Software Architecture Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 389 457
Rank change year-on-year +111 +68 -56
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 67 76 170
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.35% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 55 107
10th Percentile £498 £464 £470
25th Percentile £550 £517 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £641
90th Percentile £775 £875 £750
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile - - £46.00
25th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -0.82% -
75th Percentile £85.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £88.00 - £66.18
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,834 21,730 40,136
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.66% 89.60% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,652 15,403 29,146
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 505 522
10th Percentile £14.89 £17.90 £14.03
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

Software Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Architecture trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Software Architecture over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

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 a work from home option citing Software Architecture.

Software Architecture hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Architecture over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Software Architecture hourly rate histogram 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 3 (4.48%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.49%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.49%) CMS
2 1 (1.49%) EPiServer
2 1 (1.49%) IIS
2 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.99%) Endur
3 1 (1.49%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.31%) AWS
2 23 (34.33%) Azure
3 9 (13.43%) Power Platform
4 6 (8.96%) GCP
5 5 (7.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (5.97%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.48%) GitHub
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.49%) Datadog
8 1 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) Network Security
2 1 (1.49%) 5G
2 1 (1.49%) DHCP
2 1 (1.49%) DNS
2 1 (1.49%) LTE
2 1 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.49%) VPN
2 1 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.45%) Oracle Database
3 6 (8.96%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.97%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.99%) Big Data
6 1 (1.49%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.49%) Metadata
6 1 (1.49%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) GitLab
1 13 (19.40%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.93%) JIRA
2 10 (14.93%) Selenium
3 9 (13.43%) Cucumber
3 9 (13.43%) SonarQube
4 8 (11.94%) Git
4 8 (11.94%) Maven
4 8 (11.94%) REST Assured
5 3 (4.48%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.48%) Terragrunt
6 2 (2.99%) JMeter
6 2 (2.99%) Pylint
6 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.49%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.49%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.49%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Banking
3 7 (10.45%) Law
3 7 (10.45%) Police
4 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.48%) Finance
5 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.99%) Retail
7 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Front Office
7 1 (1.49%) Games
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (44.78%) Developer
2 21 (31.34%) Architect
3 17 (25.37%) Senior
4 12 (17.91%) Java Developer
5 11 (16.42%) Lead
6 8 (11.94%) Python Developer
6 8 (11.94%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.94%) Technical Architect
7 7 (10.45%) DBA
7 7 (10.45%) Oracle DBA
7 7 (10.45%) Oracle Developer
7 7 (10.45%) SQL DBA
7 7 (10.45%) SQL Developer
8 6 (8.96%) Software Architect
9 5 (7.46%) Java Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) REST
2 9 (13.43%) React
3 8 (11.94%) .NET
3 8 (11.94%) ARM Templates
3 8 (11.94%) HTML
3 8 (11.94%) Java EE
4 7 (10.45%) Hibernate
4 7 (10.45%) JPA
4 7 (10.45%) RESTful
5 6 (8.96%) Django
5 6 (8.96%) scikit-learn
6 5 (7.46%) .NET Framework
6 5 (7.46%) CSS
7 4 (5.97%) ASP.NET
8 3 (4.48%) DirectX
8 3 (4.48%) OpenGL
8 3 (4.48%) Pandas
8 3 (4.48%) Spring
8 3 (4.48%) TensorFlow
8 3 (4.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.87%) Algorithms
2 12 (17.91%) Data Structures
3 11 (16.42%) Management Information System
4 9 (13.43%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (7.46%) Cloud Native
5 5 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
7 3 (4.48%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (4.48%) Ray Tracing
7 3 (4.48%) Verilog
7 3 (4.48%) VHDL
8 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.99%) Low-Code
8 2 (2.99%) Reinsurance
9 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.49%) Mobile Games
9 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.97%) Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.84%) Agile
2 20 (29.85%) Software Engineering
3 18 (26.87%) Computer Science
4 17 (25.37%) DevOps
4 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (19.40%) Data Science
5 13 (19.40%) Machine Learning
6 11 (16.42%) Architectural Patterns
6 11 (16.42%) CI/CD
6 11 (16.42%) Containerisation
6 11 (16.42%) Test Automation
7 10 (14.93%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (14.93%) Information Security
8 9 (13.43%) Design Patterns
8 9 (13.43%) Microservices
8 9 (13.43%) SDLC
8 9 (13.43%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (11.94%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (11.94%) Decision-Making
9 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.31%) Java
2 24 (35.82%) Python
3 23 (34.33%) SQL
4 9 (13.43%) C#
4 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.94%) C
5 8 (11.94%) C++
6 2 (2.99%) Perl
7 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.49%) R
7 1 (1.49%) Scala
7 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 24 (35.82%) SC Cleared
3 13 (19.40%) Degree
4 11 (16.42%) DV Cleared
5 10 (14.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.97%) Master's Degree
7 3 (4.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) NCSC
2 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 15 (22.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (25.37%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.42%) Terraform
3 8 (11.94%) Ansible
3 8 (11.94%) Docker Swarm
3 8 (11.94%) Podman
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
5 1 (1.49%) Argo
5 1 (1.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.93%) Oracle
3 3 (4.48%) Sparx
4 1 (1.49%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.49%) Google
4 1 (1.49%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.49%) SAP