Solutions Architect Contracts in the South East

Solution Architect
England > South East

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the South East 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 70 71 65
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 140 162 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.57% 2.90% 3.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.79% 3.06% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 122 211
10th Percentile £474 £530 £489
25th Percentile £564 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £630 £613
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +2.86% +11.36%
75th Percentile £700 £749 £671
90th Percentile £738 £811 £738
England median daily rate £650 £663 £625
% change year-on-year -1.89% +6.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £90.80 - -
25th Percentile £92.00 £76.75 £56.50
Median hourly rate £92.37 £78.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.67% +33.05% -
75th Percentile - £80.25 £61.50
90th Percentile £98.67 - -
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
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,018 5,291 7,308
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 94.69% 95.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,016 3,707 4,981
10th Percentile £213 £221 £203
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £601 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 230 327
10th Percentile £12.78 £16.25 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +142.00% -19.19%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £42.63
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £57.85
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley -15 68 £625 -2.91% 20
Berkshire -22 48 £625 -6.54% 10
Hampshire +2 46 £725 +16.00% 5
Buckinghamshire +22 17 £619 +5.77% 6
Surrey +10 12 £672 +16.87% 10
West Sussex +11 6 £475 -25.85% 3
Oxfordshire +6 3 £825 +37.50% 4
Kent -5 2 - - 3
East Sussex +4 1 £775 - 4
Middlesex - 1 £625 -
Sussex - 1 - - 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

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 South East region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 67 (47.86%) Security Cleared
2 42 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 39 (27.86%) Social Skills
4 35 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (19.29%) Product Ownership
5 27 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (17.86%) Java
7 24 (17.14%) GAP Analysis
8 23 (16.43%) SC Cleared
9 22 (15.71%) Translating Business Requirements
10 20 (14.29%) Azure
10 20 (14.29%) Roadmaps
11 19 (13.57%) Agile
12 18 (12.86%) Telecoms
13 14 (10.00%) VMware
14 12 (8.57%) IT Strategy
14 12 (8.57%) Microsoft
15 11 (7.86%) Degree
15 11 (7.86%) QA
15 11 (7.86%) AWS
15 11 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
16 10 (7.14%) DevOps
17 9 (6.43%) Data Centre
17 9 (6.43%) Software Architecture
17 9 (6.43%) Oracle
17 9 (6.43%) Master's Degree
18 8 (5.71%) DHCP
18 8 (5.71%) DNS
18 8 (5.71%) TOGAF
18 8 (5.71%) Retail

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.14%) Confluence
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.71%) Maximo
3 1 (0.71%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.71%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 1 (0.71%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.71%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.71%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.71%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.29%) Azure
2 11 (7.86%) AWS
3 7 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.14%) Azure Stack
5 2 (1.43%) GitHub
5 2 (1.43%) OCI
5 2 (1.43%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.71%) PaaS
6 1 (0.71%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.71%) DHCP
1 8 (5.71%) DNS
2 5 (3.57%) MPLS
3 4 (2.86%) Internet
4 3 (2.14%) SDH
4 3 (2.14%) WAN
5 2 (1.43%) PBX
5 2 (1.43%) SAN
5 2 (1.43%) VoIP
6 1 (0.71%) Firewall
6 1 (0.71%) LAN
6 1 (0.71%) Network Security
6 1 (0.71%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.86%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.14%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.43%) Big Data
3 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.43%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.71%) Impala
4 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.71%) Power BI
4 1 (0.71%) Redis
4 1 (0.71%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (0.71%) JIRA
1 1 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (0.71%) Terragrunt
General
1 39 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.86%) Telecoms
4 8 (5.71%) Retail
5 6 (4.29%) Finance
5 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Banking
8 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Aeronautics
9 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.71%) Automotive
9 1 (0.71%) Aviation
9 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) French Language
9 1 (0.71%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.29%) .NET
2 2 (1.43%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.43%) REST
3 1 (0.71%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (0.71%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.71%) J2EE
3 1 (0.71%) Kafka
3 1 (0.71%) Middleware
3 1 (0.71%) Next.js
3 1 (0.71%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.71%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.29%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.43%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.71%) Private Cloud
4 6 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.14%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.14%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.43%) IoT
7 2 (1.43%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.86%) Unix
1 4 (2.86%) Windows
2 2 (1.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (17.14%) GAP Analysis
3 22 (15.71%) Translating Business Requirements
4 20 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 19 (13.57%) Agile
6 12 (8.57%) IT Strategy
7 11 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (7.14%) DevOps
9 9 (6.43%) Software Architecture
10 8 (5.71%) Privileged Access Management
10 8 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (5.71%) TOGAF
11 7 (5.00%) Coaching
11 7 (5.00%) Enterprise Architecture
12 6 (4.29%) Configuration Management
12 6 (4.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (4.29%) Data Protection
12 6 (4.29%) Mentoring
12 6 (4.29%) Prototyping
12 6 (4.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.86%) Java
2 7 (5.00%) SQL
3 4 (2.86%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.43%) C#
4 2 (1.43%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.71%) C
5 1 (0.71%) C++
5 1 (0.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 67 (47.86%) Security Cleared
2 42 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 23 (16.43%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.86%) Degree
5 9 (6.43%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.14%) CCNP
6 3 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.14%) MCSE
6 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) QA
2 6 (4.29%) NCSC
2 6 (4.29%) NIST
3 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.71%) Docker
3 1 (0.71%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (2.14%) SCCM
1 3 (2.14%) SCOM
2 2 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (10.00%) VMware
2 12 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.43%) Oracle
4 7 (5.00%) SAP
5 6 (4.29%) Cisco
6 3 (2.14%) Ariba
7 2 (1.43%) Dell
7 2 (1.43%) Foundry
7 2 (1.43%) IBM
7 2 (1.43%) JDA
7 2 (1.43%) Juniper
7 2 (1.43%) Nokia
7 2 (1.43%) Palantir
7 2 (1.43%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.43%) Workday
8 1 (0.71%) BT
8 1 (0.71%) Databricks
8 1 (0.71%) Okta
8 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto