Software Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 403 403
Rank change year-on-year +121 0 -44
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 104 53 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.23% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.25% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 34 61
10th Percentile £389 £450 £485
25th Percentile £545 £514 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £705 £608 £603
90th Percentile £740 £668 £675
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 7
10th Percentile - - £45.75
25th Percentile £75.00 £62.50 £46.88
Median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +30.00% -23.66%
75th Percentile £90.50 £67.50 £65.52
90th Percentile £92.33 - £66.82
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £65.52
% change year-on-year +23.08% -0.79% +0.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,229 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.55% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,247 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,039 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Architecture in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Architecture in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
South East +41 41 £650 +13.04% 26
South West +26 22 £681 +4.81% 6
North of England +39 19 £400 -30.43% 19
East of England +18 17 £550 - 10
Yorkshire +36 12 £375 -36.17% 7
North West +27 7 £550 -4.35% 11
Midlands +31 4 £563 +2.27% 7
West Midlands +24 4 £563 +9.76% 5
Scotland +40 1 - - 10
Software Architecture
UK

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.92%) AWS
2 27 (25.96%) Azure
3 6 (5.77%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.92%) GCP
4 2 (1.92%) GitHub
4 2 (1.92%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.92%) SaaS
4 2 (1.92%) Serverless
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.96%) IaaS
5 1 (0.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) VPN
2 1 (0.96%) IPsec
2 1 (0.96%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.96%) SSL
2 1 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.88%) Big Data
1 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
1 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.96%) Metadata
2 1 (0.96%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 27 (25.96%) Jenkins
2 25 (24.04%) Cucumber
2 25 (24.04%) Selenium
3 24 (23.08%) REST Assured
3 24 (23.08%) SonarQube
4 13 (12.50%) GitLab
4 13 (12.50%) JIRA
5 3 (2.88%) Git
5 3 (2.88%) XCUITest
6 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.96%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (44.23%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (19.23%) Law
4 13 (12.50%) Police
5 5 (4.81%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.96%) Aviation
6 1 (0.96%) Finance
6 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (30.77%) Developer
2 31 (29.81%) Architect
3 20 (19.23%) Software Architect
4 17 (16.35%) Java Engineer
5 14 (13.46%) Full Stack Developer
6 12 (11.54%) Software Engineer
7 11 (10.58%) Senior
8 10 (9.62%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.77%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.81%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Development Manager
11 4 (3.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 4 (3.85%) Software Development Manager
11 4 (3.85%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.04%) Java EE
1 25 (24.04%) REST
2 14 (13.46%) Spring
3 13 (12.50%) DirectX
3 13 (12.50%) OpenGL
3 13 (12.50%) OpenGL ES
3 13 (12.50%) React
3 13 (12.50%) Vulkan
4 12 (11.54%) AngularJS
4 12 (11.54%) ARM Templates
5 8 (7.69%) .NET
6 6 (5.77%) RESTful
6 6 (5.77%) XML
7 2 (1.92%) Guice
7 2 (1.92%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.96%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.96%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.96%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.96%) Node.js
8 1 (0.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.35%) Algorithms
2 10 (9.62%) 3D Graphics
2 10 (9.62%) Ray Tracing
3 7 (6.73%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.73%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.77%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.81%) Verilog
5 5 (4.81%) VHDL
6 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.85%) Android
2 3 (2.88%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.92%) Linux
3 2 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (45.19%) DevOps
3 42 (40.38%) Agile
4 36 (34.62%) Test Automation
5 35 (33.65%) Software Engineering
6 29 (27.88%) Continuous Integration
7 28 (26.92%) Technical Leadership
8 26 (25.00%) Decision-Making
9 21 (20.19%) Project Management
10 18 (17.31%) Configuration Management
11 15 (14.42%) Full Stack Development
11 15 (14.42%) OO
12 14 (13.46%) Containerisation
13 13 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (11.54%) Change Management
14 12 (11.54%) CI/CD
14 12 (11.54%) OOP
14 12 (11.54%) Programme Management
14 12 (11.54%) Secure Coding
14 12 (11.54%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (45.19%) Java
2 30 (28.85%) Python
3 27 (25.96%) C
4 19 (18.27%) JavaScript
5 16 (15.38%) C++
6 10 (9.62%) C#
7 7 (6.73%) SQL
8 4 (3.85%) R
8 4 (3.85%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.88%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.92%) Perl
10 2 (1.92%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.92%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.96%) PHP
11 1 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 57 (54.81%) Security Cleared
2 46 (44.23%) SC Cleared
3 20 (19.23%) Degree
4 16 (15.38%) DV Cleared
5 15 (14.42%) Master's Degree
6 10 (9.62%) PhD
7 6 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.35%) QA
System Software
1 20 (19.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (25.00%) Ansible
2 14 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.46%) Terraform
3 12 (11.54%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (11.54%) Podman
4 2 (1.92%) OPNET
Vendors
1 9 (8.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.92%) Atlassian
2 2 (1.92%) Google
2 2 (1.92%) VMware
3 1 (0.96%) Ariba
3 1 (0.96%) Databricks
3 1 (0.96%) SAP