Software Architecture Contracts in the City of London

Software Architecture
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 155 185
Rank change year-on-year +39 +30 -42
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 11 23 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.63% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.69% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 6
10th Percentile £422 £594 £434
25th Percentile £520 £650 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £725 £619
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +17.17% -6.60%
75th Percentile £709 £775 £669
90th Percentile £775 £795 £722
Central London median daily rate £575 £725 £575
% change year-on-year -20.69% +26.09% -12.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,988 3,346 3,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.49% 91.85% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,259 2,941
10th Percentile £363 £355 £388
25th Percentile £451 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £806 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 24 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the City of London

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Architecture in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in the City of London

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in the City of London

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) AWS IoT
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Pylint
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Front Office
3 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) C# Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) C# Quant Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Quantitative Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Software Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
2 1 (9.09%) Dojo
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) pytest
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Algorithms
1 3 (27.27%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Hedge funds
2 1 (9.09%) IoT
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) User Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) SDLC
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (9.09%) UX Design
5 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google