Software Architecture Contracts in the Midlands

Software Architecture
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 105 129 162
Rank change year-on-year +24 +33 +19
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 6 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.31% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile - £479 -
25th Percentile - £503 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +9.76% -6.82%
75th Percentile - £716 £594
90th Percentile - £796 £628
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the Midlands

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in the Midlands

Software Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Architecture in the Midlands

Software Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +16 6 £600 +6.67% 29
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Revit
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Plastic SCM
General
1 3 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Games Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Autodesk