Software Architecture Contracts

Software Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 525 573
Rank change year-on-year +145 +48 -77
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 205 175 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.32% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 118 176
10th Percentile £400 £450 £431
25th Percentile £539 £511 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £650
90th Percentile £898 £875 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +8.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 11
10th Percentile £60.50 £62.44 £46.25
25th Percentile £69.38 £62.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate £77.50 £65.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -0.82% +13.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £69.00 -
90th Percentile £90.00 £69.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £57.75
% change year-on-year +23.08% +12.55% -0.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Architecture over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +152 196 £650 +8.33% 120
UK excluding London +117 104 £650 +13.04% 69
London +109 90 £700 +1.86% 52
Work from Home +111 66 £649 -0.19% 78
South East +40 39 £650 +13.04% 26
South West +34 23 £675 +3.85% 9
North of England +43 20 £425 -26.09% 17
East of England +27 17 £550 - 11
Yorkshire +31 12 £375 -34.78% 6
North West +25 8 £530 -7.83% 10
West Midlands +30 4 £563 +9.76% 2
Midlands +27 4 £563 +9.76% 2
Scotland +28 1 - - 6

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.95%) Apache
2 3 (1.46%) IIS
3 2 (0.98%) CMS
3 2 (0.98%) EPiServer
3 2 (0.98%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.95%) Endur
2 3 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 56 (27.32%) AWS
2 54 (26.34%) Azure
3 14 (6.83%) GCP
4 9 (4.39%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.90%) GitHub
6 7 (3.41%) Serverless
7 6 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.44%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (1.95%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.95%) PaaS
10 3 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.46%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.46%) SaaS
11 2 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.98%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.44%) SSH
2 3 (1.46%) Network Security
3 2 (0.98%) VPN
4 1 (0.49%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.49%) IPsec
4 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.49%) SNMP
4 1 (0.49%) SSL
4 1 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.27%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.90%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.41%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.95%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.46%) Big Data
6 2 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.49%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.49%) Metadata
7 1 (0.49%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.49%) MySQL
7 1 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (17.07%) Jenkins
2 30 (14.63%) Cucumber
3 28 (13.66%) Selenium
4 25 (12.20%) SonarQube
5 24 (11.71%) REST Assured
6 22 (10.73%) JIRA
7 19 (9.27%) GitLab
8 13 (6.34%) Git
9 10 (4.88%) Cypress.io
10 8 (3.90%) Visual Studio
11 7 (3.41%) Maven
12 5 (2.44%) JUnit
13 4 (1.95%) Pylint
13 4 (1.95%) TeamCity
14 3 (1.46%) Terragrunt
14 3 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (1.46%) XCUITest
15 2 (0.98%) Jasmine
15 2 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
15 2 (0.98%) SpecFlow
General
1 83 (40.49%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.93%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.15%) Finance
4 20 (9.76%) Law
5 18 (8.78%) Banking
6 16 (7.80%) Front Office
7 13 (6.34%) Police
8 10 (4.88%) Advertising
9 7 (3.41%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.93%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.93%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.98%) Retail
12 1 (0.49%) Aviation
12 1 (0.49%) Back Office
12 1 (0.49%) Games
12 1 (0.49%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (40.49%) Developer
2 46 (22.44%) Architect
3 36 (17.56%) Senior
4 21 (10.24%) Java Developer
4 21 (10.24%) Software Architect
5 17 (8.29%) C# Developer
5 17 (8.29%) Java Engineer
6 16 (7.80%) Full Stack Developer
6 16 (7.80%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.34%) Analyst
7 13 (6.34%) Lead
7 13 (6.34%) Senior Developer
7 13 (6.34%) Technical Architect
8 11 (5.37%) C# Quant Developer
8 11 (5.37%) JavaScript Engineer
8 11 (5.37%) Quantitative Developer
9 10 (4.88%) Python Developer
10 9 (4.39%) .NET Developer
10 9 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (19.51%) REST
2 29 (14.15%) .NET
3 28 (13.66%) React
4 25 (12.20%) Java EE
5 23 (11.22%) Spring
6 18 (8.78%) AngularJS
7 14 (6.83%) HTML
8 13 (6.34%) DirectX
8 13 (6.34%) OpenGL
8 13 (6.34%) OpenGL ES
8 13 (6.34%) Vulkan
9 12 (5.85%) ARM Templates
9 12 (5.85%) Hibernate
9 12 (5.85%) JPA
9 12 (5.85%) Node.js
9 12 (5.85%) XML
10 10 (4.88%) Express.js
10 10 (4.88%) Jest
10 10 (4.88%) Redux
10 10 (4.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.90%) Algorithms
2 24 (11.71%) Data Structures
3 14 (6.83%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.85%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.88%) 3D Graphics
5 10 (4.88%) Ray Tracing
6 9 (4.39%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.41%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.41%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.44%) Verilog
8 5 (2.44%) VHDL
9 3 (1.46%) Derivative
9 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.98%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.98%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.34%) Linux
2 7 (3.41%) Unix
3 4 (1.95%) Android
4 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (42.44%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (39.51%) Agile
3 72 (35.12%) DevOps
4 62 (30.24%) Software Engineering
5 38 (18.54%) Project Management
6 37 (18.05%) Continuous Integration
6 37 (18.05%) Test Automation
7 33 (16.10%) CI/CD
8 30 (14.63%) SDLC
9 28 (13.66%) Decision-Making
9 28 (13.66%) Technical Leadership
10 25 (12.20%) Computer Science
10 25 (12.20%) OO
10 25 (12.20%) TDD
11 23 (11.22%) Design Patterns
12 22 (10.73%) Data Modelling
13 21 (10.24%) Machine Learning
13 21 (10.24%) Scrum
14 20 (9.76%) Containerisation
15 19 (9.27%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 75 (36.59%) Java
2 64 (31.22%) Python
3 43 (20.98%) C#
4 41 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 39 (19.02%) SQL
6 33 (16.10%) C
7 23 (11.22%) C++
8 15 (7.32%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.41%) Perl
10 6 (2.93%) R
11 4 (1.95%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.46%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.98%) Scala
13 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.98%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.49%) F#
14 1 (0.49%) Go
14 1 (0.49%) PHP
14 1 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 70 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 57 (27.80%) SC Cleared
3 32 (15.61%) Degree
4 21 (10.24%) DV Cleared
5 17 (8.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.83%) Master's Degree
7 10 (4.88%) PhD
8 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.49%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.15%) QA
2 4 (1.95%) NCSC
3 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 39 (19.02%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.98%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (16.59%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.68%) Ansible
3 18 (8.78%) Terraform
4 12 (5.85%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (5.85%) Podman
5 3 (1.46%) Grafana
6 2 (0.98%) OPNET
7 1 (0.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 16 (7.80%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.37%) Oracle
3 5 (2.44%) Google
4 3 (1.46%) Optimizely
4 3 (1.46%) SmartStream
4 3 (1.46%) Sparx
5 2 (0.98%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.98%) VMware
6 1 (0.49%) Ariba
6 1 (0.49%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.49%) Databricks
6 1 (0.49%) HP
6 1 (0.49%) IBM
6 1 (0.49%) SAP