Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Solution Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Berkshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 80 78
Rank change year-on-year +32 -2 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 45 33 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.84% 1.94% 2.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.20% 2.14% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 29
10th Percentile £467 £525 £560
25th Percentile £506 £575 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £644 £763 £700
90th Percentile £700 £800 £803
South East median daily rate £600 £625 £633
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.22% -2.65%

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 1,072 1,544 1,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 90.98% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 824 1,072
10th Percentile £300 £313 £271
25th Percentile £406 £427 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £696 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 79 61
10th Percentile £14.75 £38.88 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.66 £56.25 £43.33
Median hourly rate £32.18 £61.80 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -47.92% +8.63% +63.04%
75th Percentile £68.75 £76.20 £72.33
90th Percentile £87.28 £97.50 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.26% +15.00% +106.78%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Berkshire

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Berkshire

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies 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 17 September 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 +22 18 £550 -27.87% 4
Wokingham - 13 £625 - 3
Windsor -7 4 £575 +4.55% 3
Bracknell - 4 £466 -
Slough - 1 - - 8
Solutions Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 19 (42.22%) Azure
2 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 13 (28.89%) Roadmaps
4 12 (26.67%) Salesforce
4 12 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (24.44%) Agile
6 9 (20.00%) Migration
6 9 (20.00%) AWS
7 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
7 8 (17.78%) OpenAI
8 7 (15.56%) Retail
8 7 (15.56%) Visualisation
8 7 (15.56%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (13.33%) Data Migration
9 6 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (13.33%) Use Case
9 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (13.33%) Sentiment Analysis
10 5 (11.11%) Generative AI
10 5 (11.11%) SAP
10 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
10 5 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
11 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
11 4 (8.89%) Analytics
11 4 (8.89%) Data Integration
11 4 (8.89%) Machine Learning
11 4 (8.89%) Big Data
11 4 (8.89%) Scrum

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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) SAP PM
2 2 (4.44%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (4.44%) SAP HR
2 2 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (42.22%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
3 4 (8.89%) Serverless
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Functions
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (6.67%) GCP
4 3 (6.67%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.44%) Azure API Management
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Storage
5 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (4.44%) PaaS
5 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.44%) SaaS
5 2 (4.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) IPsec
1 2 (4.44%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.22%) Network Security
2 1 (2.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Big Data
2 3 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Postman
2 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Retail
3 4 (8.89%) Legal
3 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Back Office
6 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) Kafka
1 3 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (6.67%) Visualforce
2 2 (4.44%) .NET
2 2 (4.44%) .NET Core
2 2 (4.44%) RESTful
2 2 (4.44%) SAP PI
2 2 (4.44%) SOAP
2 2 (4.44%) Swagger
2 2 (4.44%) WSDL
2 2 (4.44%) XSLT
3 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.22%) MACH
3 1 (2.22%) Middleware
3 1 (2.22%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 3 (6.67%) Operational Technology
1 3 (6.67%) SCADA
2 2 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.22%) EPoS
3 1 (2.22%) IoT
3 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) Roadmaps
2 12 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (24.44%) Agile
4 9 (20.00%) Migration
5 7 (15.56%) Data Visualisation
5 7 (15.56%) Visualisation
6 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (13.33%) Data Migration
6 6 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (13.33%) Sentiment Analysis
6 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (13.33%) Use Case
7 5 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
7 5 (11.11%) Generative AI
7 5 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (8.89%) Analytics
8 4 (8.89%) Data Integration
8 4 (8.89%) Machine Learning
8 4 (8.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.67%) Apex Code
2 2 (4.44%) C#
2 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Salesforce
2 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.78%) OpenAI
3 5 (11.11%) SAP
4 3 (6.67%) Virgin Media
5 2 (4.44%) Databricks
5 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.44%) Workday
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle
6 1 (2.22%) VMware