Solutions Architect Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Solution Architect
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 37 59
Rank change year-on-year +3 +22 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 4 17 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.69% 3.57% 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 3.80% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 16
10th Percentile - £569 £536
25th Percentile £688 £602 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £619 £618
Median % change year-on-year +13.13% +0.20% +7.39%
75th Percentile £713 £642 £738
90th Percentile - £674 £831
South East median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 224 447 820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 93.91% 93.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 315 662
10th Percentile £266 £225 £252
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £665 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 43 3
10th Percentile - £15.85 £10.23
25th Percentile £14.20 £17.64 £11.33
Median hourly rate £14.42 £23.75 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year -39.28% +80.47% +11.20%
75th Percentile £53.75 £29.38 £28.46
90th Percentile £65.50 £48.75 £37.63
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Buckinghamshire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Buckinghamshire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in Buckinghamshire.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in Buckinghamshire

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Milton Keynes +2 2 - - 15
Solutions Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Avolution ABACUS
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) General Ledger
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Big Data
2 2 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Case Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (50.00%) General Ledger
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 2 (50.00%) Case Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce