Solutions Architect Contracts in Gloucestershire

Solution Architect
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Gloucestershire is £548, 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 25 45 55
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 16 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 5.84% 3.03% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.30% 3.33% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 6
10th Percentile £525 £474 £506
25th Percentile £530 £625 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £710 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% +23.48% -7.26%
75th Percentile £568 £755 £588
90th Percentile £575 £763 £819
South West median daily rate £550 £650 £668
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.69% +6.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 254 390 442
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 90.91% 93.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 237 308
10th Percentile £133 £300 £320
25th Percentile £365 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 38 36
10th Percentile £24.99 £15.05 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.75 £15.79 £49.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £37.50 £71.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -47.55% +138.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £79.33
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Gloucestershire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Gloucestershire

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Gloucestershire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in Gloucestershire

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire 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
Cheltenham +14 11 £547 -22.96% 9
Gloucester 0 2 £550 -15.38% 11
Solutions Architect
South West

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

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 Gloucestershire region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 12 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (75.00%) Firewall
2 12 (75.00%) .NET
2 12 (75.00%) Kerberos
2 12 (75.00%) DNS
2 12 (75.00%) Replication
3 11 (68.75%) PKI
3 11 (68.75%) RBAC
4 9 (56.25%) Aerospace
5 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
7 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) Microservices
7 2 (12.50%) Azure
7 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
7 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
7 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
7 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 2 (12.50%) ETL

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

Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) DNS
1 12 (75.00%) Firewall
1 12 (75.00%) Kerberos
General
1 9 (56.25%) Aerospace
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Data Centre
1 12 (75.00%) Replication
2 11 (68.75%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) RBAC
2 4 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) Data Security
4 2 (12.50%) ETL
4 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
4 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (12.50%) Microservices
4 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
4 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Google