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 27 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
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 84 70
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,074 1,328 2,413
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.88% 2.82% 3.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.10% 2.98% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 725 940 1,620
10th Percentile £463 £519 £513
25th Percentile £531 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £738
90th Percentile £838 £838 £800
UK median daily rate £638 £665 £650
% change year-on-year -4.14% +2.31% +11.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 3
10th Percentile £51.80 £35.96 -
25th Percentile £64.63 £62.63 £56.50
Median hourly rate £89.00 £66.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.85% +11.86% +6.31%
75th Percentile £92.28 £77.19 £64.75
90th Percentile £93.42 £81.98 £66.70
UK median hourly rate £89.00 £66.00 £63.50
% change year-on-year +34.85% +3.94% +14.41%

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 34,647 44,562 67,791
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.48% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,650 31,596 48,500
10th Percentile £295 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,591 1,341 1,761
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.65 £20.00 £15.93
Median hourly rate £39.55 £44.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +76.00% +18.76%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £49.89
90th Percentile £74.54 £77.50 £65.30
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £43.81 £25.50
% change year-on-year -14.39% +71.78% +18.60%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -3 508 £650 -5.45% 169
North of England +58 176 £600 -4.00% 32
South East -13 128 £628 -1.57% 34
North West +78 123 £615 +2.50% 22
South West +11 120 £650 -2.69% 24
Midlands +4 81 £591 -12.41% 23
West Midlands +10 49 £650 -1.14% 14
Yorkshire +5 49 £575 -11.54% 8
East of England +23 45 £663 -4.88%
East Midlands +4 31 £455 -32.59% 9
North East +10 5 £600 +14.29% 2
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 259 (24.12%) Finance
2 244 (22.72%) Azure
3 243 (22.63%) Security Cleared
4 239 (22.25%) Agile
5 238 (22.16%) Social Skills
6 227 (21.14%) AWS
7 170 (15.83%) Migration
8 162 (15.08%) Microsoft
9 155 (14.43%) SC Cleared
10 135 (12.57%) Banking
11 134 (12.48%) Roadmaps
12 131 (12.20%) DevOps
13 128 (11.92%) Java
14 116 (10.80%) DV Cleared
14 116 (10.80%) GCP
15 111 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
16 103 (9.59%) Degree
17 98 (9.12%) Python
18 96 (8.94%) Enterprise Architecture
19 92 (8.57%) Public Sector
20 91 (8.47%) Architectural Design
21 89 (8.29%) Data Lake
21 89 (8.29%) TOGAF
22 85 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
22 85 (7.91%) Microservices
23 77 (7.17%) SAP
24 76 (7.08%) JavaScript
24 76 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
25 71 (6.61%) Telecoms
26 68 (6.33%) Translating Business Requirements

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 49 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (4.47%) Apache
3 25 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 24 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.21%) WebLogic
6 12 (1.12%) Confluence
7 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.84%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.56%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.56%) CMS
10 5 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.37%) SAS
12 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.19%) Drupal
13 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.093%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.093%) Oracle Coherence
14 1 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.093%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.093%) CATIA
4 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 34 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 34 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.21%) Primavera
3 11 (1.02%) Teamcenter
4 10 (0.93%) Distributed Ledger
5 7 (0.65%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.47%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.47%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.37%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.37%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 4 (0.37%) SAP IS-U
8 3 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.28%) Maximo
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.28%) SAP HCM
8 3 (0.28%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 244 (22.72%) Azure
2 227 (21.14%) AWS
3 116 (10.80%) GCP
4 67 (6.24%) Power Platform
5 65 (6.05%) SaaS
6 50 (4.66%) Dynamics 365
6 50 (4.66%) Snowflake
7 45 (4.19%) dbt
8 42 (3.91%) PaaS
9 39 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (2.05%) Serverless
13 20 (1.86%) IaaS
14 18 (1.68%) PowerApps
15 16 (1.49%) Boomi
16 13 (1.21%) Power Automate
17 12 (1.12%) Amazon S3
18 11 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
18 11 (1.02%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.61%) VoIP
2 21 (1.96%) PBX
3 17 (1.58%) WAN
4 12 (1.12%) SDH
5 10 (0.93%) DNS
6 7 (0.65%) Firewall
6 7 (0.65%) Internet
7 6 (0.56%) CTI
7 6 (0.56%) LAN
8 5 (0.47%) DHCP
8 5 (0.47%) SAN
9 4 (0.37%) ATM
9 4 (0.37%) VSAN
10 3 (0.28%) 4G
10 3 (0.28%) Intranet
10 3 (0.28%) Junos
10 3 (0.28%) MPLS
10 3 (0.28%) MQTT
10 3 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.19%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (8.29%) Data Lake
2 54 (5.03%) Amazon Athena
3 45 (4.19%) Apache Arrow
3 45 (4.19%) Dremio
4 44 (4.10%) Apache Ignite
5 42 (3.91%) Big Data
6 25 (2.33%) SQL Server
7 24 (2.23%) Power BI
8 22 (2.05%) Oracle Database
9 21 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.21%) Hadoop
11 11 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.02%) DB2
11 11 (1.02%) Relational Database
12 10 (0.93%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.84%) Tableau
14 8 (0.74%) Apache Hive
14 8 (0.74%) GIS
14 8 (0.74%) Impala
Development Applications
1 34 (3.17%) Jenkins
2 29 (2.70%) JIRA
3 21 (1.96%) Git
4 19 (1.77%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.093%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.093%) GitLab
5 1 (0.093%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.093%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.093%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.093%) webpack
General
1 259 (24.12%) Finance
2 238 (22.16%) Social Skills
3 135 (12.57%) Banking
4 92 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 76 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
6 71 (6.61%) Telecoms
7 55 (5.12%) Investment Banking
8 49 (4.56%) Retail
9 45 (4.19%) Front Office
10 36 (3.35%) Manufacturing
11 32 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 31 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (2.70%) Marketing
14 24 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.40%) Electronics
16 14 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.30%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.30%) Local Government
17 12 (1.12%) Automotive
18 10 (0.93%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (4.19%) gRPC
1 45 (4.19%) Protocol Buffers
2 44 (4.10%) NumPy
2 44 (4.10%) Pandas
2 44 (4.10%) SciPy
3 32 (2.98%) .NET
4 29 (2.70%) Middleware
5 22 (2.05%) SOAP
6 21 (1.96%) REST
7 19 (1.77%) HTML
7 19 (1.77%) Kafka
8 18 (1.68%) XML
9 16 (1.49%) Web Services
10 14 (1.30%) Spring Boot
11 13 (1.21%) .NET Framework
11 13 (1.21%) React
12 12 (1.12%) PySpark
13 11 (1.02%) CSS
13 11 (1.02%) RESTful
14 10 (0.93%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (4.47%) Derivative
2 46 (4.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (4.19%) Equities
3 45 (4.19%) Fixed Income
3 45 (4.19%) Hedge funds
4 43 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 37 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 26 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.86%) Cloud Native
10 19 (1.77%) Mainframe
11 18 (1.68%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.49%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.21%) IoT
14 12 (1.12%) Blockchain
15 11 (1.02%) Onboarding
16 10 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
17 8 (0.74%) Blackberry
17 8 (0.74%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.26%) Linux
2 30 (2.79%) Windows
3 18 (1.68%) Android
4 16 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.65%) CentOS
6 7 (0.65%) Unix
6 7 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.093%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (22.25%) Agile
2 170 (15.83%) Migration
3 134 (12.48%) Roadmaps
4 131 (12.20%) DevOps
5 111 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
6 96 (8.94%) Enterprise Architecture
7 91 (8.47%) Architectural Design
8 89 (8.29%) TOGAF
9 85 (7.91%) Microservices
9 85 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 68 (6.33%) Translating Business Requirements
11 66 (6.15%) Software Engineering
12 64 (5.96%) Technical Leadership
13 62 (5.77%) Computer Science
14 57 (5.31%) SDLC
15 55 (5.12%) Project Delivery
16 54 (5.03%) Asset Management
17 53 (4.93%) Architectural Patterns
18 50 (4.66%) CRM
19 49 (4.56%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 128 (11.92%) Java
2 98 (9.12%) Python
3 76 (7.08%) JavaScript
4 61 (5.68%) SQL
5 49 (4.56%) TypeScript
6 21 (1.96%) C#
7 20 (1.86%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.12%) C
9 9 (0.84%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.84%) Scala
10 8 (0.74%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.56%) C++
12 5 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.19%) ABAP
13 2 (0.19%) Bash
13 2 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.19%) PHP
13 2 (0.19%) Ruby
13 2 (0.19%) SOQL
14 1 (0.093%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 243 (22.63%) Security Cleared
2 155 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 116 (10.80%) DV Cleared
4 103 (9.59%) Degree
5 29 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.42%) AWS Certification
7 25 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
9 16 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.84%) HND
13 7 (0.65%) CCNP
14 5 (0.47%) CISSP
15 4 (0.37%) PhD
16 3 (0.28%) JNCIA
16 3 (0.28%) SAP Certification
16 3 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.05%) QA
2 20 (1.86%) GDPR
3 13 (1.21%) Accessibility
4 9 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (0.84%) SLA
5 7 (0.65%) COBIT
5 7 (0.65%) HIPAA
5 7 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.56%) ISO 22301
6 6 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 6 (0.56%) NIST
7 5 (0.47%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.37%) NCSC
9 3 (0.28%) PMO
9 3 (0.28%) SEPA
10 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.093%) GRC
11 1 (0.093%) IFRS
System Software
1 35 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.40%) Docker
4 10 (0.93%) vSphere
5 5 (0.47%) ACF2
5 5 (0.47%) IAG
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 3 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.093%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.093%) HDFS
8 1 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.093%) XenApp
8 1 (0.093%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (3.07%) Terraform
2 20 (1.86%) Ansible
2 20 (1.86%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.02%) Progress Chef
4 10 (0.93%) Puppet
5 8 (0.74%) Grafana
5 8 (0.74%) Kibana
5 8 (0.74%) SCCM
6 7 (0.65%) logstash
6 7 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.56%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.56%) VxRail
8 5 (0.47%) AirWatch
9 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.19%) SCOM
11 1 (0.093%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.093%) Istio
11 1 (0.093%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 162 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 77 (7.17%) SAP
3 61 (5.68%) Oracle
4 55 (5.12%) Google
5 41 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 39 (3.63%) VMware
7 33 (3.07%) Cisco
8 26 (2.42%) IBM
9 21 (1.96%) Juniper
10 20 (1.86%) Nokia
11 13 (1.21%) Avaya
11 13 (1.21%) Dell
12 11 (1.02%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.02%) Databricks
12 11 (1.02%) MuleSoft
12 11 (1.02%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.02%) Talend
13 10 (0.93%) Workday
14 9 (0.84%) Ericsson
14 9 (0.84%) ServiceNow