Software Architecture Contracts in Central London

Software Architecture
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Software Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 121 149
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 +41
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 3 12 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.49% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.54% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 19
10th Percentile £365 £441 £594
25th Percentile £368 £522 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £575 £725
Median % change year-on-year -33.48% -20.69% +26.09%
75th Percentile £393 £775 £775
90th Percentile £394 £820 £795
London median daily rate £652 £700 £687
% change year-on-year -6.86% +1.86% +19.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Software Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in Central London

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in Central London

Software Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London -2 1 - - 5
Software Architecture
London

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Mockito
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
1 2 (66.67%) SoapUI
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) Xcode
1 2 (66.67%) XCTest
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Bootstrap
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) CSS3
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
1 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) JPA
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) Material-UI
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Spring MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Swagger
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Concurrent Programming
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Static Code Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Enablement
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Groovy
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
2 1 (33.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk