Software Architecture Contracts in England

Software Architecture
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 504 560
Rank change year-on-year +154 +56 -81
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 194 144 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.32% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 103 150
10th Percentile £400 £450 £412
25th Percentile £539 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £638
90th Percentile £875 £875 £738
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 8
10th Percentile £61.50 - £45.88
25th Percentile £71.25 £62.50 £47.19
Median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +12.55% -9.41%
75th Percentile £87.50 £68.50 £66.34
90th Percentile £91.20 £69.10 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year +23.08% -0.82% +2.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,926 45,112 64,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 31,664 45,849
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,598 1,761
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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 4 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Architecture in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 4 May 2024. 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 +102 88 £700 +3.70% 52
South East +41 40 £650 +13.04% 21
South West +34 23 £675 +3.85% 7
North of England +40 19 £400 -30.43% 16
East of England +24 17 £550 - 10
Yorkshire +31 12 £375 -36.17% 5
North West +23 7 £550 -4.35% 10
Midlands +27 4 £563 +2.27% 4
West Midlands +24 4 £563 +9.76% 3
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 (2.06%) Apache
2 3 (1.55%) IIS
2 3 (1.55%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.03%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) EPiServer
Business Applications
1 4 (2.06%) Endur
2 3 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (24.23%) AWS
2 46 (23.71%) Azure
3 12 (6.19%) GCP
4 6 (3.09%) GitHub
4 6 (3.09%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (2.58%) Serverless
6 3 (1.55%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.55%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.55%) PaaS
6 3 (1.55%) SaaS
7 2 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.03%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.03%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.52%) AWS IoT
8 1 (0.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.58%) SSH
2 2 (1.03%) VPN
3 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.52%) IPsec
3 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.52%) SNMP
3 1 (0.52%) SSL
3 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.28%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.12%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.61%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.06%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.55%) Big Data
6 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.52%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.52%) Metadata
7 1 (0.52%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.52%) MySQL
7 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (17.01%) Jenkins
2 30 (15.46%) Cucumber
3 27 (13.92%) Selenium
4 25 (12.89%) SonarQube
5 24 (12.37%) REST Assured
6 20 (10.31%) JIRA
7 19 (9.79%) GitLab
8 10 (5.15%) Cypress.io
8 10 (5.15%) Git
9 7 (3.61%) Maven
9 7 (3.61%) Visual Studio
10 5 (2.58%) JUnit
11 4 (2.06%) Pylint
12 3 (1.55%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.55%) XCUITest
13 2 (1.03%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.52%) Appium
14 1 (0.52%) Darcs
14 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 81 (41.75%) Social Skills
2 43 (22.16%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (13.92%) Finance
4 20 (10.31%) Law
5 18 (9.28%) Banking
6 15 (7.73%) Front Office
7 13 (6.70%) Police
8 10 (5.15%) Advertising
9 7 (3.61%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.09%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.09%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.55%) Retail
12 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Aviation
13 1 (0.52%) Back Office
13 1 (0.52%) Games
13 1 (0.52%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (42.27%) Developer
2 42 (21.65%) Architect
3 37 (19.07%) Senior
4 22 (11.34%) Software Architect
5 21 (10.82%) Java Developer
6 17 (8.76%) Java Engineer
7 16 (8.25%) C# Developer
7 16 (8.25%) Full Stack Developer
8 15 (7.73%) Software Engineer
9 14 (7.22%) Analyst
10 13 (6.70%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.70%) Technical Architect
11 11 (5.67%) JavaScript Engineer
12 10 (5.15%) C# Quant Developer
12 10 (5.15%) Python Developer
12 10 (5.15%) Quantitative Developer
12 10 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (4.12%) .NET Developer
13 8 (4.12%) Lead
13 8 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (20.10%) REST
2 28 (14.43%) .NET
3 27 (13.92%) React
4 25 (12.89%) Java EE
5 23 (11.86%) Spring
6 17 (8.76%) AngularJS
7 13 (6.70%) DirectX
7 13 (6.70%) HTML
7 13 (6.70%) OpenGL
7 13 (6.70%) OpenGL ES
7 13 (6.70%) Vulkan
8 12 (6.19%) ARM Templates
8 12 (6.19%) Hibernate
8 12 (6.19%) JPA
8 12 (6.19%) Node.js
8 12 (6.19%) XML
9 10 (5.15%) Express.js
9 10 (5.15%) Jest
9 10 (5.15%) Redux
9 10 (5.15%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.71%) Algorithms
2 23 (11.86%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.22%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.15%) 3D Graphics
5 10 (5.15%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.15%) Ray Tracing
6 9 (4.64%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.61%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.61%) Product Ownership
8 6 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.58%) Verilog
9 5 (2.58%) VHDL
10 3 (1.55%) Derivative
10 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.03%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.52%) Mobile Games
12 1 (0.52%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.19%) Linux
2 7 (3.61%) Unix
3 4 (2.06%) Android
4 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (44.33%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (39.69%) Agile
3 67 (34.54%) DevOps
4 60 (30.93%) Software Engineering
5 37 (19.07%) Continuous Integration
5 37 (19.07%) Test Automation
6 36 (18.56%) Project Management
7 30 (15.46%) CI/CD
7 30 (15.46%) SDLC
8 28 (14.43%) Decision-Making
8 28 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
9 25 (12.89%) OO
10 23 (11.86%) Computer Science
10 23 (11.86%) Design Patterns
10 23 (11.86%) TDD
11 20 (10.31%) Data Modelling
12 19 (9.79%) Containerisation
12 19 (9.79%) Full Stack Development
12 19 (9.79%) Scrum
13 18 (9.28%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 74 (38.14%) Java
2 62 (31.96%) Python
3 41 (21.13%) JavaScript
4 40 (20.62%) C#
5 37 (19.07%) SQL
6 33 (17.01%) C
7 23 (11.86%) C++
8 14 (7.22%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.61%) Perl
10 4 (2.06%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.06%) R
11 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.03%) Scala
13 1 (0.52%) F#
13 1 (0.52%) Go
13 1 (0.52%) PHP
13 1 (0.52%) Rust
13 1 (0.52%) Swift
13 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (34.02%) Security Cleared
2 53 (27.32%) SC Cleared
3 30 (15.46%) Degree
4 17 (8.76%) DV Cleared
5 15 (7.73%) Master's Degree
6 14 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (5.15%) PhD
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.52%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.95%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 36 (18.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (15.98%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.40%) Ansible
3 17 (8.76%) Terraform
4 12 (6.19%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (6.19%) Podman
5 2 (1.03%) OPNET
6 1 (0.52%) Argo
6 1 (0.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (5.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.12%) Oracle
3 4 (2.06%) Google
3 4 (2.06%) SmartStream
4 2 (1.03%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.03%) Optimizely
4 2 (1.03%) VMware
5 1 (0.52%) Ariba
5 1 (0.52%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.52%) Databricks
5 1 (0.52%) HP
5 1 (0.52%) IBM
5 1 (0.52%) SAP