Software Architecture Contracts in Berkshire

Software Architecture
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 101 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 25 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.29% 0.40% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 0.44% -
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 -
South East median daily rate £650 £575 £594
% change year-on-year +13.04% -3.16% +3.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,723 1,575 2,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.91% 90.15% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 1,014 1,334
10th Percentile £213 £350 £275
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +7.41%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 48 40
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £25.72 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +174.99% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.75 £73.69 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.51 £69.46
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -19.63%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in Berkshire

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in Berkshire

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in Berkshire

Software Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Reading -3 25 £650 +22.35% 2
Software Architecture
South East

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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