Solutions Architect Contracts in the North West

Solution Architect
England > North West

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the North West is £615 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 41 118 83
Rank change year-on-year +77 -35 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 108 42 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.05% 1.37% 2.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.28% 1.44% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 29 75
10th Percentile £450 £523 £475
25th Percentile £509 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +18.52%
75th Percentile £691 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £725 £745
England median daily rate £650 £663 £625
% change year-on-year -1.89% +6.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
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
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 2,525 2,915 3,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 94.95% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 2,070 2,834
10th Percentile £276 £300 £213
25th Percentile £390 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 124 179
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.58 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £19.22 £15.51
Median hourly rate £27.75 £30.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% +22.16% +38.45%
75th Percentile £46.91 £48.91 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.70 £66.00 £75.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the North West

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the North West

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the North West

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the North West

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester +37 59 £615 +2.50% 24
Cheshire +36 34 £550 - 4
Merseyside +21 10 £650 - 1
Lancashire +6 1 - - 2
Cumbria - 1 - -
Solutions Architect
England

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

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 North West region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 28 (25.93%) Agile
2 27 (25.00%) Migration
2 27 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 24 (22.22%) Azure
4 22 (20.37%) DevOps
5 21 (19.44%) Banking
6 20 (18.52%) Finance
7 17 (15.74%) Enterprise Architecture
8 16 (14.81%) Degree
8 16 (14.81%) Business Strategy
9 15 (13.89%) Data Management
10 14 (12.96%) AWS
10 14 (12.96%) Microsoft
10 14 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (12.96%) Architectural Patterns
11 13 (12.04%) Social Skills
11 13 (12.04%) Public Sector
12 12 (11.11%) Project Delivery
12 12 (11.11%) Architecture Governance
12 12 (11.11%) Security Cleared
13 11 (10.19%) SC Cleared
13 11 (10.19%) Computer Science
13 11 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (9.26%) Technology Strategy
14 10 (9.26%) Service Design
14 10 (9.26%) IT Strategy
14 10 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
15 9 (8.33%) TOGAF

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (4.63%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.85%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.93%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.22%) Azure
2 14 (12.96%) AWS
2 14 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.33%) SaaS
5 6 (5.56%) PaaS
5 6 (5.56%) PowerApps
6 5 (4.63%) IaaS
7 4 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.70%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.85%) Route 53
8 2 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) MQTT
2 1 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.70%) Power BI
2 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.78%) DB2
3 3 (2.78%) GIS
4 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.93%) Big Data
5 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.93%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.93%) OLAP
5 1 (0.93%) OLTP
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Redis
5 1 (0.93%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (4.63%) JIRA
2 4 (3.70%) Git
2 4 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.85%) GitLab
3 2 (1.85%) webpack
General
1 21 (19.44%) Banking
2 20 (18.52%) Finance
3 13 (12.04%) Public Sector
3 13 (12.04%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.63%) Automotive
5 4 (3.70%) Local Government
6 3 (2.78%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.63%) Middleware
1 5 (4.63%) React
2 4 (3.70%) .NET
3 3 (2.78%) Node.js
4 2 (1.85%) Express.js
4 2 (1.85%) Redux
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.93%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.93%) J2EE
5 1 (0.93%) Kafka
5 1 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.93%) SOAP
5 1 (0.93%) Spring
5 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.93%) Spring Integration
5 1 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.63%) CMDB
2 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.70%) Mainframe
3 3 (2.78%) IoT
3 3 (2.78%) NHS
3 3 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.85%) Credit Risk
4 2 (1.85%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.85%) Robotics
5 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.93%) DataPower
5 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.93%) SCADA
5 1 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.48%) Windows
2 3 (2.78%) Android
2 3 (2.78%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.78%) Linux
2 3 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.93%) Agile
2 27 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 27 (25.00%) Migration
3 22 (20.37%) DevOps
4 17 (15.74%) Enterprise Architecture
5 16 (14.81%) Business Strategy
6 15 (13.89%) Data Management
7 14 (12.96%) Architectural Patterns
8 12 (11.11%) Architecture Governance
8 12 (11.11%) Project Delivery
9 11 (10.19%) Computer Science
9 11 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (9.26%) IT Strategy
10 10 (9.26%) Service Design
10 10 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (9.26%) Technology Strategy
11 9 (8.33%) TOGAF
12 8 (7.41%) PLM
12 8 (7.41%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.56%) Java
2 3 (2.78%) C
2 3 (2.78%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.78%) SQL
3 2 (1.85%) Python
4 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (14.81%) Degree
2 12 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 11 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.93%) CCNA
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) MCP
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.85%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.70%) Progress Chef
2 2 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.70%) Oracle
3 3 (2.78%) SAP
4 2 (1.85%) Mapbox
4 2 (1.85%) Mitel
4 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.93%) Adobe
5 1 (0.93%) Databricks
5 1 (0.93%) IBM
5 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.93%) Sophos
5 1 (0.93%) TSYS
5 1 (0.93%) VMware