Solutions Architect Contracts in the North of England

Solution Architect
England > North of England

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the North of England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 108 80
Rank change year-on-year +64 -28 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 182 99 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.76% 1.82% 2.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.05% 1.91% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 61 141
10th Percentile £473 - £505
25th Percentile £525 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £618 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -1.20% +13.64%
75th Percentile £685 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.93% +12.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £89.00 £66.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% +13.14% +6.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,496 5,185 6,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.28% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,630 5,013
10th Percentile £263 £263 £206
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £663 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 165 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.10 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.19 £17.50 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.63 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £57.06 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the North of England

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +77 125 £625 +4.17% 17
Yorkshire +10 52 £575 -11.54% 10
North East +9 6 £600 +6.67% 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 North of England region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 51 (28.02%) Azure
2 48 (26.37%) Migration
3 41 (22.53%) Agile
4 40 (21.98%) DevOps
5 34 (18.68%) Architectural Design
6 32 (17.58%) AWS
7 31 (17.03%) Microsoft
8 30 (16.48%) Finance
9 28 (15.38%) Social Skills
10 26 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
11 25 (13.74%) Banking
12 24 (13.19%) Degree
13 23 (12.64%) Architectural Patterns
14 22 (12.09%) Business Strategy
15 20 (10.99%) Data Management
16 18 (9.89%) Project Delivery
16 18 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (9.34%) Stakeholder Management
18 16 (8.79%) Java
18 16 (8.79%) Security Cleared
18 16 (8.79%) Translating Business Requirements
18 16 (8.79%) Public Sector
18 16 (8.79%) Architecture Governance
19 15 (8.24%) Containerisation
19 15 (8.24%) SC Cleared
19 15 (8.24%) Computer Science
19 15 (8.24%) Waterfall
20 14 (7.69%) Data Modelling
20 14 (7.69%) Roadmaps
20 14 (7.69%) Service Design

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 12 (6.59%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.10%) Apache
3 2 (1.10%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.55%) CMS
4 1 (0.55%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.10%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.55%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.55%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.55%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 51 (28.02%) Azure
2 32 (17.58%) AWS
3 18 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 13 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.59%) GCP
5 12 (6.59%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.59%) SaaS
6 11 (6.04%) Amazon S3
7 10 (5.49%) Serverless
8 9 (4.95%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 7 (3.85%) Boomi
9 7 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.85%) PaaS
10 6 (3.30%) IaaS
10 6 (3.30%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.20%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.10%) Kong
12 2 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.65%) MQTT
2 1 (0.55%) DHCP
2 1 (0.55%) DNS
2 1 (0.55%) Firewall
2 1 (0.55%) Internet
2 1 (0.55%) LAN
2 1 (0.55%) VoIP
2 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 13 (7.14%) Big Data
3 10 (5.49%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.95%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (4.95%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.75%) Power BI
6 4 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.20%) GIS
6 4 (2.20%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.65%) DB2
8 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.10%) Flink
8 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.55%) Metadata
9 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.55%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (7.14%) Git
1 13 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.30%) JIRA
3 2 (1.10%) GitLab
3 2 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 30 (16.48%) Finance
2 28 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.74%) Banking
4 16 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.49%) Automotive
6 7 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.75%) Local Government
7 5 (2.75%) Retail
8 3 (1.65%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.65%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.10%) Marketing
9 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.14%) Kafka
2 8 (4.40%) SOAP
3 7 (3.85%) REST
4 6 (3.30%) Middleware
4 6 (3.30%) RAML
5 5 (2.75%) React
6 4 (2.20%) .NET
7 3 (1.65%) Node.js
7 3 (1.65%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.10%) Express.js
8 2 (1.10%) Redux
8 2 (1.10%) Spring
8 2 (1.10%) Web Services
9 1 (0.55%) IBM Integration Bus
9 1 (0.55%) J2EE
9 1 (0.55%) JSON
9 1 (0.55%) OAuth
9 1 (0.55%) OpenID
9 1 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.85%) NHS
2 5 (2.75%) CMDB
2 5 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (2.75%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.20%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.20%) Mainframe
4 3 (1.65%) IoT
4 3 (1.65%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.10%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.10%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (1.10%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.10%) Robotics
5 2 (1.10%) SCADA
6 1 (0.55%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (0.55%) DataPower
6 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.95%) Windows
2 3 (1.65%) Android
2 3 (1.65%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.65%) Linux
2 3 (1.65%) Unix
3 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.37%) Migration
2 41 (22.53%) Agile
3 40 (21.98%) DevOps
4 34 (18.68%) Architectural Design
5 26 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 23 (12.64%) Architectural Patterns
7 22 (12.09%) Business Strategy
8 20 (10.99%) Data Management
9 18 (9.89%) Project Delivery
10 17 (9.34%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (8.79%) Architecture Governance
11 16 (8.79%) Translating Business Requirements
12 15 (8.24%) Computer Science
12 15 (8.24%) Containerisation
12 15 (8.24%) Waterfall
13 14 (7.69%) Data Modelling
13 14 (7.69%) Roadmaps
13 14 (7.69%) Service Design
14 13 (7.14%) Data Privacy
14 13 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.79%) Java
2 13 (7.14%) SQL
3 10 (5.49%) Python
4 3 (1.65%) C
4 3 (1.65%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (13.19%) Degree
2 16 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.55%) CCNA
7 1 (0.55%) CISSP
7 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.55%) MCP
7 1 (0.55%) MCSE
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.04%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.20%) QA
3 3 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.55%) GDPR
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) NIST
4 1 (0.55%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (4.95%) Terraform
2 4 (2.20%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.65%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.55%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.55%) Istio
4 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.49%) Google
3 9 (4.95%) SAP
4 5 (2.75%) CheckPoint
4 5 (2.75%) F5
4 5 (2.75%) Oracle
4 5 (2.75%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.20%) Brio
6 3 (1.65%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.10%) Adobe
7 2 (1.10%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.10%) Mitel
7 2 (1.10%) OpenText
7 2 (1.10%) VMware
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco
8 1 (0.55%) Dell
8 1 (0.55%) ESRI
8 1 (0.55%) IBM
8 1 (0.55%) Sophos
8 1 (0.55%) TSYS