Architectural Design Contracts in England

Architectural Design
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 343 356
Rank change year-on-year +77 +13 -67
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 312 348 528
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.84% 0.69% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.76% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 223 351
10th Percentile £411 £468 £455
25th Percentile £500 £513 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £630
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.26%
75th Percentile £738 £729 £725
90th Percentile £800 £798 £813
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 8
10th Percentile £49.78 £40.00 £58.63
25th Percentile £59.00 £64.50 £71.56
Median hourly rate £67.50 £71.00 £88.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% -19.32% +101.14%
75th Percentile £72.90 £76.50 £96.23
90th Percentile £75.78 £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £71.50 £88.00
% change year-on-year -2.10% -18.75% +120.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in England.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in England.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architectural Design in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London +87 166 £600 -3.23% 86
North of England +61 54 £650 +8.33% 19
North West +52 40 £675 +19.89% 12
Midlands +49 37 £550 +2.80% 13
South East +14 37 £625 +9.76% 26
West Midlands +39 23 £663 +23.83% 10
South West -7 18 £450 -30.77% 11
East Midlands - 13 £499 - 3
Yorkshire +21 12 £665 +9.38% 3
North East - 4 £413 - 4
East of England +5 3 £575 -8.73% 15
Architectural Design
UK

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.64%) CMS
2 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.32%) Apache
3 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.32%) Camunda
3 1 (0.32%) Confluence
3 1 (0.32%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.32%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) MTS
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.32%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.64%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.32%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 109 (34.94%) Azure
2 75 (24.04%) AWS
3 31 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (8.65%) GCP
5 20 (6.41%) Serverless
6 17 (5.45%) GitHub
7 13 (4.17%) IaaS
7 13 (4.17%) SaaS
8 11 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (2.88%) Azure Functions
9 9 (2.88%) PaaS
10 8 (2.56%) Azure AKS
10 8 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.60%) AWS CodeBuild
13 5 (1.60%) AWS CodePipeline
13 5 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.81%) VPN
2 13 (4.17%) LAN
2 13 (4.17%) WAN
3 12 (3.85%) Firewall
4 9 (2.88%) MPLS
4 9 (2.88%) PBX
4 9 (2.88%) VoIP
4 9 (2.88%) WLAN
5 6 (1.92%) DNS
5 6 (1.92%) Network Security
5 6 (1.92%) SAN
6 5 (1.60%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (1.60%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (1.60%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.60%) DHCP
6 5 (1.60%) Internet
6 5 (1.60%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.64%) RS-232
8 2 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.77%) Oracle Database
3 17 (5.45%) Oracle Database 11g
4 13 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.53%) RDBMS
5 11 (3.53%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.53%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.60%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.60%) OLAP
7 5 (1.60%) OLTP
7 5 (1.60%) Redis
8 4 (1.28%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.96%) CockroachDB
9 3 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.96%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.64%) Big Data
10 2 (0.64%) Metadata
10 2 (0.64%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (3.21%) JIRA
2 9 (2.88%) Git
3 8 (2.56%) Cypress.io
3 8 (2.56%) JMeter
4 7 (2.24%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.92%) Mockito
6 4 (1.28%) Gatling
6 4 (1.28%) ScalaTest
7 3 (0.96%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.64%) Gradle
9 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.32%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.32%) GoCD
9 1 (0.32%) JUnit
9 1 (0.32%) Maven
9 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.32%) Spock
9 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 78 (25.00%) Finance
2 59 (18.91%) Social Skills
3 31 (9.94%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.29%) Banking
5 21 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.24%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.60%) Retail
13 4 (1.28%) Legal
13 4 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.96%) Local Government
14 3 (0.96%) Police
15 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
16 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
16 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (57.69%) Architect
2 87 (27.88%) Solutions Architect
3 42 (13.46%) Developer
4 26 (8.33%) Senior
5 24 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
6 18 (5.77%) Security Architect
7 17 (5.45%) Data Architect
8 16 (5.13%) Lead
9 15 (4.81%) PostgreSQL Developer
10 14 (4.49%) Senior Architect
11 12 (3.85%) Technical Architect
12 10 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.21%) Project Manager
12 10 (3.21%) ServiceNow Architect
12 10 (3.21%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.56%) Azure Architect
13 8 (2.56%) Testing Manager
14 7 (2.24%) CISSP Architect
14 7 (2.24%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.05%) Kafka
2 20 (6.41%) Web Services
3 14 (4.49%) RESTful
3 14 (4.49%) SailPoint
4 13 (4.17%) REST
5 11 (3.53%) .NET
5 11 (3.53%) HTML
5 11 (3.53%) Spring
6 9 (2.88%) Node.js
6 9 (2.88%) React
7 8 (2.56%) ADO
7 8 (2.56%) SOAP
8 7 (2.24%) JPA
8 7 (2.24%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.24%) XML
9 6 (1.92%) LDAP
9 6 (1.92%) OpenAPI
9 6 (1.92%) RAML
9 6 (1.92%) Swagger
10 5 (1.60%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.05%) Management Information System
2 21 (6.73%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.56%) CMDB
5 8 (2.56%) Mainframe
6 6 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.60%) Machine to Machine
7 5 (1.60%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.96%) Derivative
9 3 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.64%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.64%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.41%) Linux
1 20 (6.41%) Windows
2 6 (1.92%) Unix
3 5 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.96%) Android
5 2 (0.64%) zOS
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (29.17%) DevOps
2 86 (27.56%) Agile
3 83 (26.60%) Migration
4 56 (17.95%) Architectural Patterns
5 48 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 46 (14.74%) Computer Science
7 44 (14.10%) TOGAF
8 43 (13.78%) CI/CD
8 43 (13.78%) Project Delivery
9 41 (13.14%) Software Engineering
10 36 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
11 35 (11.22%) Risk Management
12 34 (10.90%) Design Patterns
13 32 (10.26%) Mentoring
14 31 (9.94%) Microservices
15 30 (9.62%) Service Design
16 29 (9.29%) Data Management
17 28 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
18 27 (8.65%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (13.78%) SQL
2 37 (11.86%) Java
3 24 (7.69%) Python
4 17 (5.45%) C#
4 17 (5.45%) PL/SQL
5 12 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.88%) Scala
7 6 (1.92%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.60%) Go
9 2 (0.64%) Bicep
9 2 (0.64%) C
9 2 (0.64%) C++
9 2 (0.64%) Haskell
9 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.64%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.32%) ABAP
10 1 (0.32%) Groovy
10 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.32%) XAML
Qualifications
1 60 (19.23%) Degree
2 51 (16.35%) Security Cleared
3 42 (13.46%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.77%) CISSP
5 17 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.17%) CISM
7 12 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.88%) CCIE
8 9 (2.88%) CCIE Data Center
9 8 (2.56%) CISA
9 8 (2.56%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (2.24%) SANS
11 6 (1.92%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.60%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.28%) CCNP
13 4 (1.28%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.96%) Chartered Engineer
14 3 (0.96%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.17%) NIST
2 11 (3.53%) QA
3 8 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.64%) COBIT
5 2 (0.64%) GDPR
5 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.64%) PSD2
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) GRC
6 1 (0.32%) IFRS
6 1 (0.32%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.32%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (8.01%) Docker
2 12 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.60%) ACF2
3 5 (1.60%) IAG
3 5 (1.60%) RACF
4 3 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) HDFS
5 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.13%) Terraform
3 7 (2.24%) Argo
3 7 (2.24%) Grafana
4 6 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.64%) Ansible
6 1 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.32%) Kibana
6 1 (0.32%) Oozie
6 1 (0.32%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.32%) rkt
6 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (9.62%) ServiceNow
2 29 (9.29%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.01%) Oracle
4 14 (4.49%) BeyondTrust
4 14 (4.49%) CyberArk
5 13 (4.17%) Cisco
6 10 (3.21%) LogRhythm
6 10 (3.21%) SAP
7 8 (2.56%) Informatica
8 7 (2.24%) Google
8 7 (2.24%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.60%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.60%) Infoblox
9 5 (1.60%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.60%) Symantec
9 5 (1.60%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.28%) Sparx
10 4 (1.28%) VMware
11 2 (0.64%) EMC
11 2 (0.64%) Genesys