Technical Solutions Architect Contracts

Technical Solution Architect
UK

The median Technical Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 657 745
Rank change year-on-year +97 +88 -76
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Solutions Architect 24 40 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.072% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.076% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 57
10th Percentile £455 £538 £528
25th Percentile £519 £625 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £687 £675
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% +1.81% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £747 £750
90th Percentile £678 £829 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +41.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Technical Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Solutions Architect in the UK

Technical Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Solutions Architect in the UK

Technical Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Solutions Architect in the UK

Technical Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Solutions Architect in the UK

Technical Solutions Architect
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England +79 23 £575 -14.81% 10
UK excluding London +25 15 £575 -11.54% 6
Work from Home +118 14 £575 -17.86% 4
London +76 8 £575 -20.69% 3
North of England +19 5 £575 +10.05% 3
West Midlands +16 3 £470 - 1
North West +16 3 £575 +10.05% 3
Midlands +14 3 £470 - 2
East of England +6 3 £675 -3.57%
South West +3 3 £638 +4.98% 1
Scotland +47 1 £625 -3.81%
Yorkshire +14 1 £550 -
North East - 1 £525 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Technical 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 Technical Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.83%) Migration
3 4 (16.67%) Agile
3 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
3 4 (16.67%) Windows
3 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 4 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (12.50%) Service Design
4 3 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (12.50%) B2B
4 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 3 (12.50%) Local Government
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (8.33%) Degree
5 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (8.33%) Identity Management
5 2 (8.33%) Finance
5 2 (8.33%) Dell
5 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (8.33%) Middleware
5 2 (8.33%) B2C
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco
5 2 (8.33%) LAN
5 2 (8.33%) WAN

Technical 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 1 (4.17%) Drupal
1 1 (4.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
1 2 (8.33%) GCP
1 2 (8.33%) SaaS
1 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.17%) IaaS
2 1 (4.17%) OCI
2 1 (4.17%) PaaS
2 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) LAN
1 2 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (4.17%) Big Data
1 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
General
1 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Local Government
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Electronics
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Police
4 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Middleware
1 2 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Camel
2 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (20.83%) Migration
3 4 (16.67%) Agile
3 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 3 (12.50%) B2B
4 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 3 (12.50%) Service Design
4 3 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (8.33%) B2C
5 2 (8.33%) Business Strategy
5 2 (8.33%) Data Governance
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (8.33%) Identity Management
5 2 (8.33%) Microservices
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (4.17%) C#
2 1 (4.17%) C++
2 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) FortiGate
1 2 (8.33%) VxRail
2 1 (4.17%) AirWatch
2 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco
1 2 (8.33%) Dell
1 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
1 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.17%) Apple
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) IBM
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) Samsung
2 1 (4.17%) SAP
2 1 (4.17%) VMware