Solutions Architect Contracts in Reading

Solution Architect
Berkshire > Reading

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Reading is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 80 53
Rank change year-on-year +35 -27 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 18 15 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.36% 1.21% 3.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.57% 1.31% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 31
10th Percentile £500 £528 £563
25th Percentile £575 £588 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £763 £696 £733
90th Percentile £825 £707 £799
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £625 £669
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +4.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 504 1,143 1,010
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 92.40% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 604 657
10th Percentile £350 £243 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 68 22
10th Percentile £15.31 £39.90 £45.25
25th Percentile £25.16 £52.90 £55.91
Median hourly rate £61.25 £61.60 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -9.41% +142.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £87.46 £75.56
90th Percentile - £98.25 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.03 £64.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% -5.64% +227.47%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Reading

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Reading

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Reading over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Reading

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 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 Reading region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
2 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (22.22%) Use Case
3 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 3 (16.67%) Business Transformation
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Retail
4 3 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
5 2 (11.11%) OpenAI
5 2 (11.11%) Business Case
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 2 (11.11%) MLOps
5 2 (11.11%) Design Thinking
5 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (11.11%) Generative AI
5 2 (11.11%) LLM
5 2 (11.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) SAP
5 2 (11.11%) ITIL
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
2 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Big Data
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.56%) Back Office
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) EPoS
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
2 4 (22.22%) Data Integration
2 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
2 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (22.22%) Use Case
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Business Transformation
4 2 (11.11%) Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Data Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) Design Thinking
4 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL
4 2 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.11%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) OpenAI
1 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow