Architectural Design Contracts in the City of London

Architectural Design
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Architectural Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Design over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 155 176
Rank change year-on-year +50 +21 -37
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 22 23 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.00% 0.63% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.69% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 11
10th Percentile £580 £264 £425
25th Percentile £625 £405 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +6.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £694
90th Percentile £830 £814 £738
Central London median daily rate £700 £638 £575
% change year-on-year +9.80% +10.87% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Architectural Design 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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,988 3,346 3,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.49% 91.85% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,259 2,941
10th Percentile £363 £355 £388
25th Percentile £451 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £806 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 24 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (4.55%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) Serverless
3 6 (27.27%) Azure Functions
3 6 (27.27%) GitHub
3 6 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (22.73%) AWS
4 5 (22.73%) Azure AKS
4 5 (22.73%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (13.64%) GCP
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.55%) IaaS
7 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) LAN
1 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Big Data
1 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Cypress.io
1 5 (22.73%) JMeter
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Gradle
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Maven
2 1 (4.55%) Mockito
2 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Information Security Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Information Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 1 (4.55%) IT Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Security Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Kafka
2 5 (22.73%) Node.js
2 5 (22.73%) React
3 1 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (4.55%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.55%) RESTful
3 1 (4.55%) SailPoint
3 1 (4.55%) SAML
3 1 (4.55%) Spring
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Machine to Machine
1 3 (13.64%) Mainframe
1 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Technical Leadership
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps
3 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 6 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Microservices
6 4 (18.18%) Agile
6 4 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
7 3 (13.64%) API Development
7 3 (13.64%) API Integration
7 3 (13.64%) Cloud Security
7 3 (13.64%) Digital Transformation Strategy
7 3 (13.64%) Migration
7 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
7 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
8 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
8 2 (9.09%) High Availability
8 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) Go
2 1 (4.55%) Java
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) CISM
2 1 (4.55%) CISSP
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) CRISC
2 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (36.36%) Terraform
3 5 (22.73%) Argo
4 1 (4.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.55%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (4.55%) Citrix
2 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce