Software Architecture Contracts in England

Software Architecture
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 502 554
Rank change year-on-year +151 +52 -89
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 196 146 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.32% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 102 150
10th Percentile £400 £450 £446
25th Percentile £538 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +2.56%
75th Percentile £738 £766 £638
90th Percentile £905 £875 £738
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £563
% change year-on-year +8.33% +6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 8
10th Percentile £60.50 - £45.88
25th Percentile £69.38 £62.50 £47.19
Median hourly rate £77.50 £65.00 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +12.55% -9.41%
75th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £66.34
90th Percentile £90.00 £68.90 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £65.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year +19.23% -0.82% +2.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
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 Architecture 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
London +107 90 £700 +1.86% 59
South East +35 39 £650 +13.04% 25
South West +23 23 £675 +3.85% 10
North of England +45 20 £425 -26.09% 18
East of England +27 17 £550 - 11
Yorkshire +34 12 £375 -34.78% 6
North West +29 8 £530 -7.83% 11
Midlands +27 4 £563 +9.76% 2
West Midlands +27 4 £563 +9.76% 2
Software Architecture
UK

Software Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.04%) Apache
2 3 (1.53%) IIS
3 2 (1.02%) CMS
3 2 (1.02%) EPiServer
3 2 (1.02%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Endur
2 3 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (25.00%) AWS
2 48 (24.49%) Azure
3 13 (6.63%) GCP
4 6 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (3.06%) GitHub
4 6 (3.06%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (2.55%) Serverless
6 4 (2.04%) PaaS
7 3 (1.53%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.53%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.53%) SaaS
8 2 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.02%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.02%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.51%) Datadog
9 1 (0.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.55%) SSH
2 2 (1.02%) VPN
3 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.51%) IPsec
3 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.51%) SNMP
3 1 (0.51%) SSL
3 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.69%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.57%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.04%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.53%) Big Data
6 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.51%) Metadata
7 1 (0.51%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.51%) MySQL
7 1 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (16.84%) Jenkins
2 30 (15.31%) Cucumber
3 28 (14.29%) Selenium
4 25 (12.76%) SonarQube
5 24 (12.24%) REST Assured
6 20 (10.20%) JIRA
7 19 (9.69%) GitLab
8 11 (5.61%) Git
9 10 (5.10%) Cypress.io
10 8 (4.08%) Visual Studio
11 7 (3.57%) Maven
12 5 (2.55%) JUnit
13 4 (2.04%) Pylint
14 3 (1.53%) Terragrunt
14 3 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (1.53%) XCUITest
15 2 (1.02%) Jasmine
15 2 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
15 2 (1.02%) SpecFlow
15 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (41.33%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.80%) Finance
4 20 (10.20%) Law
5 18 (9.18%) Banking
6 16 (8.16%) Front Office
7 13 (6.63%) Police
8 10 (5.10%) Advertising
9 7 (3.57%) Investment Banking
10 6 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.06%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.06%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Retail
12 1 (0.51%) Aviation
12 1 (0.51%) Back Office
12 1 (0.51%) Games
12 1 (0.51%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (42.86%) Developer
2 42 (21.43%) Architect
3 36 (18.37%) Senior
4 21 (10.71%) Java Developer
4 21 (10.71%) Software Architect
5 17 (8.67%) C# Developer
5 17 (8.67%) Java Engineer
6 16 (8.16%) Full Stack Developer
7 15 (7.65%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.63%) Analyst
8 13 (6.63%) Senior Developer
8 13 (6.63%) Technical Architect
9 11 (5.61%) C# Quant Developer
9 11 (5.61%) JavaScript Engineer
9 11 (5.61%) Quantitative Developer
10 10 (5.10%) Python Developer
11 9 (4.59%) .NET Developer
11 9 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (4.08%) Lead
12 8 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.41%) REST
2 29 (14.80%) .NET
3 28 (14.29%) React
4 25 (12.76%) Java EE
5 23 (11.73%) Spring
6 18 (9.18%) AngularJS
7 14 (7.14%) HTML
8 13 (6.63%) DirectX
8 13 (6.63%) OpenGL
8 13 (6.63%) OpenGL ES
8 13 (6.63%) Vulkan
9 12 (6.12%) ARM Templates
9 12 (6.12%) Hibernate
9 12 (6.12%) JPA
9 12 (6.12%) Node.js
9 12 (6.12%) XML
10 10 (5.10%) .NET Core
10 10 (5.10%) Express.js
10 10 (5.10%) Redux
10 10 (5.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.47%) Algorithms
2 22 (11.22%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.10%) 3D Graphics
5 10 (5.10%) Ray Tracing
6 9 (4.59%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (4.59%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.57%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.55%) Verilog
8 5 (2.55%) VHDL
9 3 (1.53%) Derivative
9 3 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.12%) Linux
2 7 (3.57%) Unix
3 4 (2.04%) Android
4 3 (1.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (43.88%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (39.80%) Agile
3 67 (34.18%) DevOps
4 62 (31.63%) Software Engineering
5 37 (18.88%) Continuous Integration
5 37 (18.88%) Test Automation
6 36 (18.37%) Project Management
7 31 (15.82%) CI/CD
8 30 (15.31%) SDLC
9 28 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 28 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
10 25 (12.76%) OO
10 25 (12.76%) TDD
11 23 (11.73%) Computer Science
11 23 (11.73%) Design Patterns
12 21 (10.71%) Scrum
13 20 (10.20%) Data Modelling
14 19 (9.69%) Containerisation
14 19 (9.69%) Full Stack Development
15 18 (9.18%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 74 (37.76%) Java
2 61 (31.12%) Python
3 42 (21.43%) C#
4 41 (20.92%) JavaScript
5 37 (18.88%) SQL
6 33 (16.84%) C
7 23 (11.73%) C++
8 15 (7.65%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.57%) Perl
10 4 (2.04%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.04%) R
11 3 (1.53%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.02%) Scala
12 2 (1.02%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.51%) F#
13 1 (0.51%) Go
13 1 (0.51%) PHP
13 1 (0.51%) Rust
13 1 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 65 (33.16%) Security Cleared
2 52 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 30 (15.31%) Degree
4 17 (8.67%) DV Cleared
5 15 (7.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (7.14%) Master's Degree
7 10 (5.10%) PhD
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.51%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.80%) QA
2 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 36 (18.37%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.02%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (15.82%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.27%) Ansible
3 17 (8.67%) Terraform
4 12 (6.12%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (6.12%) Podman
5 2 (1.02%) OPNET
6 1 (0.51%) Argo
6 1 (0.51%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.08%) Oracle
3 4 (2.04%) Google
4 3 (1.53%) Optimizely
4 3 (1.53%) SmartStream
5 2 (1.02%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.02%) VMware
6 1 (0.51%) Ariba
6 1 (0.51%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.51%) Databricks
6 1 (0.51%) HP
6 1 (0.51%) IBM
6 1 (0.51%) SAP