Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Solution Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Bristol is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 57 38
Rank change year-on-year -8 -19 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 24 10 37
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.78% 1.37% 4.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 1.48% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 29
10th Percentile - £581 £450
25th Percentile £525 £600 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -10.16%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £650
90th Percentile £689 £750 £778
South West median daily rate £625 £600 £638
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.88% -1.92%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,254 677 867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 92.61% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 346 468
10th Percentile £355 £250 £246
25th Percentile £450 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £462 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% -5.18% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £590
90th Percentile £671 £741 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 133 165
10th Percentile £22.75 £12.82 £17.50
25th Percentile £46.61 £18.51 £59.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £33.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.03% -52.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £79.00
South West median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +12.50%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Bristol

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Bristol

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Bristol over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Bristol

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Bristol

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 16 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 16 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (62.50%) Azure
3 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
4 8 (33.33%) DevOps
4 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 6 (25.00%) TOGAF
6 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
7 4 (16.67%) AWS
7 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
7 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (16.67%) Oracle
7 4 (16.67%) PaaS
7 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (12.50%) Agile
8 3 (12.50%) API Integration
8 3 (12.50%) Architecture Governance
8 3 (12.50%) Architecture Roadmap
8 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (12.50%) Databricks
8 3 (12.50%) Docker
8 3 (12.50%) EDRMS
8 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
8 3 (12.50%) Firewall
8 3 (12.50%) ITIL
8 3 (12.50%) Load Balancing

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (16.67%) PaaS
3 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) IaaS
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Azure AI
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (4.17%) dbt
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.17%) OCI
5 1 (4.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) EDRMS
2 2 (8.33%) Metadata
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Military
4 2 (8.33%) Aviation
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (4.17%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (4.17%) Node.js
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (4.17%) Quarkus
1 1 (4.17%) React Native
1 1 (4.17%) SOAP
1 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
1 1 (4.17%) Swagger
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
1 1 (4.17%) Web Services
1 1 (4.17%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) DevOps
1 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
3 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
4 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) API Integration
5 3 (12.50%) Architecture Governance
5 3 (12.50%) Architecture Roadmap
5 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.50%) ITIL
5 3 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 3 (12.50%) PLM
5 3 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (8.33%) Design Patterns
6 2 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Java
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 16 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (8.33%) CCNA
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.33%) MCSE
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) IFRS
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Argo
2 1 (4.17%) CASB
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) Databricks
3 3 (12.50%) MuleSoft
3 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (4.17%) Foundry
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) IBM
5 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
5 1 (4.17%) webMethods