Software Architecture Contracts in the West Midlands

Software Architecture
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 134 149
Rank change year-on-year +29 +15 -27
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 4 5 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.21% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.24% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 16
10th Percentile £479 - £528
25th Percentile £503 £450 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -6.82% +8.27%
75th Percentile £716 £594 £588
90th Percentile £796 £628 £598
England median daily rate £650 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +0.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,107 3,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.53% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,446 2,363
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the West Midlands

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in the West Midlands

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in the West Midlands

Software Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Architecture in the West Midlands

Software Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Birmingham +11 3 £681 +18.48%
Coventry +14 1 £475 -26.92%
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Guice
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) ArchiMate
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft