Software Architect Contracts in the City of London

Software Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Software Architect daily rate in the City of London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 172 199
Rank change year-on-year +50 +27 -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Architect 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.090% 0.055% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.058% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £553
25th Percentile - £613 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile - £638 £644
90th Percentile - - £648
Central London median daily rate £750 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,101 3,476 4,018
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 95.21% 94.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 2,351 3,034
10th Percentile £350 £350 £367
25th Percentile £450 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £819 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.65 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Software Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Software Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architect in the City of London

Software Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Software Architect in the City of London

Software Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Software 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 City of London region featuring Software Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) IoT
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) AWS IoT
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy

Software Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS IoT
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) InfluxDB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana