Software Architecture Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Software Architecture
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 117 115 116
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +53
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 3 3 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.16% 0.16% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.17% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £457 £614 £413
25th Percentile £523 £616 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £642 £638 £531
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% +20.00% -15.67%
75th Percentile £758 £666 £580
90th Percentile £822 £671 £694
Central London median daily rate £425 £750 £531
% change year-on-year -43.33% +41.18% -15.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,736 2,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.56% 92.05% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,056 1,536
10th Percentile £350 £373 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £770 £789 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £574
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.22% -0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £13.73 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +35.24% -37.13%
75th Percentile £42.30 £94.94 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £114.55 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -32.10%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Software Architecture job vacancy trend in the City of London

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Architecture

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 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in the City of London

Software Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (33.33%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (33.33%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Release Management
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Automated Trading
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) ProC
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) OutSystems
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce