Architectural Design Contracts in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 114 124 145
Rank change year-on-year +10 +21 -27
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 29 24 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.09% 0.82% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.89% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 12 16
10th Percentile - £416 £498
25th Percentile £463 £450 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £605 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -3.20% +17.92%
75th Percentile £688 £678 £700
90th Percentile - £744 £763
South East median daily rate £625 £569 £625
% change year-on-year +9.76% -8.89% +32.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.50 -
South East median hourly rate £59.00 £68.62 £58.75
% change year-on-year -14.02% +16.80% +46.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,690 3,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.16% 91.56% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,868 2,093
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 85
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +10 27 £650 -0.04% 1
Buckinghamshire +18 2 £668 +20.27% 4
Architectural Design
South East

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) AWS
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.45%) IaaS
3 1 (3.45%) PaaS
3 1 (3.45%) SaaS
3 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (65.52%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (58.62%) Oracle Database
2 17 (58.62%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.45%) Redis
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.45%) JMeter
1 1 (3.45%) JUnit
1 1 (3.45%) Mockito
General
1 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
1 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.45%) Automotive
2 1 (3.45%) Finance
2 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (68.97%) Developer
2 15 (51.72%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Informatica Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Database Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Digital Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 1 (3.45%) IT Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) IT Security Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Camel
2 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.45%) HTML
2 1 (3.45%) jQuery
2 1 (3.45%) Spring
2 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.45%) Web Services
2 1 (3.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) Performance Tuning
2 18 (62.07%) DevOps
2 18 (62.07%) Migration
3 17 (58.62%) Clean Code
3 17 (58.62%) Data Migration
3 17 (58.62%) Secure Coding
3 17 (58.62%) Software Engineering
3 17 (58.62%) Software Testing
3 17 (58.62%) Unit Testing
4 6 (20.69%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (20.69%) Data Architecture
4 6 (20.69%) Data Governance
4 6 (20.69%) Data Integration
4 6 (20.69%) Information Management
4 6 (20.69%) Master Data Management
4 6 (20.69%) Product Information Management
5 3 (10.34%) Microservices
6 2 (6.90%) BDD
6 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) SQL
2 17 (58.62%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.90%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) Python
4 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (58.62%) SC Cleared
1 17 (58.62%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kibana
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Oracle
2 6 (20.69%) Informatica
3 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.45%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk
3 1 (3.45%) VMware