Software Architecture Contracts

Software Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 530 580
Rank change year-on-year +134 +50 -75
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 198 149 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.30% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 104 175
10th Percentile £400 £452 £450
25th Percentile £525 £548 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +6.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £719 £775 £663
90th Percentile £800 £875 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 9
10th Percentile £67.50 - £46.00
25th Percentile £75.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -0.82% +0.06%
75th Percentile £90.00 £71.68 -
90th Percentile £92.22 £74.19 £69.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% +30.00% -23.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,061 50,135 80,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.39% 89.71% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,729 34,705 56,261
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,551 1,672 1,888
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.60
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.90 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +39.80% +10.64%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Architecture over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Architecture in the UK

Software Architecture
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 June 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
England +141 187 £613 -2.00% 90
UK excluding London +104 107 £650 +13.04% 58
London +83 77 £565 -19.29% 38
Work from Home +94 65 £600 -7.69% 91
South East +44 43 £650 +13.04% 18
North of England +36 20 £475 -17.39% 18
South West +20 20 £681 +4.81% 5
East of England +22 18 £550 - 7
Yorkshire +22 13 £400 -31.91% 4
North West +18 7 £530 -7.83% 12
Midlands +14 5 £563 +2.27% 7
West Midlands +8 5 £563 +9.76% 2
Scotland +36 1 - - 4

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.02%) Apache
2 3 (1.52%) IIS
2 3 (1.52%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.01%) CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Endur
2 3 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.51%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 55 (27.78%) Azure
2 46 (23.23%) AWS
3 10 (5.05%) GCP
4 8 (4.04%) GitHub
5 7 (3.54%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.02%) SaaS
7 4 (2.02%) Serverless
8 3 (1.52%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (1.52%) PaaS
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.01%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.01%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.51%) AWS IoT
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.55%) SSH
2 3 (1.52%) Network Security
2 3 (1.52%) VPN
3 1 (0.51%) 5G
3 1 (0.51%) DHCP
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.51%) IPsec
3 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.51%) LTE
3 1 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.51%) SNMP
3 1 (0.51%) SSL
3 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.59%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.54%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.02%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.52%) Big Data
6 2 (1.01%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.51%) Metadata
7 1 (0.51%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.51%) MySQL
7 1 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (18.69%) Cucumber
2 32 (16.16%) Jenkins
3 30 (15.15%) Selenium
4 26 (13.13%) JIRA
5 25 (12.63%) SonarQube
6 24 (12.12%) REST Assured
7 18 (9.09%) GitLab
8 15 (7.58%) Git
9 10 (5.05%) Maven
10 9 (4.55%) JUnit
11 7 (3.54%) Visual Studio
12 6 (3.03%) Cypress.io
13 4 (2.02%) Pylint
14 3 (1.52%) JMeter
14 3 (1.52%) TeamCity
14 3 (1.52%) Terragrunt
14 3 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (1.52%) XCUITest
15 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
16 1 (0.51%) Postman
General
1 91 (45.96%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.74%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (12.63%) Finance
4 22 (11.11%) Banking
5 20 (10.10%) Law
6 13 (6.57%) Police
7 11 (5.56%) Investment Banking
8 10 (5.05%) Front Office
9 8 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (3.54%) Telecoms
11 6 (3.03%) Advertising
11 6 (3.03%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.02%) Retail
13 2 (1.01%) Back Office
13 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.51%) Automotive
14 1 (0.51%) Aviation
14 1 (0.51%) Games
14 1 (0.51%) Local Government
14 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (38.38%) Developer
2 51 (25.76%) Architect
3 33 (16.67%) Senior
4 25 (12.63%) Java Developer
5 22 (11.11%) Software Architect
6 17 (8.59%) Java Engineer
7 16 (8.08%) Software Engineer
8 14 (7.07%) Analyst
8 14 (7.07%) Lead
8 14 (7.07%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (6.57%) Full Stack Developer
10 12 (6.06%) Technical Architect
11 11 (5.56%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.55%) C# Developer
12 9 (4.55%) Python Developer
13 8 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (3.54%) .NET Developer
14 7 (3.54%) Oracle DBA
14 7 (3.54%) Oracle Developer
14 7 (3.54%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (21.72%) REST
2 27 (13.64%) .NET
3 25 (12.63%) Java EE
3 25 (12.63%) Spring
4 23 (11.62%) React
5 16 (8.08%) Hibernate
5 16 (8.08%) JPA
5 16 (8.08%) XML
6 15 (7.58%) AngularJS
7 13 (6.57%) DirectX
7 13 (6.57%) OpenGL
7 13 (6.57%) OpenGL ES
7 13 (6.57%) Vulkan
8 12 (6.06%) ARM Templates
8 12 (6.06%) HTML
9 11 (5.56%) RESTful
9 11 (5.56%) SOAP
9 11 (5.56%) Web Services
10 9 (4.55%) J2EE
10 9 (4.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.73%) Algorithms
2 24 (12.12%) Data Structures
3 17 (8.59%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (7.07%) Management Information System
5 13 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (6.57%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (5.05%) 3D Graphics
6 10 (5.05%) Product Ownership
6 10 (5.05%) Ray Tracing
7 7 (3.54%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.53%) Verilog
8 5 (2.53%) VHDL
9 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.52%) Derivative
9 3 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.01%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.08%) Linux
2 12 (6.06%) Unix
3 5 (2.53%) Android
4 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (41.92%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (40.40%) Agile
3 67 (33.84%) DevOps
4 59 (29.80%) Software Engineering
5 42 (21.21%) Continuous Integration
5 42 (21.21%) Test Automation
6 32 (16.16%) SDLC
7 31 (15.66%) Project Management
7 31 (15.66%) Technical Leadership
8 29 (14.65%) CI/CD
9 28 (14.14%) Decision-Making
10 26 (13.13%) Computer Science
11 24 (12.12%) Design Patterns
11 24 (12.12%) OO
12 23 (11.62%) Scrum
12 23 (11.62%) TDD
13 20 (10.10%) Machine Learning
13 20 (10.10%) OOP
14 19 (9.60%) Containerisation
15 18 (9.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 78 (39.39%) Java
2 60 (30.30%) Python
3 41 (20.71%) SQL
4 37 (18.69%) JavaScript
5 29 (14.65%) C#
6 28 (14.14%) C
7 21 (10.61%) C++
8 10 (5.05%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.55%) Perl
10 5 (2.53%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.02%) R
12 3 (1.52%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.01%) Scala
14 1 (0.51%) F#
14 1 (0.51%) Go
14 1 (0.51%) PHP
14 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.51%) Rust
14 1 (0.51%) Swift
14 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (32.32%) Security Cleared
2 55 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 37 (18.69%) Degree
4 18 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (8.59%) Master's Degree
6 15 (7.58%) DV Cleared
7 10 (5.05%) PhD
8 2 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.66%) QA
2 4 (2.02%) NCSC
3 1 (0.51%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 35 (17.68%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.01%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (16.16%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.13%) Ansible
3 16 (8.08%) Terraform
4 12 (6.06%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (6.06%) Podman
5 3 (1.52%) Grafana
6 2 (1.01%) OPNET
7 1 (0.51%) Argo
7 1 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.56%) Oracle
3 5 (2.53%) SmartStream
4 4 (2.02%) Google
5 3 (1.52%) Sparx
6 2 (1.01%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.01%) Optimizely
6 2 (1.01%) SAP
6 2 (1.01%) VMware
7 1 (0.51%) Ariba
7 1 (0.51%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.51%) Databricks
7 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.51%) HP
7 1 (0.51%) IBM