Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Solution Architect
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Milton Keynes is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 September 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
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 32 48
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 17 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 6.83% 3.83% 2.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.14% 4.06% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 13
10th Percentile £515 £450 £443
25th Percentile £659 £475 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -3.51% -2.56%
75th Percentile £728 £616 £588
90th Percentile £735 £669 £590
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £700 £550 £570
% change year-on-year +27.27% -3.51% -3.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 238 271 626
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.58% 94.43% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 197 498
10th Percentile £224 £253 £280
25th Percentile £339 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £634 £610 £697
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £435 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 9
10th Percentile £14.54 £17.52 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.65 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.00 £26.25 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +93.44% +8.56%
75th Percentile £29.61 £36.19 £18.75
90th Percentile - £37.12 £21.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.91 £19.35 £16.40
% change year-on-year -17.78% +17.99% +5.81%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Milton Keynes

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Milton Keynes

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Milton Keynes

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Solutions Architect job vacancies in Milton Keynes

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

For the 6 months to 27 September 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 10 (58.82%) Roadmaps
2 7 (41.18%) Retail
2 7 (41.18%) Customer-Centricity
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Azure
4 5 (29.41%) AWS
4 5 (29.41%) Marketing
4 5 (29.41%) Financial Institution
4 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 5 (29.41%) Migration
4 5 (29.41%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (29.41%) Microservices
5 4 (23.53%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (23.53%) Big Data
5 4 (23.53%) ArchiMate
5 4 (23.53%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (23.53%) Avolution ABACUS
5 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
5 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
5 4 (23.53%) General Ledger
5 4 (23.53%) Customer Experience
6 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Salesforce
6 3 (17.65%) Sitecore
7 2 (11.76%) Banking
7 2 (11.76%) IT Strategy
7 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
7 2 (11.76%) B2C
7 2 (11.76%) Information Management

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 4 (23.53%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Big Data
General
1 7 (41.18%) Retail
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Financial Institution
2 5 (29.41%) Marketing
3 4 (23.53%) General Ledger
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Roadmaps
2 7 (41.18%) Customer-Centricity
3 5 (29.41%) Microservices
3 5 (29.41%) Migration
4 4 (23.53%) ArchiMate
4 4 (23.53%) Customer Engagement
4 4 (23.53%) Customer Experience
4 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
4 4 (23.53%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
5 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
6 2 (11.76%) B2C
6 2 (11.76%) Information Management
6 2 (11.76%) IT Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) Product Information Management
6 2 (11.76%) Release Management
7 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
7 1 (5.88%) Containerisation
7 1 (5.88%) Event-Driven
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce
1 3 (17.65%) Sitecore
2 1 (5.88%) Citrix
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) SAP