Architectural Design Contracts in the South West

Architectural Design
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 131 148
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 -36
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 18 39 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.56% 1.08% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.20% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 19
10th Percentile - £518 £511
25th Percentile £400 £572 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% - +19.27%
75th Percentile £534 £745 £675
90th Percentile £632 £812 £775
England median daily rate £600 £600 £630
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £71.00 £88.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% -19.32% +101.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,648 3,251 3,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.98% 89.66% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,398 2,327
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.30%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 334 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the South West

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the South West

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the South West

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the South West

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bristol +19 9 £490 -32.18% 6
Dorset +11 4 £400 -33.33% 1
Wiltshire -12 3 £579 -10.96%
Devon -3 1 - - 2
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Apigee
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) NoSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (16.67%) CockroachDB
3 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 4 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) General Ledger
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Architect
2 8 (44.44%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.56%) CRM Architect
5 1 (5.56%) CRM Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Digital Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) REST
2 3 (16.67%) JPA
2 3 (16.67%) Spring
2 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.56%) gRPC
3 1 (5.56%) JCE
3 1 (5.56%) ModSecurity
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) Architectural Patterns
2 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
2 7 (38.89%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) Project Delivery
2 7 (38.89%) Service Design
3 6 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 6 (33.33%) Data Management
3 6 (33.33%) Microservices
3 6 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) Community of Practice
4 4 (22.22%) Information Architecture
4 4 (22.22%) Operational Stability
4 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) CRM
5 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 3 (16.67%) SDLC
6 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Java
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CISM
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) JSP 440
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) rkt
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) IBM
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce