Solutions Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Solution Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £640, 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 53 75 69
Rank change year-on-year +22 -6 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 49 71 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.24% 2.64% 2.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.49% 2.83% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 49 62
10th Percentile £506 £400 £515
25th Percentile £581 £569 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £625 £669
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -6.54% +13.35%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £734
90th Percentile £806 £690 £799
South East median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.75
Median hourly rate - - £78.50
75th Percentile - - £80.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £92.00 £78.50
% change year-on-year - +17.20% +33.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Architect in the Thames Valley

Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +24 42 £625 - 36
Buckinghamshire +3 4 £700 +13.13% 28
Oxfordshire +3 3 £775 +10.71% 13
Solutions Architect
South East

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region featuring Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 19 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 17 (34.69%) Azure
3 15 (30.61%) Roadmaps
4 13 (26.53%) AWS
5 11 (22.45%) Migration
6 9 (18.37%) Retail
7 8 (16.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (16.33%) Data Migration
7 8 (16.33%) Decision-Making
8 7 (14.29%) SaaS
8 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (14.29%) Agile
9 6 (12.24%) Salesforce
9 6 (12.24%) Oracle
9 6 (12.24%) Data Integration
10 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (10.20%) Finance
10 5 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (10.20%) Use Case
10 5 (10.20%) IT Strategy
11 4 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (8.16%) Dashboard Development
11 4 (8.16%) OpenAI
11 4 (8.16%) Order Management
11 4 (8.16%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (8.16%) Thought Leadership
11 4 (8.16%) Strategic Roadmap
11 4 (8.16%) TOGAF
11 4 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (8.16%) Microsoft

Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (4.08%) Avolution ABACUS
2 2 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.04%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.69%) Azure
2 13 (26.53%) AWS
3 7 (14.29%) SaaS
4 4 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.16%) PaaS
5 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.04%) GCP
6 1 (2.04%) IaaS
6 1 (2.04%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.04%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) HTTP
1 2 (4.08%) MQTT
1 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.04%) 3GPP
2 1 (2.04%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Big Data
2 2 (4.08%) MySQL
2 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.08%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.04%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (2.04%) GIS
General
1 19 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Retail
3 5 (10.20%) Finance
4 4 (8.16%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Legal
6 2 (4.08%) Automotive
6 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.08%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Back Office
7 1 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) PostGIS
1 2 (4.08%) REST
1 2 (4.08%) XML
2 1 (2.04%) MACH
2 1 (2.04%) Middleware
2 1 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (6.12%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.08%) Infotainment
2 2 (4.08%) Operational Technology
2 2 (4.08%) SCADA
3 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.04%) EPoS
3 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.04%) PKI
3 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) Roadmaps
2 11 (22.45%) Migration
3 8 (16.33%) Data Migration
3 8 (16.33%) Decision-Making
3 8 (16.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (14.29%) Agile
4 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (12.24%) Data Integration
6 5 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (10.20%) IT Strategy
6 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (10.20%) Use Case
7 4 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (8.16%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (8.16%) Order Management
7 4 (8.16%) Strategic Roadmap
7 4 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (8.16%) Thought Leadership
7 4 (8.16%) TOGAF
7 4 (8.16%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.04%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Oracle
1 6 (12.24%) Salesforce
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) OpenAI
3 3 (6.12%) SAP
4 2 (4.08%) Cisco
4 2 (4.08%) IBM
4 2 (4.08%) VMware
5 1 (2.04%) Amdocs
5 1 (2.04%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.04%) Dell
5 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.04%) Google
5 1 (2.04%) Mavenir
5 1 (2.04%) Rakuten
5 1 (2.04%) Samsung
5 1 (2.04%) Teradata
5 1 (2.04%) Zscaler