Solutions Architect Contracts in Berkshire

Solution Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Berkshire is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 56 42
Rank change year-on-year -15 -14 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 48 56 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.49% 3.21% 4.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.67% 3.38% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 44 71
10th Percentile £400 £554 £475
25th Percentile £525 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +10.20% +16.67%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £650
90th Percentile £688 £799 £675
South East median daily rate £628 £630 £613
% change year-on-year -0.40% +2.86% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £78.50 -
South East median hourly rate £92.37 £78.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year +17.67% +33.05% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,801 1,655 2,248
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 94.95% 95.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 1,060 1,446
10th Percentile £213 £325 £218
25th Percentile £381 £425 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £491
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +6.87% +9.17%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £493
% change year-on-year - +1.42% +9.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 54 38
10th Percentile £18.70 £17.80 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £23.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £58.30 £57.82 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +200.35% -8.55%
75th Percentile £70.39 £73.90 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.46 £79.93 £71.89
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +137.50% -19.19%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Berkshire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Berkshire

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Berkshire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in Berkshire

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Reading -35 16 £675 -2.70% 5
Newbury - 6 £400 -
Bracknell -12 5 £550 -6.38%
Wokingham +3 2 £688 -1.79% 1
Windsor - 1 £675 - 1
Solutions Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 Berkshire region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 15 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 14 (29.17%) DV Cleared
2 14 (29.17%) Security Cleared
3 9 (18.75%) Data Centre
4 8 (16.67%) Private Cloud
4 8 (16.67%) DHCP
4 8 (16.67%) DNS
4 8 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
4 8 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 7 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (12.50%) IT Strategy
7 5 (10.42%) Retail
7 5 (10.42%) QA
7 5 (10.42%) Oracle
7 5 (10.42%) Service Delivery
7 5 (10.42%) MPLS
7 5 (10.42%) Network Architecture
7 5 (10.42%) Azure
7 5 (10.42%) Mentoring
7 5 (10.42%) Coaching
7 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (8.33%) Internet
8 4 (8.33%) Data Protection
8 4 (8.33%) Data Integration
8 4 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
9 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (6.25%) Asset Management
9 3 (6.25%) TOGAF
9 3 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.08%) Maximo
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (2.08%) SAP MII
2 1 (2.08%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.08%) SAP PM
2 1 (2.08%) SAP PP
2 1 (2.08%) SAP QM
2 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.42%) Azure
2 2 (4.17%) AWS
2 2 (4.17%) OCI
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Stack
3 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.08%) PaaS
3 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.08%) SaaS
3 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.67%) DHCP
1 8 (16.67%) DNS
2 5 (10.42%) MPLS
3 4 (8.33%) Internet
4 1 (2.08%) Firewall
4 1 (2.08%) LAN
4 1 (2.08%) PBX
4 1 (2.08%) SDH
4 1 (2.08%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.08%) VoIP
4 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) Big Data
1 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.08%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 15 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 5 (10.42%) Retail
3 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Finance
4 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) French Language
5 1 (2.08%) Italian Language
5 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.08%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) .NET
1 2 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (2.08%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 8 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 4 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
1 8 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 7 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (12.50%) IT Strategy
4 5 (10.42%) Coaching
4 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (10.42%) Mentoring
4 5 (10.42%) Network Architecture
4 5 (10.42%) Service Delivery
5 4 (8.33%) Data Integration
5 4 (8.33%) Data Protection
6 3 (6.25%) Asset Management
6 3 (6.25%) DevOps
6 3 (6.25%) ERP
6 3 (6.25%) High Availability
6 3 (6.25%) ITIL
6 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (6.25%) TOGAF
7 2 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.17%) C#
1 2 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) DV Cleared
1 14 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Docker
1 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Oracle
2 2 (4.17%) SAP
2 2 (4.17%) Workday
3 1 (2.08%) Ariba
3 1 (2.08%) Cisco
3 1 (2.08%) Citrix
3 1 (2.08%) Databricks
3 1 (2.08%) IBM
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.08%) VMware