Software Architecture Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Software Architecture
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Software Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 1.89% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £425 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42 34 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 79.25% 97.14% 77.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 47
10th Percentile £206 £244 £194
25th Percentile £270 £288 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -12.20% -1.44%
75th Percentile £500 £581 £550
90th Percentile £519 £590 £763
Surrey median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £23.00 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £11.71
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £12.43
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% +125.35% -
75th Percentile £69.69 - £15.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £30.30 £18.75
Surrey median hourly rate £66.99 £27.75 £18.35
% change year-on-year +141.41% +51.23% -59.22%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Software Architecture job vacancy trend in Guildford

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Software Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Software Architecture

Software Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL