Software Architecture Contracts in London

Software Architecture
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 302 403
Rank change year-on-year -7 +101 +66
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 44 89 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.50% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.56% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 51 64
10th Percentile £391 £463 £465
25th Percentile £435 £533 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £652 £700 £687
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +1.86% +19.52%
75th Percentile £750 £863 £825
90th Percentile £788 £950 £875
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £77.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.23% +12.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in London

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in London

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in London

Software Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Architecture in London

Software Architecture
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 Architecture within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -5 3 £383 -33.48% 6
South London - 2 £750 -
West London - 2 £665 - 7
East London +15 1 £538 +23.56% 3
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.36%) Apache Spark
2 4 (9.09%) Jupyter
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (2.27%) Confluence
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.27%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.09%) Azure
2 12 (27.27%) AWS
3 6 (13.64%) GitHub
4 5 (11.36%) GCP
5 4 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.55%) Serverless
7 2 (4.55%) Vertex AI
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.27%) BigCommerce
8 1 (2.27%) IaaS
8 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.27%) PaaS
8 1 (2.27%) Route 53
8 1 (2.27%) SaaS
8 1 (2.27%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) IPsec
2 1 (2.27%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle Database
3 4 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 4 (9.09%) Redis
4 3 (6.82%) Big Data
4 3 (6.82%) Data Mining
4 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.55%) Impala
5 2 (4.55%) MySQL
5 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.55%) Tableau
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.27%) Couchbase
6 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Git
1 8 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.09%) CircleCI
2 4 (9.09%) JIRA
2 4 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 3 (6.82%) Bitbucket
3 3 (6.82%) GitLab
3 3 (6.82%) Maven
4 2 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (4.55%) JUnit
4 2 (4.55%) Mockito
4 2 (4.55%) Postman
4 2 (4.55%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.55%) SoapUI
4 2 (4.55%) Subversion
4 2 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (4.55%) Xcode
4 2 (4.55%) XCTest
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 21 (47.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 9 (20.45%) Banking
4 8 (18.18%) Retail
5 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (9.09%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.27%) Back Office
8 1 (2.27%) Military
8 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (43.18%) Architect
2 12 (27.27%) Developer
3 10 (22.73%) Technical Architect
4 7 (15.91%) Python Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (11.36%) Java Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Technical Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Software Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.55%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
7 2 (4.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Lead
7 2 (4.55%) Pega Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Python Data Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) .NET
1 6 (13.64%) HTML
1 6 (13.64%) HTML5
1 6 (13.64%) REST
2 5 (11.36%) React
2 5 (11.36%) Spring Boot
3 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 4 (9.09%) CSS
3 4 (9.09%) Kafka
3 4 (9.09%) Spring
4 3 (6.82%) CSS3
4 3 (6.82%) Node.js
4 3 (6.82%) Ray
4 3 (6.82%) Web Services
5 2 (4.55%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.55%) Material-UI
5 2 (4.55%) Matplotlib
5 2 (4.55%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (4.55%) Swagger
5 2 (4.55%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (15.91%) Public Cloud
2 6 (13.64%) Algorithms
2 6 (13.64%) Data Structures
3 4 (9.09%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.82%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (6.82%) Private Cloud
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.27%) Digital Media
6 1 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) DevOps
2 15 (34.09%) Agile
3 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 13 (29.55%) Microservices
5 11 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 11 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 9 (20.45%) Computer Science
6 9 (20.45%) Design Patterns
6 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (20.45%) TDD
6 9 (20.45%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (18.18%) Data Modelling
8 7 (15.91%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (13.64%) SOA
9 6 (13.64%) Unit Testing
10 5 (11.36%) Data Analysis
10 5 (11.36%) Software Engineering
10 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (11.36%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (45.45%) Java
2 14 (31.82%) Python
3 10 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.45%) SQL
5 6 (13.64%) C#
6 5 (11.36%) Shell Script
6 5 (11.36%) TypeScript
7 4 (9.09%) Scala
8 3 (6.82%) C
8 3 (6.82%) C++
8 3 (6.82%) Kotlin
9 2 (4.55%) Groovy
9 2 (4.55%) PL/SQL
10 1 (2.27%) COBOL
10 1 (2.27%) JCL
10 1 (2.27%) PHP
10 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.82%) PhD
5 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) DICOM
3 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.27%) HL7
3 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) RACF
Systems Management
1 11 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.91%) Terraform
3 4 (9.09%) Grafana
3 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.82%) Ansible
5 1 (2.27%) Packer
5 1 (2.27%) QRadar
5 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Oracle
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) Databricks
3 3 (6.82%) SAP
4 2 (4.55%) Adobe
4 2 (4.55%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.55%) Informatica
4 2 (4.55%) Pega
4 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.27%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.27%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) IBM
5 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.27%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.27%) Virgin Media