 1 (1.43%) X++
Qualifications
1 8 (11.43%) SC Cleared
1 8 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.71%) Degree
3 3 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.43%) CAPM
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.43%) GDPR
1 1 (1.43%) ISO 22301
1 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.43%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 3 (4.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.29%) XenApp
2 3 (4.29%) XenDesktop
3 2 (2.86%) Docker
3 2 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (10.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.43%) Ansible
4 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.57%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.29%) Citrix
3 3 (4.29%) NetApp
3 3 (4.29%) VMware
4 2 (2.86%) Databricks
4 2 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (1.43%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.43%) Cisco
5 1 (1.43%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.43%) IBM
5 1 (1.43%) Informatica
5 1 (1.43%) Juniper
5 1 (1.43%) Nokia
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.43%) Remedy