Solutions Architect Contracts

Solution Architect
UK

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 86 67
Rank change year-on-year +13 -19 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,220 1,602 3,033
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.84% 2.77% 3.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.06% 2.92% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 1,082 1,987
10th Percentile £498 £519 £508
25th Percentile £561 £585 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £660 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +5.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £725
90th Percentile £781 £825 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £650 £610
% change year-on-year - +6.56% +13.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 2
10th Percentile £56.00 £41.53 -
25th Percentile £86.00 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £67.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +14.41% +6.79%
75th Percentile £92.37 £80.25 £61.50
90th Percentile £94.47 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £91.00 £76.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +19.74% +28.81% +7.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the UK

Solutions Architect
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +16 1,024 £650 -2.84% 360
UK excluding London +30 546 £650 - 220
London 0 489 £650 -4.41% 127
Work from Home +24 476 £650 - 212
South East +9 143 £628 -3.46% 43
North of England +53 141 £615 -1.60% 78
South West +33 132 £650 -2.84% 31
North West +71 99 £620 +1.85% 45
Midlands -3 63 £650 - 37
West Midlands +6 45 £664 +2.15% 19
East of England +27 38 £675 -2.60% 9
Yorkshire -1 38 £600 -7.73% 27
Scotland -2 38 £646 -0.62% 11
East Midlands 0 17 £588 -10.98% 18
Northern Ireland +10 7 £650 +18.18% 7
Wales +7 6 £650 +15.04% 4
North East +15 5 £600 +6.67% 6
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 311 (25.49%) Azure
2 304 (24.92%) Security Cleared
3 285 (23.36%) Finance
4 283 (23.20%) Social Skills
5 272 (22.30%) Agile
6 246 (20.16%) AWS
7 204 (16.72%) SC Cleared
8 187 (15.33%) Migration
9 180 (14.75%) Microsoft
10 156 (12.79%) DevOps
11 140 (11.48%) DV Cleared
12 137 (11.23%) Roadmaps
13 131 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
14 125 (10.25%) Public Sector
14 125 (10.25%) Degree
15 118 (9.67%) GCP
16 112 (9.18%) Architectural Design
17 110 (9.02%) TOGAF
18 108 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
19 107 (8.77%) SAP
20 106 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
21 103 (8.44%) Banking
22 100 (8.20%) Java
23 97 (7.95%) Enterprise Architecture
24 95 (7.79%) Microservices
25 89 (7.30%) Telecoms
26 86 (7.05%) Power Platform
27 85 (6.97%) Computer Science
28 84 (6.89%) Oracle
29 73 (5.98%) Project Delivery

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (1.97%) Apache
2 24 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.90%) ArcGIS
4 11 (0.90%) Confluence
5 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.49%) CMS
9 4 (0.33%) SAS
10 3 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.082%) Drupal
12 1 (0.082%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.082%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.082%) CATIA
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 55 (4.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
4 19 (1.56%) Teamcenter
5 17 (1.39%) Oracle Assets
5 17 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
6 15 (1.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 13 (1.07%) Oracle AGIS
8 10 (0.82%) Distributed Ledger
8 10 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
9 9 (0.74%) SAP SD
10 8 (0.66%) SAP FI
11 7 (0.57%) Loan IQ
11 7 (0.57%) SAP CO
11 7 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.57%) SAP MM
12 6 (0.49%) Oracle Cash Management
12 6 (0.49%) SAP HCM
13 5 (0.41%) SAP ERP
13 5 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 311 (25.49%) Azure
2 246 (20.16%) AWS
3 118 (9.67%) GCP
4 86 (7.05%) Power Platform
5 69 (5.66%) SaaS
6 60 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
7 49 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (3.85%) PaaS
9 41 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (2.21%) Snowflake
11 26 (2.13%) IaaS
12 25 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
13 23 (1.89%) dbt
14 19 (1.56%) OCI
15 18 (1.48%) Serverless
16 13 (1.07%) Boomi
17 12 (0.98%) Entra ID
17 12 (0.98%) PowerApps
18 11 (0.90%) Power Automate
18 11 (0.90%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.20%) VoIP
2 25 (2.05%) PBX
3 20 (1.64%) WAN
4 15 (1.23%) DNS
5 13 (1.07%) CTI
5 13 (1.07%) SDH
6 11 (0.90%) Internet
7 10 (0.82%) Firewall
8 9 (0.74%) ATM
8 9 (0.74%) DHCP
9 7 (0.57%) SAN
10 6 (0.49%) LAN
11 5 (0.41%) MPLS
11 5 (0.41%) VSAN
12 4 (0.33%) Intranet
12 4 (0.33%) Junos
12 4 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.25%) MQTT
13 3 (0.25%) NetScaler
13 3 (0.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.67%) Data Lake
2 36 (2.95%) Big Data
3 30 (2.46%) Power BI
4 26 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
4 26 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (1.89%) Apache Arrow
5 23 (1.89%) Dremio
5 23 (1.89%) SQL Server
6 22 (1.80%) Apache Ignite
7 21 (1.72%) Oracle Database
8 13 (1.07%) GIS
8 13 (1.07%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.07%) Tableau
9 11 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (0.90%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.82%) Apache Hive
10 10 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.66%) DB2
11 8 (0.66%) Impala
Development Applications
1 23 (1.89%) Rational DOORS
2 21 (1.72%) JIRA
3 19 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.33%) Git
5 2 (0.16%) GitLab
5 2 (0.16%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.16%) webpack
6 1 (0.082%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.082%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.082%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.082%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.082%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 285 (23.36%) Finance
2 283 (23.20%) Social Skills
3 125 (10.25%) Public Sector
4 106 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (8.44%) Banking
6 89 (7.30%) Telecoms
7 62 (5.08%) Retail
8 47 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 42 (3.44%) Manufacturing
10 37 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (2.46%) Investment Banking
12 27 (2.21%) Marketing
13 25 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.89%) Front Office
15 20 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (1.39%) Financial Institution
17 14 (1.15%) Electronics
17 14 (1.15%) General Ledger
17 14 (1.15%) Local Government
18 12 (0.98%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.44%) Middleware
2 37 (3.03%) .NET
3 25 (2.05%) SailPoint
4 23 (1.89%) gRPC
4 23 (1.89%) Protocol Buffers
4 23 (1.89%) Web Services
5 22 (1.80%) NumPy
5 22 (1.80%) Pandas
5 22 (1.80%) SciPy
6 18 (1.48%) React
7 17 (1.39%) REST
7 17 (1.39%) SOAP
8 15 (1.23%) HTML
9 14 (1.15%) XML
10 12 (0.98%) .NET Framework
10 12 (0.98%) RESTful
11 11 (0.90%) Node.js
11 11 (0.90%) SAML
12 10 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (0.74%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 39 (3.20%) Product Ownership
2 31 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
3 27 (2.21%) Data Centre
4 24 (1.97%) Derivative
4 24 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 23 (1.89%) Equities
5 23 (1.89%) Fixed Income
5 23 (1.89%) Hedge funds
6 21 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (1.72%) Mainframe
7 20 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 19 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 18 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.15%) Cloud Native
10 14 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.15%) IVR
11 12 (0.98%) Blockchain
11 12 (0.98%) IoT
11 12 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.79%) Linux
2 27 (2.21%) Windows
3 9 (0.74%) Unix
4 8 (0.66%) Android
4 8 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.57%) CentOS
6 5 (0.41%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.082%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.082%) tvOS
8 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (22.30%) Agile
2 187 (15.33%) Migration
3 156 (12.79%) DevOps
4 137 (11.23%) Roadmaps
5 131 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (9.18%) Architectural Design
7 110 (9.02%) TOGAF
8 108 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 97 (7.95%) Enterprise Architecture
10 95 (7.79%) Microservices
11 85 (6.97%) Computer Science
12 73 (5.98%) Project Delivery
13 72 (5.90%) Translating Business Requirements
14 67 (5.49%) Analytics
14 67 (5.49%) CI/CD
15 66 (5.41%) Data Management
16 64 (5.25%) Architectural Patterns
17 58 (4.75%) Architecture Governance
18 57 (4.67%) Business Intelligence
18 57 (4.67%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 100 (8.20%) Java
2 62 (5.08%) Python
3 56 (4.59%) SQL
4 54 (4.43%) JavaScript
5 31 (2.54%) TypeScript
6 24 (1.97%) PowerShell
7 23 (1.89%) C#
8 12 (0.98%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.74%) Scala
10 8 (0.66%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.49%) C
12 5 (0.41%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.25%) Bash
13 3 (0.25%) Ruby
14 2 (0.16%) Bicep
14 2 (0.16%) C++
14 2 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.16%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.16%) PHP
14 2 (0.16%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 304 (24.92%) Security Cleared
2 204 (16.72%) SC Cleared
3 140 (11.48%) DV Cleared
4 125 (10.25%) Degree
5 42 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (3.11%) Master's Degree
8 33 (2.70%) AWS Certification
9 30 (2.46%) Azure Certification
10 29 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 25 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.98%) CCNP
14 11 (0.90%) HND
15 8 (0.66%) SAP Certification
16 5 (0.41%) CISSP
17 4 (0.33%) JNCIA
18 3 (0.25%) PhD
18 3 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (2.38%) GDPR
2 28 (2.30%) QA
3 16 (1.31%) Accessibility
4 12 (0.98%) SLA
5 11 (0.90%) GAAP
5 11 (0.90%) HIPAA
5 11 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.90%) NIST
5 11 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.74%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.66%) COBIT
7 8 (0.66%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.57%) NCSC
9 6 (0.49%) ISO 22301
9 6 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.33%) PMO
11 3 (0.25%) SEPA
12 2 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.16%) IFRS
System Software
1 34 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.39%) Docker
4 10 (0.82%) vSphere
5 7 (0.57%) ACF2
5 7 (0.57%) IAG
5 7 (0.57%) RACF
6 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.25%) XenApp
7 3 (0.25%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.082%) HDFS
8 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.082%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (2.46%) Terraform
2 26 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.80%) Ansible
4 12 (0.98%) Puppet
5 8 (0.66%) Grafana
5 8 (0.66%) Kibana
5 8 (0.66%) VxRail
6 7 (0.57%) logstash
6 7 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.57%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.25%) SCCM
8 3 (0.25%) SCOM
9 2 (0.16%) Ambari
9 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.16%) Oozie
9 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.082%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.082%) Istio
10 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 180 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 107 (8.77%) SAP
3 84 (6.89%) Oracle
4 54 (4.43%) Google
5 48 (3.93%) VMware
6 46 (3.77%) Cisco
7 41 (3.36%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.62%) ServiceNow
9 31 (2.54%) IBM
10 30 (2.46%) CyberArk
11 24 (1.97%) BeyondTrust
12 23 (1.89%) Juniper
13 22 (1.80%) Nokia
14 20 (1.64%) Avaya
15 17 (1.39%) Dell
16 15 (1.23%) Ariba
16 15 (1.23%) Databricks
17 13 (1.07%) Genesys
18 12 (0.98%) Informatica
19 11 (0.90%) Talend