Solutions Designer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Solution Designer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solution Designer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 419 479
Rank change year-on-year +31 +60 -104
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 12 19 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.083% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.088% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 31
10th Percentile £473 £571 £506
25th Percentile £475 £618 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £686 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.32% +14.38% +26.32%
75th Percentile £539 £791 £635
90th Percentile £606 £830 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £699 £600
% change year-on-year -26.65% +16.46% +26.32%

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 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Solutions Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Designer in the UK excluding London

Solutions Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Designer in the UK excluding London

Solutions Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Designer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Designer in the UK excluding London

Solutions Designer
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 Solutions Designer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Scotland +37 4 £588 -11.99%
North of England +19 3 £500 -11.50%
North West +18 3 £500 -11.50%
South East +8 3 £513 -33.87%
Midlands - 2 £500 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £500 -
Solutions Designer
UK

Solutions Designer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Solutions Designer 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 Solutions Designer in the job title.

1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) ERP
1 3 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
1 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
1 3 (25.00%) Workday
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (16.67%) Microservices
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) CRM
3 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Agile
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Fintech
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Customer Service

Solutions Designer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) ERP
1 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
1 3 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (16.67%) Microservices
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (8.33%) Agile
3 1 (8.33%) CRM
3 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (8.33%) Fintech
3 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Workday