Software Architect Contracts in England

Software Architect
UK > England

The median Software Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 621 730
Rank change year-on-year +124 +109 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Software Architect 46 27 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.054% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.057% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 29
10th Percentile - £466 £500
25th Percentile £550 £514 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £590 £595
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -0.84% -0.83%
75th Percentile £750 £628 £650
90th Percentile £800 £638 £653
UK median daily rate £650 £615 £600
% change year-on-year +5.69% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 2
10th Percentile - - £63.17
25th Percentile £61.25 - £66.04
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £71.45
75th Percentile £85.00 - £76.24
90th Percentile £90.00 - £78.74
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - £71.45
% change year-on-year - - -2.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Software Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architect in England

Software Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Software Architect in England

Software Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architect in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architect in England

Software Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Architect in England

Software Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Architect in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Architect in England

Software Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
East of England +30 18 £675 +7.14% 4
London +102 14 £575 - 6
South West - 7 - - 5
South East +19 4 - - 13
Midlands +29 2 £713 +185.00% 2
West Midlands - 2 £713 - 1
Software Architect
UK

Software Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 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 England region featuring Software Architect in the job title.

1 21 (45.65%) Software Architecture
2 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (28.26%) C++
3 13 (28.26%) C
3 13 (28.26%) Degree
4 12 (26.09%) Master's Degree
5 10 (21.74%) Vulkan
5 10 (21.74%) OpenGL ES
5 10 (21.74%) PhD
5 10 (21.74%) OpenGL
5 10 (21.74%) DirectX
5 10 (21.74%) 3D Graphics
5 10 (21.74%) Ray Tracing
6 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
6 9 (19.57%) DevOps
7 8 (17.39%) Software Engineering
8 7 (15.22%) AWS
8 7 (15.22%) Software-Defined Radio
8 7 (15.22%) Radio Access Network
9 6 (13.04%) Docker
10 5 (10.87%) Software Delivery
10 5 (10.87%) Python
10 5 (10.87%) VHDL
10 5 (10.87%) Verilog
10 5 (10.87%) Telecoms
10 5 (10.87%) XML
10 5 (10.87%) RESTful
10 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
10 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (10.87%) Agile

Software Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (15.22%) AWS
2 2 (4.35%) Serverless
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.17%) AWS IoT
3 1 (2.17%) Azure
3 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (2.17%) GitHub
3 1 (2.17%) NuGet
3 1 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) Radio Access Network
1 7 (15.22%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (2.17%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Git
1 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (10.87%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.35%) Finance
2 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) DirectX
1 10 (21.74%) OpenGL
1 10 (21.74%) OpenGL ES
1 10 (21.74%) Vulkan
2 5 (10.87%) RESTful
2 5 (10.87%) XML
3 4 (8.70%) .NET
4 3 (6.52%) .NET Core
4 3 (6.52%) CSS
4 3 (6.52%) React
5 1 (2.17%) Kafka
5 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) 3D Graphics
1 10 (21.74%) Ray Tracing
2 5 (10.87%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.87%) Verilog
2 5 (10.87%) VHDL
3 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) IoT
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Software Architecture
2 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (19.57%) DevOps
4 8 (17.39%) Software Engineering
5 5 (10.87%) Agile
5 5 (10.87%) Software Delivery
5 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (8.70%) Roadmaps
7 3 (6.52%) Analytics
7 3 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (6.52%) Configuration Management
7 3 (6.52%) Data Governance
7 3 (6.52%) LLM
7 3 (6.52%) Machine Learning
7 3 (6.52%) SDLC
7 3 (6.52%) Synthetic Environment
7 3 (6.52%) TDD
8 2 (4.35%) Business Development
8 2 (4.35%) Requirements Management
8 2 (4.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) C
1 13 (28.26%) C++
2 5 (10.87%) Python
3 4 (8.70%) C#
3 4 (8.70%) Java
4 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.52%) SQL
4 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
4 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.17%) Bicep
5 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Degree
2 12 (26.09%) Master's Degree
3 10 (21.74%) PhD
4 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
5 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
6 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (2.17%) Ansible
2 1 (2.17%) Grafana
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
1 1 (2.17%) Snow