Software Architecture Contract Job Trends in Central London

Software Architecture
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Software Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 120 127
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 +52
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 4 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% 0.28% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.30% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £370 £616 £413
25th Percentile £386 £622 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £750 £531
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +41.18% -15.67%
75th Percentile £651 £850 £580
90th Percentile £779 - £694
London median daily rate £625 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% +30.43%

All Process & 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 1,801 1,981 2,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.65% 92.40% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,251 1,239 1,662
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £574
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.22% -0.22%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £756 £782 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 19
10th Percentile £19.82 £18.41 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 £22.85 £20.72
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -32.10%
75th Percentile £40.19 £38.94 £42.38
90th Percentile £42.65 £105.18 £66.75
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Software Architecture job vacancy trend in Central London

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Software Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Software Architecture

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in Central London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 14 January 2026. 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 3 £642 +0.75% 3
Software Architecture
London

Software Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Mockito
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) PowerBuilder
2 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) Xcode
2 1 (25.00%) XCTest
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Release Management
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) ADO
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) JPA
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) ProC
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) OutSystems
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk