Software Architecture Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 273 394 445
Rank change year-on-year +121 +51 -34
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 68 73 177
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.29% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.32% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 56 104
10th Percentile £513 £464 £475
25th Percentile £550 £508 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year - +15.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £638
90th Percentile £775 £875 £718
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 10
10th Percentile £62.50 - £46.13
25th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £48.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £65.52
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -0.79% -
75th Percentile £85.00 £67.50 £65.54
90th Percentile £87.50 - £65.86
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,215 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.97% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,849 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 522 532
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Software Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Architecture trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Architecture.

Software Architecture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Architecture over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Software Architecture daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Architecture.

Software Architecture hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Architecture over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Software Architecture hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (4.41%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.47%) CMS
2 1 (1.47%) EPiServer
2 1 (1.47%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.94%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.24%) AWS
2 20 (29.41%) Azure
3 9 (13.24%) Power Platform
4 6 (8.82%) GCP
5 5 (7.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.41%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.41%) GitHub
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.94%) Serverless
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.47%) Datadog
8 1 (1.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) Network Security
2 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.24%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.29%) Oracle Database
3 6 (8.82%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.88%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.94%) Big Data
6 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.47%) Metadata
6 1 (1.47%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 14 (20.59%) GitLab
3 10 (14.71%) JIRA
4 9 (13.24%) Selenium
4 9 (13.24%) SonarQube
5 8 (11.76%) Cucumber
5 8 (11.76%) REST Assured
6 7 (10.29%) Git
6 7 (10.29%) Maven
7 3 (4.41%) TeamCity
7 3 (4.41%) Terragrunt
8 2 (2.94%) Pylint
8 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.47%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.47%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Banking
3 7 (10.29%) Law
3 7 (10.29%) Police
4 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.41%) Finance
5 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.94%) Retail
7 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Front Office
7 1 (1.47%) Games
7 1 (1.47%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (45.59%) Developer
2 21 (30.88%) Architect
3 17 (25.00%) Senior
4 12 (17.65%) Java Developer
5 10 (14.71%) Lead
6 9 (13.24%) Python Developer
6 9 (13.24%) Senior Developer
7 8 (11.76%) Technical Architect
8 7 (10.29%) DBA
8 7 (10.29%) Oracle DBA
8 7 (10.29%) Oracle Developer
8 7 (10.29%) SQL DBA
8 7 (10.29%) SQL Developer
9 6 (8.82%) Software Architect
10 5 (7.35%) Java Engineer
10 5 (7.35%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (7.35%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (7.35%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 5 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (7.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) REST
2 9 (13.24%) HTML
2 9 (13.24%) React
3 8 (11.76%) .NET
3 8 (11.76%) ARM Templates
3 8 (11.76%) Java EE
4 7 (10.29%) Hibernate
4 7 (10.29%) JPA
4 7 (10.29%) RESTful
5 6 (8.82%) CSS
5 6 (8.82%) Django
5 6 (8.82%) scikit-learn
6 5 (7.35%) .NET Framework
7 4 (5.88%) ASP.NET
8 3 (4.41%) DirectX
8 3 (4.41%) OpenGL
8 3 (4.41%) Spring
8 3 (4.41%) TensorFlow
8 3 (4.41%) XGBoost
8 3 (4.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.94%) Algorithms
2 15 (22.06%) Data Structures
3 11 (16.18%) Management Information System
4 9 (13.24%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
5 5 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.88%) Product Ownership
7 3 (4.41%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (4.41%) Ray Tracing
7 3 (4.41%) Verilog
7 3 (4.41%) VHDL
8 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.94%) Low-Code
8 2 (2.94%) Reinsurance
9 1 (1.47%) Mobile Games
9 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (29.41%) DevOps
1 20 (29.41%) Software Engineering
2 19 (27.94%) Agile
2 19 (27.94%) Computer Science
3 16 (23.53%) Data Science
3 16 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (22.06%) Machine Learning
5 13 (19.12%) CI/CD
6 11 (16.18%) Architectural Patterns
7 10 (14.71%) Containerisation
7 10 (14.71%) Information Security
8 9 (13.24%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (13.24%) Microservices
8 9 (13.24%) SDLC
8 9 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (13.24%) Test Automation
9 8 (11.76%) Configuration Management
9 8 (11.76%) Data Modelling
9 8 (11.76%) Decision-Making
9 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.76%) Python
2 24 (35.29%) SQL
3 23 (33.82%) Java
4 9 (13.24%) C
4 9 (13.24%) C#
4 9 (13.24%) C++
5 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.41%) R
7 2 (2.94%) Perl
7 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.47%) Scala
8 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 24 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 13 (19.12%) Degree
4 11 (16.18%) DV Cleared
5 10 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.88%) Master's Degree
7 3 (4.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) NCSC
2 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 17 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.18%) Terraform
3 8 (11.76%) Ansible
3 8 (11.76%) Docker Swarm
3 8 (11.76%) Podman
4 2 (2.94%) Grafana
5 1 (1.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.71%) Oracle
3 3 (4.41%) Sparx
4 1 (1.47%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.47%) Optimizely