Software Architecture Contracts in London

Software Architecture
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 302 399 490
Rank change year-on-year +97 +91 -86
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 84 88 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.34% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.37% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 64 88
10th Percentile £428 £465 £396
25th Percentile £525 £548 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +21.70% +6.98%
75th Percentile £775 £831 £656
90th Percentile £920 £875 £768
England median daily rate £650 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +8.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £54.00 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% +30.00% -23.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,484 23,644 35,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 90.88% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 17,068 26,253
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 267 420
10th Percentile £15.81 £18.30 £17.24
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.45 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.88 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.83 £82.50 £67.56
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in London

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in London

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in London

Software Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Architecture in London

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Software Architecture in London

Software Architecture
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +26 8 £550 -24.14% 5
East London - 1 £435 - 13
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.76%) Apache
2 3 (3.57%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.38%) CMS
3 2 (2.38%) IIS
4 1 (1.19%) EPiServer
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Endur
2 2 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.05%) AWS
2 15 (17.86%) Azure
3 7 (8.33%) GCP
4 5 (5.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.57%) GitHub
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.38%) PaaS
7 2 (2.38%) Serverless
8 1 (1.19%) AWS IoT
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.19%) Datadog
8 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) SSH
2 1 (1.19%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.19%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 5 (5.95%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.76%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.19%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (10.71%) Cypress.io
2 8 (9.52%) JIRA
3 7 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 7 (8.33%) Git
3 7 (8.33%) JUnit
3 7 (8.33%) Maven
4 6 (7.14%) GitLab
4 6 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.95%) Visual Studio
6 4 (4.76%) Pylint
7 2 (2.38%) Selenium
7 2 (2.38%) Terragrunt
7 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.19%) Appium
8 1 (1.19%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.19%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.19%) Postman
8 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 35 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 24 (28.57%) Finance
3 18 (21.43%) Banking
4 17 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (14.29%) Front Office
6 9 (10.71%) Advertising
7 8 (9.52%) Investment Banking
8 7 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.38%) Back Office
10 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.38%) Retail
11 1 (1.19%) Games
11 1 (1.19%) Local Government
11 1 (1.19%) Multimedia
11 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (55.95%) Developer
2 25 (29.76%) Senior
3 17 (20.24%) Java Developer
4 11 (13.10%) Analyst
4 11 (13.10%) C# Developer
5 10 (11.90%) Architect
6 9 (10.71%) JavaScript Engineer
6 9 (10.71%) Python Developer
7 8 (9.52%) Senior Developer
8 7 (8.33%) C# Quant Developer
8 7 (8.33%) DBA
8 7 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
8 7 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
8 7 (8.33%) Quantitative Developer
8 7 (8.33%) SQL DBA
8 7 (8.33%) SQL Developer
9 6 (7.14%) .NET Developer
9 6 (7.14%) Backend Developer
9 6 (7.14%) Technical Architect
10 5 (5.95%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.24%) .NET
2 15 (17.86%) REST
3 14 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 14 (16.67%) JPA
4 12 (14.29%) HTML
4 12 (14.29%) React
5 11 (13.10%) Spring
6 10 (11.90%) Node.js
7 9 (10.71%) Express.js
7 9 (10.71%) Jest
7 9 (10.71%) Redux
8 8 (9.52%) Web Services
8 8 (9.52%) XML
9 7 (8.33%) .NET Core
9 7 (8.33%) CSS
9 7 (8.33%) J2EE
9 7 (8.33%) JSON
9 7 (8.33%) Pandas
9 7 (8.33%) SOAP
10 6 (7.14%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (32.14%) Algorithms
2 18 (21.43%) Data Structures
3 14 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (13.10%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (13.10%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 7 (8.33%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.57%) Derivative
7 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.19%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (1.19%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.19%) IoT
8 1 (1.19%) Mobile Games
8 1 (1.19%) NHS
8 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.19%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.29%) Linux
2 8 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.29%) Agile
2 23 (27.38%) SDLC
2 23 (27.38%) Software Engineering
3 22 (26.19%) TDD
4 19 (22.62%) DevOps
5 18 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 18 (21.43%) Computer Science
5 18 (21.43%) Design Patterns
5 18 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (19.05%) Pair Programming
7 13 (15.48%) Microservices
8 12 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 11 (13.10%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (13.10%) Data Modelling
9 11 (13.10%) Project Management
9 11 (13.10%) Scrum
10 10 (11.90%) Analytics
10 10 (11.90%) Mentoring
10 10 (11.90%) Migration
11 9 (10.71%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.90%) SQL
2 29 (34.52%) Python
3 27 (32.14%) Java
4 23 (27.38%) C#
5 20 (23.81%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.71%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.14%) C++
7 6 (7.14%) Perl
8 4 (4.76%) C
9 2 (2.38%) Scala
10 1 (1.19%) F#
10 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (15.48%) Degree
2 9 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.48%) QA
System Software
1 14 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.38%) Terraform
3 1 (1.19%) Argo
3 1 (1.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (8.33%) Oracle
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.76%) SmartStream
4 2 (2.38%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.19%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.19%) HP
5 1 (1.19%) IBM