Software Architecture Contracts in the North of England

Software Architecture
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 201 237
Rank change year-on-year +41 +36 -56
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 20 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.42% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 7
10th Percentile £325 £412 £496
25th Percentile £363 £550 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £533 £650 -
90th Percentile £575 - £560
England median daily rate £625 £625 £550
% change year-on-year - +13.64% +1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,991 4,994 6,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.56% 90.06% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,409 3,428 4,660
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +3.09% +10.23%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 386 206 257
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.73 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.76 £26.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.70% +41.32% +6.44%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.09
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in the North of England

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in the North of England

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in the North of England

Software Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Architecture in the North of England

Software Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 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
Yorkshire +25 13 £400 -31.91% 1
North West +14 7 £530 -7.83% 10
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) XCUITest
2 1 (5.00%) JMeter
2 1 (5.00%) NeoLoad
2 1 (5.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 16 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Automation Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Development Manager
2 4 (20.00%) Software Development Manager
2 4 (20.00%) Software Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Android Developer
4 2 (10.00%) iOS Developer
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Android
2 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (55.00%) Test Automation
3 10 (50.00%) Project Management
4 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (20.00%) Coaching
6 4 (20.00%) Scrum
7 3 (15.00%) Android Development
7 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Metrics
8 2 (10.00%) iOS Development
8 2 (10.00%) ITIL
8 2 (10.00%) Microservices
8 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
9 1 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (5.00%) OO
9 1 (5.00%) Performance Testing
9 1 (5.00%) Software Testing
9 1 (5.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (25.00%) C#
3 4 (20.00%) Kotlin
3 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) Python
6 1 (5.00%) SQL
6 1 (5.00%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Ariba
1 1 (5.00%) SAP