Software Architecture Contracts in Birmingham

Software Architecture
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Software Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Architecture over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 77 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.39% 0.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £564 - -
25th Percentile £595 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.48% - -
75th Percentile £783 - -
90th Percentile £823 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.78% +4.55% +8.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Software Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 635 810 1,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.33% 88.43% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 544 898
10th Percentile £238 £263 £213
25th Percentile £368 £388 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £518 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +8.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £627 £593
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £488
% change year-on-year -2.25% +4.92% +17.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 28 24
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £27.25 £14.44 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +88.74% -16.26% -4.22%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.19 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £66.88 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
% change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in Birmingham

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Architecture in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in Birmingham

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in Birmingham over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in Birmingham

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) IPsec
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Guice
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft