Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Solution Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Berkshire is £619, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 64 72
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 63 33 58
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.95% 2.54% 2.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.39% 2.79% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 13 39
10th Percentile £459 £285 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -4.00% -2.15%
75th Percentile £691 £625 £675
90th Percentile £775 £670 £740
South East median daily rate £625 £625 £638
% change year-on-year - -2.04% +1.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £83.82 - £102.87
% change year-on-year - - +31.04%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,434 1,183 1,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.96% 91.07% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 990 666 1,040
10th Percentile £300 £258 £210
25th Percentile £406 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% -0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £663 £661 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 33 111
10th Percentile £18.91 £41.25 £20.17
25th Percentile £22.29 £55.87 £42.00
Median hourly rate £73.50 £61.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +19.52% +5.48% -9.86%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £106.00 £75.48 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.77 £42.88 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.90% -4.71% -

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend 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 8 February 2026.

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 8 February 2026. 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 +8 30 £606 +27.63% 7
Wokingham -7 26 £625 - 1
Windsor +2 2 £575 -11.54%
Bracknell -6 1 - - 1
Solutions Architect
South East

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 8 February 2026, Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 28 (44.44%) Azure
2 13 (20.63%) Salesforce
3 12 (19.05%) AWS
3 12 (19.05%) Roadmaps
4 11 (17.46%) Agile
5 9 (14.29%) DevOps
5 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 9 (14.29%) TOGAF
6 8 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (11.11%) AI
7 7 (11.11%) Architectural Design
7 7 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (11.11%) OpenAI
7 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (11.11%) Visualisation
8 6 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (9.52%) GCP
8 6 (9.52%) Git
8 6 (9.52%) Microservices
8 6 (9.52%) SaaS
8 6 (9.52%) Security Cleared
8 6 (9.52%) Sentiment Analysis
8 6 (9.52%) Virgin Media
9 5 (7.94%) Ansible
9 5 (7.94%) CI/CD
9 5 (7.94%) Containerisation
9 5 (7.94%) Cyber Resilience
9 5 (7.94%) Dashboard Development
9 5 (7.94%) Decision-Making

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Workday HCM
2 2 (3.17%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (44.44%) Azure
2 12 (19.05%) AWS
3 6 (9.52%) GCP
3 6 (9.52%) SaaS
4 5 (7.94%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.76%) PaaS
6 2 (3.17%) Azure API Management
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Storage
6 2 (3.17%) IaaS
6 2 (3.17%) Serverless
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) DWDM
1 3 (4.76%) IPsec
1 3 (4.76%) MQTT
1 3 (4.76%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.17%) Network Security
2 2 (3.17%) RFID
2 2 (3.17%) SDH
3 1 (1.59%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Git
2 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.17%) Postman
3 2 (3.17%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (3.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.11%) Finance
2 7 (11.11%) Retail
3 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.35%) Legal
4 4 (6.35%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) ADO
2 2 (3.17%) .NET
2 2 (3.17%) .NET Core
2 2 (3.17%) RESTful
2 2 (3.17%) SOAP
2 2 (3.17%) Swagger
2 2 (3.17%) WSDL
2 2 (3.17%) XSLT
3 1 (1.59%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.59%) Ajax
3 1 (1.59%) MACH
3 1 (1.59%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 6 (9.52%) Onboarding
1 6 (9.52%) Operational Technology
2 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.17%) SCADA
2 2 (3.17%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.59%) CMDB
3 1 (1.59%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
2 3 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.05%) Roadmaps
2 11 (17.46%) Agile
3 9 (14.29%) DevOps
3 9 (14.29%) TOGAF
4 8 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (11.11%) AI
5 7 (11.11%) Architectural Design
5 7 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
5 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (11.11%) Visualisation
6 6 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (9.52%) Microservices
6 6 (9.52%) Sentiment Analysis
7 5 (7.94%) CI/CD
7 5 (7.94%) Containerisation
7 5 (7.94%) Cyber Resilience
7 5 (7.94%) Dashboard Development
7 5 (7.94%) Decision-Making
7 5 (7.94%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.17%) C#
3 1 (1.59%) Java
3 1 (1.59%) Perl
3 1 (1.59%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.94%) RHCE
2 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) Azure Certification
3 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (6.35%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (4.76%) CISSP
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) NIST
2 3 (4.76%) NCSC
2 3 (4.76%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Ansible
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
1 5 (7.94%) Terraform
2 1 (1.59%) Netcool
2 1 (1.59%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 1 (1.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (20.63%) Salesforce
2 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.11%) OpenAI
4 6 (9.52%) Virgin Media
5 5 (7.94%) Red Hat
5 5 (7.94%) Workday
6 3 (4.76%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (4.76%) Palantir
7 2 (3.17%) Cisco
7 2 (3.17%) F5
7 2 (3.17%) IBM
7 2 (3.17%) Juniper
7 2 (3.17%) Nokia
7 2 (3.17%) Oracle
7 2 (3.17%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.17%) Tenable
8 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.59%) Remedy
8 1 (1.59%) SAP