Software Architecture Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 278 278 403
Rank change year-on-year 0 +125 +56
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 26 67 74
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.50% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 38 57
10th Percentile £362 £513 £464
25th Percentile £398 £550 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £649 £650
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -0.19% +15.56%
75th Percentile £719 £734 £775
90th Percentile £775 £775 £875
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £62.50 -
25th Percentile - £67.50 £62.50
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -0.79%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £67.50
90th Percentile - £87.50 -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £77.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.23% -0.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Software Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Architecture trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Architecture.

Software Architecture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Software Architecture over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Software Architecture daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Architecture.

Software Architecture hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (7.69%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) AWS
2 12 (46.15%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (11.54%) AWS KMS
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
3 3 (11.54%) IaaS
3 3 (11.54%) PaaS
3 3 (11.54%) Route 53
3 3 (11.54%) SaaS
3 3 (11.54%) Serverless
4 2 (7.69%) Vertex AI
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) IPsec
1 3 (11.54%) Kerberos
1 3 (11.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Redis
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.85%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 9 (34.62%) GitLab
3 7 (26.92%) JIRA
3 7 (26.92%) REST Assured
3 7 (26.92%) SonarQube
4 5 (19.23%) Cucumber
4 5 (19.23%) Maven
4 5 (19.23%) Selenium
5 3 (11.54%) Git
6 2 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (7.69%) JUnit
6 2 (7.69%) Mockito
6 2 (7.69%) MSTest
6 2 (7.69%) NUnit
6 2 (7.69%) Postman
6 2 (7.69%) SoapUI
6 2 (7.69%) Subversion
6 2 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio
6 2 (7.69%) Xcode
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Finance
4 5 (19.23%) Law
5 4 (15.38%) Police
6 3 (11.54%) Retail
7 2 (7.69%) Banking
7 2 (7.69%) Military
7 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Architect
2 8 (30.77%) Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Technical Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Java Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.69%) .NET Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Identity Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) REST
2 8 (30.77%) Web Services
3 6 (23.08%) Spring
3 6 (23.08%) Spring Boot
4 5 (19.23%) ARM Templates
4 5 (19.23%) Java EE
4 5 (19.23%) OAuth
5 4 (15.38%) Kafka
5 4 (15.38%) Node.js
5 4 (15.38%) OAuth2
6 3 (11.54%) .NET
6 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
6 3 (11.54%) CSS
6 3 (11.54%) HTML
6 3 (11.54%) HTML5
6 3 (11.54%) OpenID
6 3 (11.54%) SAML
6 3 (11.54%) XACML
7 2 (7.69%) J2EE
7 2 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Algorithms
1 3 (11.54%) Data Structures
1 3 (11.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Agile
2 12 (46.15%) Microservices
3 11 (42.31%) DevOps
4 10 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
5 9 (34.62%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (26.92%) TDD
7 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
7 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
8 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
8 5 (19.23%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (19.23%) Design Patterns
8 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (19.23%) Project Management
8 5 (19.23%) SOA
8 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
9 4 (15.38%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Java
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) Kotlin
4 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.69%) C#
5 2 (7.69%) Groovy
5 2 (7.69%) Python
5 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.85%) COBOL
6 1 (3.85%) JCL
6 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
1 1 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) RACF
Systems Management
1 14 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 9 (34.62%) Terraform
3 8 (30.77%) Ansible
4 5 (19.23%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (19.23%) Podman
5 3 (11.54%) Packer
5 3 (11.54%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.85%) Grafana
6 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.85%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Dynatrace
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (7.69%) IBM
2 2 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft