Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 85 69
Rank change year-on-year +14 -16 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,099 1,318 2,363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.93% 2.80% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.16% 2.97% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 931 1,575
10th Percentile £475 £519 £513
25th Percentile £535 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.93% +12.96%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £726
90th Percentile £825 £834 £800
UK median daily rate £646 £665 £633
% change year-on-year -2.86% +5.14% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 2
10th Percentile £51.80 £39.04 -
25th Percentile £64.63 £64.88 £56.50
Median hourly rate £89.00 £66.75 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +13.14% +6.31%
75th Percentile £92.28 £80.25 £61.50
90th Percentile £93.42 - -
UK median hourly rate £89.00 £67.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year +31.85% +14.41% +6.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in England

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in England

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Solutions Architect in England

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London -2 512 £650 -7.14% 111
North of England +64 182 £600 -2.83% 25
South East 0 136 £625 -1.96% 40
South West +23 135 £650 -3.70% 28
North West +77 125 £625 +4.17% 15
Midlands +1 80 £600 -9.09% 41
Yorkshire +10 52 £575 -11.54% 10
West Midlands +13 50 £650 - 27
East of England +22 40 £663 -4.88% 6
East Midlands -5 29 £455 -32.59% 14
North East +9 6 £600 +6.67%
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 England region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 269 (24.48%) Security Cleared
2 248 (22.57%) Social Skills
3 247 (22.47%) Azure
4 246 (22.38%) Finance
5 243 (22.11%) Agile
6 230 (20.93%) AWS
7 172 (15.65%) SC Cleared
8 170 (15.47%) Migration
9 164 (14.92%) Microsoft
10 140 (12.74%) DevOps
11 135 (12.28%) Roadmaps
12 128 (11.65%) DV Cleared
13 124 (11.28%) Banking
14 116 (10.56%) Java
15 110 (10.01%) Problem-Solving
15 110 (10.01%) GCP
16 106 (9.65%) Degree
17 104 (9.46%) Enterprise Architecture
18 99 (9.01%) Public Sector
19 94 (8.55%) Architectural Design
20 93 (8.46%) TOGAF
21 86 (7.83%) Python
22 85 (7.73%) Microservices
23 84 (7.64%) Telecoms
24 82 (7.46%) Data Lake
25 80 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
26 78 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
27 74 (6.73%) SAP
28 71 (6.46%) Translating Business Requirements
29 69 (6.28%) Computer Science

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 41 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (3.64%) Apache
3 26 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 25 (2.27%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.27%) Confluence
6 10 (0.91%) WebLogic
7 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.82%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.55%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.55%) CMS
9 5 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.36%) SAS
10 4 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.18%) Drupal
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.091%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.091%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.55%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.091%) CATIA
3 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 33 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.27%) Teamcenter
4 12 (1.09%) Primavera
5 10 (0.91%) Distributed Ledger
6 7 (0.64%) Loan IQ
6 7 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.45%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.45%) SAP HCM
7 5 (0.45%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.36%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 3 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.27%) Maximo
9 3 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.27%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
9 3 (0.27%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 247 (22.47%) Azure
2 230 (20.93%) AWS
3 110 (10.01%) GCP
4 68 (6.19%) Power Platform
5 65 (5.91%) SaaS
6 48 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
7 43 (3.91%) PaaS
8 40 (3.64%) Snowflake
9 39 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
11 37 (3.37%) dbt
12 26 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
13 23 (2.09%) Serverless
14 21 (1.91%) IaaS
15 18 (1.64%) Boomi
16 16 (1.46%) PowerApps
17 14 (1.27%) Amazon S3
18 12 (1.09%) Power Automate
19 11 (1.00%) OCI
20 9 (0.82%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.73%) VoIP
2 23 (2.09%) PBX
3 19 (1.73%) WAN
4 15 (1.36%) SDH
5 12 (1.09%) DNS
6 11 (1.00%) Internet
7 7 (0.64%) MPLS
8 6 (0.55%) CTI
8 6 (0.55%) DHCP
9 5 (0.45%) Firewall
9 5 (0.45%) LAN
9 5 (0.45%) SAN
10 4 (0.36%) ATM
10 4 (0.36%) Junos
11 3 (0.27%) Intranet
11 3 (0.27%) MQTT
11 3 (0.27%) NetScaler
11 3 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.27%) VSAN
12 2 (0.18%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (7.46%) Data Lake
2 47 (4.28%) Amazon Athena
3 43 (3.91%) Big Data
4 37 (3.37%) Apache Arrow
4 37 (3.37%) Dremio
5 36 (3.28%) Apache Ignite
6 24 (2.18%) Power BI
7 21 (1.91%) SQL Server
8 20 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (1.73%) Oracle Database
10 14 (1.27%) Hadoop
11 12 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.00%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.00%) Relational Database
13 10 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (0.82%) Apache Hive
14 9 (0.82%) Tableau
15 8 (0.73%) GIS
15 8 (0.73%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (3.18%) Jenkins
2 30 (2.73%) JIRA
3 22 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
4 21 (1.91%) Git
5 2 (0.18%) GitLab
5 2 (0.18%) webpack
6 1 (0.091%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.091%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.091%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.091%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.091%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 248 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 246 (22.38%) Finance
3 124 (11.28%) Banking
4 99 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 84 (7.64%) Telecoms
6 78 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
7 50 (4.55%) Retail
8 47 (4.28%) Investment Banking
9 37 (3.37%) Front Office
9 37 (3.37%) Manufacturing
10 32 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (2.55%) Marketing
13 24 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.36%) Electronics
14 15 (1.36%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.36%) Local Government
15 14 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.09%) Automotive
17 11 (1.00%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.37%) gRPC
1 37 (3.37%) Protocol Buffers
2 36 (3.28%) NumPy
2 36 (3.28%) Pandas
2 36 (3.28%) SciPy
3 30 (2.73%) Middleware
4 26 (2.37%) .NET
5 21 (1.91%) REST
5 21 (1.91%) SOAP
6 19 (1.73%) HTML
7 18 (1.64%) Kafka
7 18 (1.64%) Web Services
8 17 (1.55%) XML
9 12 (1.09%) .NET Framework
9 12 (1.09%) React
10 11 (1.00%) CSS
10 11 (1.00%) RESTful
10 11 (1.00%) SailPoint
10 11 (1.00%) Spring Boot
11 10 (0.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 40 (3.64%) Derivative
3 38 (3.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 37 (3.37%) Equities
4 37 (3.37%) Fixed Income
4 37 (3.37%) Hedge funds
5 35 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.64%) Mainframe
9 17 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 16 (1.46%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.18%) IoT
12 12 (1.09%) Blockchain
12 12 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
13 11 (1.00%) Onboarding
14 9 (0.82%) Blackberry
15 8 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.28%) Linux
2 31 (2.82%) Windows
3 15 (1.36%) Android
4 12 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.82%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.64%) CentOS
6 7 (0.64%) Unix
7 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.091%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (22.11%) Agile
2 170 (15.47%) Migration
3 140 (12.74%) DevOps
4 135 (12.28%) Roadmaps
5 110 (10.01%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (9.46%) Enterprise Architecture
7 94 (8.55%) Architectural Design
8 93 (8.46%) TOGAF
9 85 (7.73%) Microservices
10 80 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 71 (6.46%) Translating Business Requirements
12 69 (6.28%) Computer Science
13 62 (5.64%) Technical Leadership
14 59 (5.37%) Architectural Patterns
15 56 (5.10%) SDLC
16 54 (4.91%) CI/CD
16 54 (4.91%) Project Delivery
17 53 (4.82%) Presales
18 52 (4.73%) Software Engineering
19 51 (4.64%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (10.56%) Java
2 86 (7.83%) Python
3 68 (6.19%) JavaScript
4 59 (5.37%) SQL
5 41 (3.73%) TypeScript
6 23 (2.09%) PowerShell
7 20 (1.82%) C#
8 10 (0.91%) C
9 9 (0.82%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.82%) Scala
10 8 (0.73%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.55%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.55%) C++
12 2 (0.18%) Bash
12 2 (0.18%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.18%) PHP
12 2 (0.18%) Ruby
12 2 (0.18%) SOQL
13 1 (0.091%) Julia
13 1 (0.091%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 269 (24.48%) Security Cleared
2 172 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 128 (11.65%) DV Cleared
4 106 (9.65%) Degree
5 31 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.46%) AWS Certification
8 24 (2.18%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 17 (1.55%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.00%) HND
13 8 (0.73%) CCNP
14 4 (0.36%) CISSP
14 4 (0.36%) JNCIA
14 4 (0.36%) PhD
15 3 (0.27%) SAP Certification
15 3 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.37%) QA
2 22 (2.00%) GDPR
3 16 (1.46%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.00%) SLA
5 8 (0.73%) COBIT
5 8 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.64%) NIST
7 6 (0.55%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.55%) ISO 22301
7 6 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 6 (0.55%) NCSC
7 6 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.27%) PMO
9 3 (0.27%) SEPA
10 2 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.091%) GRC
11 1 (0.091%) IFRS
System Software
1 35 (3.18%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.36%) Docker
4 9 (0.82%) vSphere
5 5 (0.45%) ACF2
5 5 (0.45%) IAG
5 5 (0.45%) RACF
6 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.27%) XenApp
7 3 (0.27%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.091%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (3.18%) Terraform
2 22 (2.00%) Ansible
3 21 (1.91%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.00%) Progress Chef
4 11 (1.00%) Puppet
5 8 (0.73%) Grafana
5 8 (0.73%) Kibana
5 8 (0.73%) SCCM
6 7 (0.64%) logstash
6 7 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.45%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.45%) VxRail
8 4 (0.36%) AirWatch
8 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.27%) SCOM
10 2 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.091%) Ambari
11 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.091%) Oozie
11 1 (0.091%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 164 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 74 (6.73%) SAP
3 62 (5.64%) Oracle
4 54 (4.91%) Google
5 43 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 40 (3.64%) VMware
7 38 (3.46%) Cisco
8 32 (2.91%) IBM
9 24 (2.18%) Juniper
10 23 (2.09%) Nokia
11 14 (1.27%) Avaya
11 14 (1.27%) CyberArk
12 13 (1.18%) ServiceNow
13 12 (1.09%) Databricks
13 12 (1.09%) Dell
14 11 (1.00%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.00%) Talend
14 11 (1.00%) Workday
15 10 (0.91%) Ericsson
16 9 (0.82%) Adobe