Software Architecture Contracts in England

Software Architecture
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 504 555
Rank change year-on-year +164 +51 -98
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 193 142 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.29% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.33% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 104 148
10th Percentile £400 £450 £439
25th Percentile £525 £520 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +8.27%
75th Percentile £725 £747 £650
90th Percentile £850 £875 £739
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +12.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 6
10th Percentile £62.50 - £45.63
25th Percentile £73.13 £62.50 £46.56
Median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +30.00% -23.66%
75th Percentile £90.00 £71.68 £62.28
90th Percentile £92.19 £74.19 £67.15
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year +23.08% -0.82% +0.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Architecture in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Architecture in England

Software Architecture
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +97 84 £600 -14.26% 62
South East +42 41 £650 +13.04% 37
South West +21 22 £681 +4.81% 5
North of England +44 20 £475 -17.39% 21
East of England +27 18 £550 - 12
Yorkshire +29 13 £400 -31.91% 9
North West +20 7 £530 -7.83% 9
West Midlands +21 5 £563 +9.76% 4
Midlands +17 5 £563 +2.27% 6
Software Architecture
UK

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (2.07%) Apache
2 3 (1.55%) IIS
2 3 (1.55%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.04%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Endur
2 3 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (22.80%) AWS
1 44 (22.80%) Azure
2 11 (5.70%) GCP
3 6 (3.11%) GitHub
3 6 (3.11%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (2.07%) SaaS
5 4 (2.07%) Serverless
6 3 (1.55%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (1.55%) PaaS
7 2 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.04%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.04%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.52%) AWS IoT
8 1 (0.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.52%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.52%) Datadog
8 1 (0.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) SSH
2 3 (1.55%) VPN
3 1 (0.52%) 5G
3 1 (0.52%) DHCP
3 1 (0.52%) DNS
3 1 (0.52%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.52%) IPsec
3 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.52%) LTE
3 1 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.52%) SNMP
3 1 (0.52%) SSL
3 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.15%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.63%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.07%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.55%) Big Data
6 2 (1.04%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.52%) Metadata
7 1 (0.52%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.52%) MySQL
7 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (17.10%) Jenkins
2 32 (16.58%) Cucumber
3 27 (13.99%) Selenium
4 25 (12.95%) SonarQube
5 24 (12.44%) REST Assured
6 22 (11.40%) JIRA
7 19 (9.84%) GitLab
8 11 (5.70%) Git
9 9 (4.66%) Cypress.io
10 7 (3.63%) JUnit
10 7 (3.63%) Maven
10 7 (3.63%) Visual Studio
11 4 (2.07%) Pylint
12 3 (1.55%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.55%) XCUITest
13 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.52%) Jasmine
14 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
General
1 83 (43.01%) Social Skills
2 43 (22.28%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.47%) Finance
4 20 (10.36%) Law
5 19 (9.84%) Banking
6 13 (6.74%) Police
7 12 (6.22%) Front Office
8 9 (4.66%) Advertising
9 8 (4.15%) Investment Banking
10 7 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (3.11%) Public Sector
11 6 (3.11%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.07%) Retail
13 2 (1.04%) Back Office
13 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.52%) Automotive
14 1 (0.52%) Aviation
14 1 (0.52%) Games
14 1 (0.52%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (41.97%) Developer
2 44 (22.80%) Architect
3 35 (18.13%) Senior
4 23 (11.92%) Java Developer
5 22 (11.40%) Software Architect
6 17 (8.81%) Java Engineer
7 15 (7.77%) Software Engineer
8 14 (7.25%) Analyst
8 14 (7.25%) Full Stack Developer
9 13 (6.74%) C# Developer
9 13 (6.74%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.74%) Technical Architect
10 11 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.18%) JavaScript Engineer
11 10 (5.18%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.66%) Lead
13 8 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (3.63%) .NET Developer
14 7 (3.63%) Oracle DBA
14 7 (3.63%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (21.24%) REST
2 28 (14.51%) .NET
3 25 (12.95%) Java EE
3 25 (12.95%) React
4 23 (11.92%) Spring
5 16 (8.29%) AngularJS
6 14 (7.25%) Hibernate
6 14 (7.25%) JPA
6 14 (7.25%) XML
7 13 (6.74%) DirectX
7 13 (6.74%) OpenGL
7 13 (6.74%) OpenGL ES
7 13 (6.74%) Vulkan
8 12 (6.22%) ARM Templates
8 12 (6.22%) HTML
9 11 (5.70%) RESTful
10 10 (5.18%) Node.js
11 9 (4.66%) Jest
11 9 (4.66%) Redux
11 9 (4.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (23.32%) Algorithms
2 23 (11.92%) Data Structures
3 16 (8.29%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.70%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (5.70%) Management Information System
6 10 (5.18%) 3D Graphics
6 10 (5.18%) Ray Tracing
7 8 (4.15%) Product Ownership
8 7 (3.63%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.59%) Verilog
9 5 (2.59%) VHDL
10 3 (1.55%) Derivative
10 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.04%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.52%) Credit Derivative
12 1 (0.52%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.74%) Linux
2 9 (4.66%) Unix
3 5 (2.59%) Android
4 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (43.52%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (39.38%) Agile
3 65 (33.68%) DevOps
4 58 (30.05%) Software Engineering
5 40 (20.73%) Continuous Integration
6 39 (20.21%) Test Automation
7 32 (16.58%) Project Management
8 30 (15.54%) SDLC
9 29 (15.03%) CI/CD
10 28 (14.51%) Decision-Making
10 28 (14.51%) Technical Leadership
11 24 (12.44%) Design Patterns
11 24 (12.44%) OO
12 23 (11.92%) Computer Science
12 23 (11.92%) TDD
13 21 (10.88%) Scrum
14 19 (9.84%) Containerisation
14 19 (9.84%) OOP
15 18 (9.33%) Machine Learning
15 18 (9.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 74 (38.34%) Java
2 61 (31.61%) Python
3 39 (20.21%) SQL
4 38 (19.69%) JavaScript
5 35 (18.13%) C#
6 31 (16.06%) C
7 23 (11.92%) C++
8 13 (6.74%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.63%) Perl
10 5 (2.59%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.07%) R
12 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.04%) Scala
14 1 (0.52%) F#
14 1 (0.52%) Go
14 1 (0.52%) PHP
14 1 (0.52%) Rust
14 1 (0.52%) Swift
14 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (33.16%) Security Cleared
2 53 (27.46%) SC Cleared
3 32 (16.58%) Degree
4 16 (8.29%) Master's Degree
5 15 (7.77%) DV Cleared
6 14 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (5.18%) PhD
8 1 (0.52%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.54%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 36 (18.65%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (16.06%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.47%) Ansible
3 16 (8.29%) Terraform
4 12 (6.22%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (6.22%) Podman
5 2 (1.04%) OPNET
6 1 (0.52%) Argo
6 1 (0.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (7.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.15%) Oracle
3 4 (2.07%) Google
3 4 (2.07%) SmartStream
4 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.04%) Optimizely
4 2 (1.04%) VMware
5 1 (0.52%) Ariba
5 1 (0.52%) Checkmarx
5 1 (0.52%) Databricks
5 1 (0.52%) HP
5 1 (0.52%) IBM
5 1 (0.52%) SAP