Solutions Architect Contracts in the North of England

Solution Architect
England > North of England

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the North of England is £606 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 110 77
Rank change year-on-year +64 -33 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 174 102 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.67% 1.84% 2.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.94% 1.93% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 62 140
10th Percentile £463 £513 £505
25th Percentile £525 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £687 £697 £725
90th Percentile £738 £771 £750
England median daily rate £650 £675 £638
% change year-on-year -3.70% +5.88% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £89.00 £66.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% +13.14% +6.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,414 5,292 6,908
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.44% 96.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,722 3,704 5,061
10th Percentile £263 £269 £205
25th Percentile £386 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £563
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 162 272
10th Percentile £11.10 £14.03 £11.30
25th Percentile £13.00 £17.72 £14.44
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.34 £19.48
Median % change year-on-year -20.61% +45.48% +10.46%
75th Percentile £47.50 £44.92 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.68 £62.70
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West +76 121 £625 +4.17% 18
Yorkshire +13 48 £575 -11.54% 12
North East +12 6 £600 +6.67% 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 North of England region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 49 (28.16%) Azure
2 45 (25.86%) Migration
3 39 (22.41%) Agile
3 39 (22.41%) DevOps
4 34 (19.54%) Architectural Design
5 30 (17.24%) AWS
6 29 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 28 (16.09%) Social Skills
8 27 (15.52%) Finance
9 24 (13.79%) Enterprise Architecture
10 23 (13.22%) Degree
10 23 (13.22%) Banking
10 23 (13.22%) Architectural Patterns
11 20 (11.49%) Business Strategy
11 20 (11.49%) Data Management
12 18 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (9.77%) Project Delivery
14 16 (9.20%) Public Sector
14 16 (9.20%) Architecture Governance
14 16 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (9.20%) Security Cleared
15 15 (8.62%) SC Cleared
15 15 (8.62%) Computer Science
15 15 (8.62%) Translating Business Requirements
16 14 (8.05%) Service Design
16 14 (8.05%) Containerisation
16 14 (8.05%) Java
17 13 (7.47%) Data Modelling
17 13 (7.47%) PLM
17 13 (7.47%) Waterfall

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 11 (6.32%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.15%) Apache
3 2 (1.15%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.57%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.57%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.57%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 49 (28.16%) Azure
2 30 (17.24%) AWS
3 18 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 11 (6.32%) SaaS
7 10 (5.75%) Amazon S3
7 10 (5.75%) GCP
8 9 (5.17%) Serverless
9 8 (4.60%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 7 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (4.02%) PaaS
11 6 (3.45%) IaaS
11 6 (3.45%) PowerApps
12 5 (2.87%) Boomi
13 4 (2.30%) Power Automate
14 2 (1.15%) Amazon ECR
14 2 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (1.15%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.72%) MQTT
2 1 (0.57%) DHCP
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) Firewall
2 1 (0.57%) Internet
2 1 (0.57%) LAN
2 1 (0.57%) VoIP
2 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.47%) Data Lake
2 12 (6.90%) Big Data
3 9 (5.17%) BigQuery
4 8 (4.60%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (4.60%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.87%) Power BI
6 4 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.30%) GIS
6 4 (2.30%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.72%) DB2
8 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.15%) Flink
8 2 (1.15%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.57%) Metadata
9 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.57%) Redis
9 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (6.90%) Git
1 12 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.45%) JIRA
3 2 (1.15%) GitLab
3 2 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 28 (16.09%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.52%) Finance
3 23 (13.22%) Banking
4 16 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.75%) Automotive
6 7 (4.02%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.30%) Local Government
7 4 (2.30%) Retail
8 3 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.15%) Marketing
9 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.90%) Kafka
2 6 (3.45%) Middleware
2 6 (3.45%) SOAP
3 5 (2.87%) React
3 5 (2.87%) REST
4 4 (2.30%) .NET
4 4 (2.30%) RAML
5 3 (1.72%) Node.js
6 2 (1.15%) Express.js
6 2 (1.15%) Redux
6 2 (1.15%) Web Services
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Camel
7 1 (0.57%) CSS
7 1 (0.57%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.57%) HTML
7 1 (0.57%) J2EE
7 1 (0.57%) JSON
7 1 (0.57%) SAML
7 1 (0.57%) Spring
7 1 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.02%) NHS
2 5 (2.87%) CMDB
3 4 (2.30%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.30%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.30%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.72%) IoT
4 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.15%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.15%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (1.15%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.15%) Robotics
5 2 (1.15%) SCADA
6 1 (0.57%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.60%) Windows
2 3 (1.72%) Android
2 3 (1.72%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.72%) Linux
2 3 (1.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (25.86%) Migration
2 39 (22.41%) Agile
2 39 (22.41%) DevOps
3 34 (19.54%) Architectural Design
4 24 (13.79%) Enterprise Architecture
5 23 (13.22%) Architectural Patterns
6 20 (11.49%) Business Strategy
6 20 (11.49%) Data Management
7 17 (9.77%) Project Delivery
8 16 (9.20%) Architecture Governance
8 16 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (8.62%) Computer Science
9 15 (8.62%) Translating Business Requirements
10 14 (8.05%) Containerisation
10 14 (8.05%) Service Design
11 13 (7.47%) Data Modelling
11 13 (7.47%) PLM
11 13 (7.47%) Waterfall
12 12 (6.90%) Roadmaps
12 12 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.05%) Java
2 12 (6.90%) SQL
3 10 (5.75%) Python
4 3 (1.72%) C
4 3 (1.72%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.15%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (13.22%) Degree
2 16 (9.20%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.57%) CCNA
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.57%) MCP
6 1 (0.57%) MCSE
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.17%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.30%) QA
3 3 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) NIST
4 1 (0.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.15%) Docker
2 2 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (5.17%) Terraform
2 4 (2.30%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.57%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.57%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.57%) Istio
4 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.60%) Google
2 8 (4.60%) SAP
3 5 (2.87%) CheckPoint
3 5 (2.87%) F5
3 5 (2.87%) Oracle
3 5 (2.87%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.30%) Brio
5 2 (1.15%) Adobe
5 2 (1.15%) Mapbox
5 2 (1.15%) Mitel
5 2 (1.15%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.15%) OpenText
5 2 (1.15%) VMware
6 1 (0.57%) Confluent
6 1 (0.57%) Databricks
6 1 (0.57%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.57%) TSYS