Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends 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 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 65 47
Rank change year-on-year +9 -18 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 32 17 54
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.93% 1.51% 4.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.28% 1.62% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 41
10th Percentile £525 £601 £525
25th Percentile £563 £613 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £633
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% -12.76%
75th Percentile £647 £660 £650
90th Percentile £694 £668 £675
South East median daily rate £600 £625 £637
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.81% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £83.82 - £75.00

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 976 1,047 1,244
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.38% 92.74% 92.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 687 700
10th Percentile £256 £346 £270
25th Percentile £418 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £636
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £509 £510
% change year-on-year -1.82% -0.15% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 70 85
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.94 £27.85 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.85 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.81% +31.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £34.83 £73.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.15 £75.00 £74.02
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £57.50 £51.24
% change year-on-year -63.84% +12.22% +45.52%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Hampshire over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Hampshire

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies 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 7 November 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 +21 16 £600 -4.00%
Farnborough - 6 £656 - 11
Southampton 0 5 £550 -12.00% 3
Fareham -6 2 £488 -22.00%
Aldershot 0 1 £663 -
Portsmouth -2 1 £600 -4.76% 5
Solutions Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, 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 Hampshire region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 24 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (68.75%) DV Cleared
3 15 (46.88%) Java
4 7 (21.88%) Service Delivery
5 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.75%) Git
5 6 (18.75%) Impact Analysis
6 5 (15.63%) Architectural Design
6 5 (15.63%) Azure
6 5 (15.63%) GitLab
6 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
6 5 (15.63%) Microservices
6 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.50%) Agile
7 4 (12.50%) CRM
7 4 (12.50%) Windows
8 3 (9.38%) AWS
8 3 (9.38%) Data Migration
8 3 (9.38%) DevOps
8 3 (9.38%) Migration
8 3 (9.38%) TOGAF
9 2 (6.25%) Architectural Patterns
9 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (6.25%) Cisco
9 2 (6.25%) Containerisation
9 2 (6.25%) Data Privacy
9 2 (6.25%) Documentum
9 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Architecture
9 2 (6.25%) Event-Driven
9 2 (6.25%) GCP

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (6.25%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) LAN
1 1 (3.13%) WAN
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Git
2 5 (15.63%) GitLab
2 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.50%) Retail
3 3 (9.38%) Marketing
4 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.13%) Advertising
5 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.13%) Aviation
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) RESTful
2 1 (3.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Service Delivery
2 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
2 6 (18.75%) Impact Analysis
3 5 (15.63%) Architectural Design
3 5 (15.63%) Microservices
3 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (12.50%) Agile
4 4 (12.50%) CRM
5 3 (9.38%) Data Migration
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Migration
5 3 (9.38%) TOGAF
6 2 (6.25%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (6.25%) Containerisation
6 2 (6.25%) Data Privacy
6 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (6.25%) Event-Driven
6 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (68.75%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.13%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Cisco
1 2 (6.25%) HubSpot
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.25%) VMware
2 1 (3.13%) Aruba
2 1 (3.13%) Criteo
2 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
2 1 (3.13%) HP
2 1 (3.13%) Nokia
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
2 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) SAP
2 1 (3.13%) Workday