Solutions Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Solution Architect
England > Midlands

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £591, 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 65 69 78
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 81 90 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.74% 2.80% 2.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.98% 2.97% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 73 111
10th Percentile £445 £538 £500
25th Percentile £455 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £686 £715 £725
90th Percentile £756 £848 £800
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £89.00 £66.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +34.85% +11.86% +6.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,717 3,035 4,811
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.98% 94.52% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,803 2,163 3,511
10th Percentile £213 £228 £208
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.15%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £573
90th Percentile £675 £694 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 102 147
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £12.71
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.64 £15.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £21.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +26.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.69 £24.25
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £39.55 £44.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -10.11% +76.00% +18.76%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +10 49 £650 -1.14% 14
East Midlands +4 31 £455 -32.59% 9
Solutions Architect
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 22 (27.16%) Finance
1 22 (27.16%) Banking
1 22 (27.16%) Azure
2 21 (25.93%) AWS
3 20 (24.69%) Architectural Design
4 18 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 17 (20.99%) SC Cleared
6 13 (16.05%) Enterprise Architecture
7 12 (14.81%) Roadmaps
8 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
8 11 (13.58%) Microservices
8 11 (13.58%) Agile
8 11 (13.58%) Microsoft
9 10 (12.35%) Android
9 10 (12.35%) Business Strategy
10 9 (11.11%) DevOps
10 9 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (11.11%) Apple iOS
11 8 (9.88%) Jenkins
11 8 (9.88%) Progress Chef
11 8 (9.88%) Technology Strategy
11 8 (9.88%) IT Strategy
12 7 (8.64%) Data Lake
12 7 (8.64%) Architectural Patterns
12 7 (8.64%) Strategic Roadmap
12 7 (8.64%) Payment Gateway
12 7 (8.64%) Git
12 7 (8.64%) JIRA
12 7 (8.64%) Credit Risk
12 7 (8.64%) CRM

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.23%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (4.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (3.70%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.23%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (1.23%) SAP EWM
4 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.16%) Azure
2 21 (25.93%) AWS
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.94%) SaaS
4 3 (3.70%) Boomi
5 2 (2.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.23%) GCP
6 1 (1.23%) IaaS
6 1 (1.23%) OCI
6 1 (1.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) Firewall
2 2 (2.47%) SAN
2 2 (2.47%) WAN
3 1 (1.23%) DNS
3 1 (1.23%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (1.23%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.64%) Data Lake
1 7 (8.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.94%) DB2
3 1 (1.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (9.88%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.64%) Git
2 7 (8.64%) JIRA
3 1 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
General
1 22 (27.16%) Banking
1 22 (27.16%) Finance
2 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.47%) Local Government
5 2 (2.47%) Marketing
5 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.23%) Aeronautics
6 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.23%) Electronics
6 1 (1.23%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.23%) Law
6 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) .NET
2 4 (4.94%) React
3 3 (3.70%) OpenAPI
3 3 (3.70%) RAML
3 3 (3.70%) RESTful
3 3 (3.70%) Swagger
4 2 (2.47%) HTML
4 2 (2.47%) OAuth
4 2 (2.47%) SAML
4 2 (2.47%) Visualforce
4 2 (2.47%) XML
5 1 (1.23%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.23%) Middleware
5 1 (1.23%) Node.js
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.23%) REST
5 1 (1.23%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.23%) SOAP
5 1 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Credit Risk
2 6 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (7.41%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.94%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.23%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.23%) PropTech
5 1 (1.23%) SCADA
5 1 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.23%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.35%) Android
2 9 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 7 (8.64%) Windows
4 2 (2.47%) Linux
4 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.69%) Architectural Design
2 13 (16.05%) Enterprise Architecture
3 12 (14.81%) Roadmaps
4 11 (13.58%) Agile
4 11 (13.58%) Microservices
5 10 (12.35%) Business Strategy
6 9 (11.11%) DevOps
7 8 (9.88%) IT Strategy
7 8 (9.88%) Technology Strategy
8 7 (8.64%) Architectural Patterns
8 7 (8.64%) CRM
8 7 (8.64%) Project Management
8 7 (8.64%) Strategic Roadmap
9 6 (7.41%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (7.41%) Data Transformation
9 6 (7.41%) ETL
9 6 (7.41%) High Availability
9 6 (7.41%) SDLC
9 6 (7.41%) Technical Debt
9 6 (7.41%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.64%) Java
2 4 (4.94%) C
3 3 (3.70%) C#
3 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.70%) SQL
4 2 (2.47%) Apex Code
4 2 (2.47%) SOQL
5 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.23%) X++
Qualifications
1 18 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.99%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (6.17%) Degree
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.47%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.23%) CAPM
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.23%) ISO 22301
1 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.47%) vSphere
3 1 (1.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (1.23%) Docker
3 1 (1.23%) XenApp
3 1 (1.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (9.88%) Progress Chef
2 6 (7.41%) SCCM
3 5 (6.17%) AirWatch
4 3 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.23%) Ansible
5 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.41%) Apple
2 6 (7.41%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.70%) Samsung
3 3 (3.70%) SAP
3 3 (3.70%) VMware
4 2 (2.47%) Citrix
4 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.23%) Cisco
5 1 (1.23%) Google
5 1 (1.23%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.23%) IBM
5 1 (1.23%) Intel
5 1 (1.23%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.23%) Juniper
5 1 (1.23%) NetApp
5 1 (1.23%) Nokia
5 1 (1.23%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle
5 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow