Software Architect Contracts in London

Software Architect
England > London

The median Software Architect daily rate in London is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 483 585
Rank change year-on-year +100 +102 -143
Contract jobs requiring a Software Architect 16 19 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.090% 0.070% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.073% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 7
10th Percentile £550 £500 £515
25th Percentile £559 £514 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% -4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £750 £616 £647
90th Percentile - £633 £660
England median daily rate £675 £590 £595
% change year-on-year +14.41% -0.84% -0.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,628 25,954 37,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.32% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,036 18,763 27,151
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 294 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.45 £77.48 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Software Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Software Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architect in London

Software Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Software Architect in London

Software Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architect in London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architect in London

Software Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Architect in London

Software Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
West London - 3 £575 -
Central London +38 2 £750 +20.00% 1
Software Architect
England

Software Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Software Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Software Architect in the job title.

1 9 (56.25%) Software Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) Java
4 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (25.00%) C#
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) React
5 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
5 3 (18.75%) .NET Core
5 3 (18.75%) LLM
5 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Finance
5 3 (18.75%) TDD
5 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
5 3 (18.75%) .NET
5 3 (18.75%) CSS
5 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
5 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
5 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
5 3 (18.75%) Software Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Workflow
6 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Business Strategy

Software Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) .NET Core
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
1 3 (18.75%) React
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Software Engineering
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Analytics
3 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
3 3 (18.75%) LLM
3 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
3 3 (18.75%) Software Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) TDD
4 2 (12.50%) Business Strategy
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
4 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (12.50%) Microservices
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 2 (12.50%) Workflow
5 1 (6.25%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) C#
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
3 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) Bicep
4 1 (6.25%) C
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Grafana
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
1 2 (12.50%) Snow