Solutions Architect Contracts in the South East

Solution Architect
England > South East

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the South East is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 77 61
Rank change year-on-year +1 -16 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 138 152 295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.44% 2.68% 3.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.65% 2.83% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 114 223
10th Percentile £463 £550 £500
25th Percentile £550 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £615
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +9.33%
75th Percentile £699 £750 £674
90th Percentile £738 £809 £738
England median daily rate £650 £675 £638
% change year-on-year -3.70% +5.88% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £90.80 - -
25th Percentile £92.00 £76.75 £56.50
Median hourly rate £92.37 £78.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.67% +33.05% +2.61%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £61.50
90th Percentile £98.67 - -
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
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,205 5,364 7,367
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.62% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,082 3,717 5,057
10th Percentile £234 £217 £206
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £604 £590
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 238 311
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £16.18
Median hourly rate £48.20 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +150.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the South East

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +3 66 £625 -2.91% 23
Hampshire +14 46 £725 +15.08% 4
Berkshire -21 43 £625 -4.76% 13
Buckinghamshire +24 19 £613 +6.06% 7
Surrey +13 12 £672 +16.87% 5
West Sussex +10 5 £475 -33.33% 1
Oxfordshire +3 4 £738 +18.00% 3
Middlesex - 3 £625 -
East Sussex +4 1 £775 - 6
Kent -7 1 - -
Sussex - 1 £550 - 1
Solutions Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 South East region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 66 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 44 (31.88%) Social Skills
3 40 (28.99%) DV Cleared
4 36 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (22.46%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (21.01%) Product Ownership
7 26 (18.84%) Java
8 25 (18.12%) SC Cleared
9 24 (17.39%) GAP Analysis
10 22 (15.94%) Translating Business Requirements
11 20 (14.49%) Agile
11 20 (14.49%) Roadmaps
12 16 (11.59%) Telecoms
13 15 (10.87%) Azure
14 14 (10.14%) VMware
15 12 (8.70%) IT Strategy
16 11 (7.97%) AWS
16 11 (7.97%) DevOps
16 11 (7.97%) QA
17 10 (7.25%) Degree
17 10 (7.25%) SAP
17 10 (7.25%) Microsoft
17 10 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
18 9 (6.52%) Software Architecture
18 9 (6.52%) Master's Degree
18 9 (6.52%) Oracle
19 8 (5.80%) NCSC
19 8 (5.80%) TOGAF
19 8 (5.80%) Project Management
19 8 (5.80%) Technical Leadership

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (3.62%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.90%) Confluence
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 6 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.17%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.72%) Maximo
4 1 (0.72%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.72%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.72%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.72%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.72%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.72%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.87%) Azure
2 11 (7.97%) AWS
3 6 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.45%) Azure Stack
4 2 (1.45%) GitHub
4 2 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.45%) OCI
4 2 (1.45%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.72%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.72%) PaaS
5 1 (0.72%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.35%) DHCP
1 6 (4.35%) DNS
2 5 (3.62%) MPLS
3 4 (2.90%) Internet
4 3 (2.17%) SDH
4 3 (2.17%) WAN
5 2 (1.45%) PBX
5 2 (1.45%) SAN
5 2 (1.45%) VoIP
6 1 (0.72%) Firewall
6 1 (0.72%) LAN
6 1 (0.72%) Network Security
6 1 (0.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.90%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.17%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.72%) Big Data
4 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.72%) Impala
4 1 (0.72%) Power BI
4 1 (0.72%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 2 (1.45%) JIRA
2 1 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 44 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.46%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.59%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.35%) Finance
4 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.35%) Retail
5 5 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.17%) Aviation
6 3 (2.17%) Banking
6 3 (2.17%) Billing
7 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Aeronautics
8 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.72%) Automotive
8 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) French Language
8 1 (0.72%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.72%) Legal
8 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.17%) .NET
1 3 (2.17%) J2EE
1 3 (2.17%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.45%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.72%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.72%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.72%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (0.72%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.72%) Kafka
3 1 (0.72%) Middleware
3 1 (0.72%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.01%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 4 (2.90%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.17%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.45%) IoT
5 2 (1.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.90%) Unix
1 4 (2.90%) Windows
2 2 (1.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (17.39%) GAP Analysis
3 22 (15.94%) Translating Business Requirements
4 20 (14.49%) Agile
4 20 (14.49%) Roadmaps
5 12 (8.70%) IT Strategy
6 11 (7.97%) DevOps
7 10 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (6.52%) Software Architecture
9 8 (5.80%) Project Management
9 8 (5.80%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (5.80%) TOGAF
10 7 (5.07%) Coaching
10 7 (5.07%) Enterprise Architecture
10 7 (5.07%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (4.35%) Mentoring
11 6 (4.35%) Privileged Access Management
11 6 (4.35%) Process Improvement
11 6 (4.35%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 26 (18.84%) Java
2 5 (3.62%) SQL
3 4 (2.90%) PL/SQL
4 3 (2.17%) C
4 3 (2.17%) C++
4 3 (2.17%) Python
5 2 (1.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 66 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 40 (28.99%) DV Cleared
3 25 (18.12%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.25%) Degree
5 9 (6.52%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.17%) CCNP
6 3 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.17%) MCSE
6 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.97%) QA
2 8 (5.80%) NCSC
3 6 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (2.90%) Terraform
2 3 (2.17%) SCCM
2 3 (2.17%) SCOM
3 2 (1.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (10.14%) VMware
2 10 (7.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.25%) SAP
3 9 (6.52%) Oracle
4 6 (4.35%) Cisco
5 3 (2.17%) Ariba
6 2 (1.45%) Dell
6 2 (1.45%) Foundry
6 2 (1.45%) IBM
6 2 (1.45%) JDA
6 2 (1.45%) Juniper
6 2 (1.45%) Nokia
6 2 (1.45%) Palantir
6 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.45%) Workday
7 1 (0.72%) Databricks
7 1 (0.72%) F5
7 1 (0.72%) Okta
7 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.72%) Splunk