Solutions Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Solution Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Solution Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 66 51
Rank change year-on-year 0 -15 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 66 87 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.50% 3.04% 3.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% 3.22% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 70 112
10th Percentile £400 £519 £500
25th Percentile £525 £566 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £644 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +5.10% +11.36%
75th Percentile £643 £722 £650
90th Percentile £688 £799 £676
South East median daily rate £625 £650 £615
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £78.50 -
South East median hourly rate £92.37 £78.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year +17.67% +33.05% +2.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,447 2,705 3,444
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.45% 96.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,370 1,838 2,370
10th Percentile £213 £300 £205
25th Percentile £375 £403 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 82 100
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.16 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.95 £49.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +182.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £78.97 £57.86
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%

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 June 2024.

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 June 2024. 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 -20 43 £625 -4.76% 12
Buckinghamshire +24 19 £613 +6.06% 6
Oxfordshire +3 4 £738 +18.00% 3
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 June 2024, 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 23 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.73%) DV Cleared
3 14 (21.21%) Telecoms
4 13 (19.70%) VMware
5 12 (18.18%) Social Skills
6 10 (15.15%) IT Strategy
6 10 (15.15%) Agile
7 9 (13.64%) Azure
8 8 (12.12%) Roadmaps
9 7 (10.61%) QA
9 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (9.09%) TOGAF
10 6 (9.09%) SAP
10 6 (9.09%) DHCP
10 6 (9.09%) DNS
10 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
10 6 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (9.09%) Private Cloud
10 6 (9.09%) Data Centre
10 6 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
10 6 (9.09%) NCSC
10 6 (9.09%) NIST
11 5 (7.58%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (7.58%) Mentoring
11 5 (7.58%) Coaching
11 5 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (7.58%) DevOps
11 5 (7.58%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (7.58%) AWS

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 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.55%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.52%) Maximo
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (1.52%) SAP MII
4 1 (1.52%) SAP MM
4 1 (1.52%) SAP PM
4 1 (1.52%) SAP PP
4 1 (1.52%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.64%) Azure
2 5 (7.58%) AWS
3 2 (3.03%) Azure Stack
3 2 (3.03%) OCI
3 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.52%) PaaS
4 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.09%) DHCP
1 6 (9.09%) DNS
2 5 (7.58%) MPLS
3 4 (6.06%) Internet
4 2 (3.03%) PBX
4 2 (3.03%) SAN
4 2 (3.03%) VoIP
5 1 (1.52%) Firewall
5 1 (1.52%) LAN
5 1 (1.52%) SDH
5 1 (1.52%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.52%) Apache Hive
1 1 (1.52%) Big Data
1 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.52%) Impala
1 1 (1.52%) Power BI
1 1 (1.52%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (21.21%) Telecoms
2 12 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Retail
4 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.55%) Billing
5 3 (4.55%) Finance
5 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Automotive
7 1 (1.52%) French Language
7 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.52%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.52%) GraphQL
1 1 (1.52%) Kafka
1 1 (1.52%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 6 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 5 (7.58%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (15.15%) Agile
1 10 (15.15%) IT Strategy
2 8 (12.12%) Roadmaps
3 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
4 6 (9.09%) TOGAF
5 5 (7.58%) Coaching
5 5 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (7.58%) Data Migration
5 5 (7.58%) Data Protection
5 5 (7.58%) DevOps
5 5 (7.58%) Mentoring
5 5 (7.58%) Migration
5 5 (7.58%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (7.58%) Service Delivery
6 4 (6.06%) ITIL
6 4 (6.06%) Network Architecture
6 4 (6.06%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.52%) Java
1 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.73%) DV Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) CCNP
4 3 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.55%) MCSE
4 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) QA
2 6 (9.09%) NCSC
2 6 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) SCCM
1 3 (4.55%) SCOM
2 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) VMware
2 6 (9.09%) SAP
3 5 (7.58%) Oracle
4 4 (6.06%) Cisco
5 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.03%) Workday
7 1 (1.52%) Ariba
7 1 (1.52%) Databricks
7 1 (1.52%) IBM
7 1 (1.52%) Informatica
7 1 (1.52%) Splunk