Software Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 405 407
Rank change year-on-year +118 +2 -35
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 104 56 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.23% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.26% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 34 59
10th Percentile £396 £433 £483
25th Percentile £542 £503 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +8.27%
75th Percentile £702 £600 £600
90th Percentile £730 £668 £650
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 8
10th Percentile - £62.44 £45.88
25th Percentile £75.00 £62.50 £47.19
Median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +12.55% -0.43%
75th Percentile £88.75 £69.00 £66.34
90th Percentile £90.20 £69.50 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £65.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year +19.23% -0.82% +13.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,650 27,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.77% 89.55% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,595 15,013 19,156
10th Percentile £243 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,028 1,330 1,375
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.01
25th Percentile £15.17 £16.19 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.60 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Architecture in the UK excluding London

Software Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
South East +27 39 £650 +13.04% 26
South West +33 23 £675 +3.85% 9
North of England +48 20 £425 -26.09% 17
East of England +25 17 £550 - 12
Yorkshire +38 12 £375 -34.78% 6
North West +21 8 £530 -7.83% 10
West Midlands +27 4 £563 +9.76% 3
Midlands +25 4 £563 +9.76% 3
Scotland +20 1 - - 6
Software Architecture
UK

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (28.85%) AWS
2 28 (26.92%) Azure
3 6 (5.77%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.92%) GCP
4 2 (1.92%) GitHub
4 2 (1.92%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.92%) SaaS
4 2 (1.92%) Serverless
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.96%) IaaS
5 1 (0.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) VPN
2 1 (0.96%) IPsec
2 1 (0.96%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.96%) SSL
2 1 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.88%) Big Data
1 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
1 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.96%) Metadata
2 1 (0.96%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 27 (25.96%) Jenkins
2 25 (24.04%) Cucumber
2 25 (24.04%) Selenium
3 24 (23.08%) REST Assured
3 24 (23.08%) SonarQube
4 13 (12.50%) GitLab
4 13 (12.50%) JIRA
5 3 (2.88%) Git
5 3 (2.88%) XCUITest
6 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.96%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (44.23%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (19.23%) Law
4 13 (12.50%) Police
5 5 (4.81%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.96%) Aviation
6 1 (0.96%) Finance
6 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (31.73%) Developer
2 30 (28.85%) Architect
3 18 (17.31%) Software Architect
4 17 (16.35%) Java Engineer
5 15 (14.42%) Full Stack Developer
6 12 (11.54%) Software Engineer
7 11 (10.58%) Senior
8 8 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.77%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.81%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Development Manager
11 4 (3.85%) Python Software Architect
11 4 (3.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 4 (3.85%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.04%) Java EE
1 25 (24.04%) REST
2 15 (14.42%) React
2 15 (14.42%) Spring
3 13 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 13 (12.50%) DirectX
3 13 (12.50%) OpenGL
3 13 (12.50%) OpenGL ES
3 13 (12.50%) Vulkan
4 12 (11.54%) ARM Templates
5 8 (7.69%) .NET
6 6 (5.77%) RESTful
6 6 (5.77%) XML
7 2 (1.92%) CSS
7 2 (1.92%) Guice
7 2 (1.92%) HTML
7 2 (1.92%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.96%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.96%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.35%) Algorithms
2 10 (9.62%) 3D Graphics
2 10 (9.62%) Ray Tracing
3 7 (6.73%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.77%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.81%) Verilog
5 5 (4.81%) VHDL
6 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.85%) Android
2 3 (2.88%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.92%) Linux
3 2 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (60.58%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (46.15%) DevOps
3 43 (41.35%) Agile
4 36 (34.62%) Test Automation
5 35 (33.65%) Software Engineering
6 29 (27.88%) Continuous Integration
7 28 (26.92%) Technical Leadership
8 26 (25.00%) Decision-Making
9 22 (21.15%) Project Management
10 16 (15.38%) Configuration Management
10 16 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
10 16 (15.38%) OO
11 14 (13.46%) Containerisation
12 13 (12.50%) Change Management
12 13 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (12.50%) OOP
12 13 (12.50%) Programme Management
12 13 (12.50%) Secure Coding
12 13 (12.50%) Unit Testing
13 12 (11.54%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 48 (46.15%) Java
2 31 (29.81%) Python
3 28 (26.92%) C
4 20 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 16 (15.38%) C++
6 11 (10.58%) C#
7 7 (6.73%) SQL
8 5 (4.81%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.85%) R
10 3 (2.88%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.92%) Perl
11 2 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.92%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.96%) PHP
12 1 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 56 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 44 (42.31%) SC Cleared
3 18 (17.31%) Degree
4 17 (16.35%) DV Cleared
5 13 (12.50%) Master's Degree
6 10 (9.62%) PhD
7 6 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.31%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (19.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (25.00%) Ansible
2 14 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.46%) Terraform
3 12 (11.54%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (11.54%) Podman
4 2 (1.92%) OPNET
Vendors
1 9 (8.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.92%) Atlassian
2 2 (1.92%) Google
2 2 (1.92%) VMware
3 1 (0.96%) Ariba
3 1 (0.96%) Databricks
3 1 (0.96%) SAP