Solutions Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Solution Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Work from Home 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 58 80 63
Rank change year-on-year +22 -17 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 484 675 1,725
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.28% 2.74% 3.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.51% 2.88% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 490 1,159
10th Percentile £500 £513 £505
25th Percentile £560 £563 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £715 £738 £706
90th Percentile £800 £813 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 2
10th Percentile - £58.95 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £76.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% +28.81% +0.85%
75th Percentile £60.00 £80.25 £61.50
90th Percentile - £83.70 -
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,806 23,471 42,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 16,589 30,510
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 538 592
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.44 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.43 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Solutions Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Solutions Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Solutions Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Solutions Architect.

Solutions Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Solutions Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Solutions Architect.

Solutions Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 135 (27.89%) Finance
2 112 (23.14%) Azure
3 108 (22.31%) Social Skills
4 107 (22.11%) Agile
5 95 (19.63%) AWS
6 93 (19.21%) Security Cleared
7 78 (16.12%) SC Cleared
8 77 (15.91%) Migration
9 72 (14.88%) DevOps
10 66 (13.64%) Public Sector
11 61 (12.60%) Microsoft
12 56 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
13 55 (11.36%) Microservices
14 54 (11.16%) GCP
14 54 (11.16%) Roadmaps
15 53 (10.95%) Architectural Design
16 52 (10.74%) Banking
17 46 (9.50%) SAP
18 44 (9.09%) Java
18 44 (9.09%) Degree
19 43 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
20 41 (8.47%) TOGAF
21 40 (8.26%) Oracle
21 40 (8.26%) BPSS Clearance
22 39 (8.06%) Enterprise Architecture
23 38 (7.85%) PLM
24 34 (7.02%) Power Platform
25 33 (6.82%) Dynamics 365
26 32 (6.61%) Computer Science
27 31 (6.40%) Retail

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.69%) Apache
2 13 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.83%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.83%) Confluence
4 3 (0.62%) CMS
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.03%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.21%) CATIA
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (4.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (3.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (2.48%) Oracle Assets
3 12 (2.48%) Oracle Payables
3 12 (2.48%) Teamcenter
4 11 (2.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 9 (1.86%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (1.65%) Oracle AGIS
7 7 (1.45%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (1.03%) SAP HCM
8 5 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.83%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.83%) SAP HR
9 4 (0.83%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.62%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.62%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.62%) SAP SD
11 2 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
11 2 (0.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 112 (23.14%) Azure
2 95 (19.63%) AWS
3 54 (11.16%) GCP
4 34 (7.02%) Power Platform
5 33 (6.82%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (4.13%) SaaS
7 16 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (2.89%) dbt
9 12 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (2.48%) Snowflake
10 11 (2.27%) OCI
10 11 (2.27%) PaaS
11 9 (1.86%) Serverless
12 8 (1.65%) IaaS
13 7 (1.45%) PowerApps
13 7 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (1.45%) Twilio
14 6 (1.24%) Power Automate
15 5 (1.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.86%) CTI
1 9 (1.86%) VoIP
1 9 (1.86%) WAN
2 8 (1.65%) ATM
3 5 (1.03%) LAN
4 4 (0.83%) Junos
4 4 (0.83%) SDH
5 3 (0.62%) Firewall
6 2 (0.41%) Internet
6 2 (0.41%) Intranet
6 2 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.41%) SAN
6 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.41%) VSAN
7 1 (0.21%) 4G
7 1 (0.21%) DNS
7 1 (0.21%) MPLS
7 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.34%) Data Lake
2 17 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
3 14 (2.89%) Apache Arrow
3 14 (2.89%) Dremio
4 13 (2.69%) Apache Ignite
4 13 (2.69%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.86%) Power BI
6 8 (1.65%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.65%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.45%) Big Data
7 7 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.03%) GIS
9 4 (0.83%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.83%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.83%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.62%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (3.10%) JIRA
2 8 (1.65%) Git
3 7 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
General
1 135 (27.89%) Finance
2 108 (22.31%) Social Skills
3 66 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 52 (10.74%) Banking
5 31 (6.40%) Retail
6 29 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (4.75%) Presentation Skills
7 23 (4.75%) Telecoms
8 19 (3.93%) Manufacturing
9 17 (3.51%) Investment Banking
10 14 (2.89%) Front Office
11 12 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.07%) Marketing
14 9 (1.86%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.86%) Local Government
15 8 (1.65%) General Ledger
16 5 (1.03%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.03%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.75%) Middleware
2 17 (3.51%) .NET
3 14 (2.89%) gRPC
3 14 (2.89%) Protocol Buffers
4 13 (2.69%) NumPy
4 13 (2.69%) Pandas
4 13 (2.69%) SciPy
4 13 (2.69%) Web Services
5 12 (2.48%) React
5 12 (2.48%) SailPoint
6 8 (1.65%) REST
6 8 (1.65%) RESTful
6 8 (1.65%) SOAP
7 7 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.24%) .NET Framework
8 6 (1.24%) Node.js
9 5 (1.03%) Entity Framework
9 5 (1.03%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.03%) Kafka
9 5 (1.03%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.51%) Derivative
2 14 (2.89%) Equities
2 14 (2.89%) Fixed Income
2 14 (2.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (2.89%) Hedge funds
3 11 (2.27%) Mainframe
3 11 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 10 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.07%) IVR
5 9 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.86%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.65%) Low-Code
6 8 (1.65%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.03%) Replication
10 4 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.83%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.48%) Windows
2 6 (1.24%) Linux
3 5 (1.03%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.03%) Unix
4 4 (0.83%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) tvOS
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (22.11%) Agile
2 77 (15.91%) Migration
3 72 (14.88%) DevOps
4 56 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 55 (11.36%) Microservices
6 54 (11.16%) Roadmaps
7 53 (10.95%) Architectural Design
8 43 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (8.47%) TOGAF
10 39 (8.06%) Enterprise Architecture
11 38 (7.85%) PLM
12 32 (6.61%) Computer Science
13 30 (6.20%) Containerisation
13 30 (6.20%) Project Delivery
14 29 (5.99%) CRM
15 28 (5.79%) ERP
15 28 (5.79%) Technical Leadership
16 27 (5.58%) Architectural Patterns
16 27 (5.58%) CI/CD
17 23 (4.75%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 44 (9.09%) Java
2 27 (5.58%) Python
3 25 (5.17%) JavaScript
4 24 (4.96%) SQL
5 20 (4.13%) TypeScript
6 16 (3.31%) C#
7 6 (1.24%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.83%) C
8 4 (0.83%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.41%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.41%) Bash
9 2 (0.41%) C++
9 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.41%) Ruby
9 2 (0.41%) Scala
10 1 (0.21%) ABAP
10 1 (0.21%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 93 (19.21%) Security Cleared
2 78 (16.12%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.09%) Degree
4 40 (8.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.31%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.86%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.45%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.45%) CCNP
12 6 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.83%) HND
13 4 (0.83%) JNCIA
13 4 (0.83%) SAP Certification
14 3 (0.62%) MBA
14 3 (0.62%) PhD
15 2 (0.41%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.89%) GDPR
2 10 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.45%) GAAP
3 7 (1.45%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.24%) ISO 22301
4 6 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 6 (1.24%) SLA
5 5 (1.03%) COBIT
6 4 (0.83%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.83%) NIST
6 4 (0.83%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.62%) QA
8 2 (0.41%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.41%) IFRS
8 2 (0.41%) NCSC
9 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.21%) PMO
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (1.86%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.65%) Docker
3 6 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.03%) vSphere
5 1 (0.21%) ACF2
5 1 (0.21%) IAG
5 1 (0.21%) RACF
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.07%) Terraform
2 6 (1.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.24%) VxRail
3 3 (0.62%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.41%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.21%) Ansible
5 1 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.21%) Grafana
5 1 (0.21%) Istio
5 1 (0.21%) Kibana
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 61 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 46 (9.50%) SAP
3 40 (8.26%) Oracle
4 21 (4.34%) Google
5 18 (3.72%) Cisco
6 17 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 16 (3.31%) CyberArk
8 15 (3.10%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.48%) BeyondTrust
10 11 (2.27%) VMware
11 9 (1.86%) Genesys
12 8 (1.65%) Siemens
13 7 (1.45%) Avaya
13 7 (1.45%) Dell
13 7 (1.45%) IBM
14 6 (1.24%) Informatica
14 6 (1.24%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.24%) Sparx
14 6 (1.24%) Workday
15 5 (1.03%) Ariba