Architectural Patterns Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Architectural Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Patterns over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 316 282
Rank change year-on-year +15 -34 -25
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 95 132 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.56% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.63% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 78 173
10th Percentile £475 £500 £461
25th Percentile £536 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £631 £620
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +1.81% +16.71%
75th Percentile £750 £723 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate £81.00 £90.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +89.47% +20.25%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% +57.89% +20.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Architectural Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Patterns within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +36 37 £528 -6.31% 36
South West +23 28 £588 -9.62%
North West +25 27 £500 -21.57% 21
South East +27 23 £638 -1.96% 14
Midlands +20 12 £688 +14.58% 10
West Midlands +9 10 £700 -3.45% 8
Yorkshire +15 9 £625 +16.28% 9
Scotland +32 4 £700 +7.69% 4
North East +14 3 £588 -11.32% 6
East Midlands +22 2 £550 -7.37% 2
East of England -4 1 - - 4
Architectural Patterns
UK

Architectural Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (4.21%) CMS
2 3 (3.16%) Drupal
3 2 (2.11%) Confluence
4 1 (1.05%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.16%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 59 (62.11%) Azure
2 21 (22.11%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (17.89%) AWS
4 13 (13.68%) GCP
5 7 (7.37%) PaaS
6 6 (6.32%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (6.32%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.26%) IaaS
7 5 (5.26%) SaaS
8 4 (4.21%) OCI
8 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.11%) GitHub
9 2 (2.11%) Serverless
10 1 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.05%) Miro
10 1 (1.05%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.05%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.74%) VPN
2 11 (11.58%) Firewall
3 10 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
3 10 (10.53%) DMZ
4 9 (9.47%) LAN
5 8 (8.42%) WAN
6 4 (4.21%) SSL
7 3 (3.16%) DNS
8 1 (1.05%) HTTP
8 1 (1.05%) IPsec
8 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.05%) Network Security
8 1 (1.05%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) SQLite
2 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.05%) Big Data
3 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.05%) DB2
3 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.05%) GIS
3 1 (1.05%) OLAP
3 1 (1.05%) OLTP
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.05%) Redis
3 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.16%) Artifactory
3 3 (3.16%) Git
3 3 (3.16%) JIRA
3 3 (3.16%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (3.16%) Selenium
3 3 (3.16%) Subversion
4 2 (2.11%) JUnit
5 1 (1.05%) Maven
General
1 24 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.95%) Finance
3 14 (14.74%) Banking
4 10 (10.53%) Investment Banking
5 8 (8.42%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.26%) Legal
6 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.16%) Law
7 3 (3.16%) Retail
8 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.11%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Military
9 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (65.26%) Architect
2 32 (33.68%) Solutions Architect
3 18 (18.95%) Technical Architect
4 12 (12.63%) Developer
5 10 (10.53%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Cisco Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Juniper Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Network Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Senior
7 7 (7.37%) Security Architect
8 5 (5.26%) Azure Architect
8 5 (5.26%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Security Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Systems Developer
10 3 (3.16%) Android Developer
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Android Developer
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.74%) .NET
2 9 (9.47%) Middleware
2 9 (9.47%) XML
3 8 (8.42%) SOAP
4 6 (6.32%) RESTful
5 4 (4.21%) ModSecurity
6 3 (3.16%) REST
7 2 (2.11%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.11%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.11%) Jetpack Compose
7 2 (2.11%) Kafka
7 2 (2.11%) RxJava
7 2 (2.11%) Spring
7 2 (2.11%) Web Services
8 1 (1.05%) Android Jetpack
8 1 (1.05%) Dagger
8 1 (1.05%) gRPC
8 1 (1.05%) RAML
8 1 (1.05%) Retrofit
8 1 (1.05%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Public Cloud
2 7 (7.37%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.26%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.21%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.16%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.16%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) PKI
8 1 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.05%) IoT
8 1 (1.05%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.53%) Linux
2 9 (9.47%) Windows
3 4 (4.21%) Android
4 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (56.84%) Agile
2 38 (40.00%) DevOps
3 31 (32.63%) Design Patterns
4 22 (23.16%) Computer Science
4 22 (23.16%) IT Strategy
5 21 (22.11%) Architectural Design
6 18 (18.95%) Technology Strategy
7 17 (17.89%) Data Management
7 17 (17.89%) Project Delivery
7 17 (17.89%) Roadmaps
7 17 (17.89%) Waterfall
8 16 (16.84%) Architecture Governance
9 15 (15.79%) Migration
10 14 (14.74%) Business Strategy
10 14 (14.74%) Service Design
11 13 (13.68%) CI/CD
11 13 (13.68%) High Availability
11 13 (13.68%) Microservices
12 12 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (11.58%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.58%) C#
2 7 (7.37%) Java
3 6 (6.32%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.32%) Python
4 5 (5.26%) Kotlin
4 5 (5.26%) SQL
5 2 (2.11%) C
6 1 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (29.47%) Degree
2 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.37%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.21%) HND
6 3 (3.16%) CISSP
7 2 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.11%) CISM
7 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.05%) CCSP
8 1 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.84%) QA
2 6 (6.32%) GDPR
3 3 (3.16%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.05%) NIST
4 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (6.32%) Docker
2 5 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.21%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (8.42%) Ansible
1 8 (8.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.21%) OPNET
3 3 (3.16%) Terraform
4 2 (2.11%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.05%) Grafana
5 1 (1.05%) Istio
5 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.63%) Cisco
3 10 (10.53%) Blue Coat
3 10 (10.53%) CheckPoint
3 10 (10.53%) Fortinet
3 10 (10.53%) Juniper
4 6 (6.32%) Google
4 6 (6.32%) Oracle
4 6 (6.32%) VMware
5 5 (5.26%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.21%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.21%) Databricks
7 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.05%) BT
8 1 (1.05%) Mapbox
8 1 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) SAP
8 1 (1.05%) Sparx