Software Architecture Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Software Architecture
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Software Architecture skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.13% - 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £515 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.43%
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £501 £563 £650
% change year-on-year -11.02% -13.46% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - - £53.00
75th Percentile - - £54.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £90.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +69.81% +6.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 683 667 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.59% 83.38% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 414 538
10th Percentile £221 £263 £213
25th Percentile £340 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -9.55% +6.99%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £628 £629 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the East Midlands

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Software Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Software Architecture

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Software Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Software Architecture

Software Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Nottinghamshire - 1 £520 - 3
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle