Architectural Design Contracts in the West Midlands

Architectural Design
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 86 125 156
Rank change year-on-year +39 +31 -51
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 23 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.19% 0.63% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 0.71% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 16
10th Percentile £454 £447 £418
25th Percentile £550 £489 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £535 £531
Median % change year-on-year +23.83% +0.71% +18.06%
75th Percentile £775 £659 £650
90th Percentile - £813 £688
England median daily rate £600 £600 £630
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.97 - -
Median hourly rate £71.93 - -
75th Percentile £72.90 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,114 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.67% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,452 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the West Midlands

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the West Midlands

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the West Midlands

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the West Midlands

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +14 10 £550 +15.79% 5
Warwickshire +7 7 £750 -6.25% 1
Coventry +12 1 - - 2
Solihull - 1 £425 -
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) AWS
1 1 (4.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (52.17%) VPN
2 10 (43.48%) LAN
2 10 (43.48%) WAN
3 9 (39.13%) MPLS
3 9 (39.13%) PBX
3 9 (39.13%) VoIP
3 9 (39.13%) WLAN
4 5 (21.74%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (21.74%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (21.74%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (21.74%) DHCP
4 5 (21.74%) DNS
4 5 (21.74%) Firewall
4 5 (21.74%) Internet
4 5 (21.74%) SD-WAN
5 4 (17.39%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (4.35%) SSL
6 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.35%) Metadata
1 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
General
1 9 (39.13%) Telecoms
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
5 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (8.70%) Banking
7 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Architect
2 8 (34.78%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Network Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Service Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Commercial Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Payments Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) ERP Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) Web Services
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) CMDB
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Programme Management
1 10 (43.48%) SOA
2 9 (39.13%) Analytics
2 9 (39.13%) Data Analytics
2 9 (39.13%) Mentoring
2 9 (39.13%) Network Architecture
2 9 (39.13%) Performance Management
2 9 (39.13%) Storage Management
3 8 (34.78%) TOGAF
4 7 (30.43%) ITIL
5 6 (26.09%) Customer Requirements
5 6 (26.09%) Resource Management
5 6 (26.09%) Roadmaps
5 6 (26.09%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (21.74%) Project Delivery
7 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
7 4 (17.39%) CRM
7 4 (17.39%) Open Source
8 3 (13.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) SQL
1 1 (4.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) CCIE
1 9 (39.13%) CCIE Data Center
1 9 (39.13%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (17.39%) CCNP
2 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Degree
3 3 (13.04%) Master's Degree
3 3 (13.04%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO 22301
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Cisco
2 5 (21.74%) CheckPoint
2 5 (21.74%) Infoblox
2 5 (21.74%) Palo Alto
2 5 (21.74%) Symantec
2 5 (21.74%) Zscaler
3 1 (4.35%) Informatica
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) Xamarin