Lead Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £825 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 421 468
Rank change year-on-year +42 +47 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 15 21 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.092% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.097% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 36
10th Percentile - - £591
25th Percentile £725 £675 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +7.14% +9.80%
75th Percentile £881 £825 £759
90th Percentile £900 £905 £800
UK median daily rate £775 £733 £700
% change year-on-year +5.80% +4.64% +12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,181 21,601 29,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.27% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,558 15,029 20,712
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,082 1,404
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.76 £18.01 £14.78
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Lead Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Lead Solutions Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
South West -1 9 £850 +13.33%
East of England - 2 - -
North of England +27 1 £700 -
South East +14 1 £825 +11.49% 2
West Midlands - 1 £750 - 1
Scotland - 1 £750 -
Midlands - 1 £750 - 1
North West - 1 £700 -
Lead Solutions Architect
UK

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, Lead 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (60.00%) Finance
3 8 (53.33%) SAP
4 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (40.00%) Manufacturing
5 6 (40.00%) Electronics
5 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
5 6 (40.00%) Marketing
5 6 (40.00%) Programme Management
5 6 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
5 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (40.00%) DV Cleared
6 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (26.67%) ArchiMate
8 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
8 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
9 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
9 2 (13.33%) VMware
9 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
9 2 (13.33%) Requirements Management
9 2 (13.33%) Agile
9 2 (13.33%) JIRA
9 2 (13.33%) Migration
9 2 (13.33%) Change Management
9 2 (13.33%) French Language
9 2 (13.33%) Release Management
9 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
9 2 (13.33%) Confluence

Lead Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (13.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.67%) NetSuite
2 1 (6.67%) SAP CO
2 1 (6.67%) SAP FI
2 1 (6.67%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (6.67%) SAP MM
2 1 (6.67%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) OCI
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
1 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
3 6 (40.00%) Electronics
3 6 (40.00%) Manufacturing
3 6 (40.00%) Marketing
3 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (13.33%) French Language
6 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
1 1 (6.67%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.67%) NHS
1 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
1 6 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (26.67%) ArchiMate
4 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
5 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
5 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Release Management
5 2 (13.33%) Requirements Management
6 1 (6.67%) Data Design
6 1 (6.67%) Inventory Management
6 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
6 1 (6.67%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow