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 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 43 36
Rank change year-on-year -14 -7 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 10 37 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.37% 4.02% 4.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 4.22% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 29 33
10th Percentile £581 £450 -
25th Percentile £600 £500 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £640
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -10.16% +4.49%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £778 £778
South West median daily rate £600 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.92% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
South West median hourly rate - - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 676 876 1,012
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 95.22% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 474 682
10th Percentile £250 £226 £313
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% -7.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £595 £589 £643
90th Percentile £744 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 165 113
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.50 £20.45
25th Percentile £18.51 £59.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £79.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +9.09%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect 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 18 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 Bristol region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (40.00%) AWS
4 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (40.00%) VMware
4 4 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (30.00%) User Experience
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Architectural Design
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
6 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (20.00%) Node.js
6 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (20.00%) React
6 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) Terraform
7 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) iPaaS
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) FMCG
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Architectural Design
3 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (10.00%) Due Diligence
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Debt
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (10.00%) Foundry
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) webMethods