Software Architecture Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Software Architecture
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Software Architecture skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 0.40% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £650 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 227 247 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 91.16% 86.06% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 181 483
10th Percentile £229 £250 £320
25th Percentile £329 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £474 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% -7.11% +2.56%
75th Percentile £536 £538 £600
90th Percentile £627 £625 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £435 £463 £515
% change year-on-year -5.95% -10.19% +0.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 7
10th Percentile £14.39 £17.31 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.12 £19.98 £13.17
Median hourly rate £17.94 £30.00 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -40.22% +121.08% +10.24%
75th Percentile £26.71 £36.37 £20.25
90th Percentile £29.61 £37.25 £21.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.91 £30.00 £16.40
% change year-on-year -46.97% +82.93% +17.14%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in Milton Keynes

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Software Architecture

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes