Software Architecture Contracts in England

Software Architecture
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 351 516
Rank change year-on-year -46 +165 +40
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 77 195 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.53% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.61% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 110 101
10th Percentile £402 £400 £450
25th Percentile £463 £533 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £734 £734 £775
90th Percentile £788 £875 £875
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 2
10th Percentile - £62.50 -
25th Percentile £59.00 £73.13 £62.50
Median hourly rate £63.50 £80.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +23.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £66.88 £90.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.13 £92.19 -
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £80.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -20.63% +23.08% -0.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,171 31,821 44,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.22% 86.48% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,511 20,850 31,044
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,250 1,565
10th Percentile £14.21 £12.92 £10.68
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.02 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -20.49% -2.14% +52.24%
75th Percentile £63.29 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.64% +1.39% +42.97%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Architecture in England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +17 41 £659 +1.70% 141
South East +14 15 £501 -23.00% 79
West Midlands +17 6 £600 +6.67% 27
Midlands +12 6 £600 +6.67% 38
East of England +21 5 £775 +40.91% 52
South West +18 3 - - 39
Yorkshire +1 2 £334 -10.93% 23
North of England 0 2 £334 -16.50% 50
Software Architecture
UK

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.19%) Jupyter
2 3 (3.90%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.30%) CMS
4 1 (1.30%) Confluence
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.30%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (40.26%) Azure
2 27 (35.06%) AWS
3 6 (7.79%) GitHub
4 5 (6.49%) GCP
5 4 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.90%) Serverless
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.60%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.60%) IaaS
7 2 (2.60%) PaaS
7 2 (2.60%) Route 53
7 2 (2.60%) SaaS
7 2 (2.60%) Vertex AI
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) Network Security
2 3 (3.90%) 3GPP
2 3 (3.90%) Kerberos
2 3 (3.90%) Wireless
3 2 (2.60%) IPsec
3 2 (2.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.49%) Oracle Database
3 4 (5.19%) Redis
4 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.60%) Big Data
5 2 (2.60%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.60%) Impala
5 2 (2.60%) MySQL
5 2 (2.60%) Tableau
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.30%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 17 (22.08%) GitLab
2 17 (22.08%) JIRA
3 15 (19.48%) REST Assured
4 14 (18.18%) Cucumber
5 13 (16.88%) Selenium
5 13 (16.88%) SonarQube
6 12 (15.58%) Git
7 5 (6.49%) Maven
8 4 (5.19%) CircleCI
9 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.90%) Plastic SCM
10 2 (2.60%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (2.60%) JUnit
10 2 (2.60%) Mockito
10 2 (2.60%) SoapUI
10 2 (2.60%) Subversion
10 2 (2.60%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.60%) Xcode
General
1 34 (44.16%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.29%) Retail
4 10 (12.99%) Finance
5 9 (11.69%) Banking
5 9 (11.69%) Law
6 4 (5.19%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.19%) Police
6 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.90%) Games
7 3 (3.90%) Military
8 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.30%) Back Office
9 1 (1.30%) Front Office
9 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (37.66%) Architect
2 23 (29.87%) Developer
3 14 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 14 (18.18%) Technical Architect
4 13 (16.88%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (15.58%) Java Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Technical Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.49%) Python Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Lead
9 4 (5.19%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Software Architect
10 3 (3.90%) C# Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Games Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.97%) REST
2 13 (16.88%) Java EE
3 9 (11.69%) ARM Templates
4 7 (9.09%) .NET
4 7 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 6 (7.79%) HTML
5 6 (7.79%) HTML5
5 6 (7.79%) Spring
5 6 (7.79%) Web Services
6 5 (6.49%) React
7 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.19%) CSS
7 4 (5.19%) Kafka
7 4 (5.19%) Node.js
8 3 (3.90%) CSS3
8 3 (3.90%) JPA
8 3 (3.90%) OAuth2
8 3 (3.90%) Qt
8 3 (3.90%) RESTful
8 3 (3.90%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Public Cloud
2 7 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.49%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.19%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.19%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.30%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.30%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (50.65%) DevOps
2 30 (38.96%) Agile
3 23 (29.87%) Continuous Integration
3 23 (29.87%) Technical Leadership
4 22 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 21 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 17 (22.08%) Microservices
6 17 (22.08%) Roadmaps
6 17 (22.08%) Test Automation
7 14 (18.18%) Design Patterns
7 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (16.88%) Configuration Management
9 12 (15.58%) Containerisation
10 11 (14.29%) Decision-Making
11 10 (12.99%) Architectural Patterns
11 10 (12.99%) Multithreading
11 10 (12.99%) TDD
12 8 (10.39%) Machine Learning
13 7 (9.09%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 32 (41.56%) Java
2 11 (14.29%) C#
2 11 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 11 (14.29%) Python
3 9 (11.69%) SQL
4 8 (10.39%) C++
5 7 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.49%) C
6 5 (6.49%) Kotlin
7 4 (5.19%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.90%) Ada
9 2 (2.60%) Groovy
9 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.60%) Scala
10 1 (1.30%) COBOL
10 1 (1.30%) JCL
10 1 (1.30%) PHP
10 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.68%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.79%) Degree
4 3 (3.90%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.60%) PhD
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) QA
2 3 (3.90%) Def Stans
2 3 (3.90%) IEC 61508
2 3 (3.90%) MISRA
2 3 (3.90%) MISRA C
3 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (24.68%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) RACF
Systems Management
1 22 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 17 (22.08%) Terraform
3 14 (18.18%) Ansible
4 9 (11.69%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (11.69%) Podman
5 4 (5.19%) Grafana
5 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.60%) Packer
6 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) Oracle
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.90%) Autodesk
3 3 (3.90%) Databricks
3 3 (3.90%) SAP
4 2 (2.60%) Adobe
4 2 (2.60%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.60%) Informatica
4 2 (2.60%) Pega
4 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.60%) Splunk
5 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.30%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.30%) Google
5 1 (1.30%) IBM
5 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.30%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.30%) Xamarin