Software Architecture Contracts in Reading

Software Architecture
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 80 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 25 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.10% 0.58% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 0.64% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 0
10th Percentile £571 £413 -
25th Percentile £613 £459 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £531 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% - -
75th Percentile £688 £572 -
90th Percentile £720 £613 -
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £531 -
% change year-on-year +22.35% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,072 935 1,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.24% 90.60% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 623 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £236
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £658 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in Reading

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in Reading

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in Reading over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in Reading

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 13 (52.00%) AWS
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 25 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 25 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 25 (100.00%) Selenium
2 24 (96.00%) REST Assured
2 24 (96.00%) SonarQube
3 13 (52.00%) GitLab
3 13 (52.00%) JIRA
General
1 25 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 25 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (80.00%) Law
3 13 (52.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Java Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Senior
3 6 (24.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Senior Java Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Architect
6 3 (12.00%) Java Architect
6 3 (12.00%) Java Technical Architect
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Technical Architect
7 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (100.00%) Java EE
1 25 (100.00%) REST
2 12 (48.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 25 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 25 (100.00%) DevOps
1 25 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 25 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 25 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 22 (88.00%) Software Engineering
3 13 (52.00%) Configuration Management
3 13 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (48.00%) Containerisation
5 9 (36.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 25 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (96.00%) Ansible
2 13 (52.00%) Terraform
3 12 (48.00%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (48.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (48.00%) Podman