Solutions Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Solution Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 68 57
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 68 79 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.57% 2.80% 3.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.77% 2.96% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 61 95
10th Percentile £400 £538 £475
25th Percentile £570 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £663 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +10.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £648 £738 £638
90th Percentile £693 £799 £675
South East median daily rate £628 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -3.46% +6.12% +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
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 2,451 2,669 3,307
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.54% 95.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,412 1,849 2,251
10th Percentile £205 £304 £200
25th Percentile £363 £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 £493
% change year-on-year - +1.42% +9.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 77 98
10th Percentile £15.63 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.21 £23.25
90th Percentile £85.49 £79.19 £55.71
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -19.19%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

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 Solutions Architect within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 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
Berkshire -13 48 £625 -8.09% 10
Buckinghamshire +20 17 £619 +5.77% 5
Oxfordshire +4 3 £825 +37.50% 1
Solutions Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 Thames Valley region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 25 (36.76%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 16 (23.53%) Telecoms
4 13 (19.12%) VMware
5 12 (17.65%) Azure
6 10 (14.71%) IT Strategy
7 9 (13.24%) Data Centre
7 9 (13.24%) Roadmaps
8 8 (11.76%) Privileged Access Management
8 8 (11.76%) Social Skills
8 8 (11.76%) Private Cloud
8 8 (11.76%) Agile
8 8 (11.76%) DHCP
8 8 (11.76%) DNS
9 7 (10.29%) Retail
9 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (10.29%) AWS
9 7 (10.29%) QA
9 7 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (8.82%) DevOps
10 6 (8.82%) NCSC
10 6 (8.82%) NIST
10 6 (8.82%) TOGAF
10 6 (8.82%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (8.82%) SC Cleared
11 5 (7.35%) Network Architecture
11 5 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (7.35%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (7.35%) Data Protection
11 5 (7.35%) Service Delivery

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.47%) Confluence
1 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.47%) Maximo
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (1.47%) SAP MII
2 1 (1.47%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.47%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.47%) SAP PP
2 1 (1.47%) SAP QM
2 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.65%) Azure
2 7 (10.29%) AWS
3 3 (4.41%) Azure Stack
4 2 (2.94%) OCI
4 2 (2.94%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.47%) PaaS
5 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.76%) DHCP
1 8 (11.76%) DNS
2 5 (7.35%) MPLS
3 4 (5.88%) Internet
4 2 (2.94%) PBX
4 2 (2.94%) SAN
4 2 (2.94%) VoIP
5 1 (1.47%) Firewall
5 1 (1.47%) LAN
5 1 (1.47%) SDH
5 1 (1.47%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) Big Data
1 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.47%) Impala
2 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.47%) Power BI
2 1 (1.47%) Redis
2 1 (1.47%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (1.47%) JIRA
1 1 (1.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 16 (23.53%) Telecoms
2 8 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Retail
4 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.41%) Finance
5 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Automotive
7 1 (1.47%) French Language
7 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.47%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.94%) .NET
1 2 (2.94%) REST
2 1 (1.47%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.47%) Kafka
2 1 (1.47%) Next.js
2 1 (1.47%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.76%) Private Cloud
3 5 (7.35%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (14.71%) IT Strategy
2 9 (13.24%) Roadmaps
3 8 (11.76%) Agile
3 8 (11.76%) Privileged Access Management
4 7 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (8.82%) DevOps
5 6 (8.82%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (8.82%) TOGAF
6 5 (7.35%) Coaching
6 5 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (7.35%) Data Protection
6 5 (7.35%) Mentoring
6 5 (7.35%) Network Architecture
6 5 (7.35%) Service Delivery
7 4 (5.88%) Business Case
7 4 (5.88%) Design Patterns
7 4 (5.88%) Microservices
7 4 (5.88%) Project Delivery
7 4 (5.88%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.41%) SQL
2 2 (2.94%) C#
3 1 (1.47%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (36.76%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.41%) CCNP
4 3 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.41%) MCSE
4 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) QA
2 6 (8.82%) NCSC
2 6 (8.82%) NIST
3 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.47%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) SCCM
1 3 (4.41%) SCOM
2 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) VMware
2 5 (7.35%) Oracle
3 4 (5.88%) Cisco
3 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.41%) SAP
5 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.94%) Workday
6 1 (1.47%) Ariba
6 1 (1.47%) Citrix
6 1 (1.47%) Databricks
6 1 (1.47%) IBM
6 1 (1.47%) Informatica
6 1 (1.47%) Splunk