Software Architecture Contracts in Central London

Software Architecture
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 153 186
Rank change year-on-year +35 +33 -39
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 11 21 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.45% 0.54% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.60% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 8
10th Percentile £422 £620 £393
25th Percentile £520 £675 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £725 £546
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +32.78% -16.80%
75th Percentile £709 £775 £669
90th Percentile £800 £815 £701
London median daily rate £700 £675 £575
% change year-on-year +3.70% +17.39% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,208 3,529 4,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.60% 91.50% 91.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,571 2,388 3,198
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 29 43
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.45 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £29.11 £58.75 £54.00
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.50 £38.75 £36.41
% change year-on-year -26.45% +6.43% +12.03%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in Central London

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in Central London

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in Central London

Software Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architecture within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
City of London +38 10 £550 -24.14% 3
Software Architecture
London

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (9.09%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) AWS IoT
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Pylint
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Front Office
3 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) C# Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) C# Quant Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Quantitative Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
1 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
2 1 (9.09%) Dojo
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) pytest
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Algorithms
1 3 (27.27%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Derivative
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Derivative
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) IoT
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) User Experience
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (9.09%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google