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 in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 80 64
Rank change year-on-year +24 -16 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 38 37 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.17% 1.87% 3.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.44% 2.01% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 45
10th Percentile £506 £525 £555
25th Percentile £550 £575 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +5.88%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £754
90th Percentile £818 £685 £799
South East median daily rate £618 £625 £631
% change year-on-year -1.20% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.75
Median hourly rate - - £78.50
75th Percentile - - £80.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £92.37 £78.50
% change year-on-year - +17.67% +33.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,104 1,838 1,787
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 93.11% 94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 934 1,110
10th Percentile £313 £280 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £626
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 130 59
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.98 £17.42
25th Percentile £26.23 £42.00 £23.75
Median hourly rate £56.25 £61.33 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.28% +4.39% +179.76%
75th Percentile £75.92 £76.55 £73.80
90th Percentile £88.46 £87.53 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -44.00% - +138.10%

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 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 +30 19 £675 +8.00% 9
Wokingham - 9 £625 - 2
Windsor -4 4 £575 +4.55%
Slough - 1 - - 2
Solutions Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, 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 17 (44.74%) Azure
2 15 (39.47%) Roadmaps
3 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
4 9 (23.68%) AWS
4 9 (23.68%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (21.05%) Decision-Making
6 7 (18.42%) Use Case
6 7 (18.42%) Migration
6 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (15.79%) Agile
7 6 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (15.79%) Data Integration
7 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (13.16%) Big Data
8 5 (13.16%) Retail
8 5 (13.16%) Data Migration
8 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
8 5 (13.16%) OpenAI
8 5 (13.16%) Generative AI
9 4 (10.53%) Technology Roadmap
9 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (10.53%) Telecoms
9 4 (10.53%) Salesforce
9 4 (10.53%) TOGAF
9 4 (10.53%) Analytics
9 4 (10.53%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (10.53%) SaaS
9 4 (10.53%) Visualisation
9 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud

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 3 (7.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (44.74%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) AWS
3 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.53%) SaaS
4 3 (7.89%) GCP
4 3 (7.89%) PaaS
4 3 (7.89%) Snowflake
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.26%) Serverless
6 1 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.63%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (2.63%) IaaS
6 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Network Security
1 1 (2.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Big Data
2 1 (2.63%) Cloudera CDH
2 1 (2.63%) GIS
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Retail
3 4 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.89%) Legal
4 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Back Office
5 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Finance
6 1 (2.63%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Kafka
2 1 (2.63%) MACH
2 1 (2.63%) Middleware
2 1 (2.63%) SAML
2 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) EPoS
3 2 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.26%) SCADA
4 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.63%) PKI
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Roadmaps
2 9 (23.68%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (21.05%) Decision-Making
4 7 (18.42%) Migration
4 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (18.42%) Use Case
5 6 (15.79%) Agile
5 6 (15.79%) Data Integration
5 6 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (13.16%) Data Migration
6 5 (13.16%) Generative AI
7 4 (10.53%) Analytics
7 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (10.53%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (10.53%) IT Strategy
7 4 (10.53%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (10.53%) Technology Roadmap
7 4 (10.53%) TOGAF
7 4 (10.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.63%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.63%) PhD
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
1 5 (13.16%) OpenAI
2 4 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle
3 3 (7.89%) VMware
4 2 (5.26%) Databricks
4 2 (5.26%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco
5 1 (2.63%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.63%) IBM
5 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.63%) Teradata
5 1 (2.63%) Workday
5 1 (2.63%) Zscaler