Solutions Architect Contracts in Hampshire

Solution Architect
South East > Hampshire

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Hampshire is £600, 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 58 70 75
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 16 37 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.81% 2.11% 2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 2.31% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 23
10th Percentile £528 £614 £602
25th Percentile £563 £646 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £630
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +15.08% +0.80%
75th Percentile - £738 £790
90th Percentile £661 - £823
South East median daily rate £618 £625 £631
% change year-on-year -1.20% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £92.19 -
South East median hourly rate - £92.37 £78.50
% change year-on-year - +17.67% +33.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 842 1,602 1,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.46% 91.39% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 955 781
10th Percentile £256 £363 £236
25th Percentile £425 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £612
90th Percentile £660 £725 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 178 103
10th Percentile £19.88 £14.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £32.10 £26.25 £21.14
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +9.24% +110.00%
75th Percentile £61.31 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £74.75
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 Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Hampshire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Hampshire

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Hampshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Hampshire

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in Hampshire

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire 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
Basingstoke +10 10 £600 -17.24% 12
Southampton +8 4 £600 -7.69% 14
Fareham -2 2 - - 3
Solutions Architect
South East

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

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 Hampshire region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) DV Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (25.00%) AWS
5 3 (18.75%) Git
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) GitLab
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
5 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
5 3 (18.75%) Architectural Design
6 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 2 (12.50%) Cloud Enablement
6 2 (12.50%) Aviation
6 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
6 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (12.50%) Device Driver Development
6 2 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (12.50%) Signal Processing
6 2 (12.50%) IoT
6 2 (12.50%) Microservices
6 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
6 2 (12.50%) GCP
6 2 (12.50%) Retail
6 2 (12.50%) C

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 2 (12.50%) Aviation
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Advertising
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) REST
1 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Device Driver
2 2 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (12.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
1 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
2 3 (18.75%) Architectural Design
2 3 (18.75%) SDLC
3 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Enablement
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 2 (12.50%) Device Driver Development
3 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
3 2 (12.50%) Microservices
3 2 (12.50%) Multithreading
3 2 (12.50%) Network Design
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) Signal Processing
4 1 (6.25%) E-Commerce
4 1 (6.25%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) C
2 2 (12.50%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) Aruba
2 1 (6.25%) Criteo
2 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
2 1 (6.25%) HP
2 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto