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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 312 393
Rank change year-on-year 0 +81 +89
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 39 84 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.48% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.54% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 49 64
10th Percentile £391 £428 £465
25th Percentile £430 £525 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -14.26% +21.70%
75th Percentile £695 £775 £831
90th Percentile £770 £920 £875
England median daily rate £565 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -13.08% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £63.50 £80.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -20.63% +23.08% +30.00%

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 11,537 15,496 23,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.66% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,810 11,111 16,940
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 307 270
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.77 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.83 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -27.22% +2.00%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.28
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

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 18 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 18 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 +1 5 £375 -31.82% 1
South London - 2 £750 -
West London - 2 £665 - 5
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 3 (7.69%) Jupyter
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.56%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) AWS
2 14 (35.90%) Azure
3 7 (17.95%) GitHub
4 6 (15.38%) GCP
5 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (5.13%) Serverless
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.56%) AWS KMS
9 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.56%) BigCommerce
9 1 (2.56%) IaaS
9 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.56%) Route 53
9 1 (2.56%) SaaS
9 1 (2.56%) Unqork
9 1 (2.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.56%) IPsec
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle Database
1 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.82%) Redis
3 4 (10.26%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.13%) Impala
4 2 (5.13%) MySQL
4 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Tableau
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.56%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Git
2 9 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.82%) CircleCI
3 5 (12.82%) JIRA
3 5 (12.82%) Maven
3 5 (12.82%) SonarQube
4 3 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.69%) GitLab
4 3 (7.69%) JUnit
4 3 (7.69%) Mockito
4 3 (7.69%) Postman
4 3 (7.69%) REST Assured
4 3 (7.69%) SoapUI
4 3 (7.69%) Subversion
4 3 (7.69%) Xcode
4 3 (7.69%) XCTest
5 2 (5.13%) Artifactory
5 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
General
1 20 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Finance
3 10 (25.64%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Financial Institution
4 4 (10.26%) Retail
5 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Military
7 1 (2.56%) Front Office
7 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Architect
2 13 (33.33%) Developer
3 8 (20.51%) Technical Architect
4 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Python Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Technical Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.13%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.13%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
7 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Lead Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Pega Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) HTML
1 7 (17.95%) HTML5
1 7 (17.95%) REST
1 7 (17.95%) Spring Boot
2 6 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 6 (15.38%) React
2 6 (15.38%) Spring
3 5 (12.82%) .NET
3 5 (12.82%) CSS
3 5 (12.82%) Kafka
3 5 (12.82%) Web Services
4 4 (10.26%) CSS3
4 4 (10.26%) JPA
4 4 (10.26%) Node.js
5 3 (7.69%) Bootstrap
5 3 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.69%) J2EE
5 3 (7.69%) SOAP
5 3 (7.69%) Spring MVC
5 3 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Public Cloud
2 4 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.13%) Digital Media
4 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.56%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) CI/CD
2 16 (41.03%) Agile
2 16 (41.03%) Microservices
3 15 (38.46%) DevOps
4 10 (25.64%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (25.64%) TDD
5 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (20.51%) Design Patterns
6 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
7 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (17.95%) Machine Learning
7 7 (17.95%) SDLC
7 7 (17.95%) Unit Testing
8 6 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (15.38%) Code Quality
8 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
8 6 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (15.38%) Data Modelling
8 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven
8 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (46.15%) Java
2 11 (28.21%) JavaScript
2 11 (28.21%) Python
3 9 (23.08%) SQL
4 6 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 5 (12.82%) C#
6 4 (10.26%) Kotlin
6 4 (10.26%) Shell Script
7 3 (7.69%) Groovy
8 2 (5.13%) C++
8 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.13%) Scala
9 1 (2.56%) C
9 1 (2.56%) COBOL
9 1 (2.56%) JCL
9 1 (2.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
1 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) RACF
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.51%) Terraform
3 5 (12.82%) Grafana
3 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
4 4 (10.26%) Ansible
5 1 (2.56%) Packer
5 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Oracle
2 4 (10.26%) Databricks
3 3 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) SAP
3 3 (7.69%) Splunk
4 2 (5.13%) Adobe
4 2 (5.13%) Google
4 2 (5.13%) Informatica
4 2 (5.13%) Pega
4 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.56%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Sitecore