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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 385 409
Rank change year-on-year +116 +24 -49
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 109 50 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.24% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 35 57
10th Percentile £400 £450 £475
25th Percentile £544 £518 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +4.96%
75th Percentile £700 £630 £600
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile - - £45.63
25th Percentile £75.00 £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 £90.50 £71.68 £62.28
90th Percentile £92.33 £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
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 17,095 20,476 27,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.93% 89.37% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,219 14,070 18,908
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £377 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,248 1,358
10th Percentile £12.37 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.63 £62.18
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 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
South East +40 43 £650 +13.04% 23
South West +26 22 £681 +4.81% 4
North of England +42 20 £475 -17.39% 19
East of England +28 18 £550 - 10
Yorkshire +28 13 £400 -31.91% 7
North West +27 7 £530 -7.83% 10
Midlands +33 5 £563 +2.27% 6
West Midlands +17 5 £563 +9.76% 4
Scotland +38 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.52%) Azure
2 28 (25.69%) AWS
3 6 (5.50%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.75%) GCP
4 3 (2.75%) SaaS
5 2 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.83%) GitHub
5 2 (1.83%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.83%) Serverless
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.92%) IaaS
6 1 (0.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) VPN
2 1 (0.92%) 5G
2 1 (0.92%) DHCP
2 1 (0.92%) DNS
2 1 (0.92%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.92%) IPsec
2 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.92%) LTE
2 1 (0.92%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.92%) SSL
2 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.75%) Big Data
1 3 (2.75%) Relational Database
1 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.92%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.92%) Metadata
2 1 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 27 (24.77%) Cucumber
1 27 (24.77%) Jenkins
1 27 (24.77%) Selenium
2 24 (22.02%) REST Assured
2 24 (22.02%) SonarQube
3 13 (11.93%) GitLab
3 13 (11.93%) JIRA
4 4 (3.67%) Git
5 3 (2.75%) XCUITest
6 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.83%) JMeter
6 2 (1.83%) Maven
7 1 (0.92%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (44.95%) Social Skills
2 26 (23.85%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (18.35%) Law
4 13 (11.93%) Police
5 5 (4.59%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.92%) Automotive
6 1 (0.92%) Aviation
6 1 (0.92%) Finance
6 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (30.28%) Architect
1 33 (30.28%) Developer
2 20 (18.35%) Software Architect
3 17 (15.60%) Java Engineer
4 13 (11.93%) Full Stack Developer
5 12 (11.01%) Senior
5 12 (11.01%) Software Engineer
6 11 (10.09%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (5.50%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.50%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Analyst
9 4 (3.67%) Development Manager
9 4 (3.67%) Python Software Architect
9 4 (3.67%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.94%) Java EE
1 25 (22.94%) REST
2 13 (11.93%) DirectX
2 13 (11.93%) OpenGL
2 13 (11.93%) OpenGL ES
2 13 (11.93%) Spring
2 13 (11.93%) Vulkan
3 12 (11.01%) AngularJS
3 12 (11.01%) ARM Templates
3 12 (11.01%) React
4 9 (8.26%) .NET
5 7 (6.42%) RESTful
6 6 (5.50%) XML
7 2 (1.83%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.83%) Guice
7 2 (1.83%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.92%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.92%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.92%) Flask
8 1 (0.92%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.43%) Algorithms
2 10 (9.17%) 3D Graphics
2 10 (9.17%) Ray Tracing
3 7 (6.42%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.42%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.50%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.59%) Verilog
5 5 (4.59%) VHDL
6 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.92%) FMCG
8 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.59%) Android
2 3 (2.75%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.83%) Linux
3 2 (1.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (59.63%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (42.20%) DevOps
3 44 (40.37%) Agile
4 39 (35.78%) Test Automation
5 34 (31.19%) Software Engineering
6 29 (26.61%) Continuous Integration
7 28 (25.69%) Technical Leadership
8 26 (23.85%) Decision-Making
9 21 (19.27%) Project Management
10 18 (16.51%) Configuration Management
11 15 (13.76%) Containerisation
11 15 (13.76%) OO
12 14 (12.84%) Full Stack Development
13 13 (11.93%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (11.01%) CI/CD
14 12 (11.01%) OOP
15 11 (10.09%) Change Management
15 11 (10.09%) Programme Management
15 11 (10.09%) Secure Coding
15 11 (10.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (44.95%) Java
2 33 (30.28%) Python
3 26 (23.85%) C
4 20 (18.35%) JavaScript
5 16 (14.68%) C++
6 10 (9.17%) C#
7 7 (6.42%) SQL
8 4 (3.67%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.67%) R
8 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.83%) Perl
9 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.92%) PHP
10 1 (0.92%) Swift
Qualifications
1 56 (51.38%) Security Cleared
2 46 (42.20%) SC Cleared
3 20 (18.35%) Degree
4 15 (13.76%) DV Cleared
4 15 (13.76%) Master's Degree
5 10 (9.17%) PhD
6 6 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.92%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.68%) QA
2 1 (0.92%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 21 (19.27%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (23.85%) Ansible
2 15 (13.76%) Kubernetes
3 14 (12.84%) Terraform
4 12 (11.01%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (11.01%) Podman
5 2 (1.83%) OPNET
Vendors
1 9 (8.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.75%) Google
3 2 (1.83%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.83%) VMware
4 1 (0.92%) Ariba
4 1 (0.92%) Databricks
4 1 (0.92%) SAP