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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 533 572
Rank change year-on-year +151 +39 -61
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 199 150 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.30% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 105 172
10th Percentile £400 £453 £450
25th Percentile £525 £540 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £656
90th Percentile £805 £875 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +6.49%
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 £66.18
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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
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% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +146 189 £625 - 102
UK excluding London +100 107 £650 +13.04% 61
London +91 79 £583 -16.79% 46
Work from Home +102 65 £600 -7.69% 60
South East +36 42 £650 +13.04% 20
South West +19 21 £675 +3.85% 7
North of England +37 20 £475 -17.39% 14
East of England +21 18 £550 - 8
Yorkshire +28 13 £400 -31.91% 2
North West +25 7 £530 -7.83% 10
Midlands +22 5 £563 +2.27% 10
West Midlands +14 5 £563 +9.76% 5
Scotland +33 1 - - 3

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 (2.01%) Apache
2 3 (1.51%) IIS
2 3 (1.51%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.01%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Endur
2 3 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.50%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 53 (26.63%) Azure
2 46 (23.12%) AWS
3 10 (5.03%) GCP
4 8 (4.02%) GitHub
5 7 (3.52%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.01%) SaaS
7 4 (2.01%) Serverless
8 3 (1.51%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (1.51%) 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%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.50%) AWS IoT
10 1 (0.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.52%) SSH
2 3 (1.51%) Network Security
2 3 (1.51%) VPN
3 1 (0.50%) 5G
3 1 (0.50%) DHCP
3 1 (0.50%) DNS
3 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.50%) IPsec
3 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.50%) LTE
3 1 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.50%) SNMP
3 1 (0.50%) SSL
3 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.54%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.52%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.52%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.01%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.51%) Big Data
6 2 (1.01%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.50%) Metadata
7 1 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.50%) MySQL
7 1 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (18.59%) Cucumber
2 32 (16.08%) Jenkins
3 30 (15.08%) Selenium
4 26 (13.07%) JIRA
5 25 (12.56%) SonarQube
6 24 (12.06%) REST Assured
7 18 (9.05%) GitLab
8 15 (7.54%) Git
9 10 (5.03%) Maven
10 9 (4.52%) JUnit
11 7 (3.52%) Cypress.io
11 7 (3.52%) Visual Studio
12 4 (2.01%) Pylint
13 3 (1.51%) JMeter
13 3 (1.51%) TeamCity
13 3 (1.51%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.51%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (1.51%) XCUITest
14 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
15 1 (0.50%) NeoLoad
General
1 89 (44.72%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.62%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.07%) Finance
4 22 (11.06%) Banking
5 20 (10.05%) Law
6 13 (6.53%) Police
7 11 (5.53%) Front Office
7 11 (5.53%) Investment Banking
8 8 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.52%) Advertising
10 6 (3.02%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.02%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.01%) Retail
12 2 (1.01%) Back Office
12 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.50%) Automotive
13 1 (0.50%) Aviation
13 1 (0.50%) Games
13 1 (0.50%) Local Government
13 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (39.20%) Developer
2 49 (24.62%) Architect
3 34 (17.09%) Senior
4 25 (12.56%) Java Developer
5 22 (11.06%) Software Architect
6 17 (8.54%) Java Engineer
7 16 (8.04%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.54%) Analyst
9 14 (7.04%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (7.04%) Lead
10 12 (6.03%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (6.03%) Technical Architect
11 11 (5.53%) Senior Developer
12 10 (5.03%) C# Developer
13 9 (4.52%) Python Developer
14 8 (4.02%) JavaScript Engineer
14 8 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
15 7 (3.52%) .NET Developer
15 7 (3.52%) Oracle DBA
15 7 (3.52%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (21.61%) REST
2 27 (13.57%) .NET
3 26 (13.07%) Spring
4 25 (12.56%) Java EE
5 24 (12.06%) React
6 16 (8.04%) AngularJS
6 16 (8.04%) Hibernate
6 16 (8.04%) JPA
6 16 (8.04%) XML
7 13 (6.53%) DirectX
7 13 (6.53%) OpenGL
7 13 (6.53%) OpenGL ES
7 13 (6.53%) Vulkan
8 12 (6.03%) ARM Templates
8 12 (6.03%) HTML
9 11 (5.53%) RESTful
9 11 (5.53%) SOAP
9 11 (5.53%) Web Services
10 9 (4.52%) J2EE
10 9 (4.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.12%) Algorithms
2 24 (12.06%) Data Structures
3 17 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (7.04%) Management Information System
5 13 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (6.53%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (5.03%) 3D Graphics
6 10 (5.03%) Ray Tracing
7 9 (4.52%) Product Ownership
8 7 (3.52%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.51%) Verilog
9 5 (2.51%) VHDL
10 3 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.51%) Derivative
10 3 (1.51%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.01%) Reinsurance
11 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.04%) Linux
2 12 (6.03%) Unix
3 5 (2.51%) Android
4 3 (1.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (42.21%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (40.70%) Agile
3 67 (33.67%) DevOps
4 58 (29.15%) Software Engineering
5 42 (21.11%) Continuous Integration
5 42 (21.11%) Test Automation
6 33 (16.58%) Project Management
7 32 (16.08%) SDLC
8 30 (15.08%) Technical Leadership
9 29 (14.57%) CI/CD
10 28 (14.07%) Decision-Making
11 26 (13.07%) Computer Science
12 25 (12.56%) OO
13 24 (12.06%) Design Patterns
13 24 (12.06%) TDD
14 23 (11.56%) Scrum
15 21 (10.55%) OOP
16 20 (10.05%) Machine Learning
17 19 (9.55%) Containerisation
18 18 (9.05%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 79 (39.70%) Java
2 61 (30.65%) Python
3 41 (20.60%) SQL
4 38 (19.10%) JavaScript
5 30 (15.08%) C#
6 29 (14.57%) C
7 21 (10.55%) C++
8 11 (5.53%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.52%) Perl
10 5 (2.51%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.01%) R
12 3 (1.51%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.01%) Scala
14 1 (0.50%) F#
14 1 (0.50%) Go
14 1 (0.50%) PHP
14 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.50%) Rust
14 1 (0.50%) Swift
14 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (32.66%) Security Cleared
2 55 (27.64%) SC Cleared
3 36 (18.09%) Degree
4 18 (9.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (8.54%) Master's Degree
6 16 (8.04%) DV Cleared
7 10 (5.03%) PhD
8 1 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.08%) QA
2 4 (2.01%) NCSC
3 1 (0.50%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 35 (17.59%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.01%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (16.08%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.07%) Ansible
3 16 (8.04%) Terraform
4 12 (6.03%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (6.03%) Podman
5 3 (1.51%) Grafana
6 2 (1.01%) OPNET
7 1 (0.50%) Argo
7 1 (0.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (9.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.53%) Oracle
3 5 (2.51%) SmartStream
4 4 (2.01%) Google
5 3 (1.51%) Sparx
6 2 (1.01%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.01%) Optimizely
6 2 (1.01%) SAP
6 2 (1.01%) VMware
7 1 (0.50%) Ariba
7 1 (0.50%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.50%) Databricks
7 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.50%) HP
7 1 (0.50%) IBM