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 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 49 118 74
Rank change year-on-year +69 -44 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 166 102 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.58% 1.82% 2.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.84% 1.91% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 60 134
10th Percentile £463 £513 £483
25th Percentile £525 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £631 £619
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +2.02% +15.12%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £738 £788 £745
England median daily rate £650 £665 £625
% change year-on-year -2.26% +6.40% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £90.00 £66.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year +34.83% +13.14% +6.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,323 5,348 6,918
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 95.45% 96.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,712 3,751 5,069
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £390 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £688 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 158 290
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.18 £11.19
25th Percentile £12.53 £17.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £30.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +57.89% +6.15%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.40 £33.91
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.21 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

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 18 May 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 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
North West +80 116 £625 +2.67% 33
Yorkshire +5 46 £575 -11.54% 24
North East +12 5 £600 +6.67% 4
Solutions Architect
England

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 North of England region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 49 (29.52%) Azure
2 43 (25.90%) Migration
3 39 (23.49%) Agile
4 38 (22.89%) DevOps
5 33 (19.88%) Architectural Design
6 29 (17.47%) Microsoft
7 27 (16.27%) AWS
8 26 (15.66%) Finance
8 26 (15.66%) Social Skills
9 23 (13.86%) Architectural Patterns
9 23 (13.86%) Enterprise Architecture
9 23 (13.86%) Degree
10 22 (13.25%) Banking
11 20 (12.05%) Data Management
12 18 (10.84%) Business Strategy
12 18 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (10.24%) Project Delivery
13 17 (10.24%) Security Cleared
14 16 (9.64%) SC Cleared
14 16 (9.64%) Public Sector
14 16 (9.64%) Architecture Governance
15 15 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (9.04%) Computer Science
16 14 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (8.43%) Service Design
17 13 (7.83%) Containerisation
17 13 (7.83%) Translating Business Requirements
17 13 (7.83%) BPSS Clearance
17 13 (7.83%) PLM
17 13 (7.83%) Java

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 9 (5.42%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.20%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.60%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.60%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.60%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 49 (29.52%) Azure
2 27 (16.27%) AWS
3 18 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (7.23%) Power Platform
5 12 (7.23%) SaaS
6 11 (6.63%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (5.42%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.42%) GCP
8 8 (4.82%) PaaS
8 8 (4.82%) Serverless
9 7 (4.22%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 7 (4.22%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (4.22%) IaaS
10 6 (3.61%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.41%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.81%) Boomi
13 2 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (1.20%) Route 53
13 2 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.81%) MQTT
2 1 (0.60%) DHCP
2 1 (0.60%) DNS
2 1 (0.60%) Firewall
2 1 (0.60%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) LAN
2 1 (0.60%) VoIP
2 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.23%) Data Lake
2 10 (6.02%) Big Data
3 8 (4.82%) BigQuery
4 7 (4.22%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.22%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.01%) Power BI
6 4 (2.41%) GIS
6 4 (2.41%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.81%) DB2
8 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.60%) Flink
9 1 (0.60%) Metadata
9 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.60%) Redis
9 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (6.63%) Git
1 11 (6.63%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.61%) JIRA
3 2 (1.20%) GitLab
3 2 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 26 (15.66%) Finance
1 26 (15.66%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.25%) Banking
3 16 (9.64%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.42%) Automotive
5 5 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.01%) Retail
6 4 (2.41%) Local Government
6 4 (2.41%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.81%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.20%) Marketing
8 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.02%) Kafka
2 6 (3.61%) Middleware
3 5 (3.01%) React
3 5 (3.01%) SOAP
4 4 (2.41%) .NET
4 4 (2.41%) REST
5 3 (1.81%) Node.js
5 3 (1.81%) RAML
6 2 (1.20%) Express.js
6 2 (1.20%) Redux
6 2 (1.20%) Web Services
7 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.60%) CSS
7 1 (0.60%) HTML
7 1 (0.60%) IBM Integration Bus
7 1 (0.60%) J2EE
7 1 (0.60%) JSON
7 1 (0.60%) SAML
7 1 (0.60%) Spring
7 1 (0.60%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.61%) NHS
2 5 (3.01%) CMDB
3 4 (2.41%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.41%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.41%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.81%) IoT
5 2 (1.20%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.20%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (1.20%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.20%) Robotics
5 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.60%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.60%) DataPower
6 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.82%) Windows
2 3 (1.81%) Android
2 3 (1.81%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.81%) Linux
2 3 (1.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (25.90%) Migration
2 39 (23.49%) Agile
3 38 (22.89%) DevOps
4 33 (19.88%) Architectural Design
5 23 (13.86%) Architectural Patterns
5 23 (13.86%) Enterprise Architecture
6 20 (12.05%) Data Management
7 18 (10.84%) Business Strategy
8 17 (10.24%) Project Delivery
9 16 (9.64%) Architecture Governance
10 15 (9.04%) Computer Science
10 15 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (8.43%) Service Design
12 13 (7.83%) Containerisation
12 13 (7.83%) PLM
12 13 (7.83%) Translating Business Requirements
13 12 (7.23%) Data Modelling
13 12 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (7.23%) Waterfall
14 11 (6.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.83%) Java
2 11 (6.63%) SQL
3 9 (5.42%) Python
4 3 (1.81%) C
4 3 (1.81%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (13.86%) Degree
2 17 (10.24%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.01%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.60%) CCNA
7 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.60%) MCP
7 1 (0.60%) MCSE
7 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.82%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.41%) QA
3 3 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) NIST
4 1 (0.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.20%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (4.82%) Terraform
2 4 (2.41%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.81%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.60%) Istio
4 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.22%) Google
3 6 (3.61%) SAP
4 5 (3.01%) CheckPoint
4 5 (3.01%) F5
4 5 (3.01%) Oracle
4 5 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.81%) Brio
6 2 (1.20%) Adobe
6 2 (1.20%) Mapbox
6 2 (1.20%) Mitel
6 2 (1.20%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.20%) OpenText
6 2 (1.20%) VMware
7 1 (0.60%) Confluent
7 1 (0.60%) Databricks
7 1 (0.60%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.60%) Splunk