Software Architecture Contracts in the South West

Software Architecture
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Software Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Architecture over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 160 159
Rank change year-on-year +28 -1 -36
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 22 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.69% 0.33% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.36% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 9
10th Percentile - £585 £451
25th Percentile £625 £606 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £706 £675 £538
90th Percentile £714 £747 £555
England median daily rate £650 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £57.75
% change year-on-year +15.38% +12.55% -0.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Software Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,660 3,303 3,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.97% 89.73% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,739 2,428 2,344
10th Percentile £225 £305 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.38%
75th Percentile £630 £644 £588
90th Percentile £706 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £532
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.38% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 349 188
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £25.00 £17.75 £16.79
Median hourly rate £47.50 £61.50 £47.89
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +28.43% +6.41%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.64
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.17% +55.71% -0.19%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the South West

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in the South West

Software Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Architecture in the South West

Software Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Gloucestershire - 8 £688 - 1
Bristol +19 5 £675 +12.50% 7
Wiltshire +5 4 £700 +7.69% 1
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 10 (45.45%) AWS
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
2 2 (9.09%) GitHub
2 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Developer
1 13 (59.09%) Full Stack Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Software Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Python Software Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Software Team Leader
4 2 (9.09%) Team Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (59.09%) AngularJS
1 13 (59.09%) React
1 13 (59.09%) Spring
2 5 (22.73%) RESTful
2 5 (22.73%) XML
3 2 (9.09%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Product Ownership
2 4 (18.18%) Verilog
2 4 (18.18%) VHDL
3 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Agile
2 20 (90.91%) DevOps
3 13 (59.09%) Change Management
3 13 (59.09%) Full Stack Development
3 13 (59.09%) OO
3 13 (59.09%) OOP
3 13 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (59.09%) Programme Management
3 13 (59.09%) Project Management
3 13 (59.09%) Secure Coding
3 13 (59.09%) Unit Testing
4 8 (36.36%) SDLC
5 5 (22.73%) Software Delivery
5 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (9.09%) ArchiMate
6 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.09%) Scrum
6 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (9.09%) TOGAF
6 2 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Python
2 19 (86.36%) C
3 15 (68.18%) Java
4 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
5 7 (31.82%) C++
6 4 (18.18%) C#
7 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
7 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 2 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (95.45%) Security Cleared
2 11 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (59.09%) QA
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.09%) OPNET
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Atlassian
1 2 (9.09%) Google
1 2 (9.09%) VMware