Senior Solutions Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Senior Solution Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Solution Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 - 163
Rank change year-on-year - - -26
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Solutions Architect 6 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.22% - 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile - - £539
25th Percentile £606 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.48%
75th Percentile £637 - £604
90th Percentile £643 - £767
South East median daily rate £613 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +20.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,507 2,770 3,353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 94.31% 96.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,429 1,919 2,284
10th Percentile £210 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £489
% change year-on-year - +2.16% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 76 103
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.31 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.75 £12.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.70 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +166.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.09 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £84.48 £79.19 £64.48
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Senior Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Senior Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Solutions Architect within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Buckinghamshire - 6 £613 -
Senior Solutions Architect
South East

Senior Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Senior 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) VMware
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) NCSC
1 6 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) MCSE
2 3 (50.00%) CCNP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Prototyping

Senior Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) CCNP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) MCSE
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) NCSC
1 6 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware