Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Solution Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 87 71
Rank change year-on-year +14 -16 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1,053 1,340 2,364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.89% 2.78% 3.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.12% 2.94% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 925 1,563
10th Percentile £485 £524 £508
25th Percentile £550 £600 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £665 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +6.40% +8.70%
75th Percentile £738 £760 £725
90th Percentile £800 £829 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 2
10th Percentile £56.00 £39.04 -
25th Percentile £86.00 £64.88 £56.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £66.75 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.83% +13.14% +6.79%
75th Percentile £92.37 £80.25 £61.50
90th Percentile £94.47 - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £67.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% +14.41% +6.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 0 487 £650 -5.45% 146
North of England +69 166 £600 -4.95% 60
South East +8 140 £625 -0.79% 65
South West +26 133 £650 -2.99% 29
North West +80 116 £625 +2.67% 32
Midlands +2 72 £625 -3.85% 47
Yorkshire +5 46 £575 -11.54% 24
West Midlands +9 43 £670 +3.00% 32
East of England +19 39 £675 +1.96% 8
East Midlands +6 28 £460 -31.09% 15
North East +12 5 £600 +6.67% 4
Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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.

1 274 (26.02%) Security Cleared
2 254 (24.12%) Azure
3 239 (22.70%) Social Skills
4 238 (22.60%) Finance
5 233 (22.13%) Agile
6 217 (20.61%) AWS
7 178 (16.90%) SC Cleared
8 161 (15.29%) Microsoft
9 152 (14.43%) Migration
10 135 (12.82%) DV Cleared
10 135 (12.82%) DevOps
11 126 (11.97%) Roadmaps
12 107 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
13 105 (9.97%) Degree
14 104 (9.88%) Banking
15 101 (9.59%) Enterprise Architecture
16 97 (9.21%) Architectural Design
16 97 (9.21%) Public Sector
16 97 (9.21%) GCP
17 96 (9.12%) Java
18 89 (8.45%) TOGAF
19 84 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
20 83 (7.88%) Telecoms
21 80 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
22 78 (7.41%) Microservices
23 76 (7.22%) Power Platform
24 73 (6.93%) SAP
25 69 (6.55%) Python
25 69 (6.55%) Computer Science
25 69 (6.55%) Data Lake

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 27 (2.56%) Apache
1 27 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.23%) Confluence
5 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.66%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.47%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) SAS
9 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.095%) Drupal
11 1 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.095%) CATIA
3 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.095%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 34 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 34 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.04%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.95%) Distributed Ledger
4 8 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.66%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.57%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.57%) SAP SD
7 5 (0.47%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.47%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.47%) SAP HCM
7 5 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.38%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 4 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.38%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.38%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.28%) Maximo
9 3 (0.28%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 254 (24.12%) Azure
2 217 (20.61%) AWS
3 97 (9.21%) GCP
4 76 (7.22%) Power Platform
5 67 (6.36%) SaaS
6 52 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
7 44 (4.18%) PaaS
8 39 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (2.66%) Snowflake
11 25 (2.37%) dbt
12 24 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
12 24 (2.28%) Serverless
13 22 (2.09%) IaaS
14 16 (1.52%) Boomi
15 13 (1.23%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.23%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.14%) Power Automate
17 11 (1.04%) OCI
18 8 (0.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.85%) VoIP
2 23 (2.18%) PBX
3 19 (1.80%) WAN
4 15 (1.42%) SDH
5 14 (1.33%) DNS
6 11 (1.04%) Internet
7 9 (0.85%) DHCP
8 7 (0.66%) SAN
9 6 (0.57%) CTI
9 6 (0.57%) Firewall
9 6 (0.57%) MPLS
10 4 (0.38%) ATM
10 4 (0.38%) Junos
10 4 (0.38%) LAN
11 3 (0.28%) Intranet
11 3 (0.28%) MQTT
11 3 (0.28%) NetScaler
11 3 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.28%) VSAN
12 2 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (6.55%) Data Lake
2 41 (3.89%) Big Data
3 34 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
4 26 (2.47%) Power BI
5 25 (2.37%) Apache Arrow
5 25 (2.37%) Dremio
6 24 (2.28%) Apache Ignite
7 21 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (1.80%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (1.04%) Hadoop
9 11 (1.04%) Oracle Database
9 11 (1.04%) Relational Database
10 10 (0.95%) Apache Hive
10 10 (0.95%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.95%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.85%) GIS
11 9 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 29 (2.75%) JIRA
3 23 (2.18%) Rational DOORS
4 19 (1.80%) Git
5 2 (0.19%) GitLab
5 2 (0.19%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.19%) webpack
6 1 (0.095%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.095%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.095%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.095%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 239 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 238 (22.60%) Finance
3 104 (9.88%) Banking
4 97 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 83 (7.88%) Telecoms
6 80 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (4.84%) Retail
8 35 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (3.32%) Manufacturing
9 34 (3.23%) Investment Banking
10 33 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (2.47%) Marketing
12 25 (2.37%) Front Office
13 24 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.61%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.33%) Electronics
16 14 (1.33%) Local Government
17 12 (1.14%) Automotive
18 11 (1.04%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.85%) Middleware
2 29 (2.75%) .NET
3 25 (2.37%) gRPC
3 25 (2.37%) Protocol Buffers
4 24 (2.28%) NumPy
4 24 (2.28%) Pandas
4 24 (2.28%) SciPy
5 18 (1.71%) Web Services
6 17 (1.61%) Kafka
6 17 (1.61%) REST
7 16 (1.52%) SOAP
8 14 (1.33%) SailPoint
9 13 (1.23%) HTML
10 12 (1.14%) React
10 12 (1.14%) XML
11 11 (1.04%) RESTful
11 11 (1.04%) SAML
12 10 (0.95%) .NET Framework
13 8 (0.76%) PySpark
14 7 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (3.32%) Product Ownership
2 28 (2.66%) Data Centre
2 28 (2.66%) Derivative
3 26 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
3 26 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 25 (2.37%) Equities
4 25 (2.37%) Fixed Income
4 25 (2.37%) Hedge funds
5 20 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (1.80%) Mobile App
7 18 (1.71%) Mainframe
8 17 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.23%) Cloud Native
11 12 (1.14%) Blockchain
11 12 (1.14%) IoT
11 12 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
12 11 (1.04%) Management Information System
13 10 (0.95%) Onboarding
14 9 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.13%) Linux
2 26 (2.47%) Windows
3 8 (0.76%) Android
3 8 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.66%) CentOS
4 7 (0.66%) Unix
5 6 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.095%) tvOS
7 1 (0.095%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (22.13%) Agile
2 152 (14.43%) Migration
3 135 (12.82%) DevOps
4 126 (11.97%) Roadmaps
5 107 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (9.59%) Enterprise Architecture
7 97 (9.21%) Architectural Design
8 89 (8.45%) TOGAF
9 84 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 78 (7.41%) Microservices
11 69 (6.55%) Computer Science
12 67 (6.36%) Translating Business Requirements
13 62 (5.89%) Architectural Patterns
14 58 (5.51%) Project Delivery
15 54 (5.13%) Analytics
15 54 (5.13%) Data Management
16 52 (4.94%) Technical Leadership
17 50 (4.75%) Architecture Governance
17 50 (4.75%) CI/CD
18 49 (4.65%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 96 (9.12%) Java
2 69 (6.55%) Python
3 53 (5.03%) JavaScript
4 46 (4.37%) SQL
5 29 (2.75%) TypeScript
6 22 (2.09%) PowerShell
7 19 (1.80%) C#
8 9 (0.85%) Scala
9 8 (0.76%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.66%) C
11 6 (0.57%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.28%) Bash
12 3 (0.28%) C++
12 3 (0.28%) Ruby
13 2 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.19%) PHP
13 2 (0.19%) SOQL
13 2 (0.19%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 274 (26.02%) Security Cleared
2 178 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 135 (12.82%) DV Cleared
4 105 (9.97%) Degree
5 29 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.66%) AWS Certification
6 28 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 19 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.61%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.04%) HND
13 10 (0.95%) CCNP
14 7 (0.66%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.38%) CISSP
15 4 (0.38%) JNCIA
15 4 (0.38%) MCSE
16 3 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.56%) QA
2 24 (2.28%) GDPR
3 17 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.04%) SLA
5 10 (0.95%) NIST
6 9 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.76%) COBIT
7 8 (0.76%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.66%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.66%) NCSC
9 6 (0.57%) ISO 22301
9 6 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.28%) PMO
11 3 (0.28%) SEPA
12 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.19%) IFRS
13 1 (0.095%) GRC
System Software
1 30 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.61%) Docker
4 8 (0.76%) vSphere
5 5 (0.47%) ACF2
5 5 (0.47%) IAG
5 5 (0.47%) RACF
6 4 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.28%) XenApp
7 3 (0.28%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.095%) HDFS
8 1 (0.095%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (2.85%) Terraform
2 22 (2.09%) Ansible
2 22 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.14%) Puppet
4 11 (1.04%) Progress Chef
5 8 (0.76%) Grafana
5 8 (0.76%) Kibana
6 7 (0.66%) logstash
6 7 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.47%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.47%) VxRail
8 3 (0.28%) SCCM
8 3 (0.28%) SCOM
9 2 (0.19%) Ambari
9 2 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.19%) Oozie
10 1 (0.095%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.095%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 161 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.93%) SAP
3 54 (5.13%) Oracle
4 49 (4.65%) Google
5 45 (4.27%) VMware
6 42 (3.99%) Salesforce
7 38 (3.61%) Cisco
8 32 (3.04%) IBM
9 24 (2.28%) Juniper
10 23 (2.18%) Nokia
11 18 (1.71%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.61%) CyberArk
13 15 (1.42%) Databricks
14 14 (1.33%) Avaya
14 14 (1.33%) Dell
15 12 (1.14%) BeyondTrust
16 11 (1.04%) Talend
17 10 (0.95%) Ericsson
17 10 (0.95%) Red Hat
18 9 (0.85%) Informatica