Architectural Patterns Contracts

Architectural Patterns
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 350 294
Rank change year-on-year +23 -56 -43
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 291 421 832
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.70% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.78% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 289 584
10th Percentile £449 £425 £475
25th Percentile £521 £513 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £769 £723 £738
90th Percentile £799 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 £630 £614
% change year-on-year +5.16% +2.65% +14.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £68.70 -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +57.89% +20.25%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - £84.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 £90.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +89.47% +20.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Architectural Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +47 253 £655 +4.80% 107
London +28 145 £680 +9.68% 43
UK excluding London +42 109 £663 +5.16% 69
Work from Home +66 108 £650 +1.48% 48
North of England +51 48 £530 -16.86% 28
North West +34 35 £525 -17.65% 15
South West +30 27 £588 -7.84% 1
South East +28 20 £688 +5.73% 18
Midlands +11 16 £700 +15.46% 10
Yorkshire +19 12 £675 +22.73% 9
West Midlands +16 10 £700 -3.45% 7
Scotland +30 9 £700 +7.69% 7
East Midlands +19 5 £704 +18.57% 3
North East +21 3 £588 -11.32% 4
East of England +5 2 - - 4

Architectural Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.37%) CMS
2 4 (1.37%) Confluence
3 3 (1.03%) Drupal
4 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.69%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.69%) Mule
5 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (4.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (4.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (3.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.03%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 142 (48.80%) Azure
2 79 (27.15%) AWS
3 52 (17.87%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (10.65%) GCP
5 27 (9.28%) Serverless
6 25 (8.59%) Power Platform
7 24 (8.25%) IaaS
7 24 (8.25%) PaaS
7 24 (8.25%) SaaS
8 18 (6.19%) GitHub
9 15 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.09%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.75%) PowerApps
12 7 (2.41%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.06%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.06%) Azure Storage
13 6 (2.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.84%) Network Security
2 13 (4.47%) VPN
3 12 (4.12%) Firewall
3 12 (4.12%) LAN
4 11 (3.78%) WAN
5 10 (3.44%) Cisco Nexus
5 10 (3.44%) DMZ
6 8 (2.75%) SSL
7 3 (1.03%) DNS
8 2 (0.69%) 4G
8 2 (0.69%) SCCP
9 1 (0.34%) ATM
9 1 (0.34%) HTTP
9 1 (0.34%) IPsec
9 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.34%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.31%) NoSQL
2 24 (8.25%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.53%) Metadata
4 18 (6.19%) Big Data
4 18 (6.19%) Relational Database
5 14 (4.81%) RDBMS
6 13 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (3.78%) Data Lake
7 11 (3.78%) Power BI
8 8 (2.75%) Data Vault
8 8 (2.75%) OLTP
8 8 (2.75%) Pentaho
8 8 (2.75%) Qlik Sense
8 8 (2.75%) QlikView
8 8 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.06%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.06%) Redis
10 5 (1.72%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (7.56%) Git
2 16 (5.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.75%) JIRA
4 6 (2.06%) Visual Studio Team System
5 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.72%) Mockito
6 4 (1.37%) Gatling
6 4 (1.37%) ScalaTest
6 4 (1.37%) Subversion
7 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.03%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.03%) JUnit
7 3 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.03%) Selenium
8 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.69%) Gradle
8 2 (0.69%) Maven
8 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.34%) Postman
9 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 72 (24.74%) Finance
2 61 (20.96%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.00%) Banking
4 31 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.53%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.81%) Investment Banking
8 9 (3.09%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.75%) Marketing
9 8 (2.75%) Publishing
10 7 (2.41%) Front Office
10 7 (2.41%) Legal
10 7 (2.41%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.06%) Electronics
11 6 (2.06%) Retail
12 5 (1.72%) Law
13 4 (1.37%) Police
13 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.03%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (61.86%) Architect
2 67 (23.02%) Solutions Architect
3 58 (19.93%) Developer
4 40 (13.75%) Security Architect
5 34 (11.68%) Technical Architect
6 31 (10.65%) Senior
7 30 (10.31%) Data Architect
8 19 (6.53%) Cloud Architect
9 16 (5.50%) Lead
10 14 (4.81%) Azure Architect
10 14 (4.81%) Senior Architect
11 13 (4.47%) Enterprise Architect
11 13 (4.47%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.78%) Android Developer
13 10 (3.44%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 10 (3.44%) Cisco Engineer
13 10 (3.44%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 10 (3.44%) Juniper Engineer
13 10 (3.44%) Network Engineer
14 9 (3.09%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.34%) .NET
2 17 (5.84%) RESTful
2 17 (5.84%) XML
3 16 (5.50%) Spring
4 15 (5.15%) Middleware
5 14 (4.81%) Web Services
6 13 (4.47%) Kafka
7 10 (3.44%) .NET Framework
7 10 (3.44%) SOAP
8 9 (3.09%) REST
9 8 (2.75%) HTML
9 8 (2.75%) JSON
9 8 (2.75%) React
10 7 (2.41%) ASP.NET
10 7 (2.41%) NumPy
10 7 (2.41%) Pandas
10 7 (2.41%) SciPy
10 7 (2.41%) Spring Boot
11 6 (2.06%) ARM Templates
11 6 (2.06%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.62%) Mobile App
2 23 (7.90%) Public Cloud
3 19 (6.53%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.81%) IoT
5 11 (3.78%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.44%) Reference Data
7 8 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.41%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.41%) Derivative
8 7 (2.41%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.06%) CMDB
9 6 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.72%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.37%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.03%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.53%) Linux
2 14 (4.81%) Android
2 14 (4.81%) Windows
3 9 (3.09%) Unix
4 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (38.14%) Agile
2 87 (29.90%) Design Patterns
2 87 (29.90%) DevOps
3 66 (22.68%) Architectural Design
4 56 (19.24%) Computer Science
5 50 (17.18%) Microservices
6 47 (16.15%) Migration
7 46 (15.81%) Roadmaps
8 42 (14.43%) Project Delivery
9 40 (13.75%) Data Management
10 36 (12.37%) CI/CD
11 34 (11.68%) Service Design
12 32 (11.00%) TOGAF
13 31 (10.65%) Cloud Security
14 29 (9.97%) Enterprise Architecture
15 28 (9.62%) Architecture Governance
15 28 (9.62%) Data Architecture
15 28 (9.62%) Security Architecture
16 26 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
16 26 (8.93%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 55 (18.90%) Java
2 45 (15.46%) SQL
3 33 (11.34%) Python
4 27 (9.28%) C#
5 16 (5.50%) Kotlin
6 11 (3.78%) C++
6 11 (3.78%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.44%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.75%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.75%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.41%) Rust
9 7 (2.41%) Scala
10 6 (2.06%) C
10 6 (2.06%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.69%) Bash
11 2 (0.69%) Go
11 2 (0.69%) PHP
12 1 (0.34%) R
12 1 (0.34%) Swift
12 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 70 (24.05%) Degree
2 44 (15.12%) Security Cleared
3 39 (13.40%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.47%) TOGAF Certification
6 12 (4.12%) CISSP
7 11 (3.78%) CISM
8 10 (3.44%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.09%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.75%) CISA
10 8 (2.75%) CREST Certified
11 5 (1.72%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.37%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.37%) HND
13 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.03%) FFIEC
14 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.62%) NIST
2 24 (8.25%) QA
3 19 (6.53%) NCSC
4 14 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.09%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.09%) GDPR
6 6 (2.06%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.72%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.03%) COBIT
8 3 (1.03%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 17 (5.84%) Docker
2 7 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.03%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (8.25%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.90%) Terraform
3 12 (4.12%) Grafana
4 10 (3.44%) Ansible
5 5 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.03%) OPNET
7 2 (0.69%) Argo
7 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.69%) Istio
7 2 (0.69%) Kibana
8 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.34%) Oozie
8 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.34%) Rancher
8 1 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 49 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.59%) Oracle
3 23 (7.90%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.81%) Sparx
5 13 (4.47%) Informatica
6 11 (3.78%) Cisco
6 11 (3.78%) SAP
7 10 (3.44%) Blue Coat
7 10 (3.44%) CheckPoint
7 10 (3.44%) Fortinet
7 10 (3.44%) Google
7 10 (3.44%) Juniper
8 9 (3.09%) Databricks
9 8 (2.75%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.75%) VMware
10 5 (1.72%) Talend
11 4 (1.37%) IBM
11 4 (1.37%) SEEBURGER
11 4 (1.37%) Symantec
11 4 (1.37%) Varonis