Architectural Patterns Contracts in the West Midlands

Architectural Patterns
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 116 152
Rank change year-on-year +14 +36 -36
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 10 24 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 1.01% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.14% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 16
10th Percentile £650 £450 £431
25th Percentile £656 £534 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +38.10% -11.76%
75th Percentile £750 £756 £596
90th Percentile £820 £813 £619
England median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,632 2,114 3,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.08% 88.67% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,452 2,354
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +16.42%
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% +9.14%
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 £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the West Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the West Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the West Midlands

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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 -1 5 £700 - 4
Warwickshire -3 4 £675 -6.90%
Coventry - 1 - -
Architectural Patterns
England

Architectural Patterns
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) CMS
1 3 (30.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SSL
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
3 2 (20.00%) LAN
3 2 (20.00%) WAN
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (10.00%) DMZ
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall
4 1 (10.00%) IPsec
4 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
1 3 (30.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) CMDB
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (30.00%) Data Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (30.00%) Epics
4 3 (30.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) Kanban
4 3 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Software Assurance
4 3 (30.00%) Software Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (10.00%) CCSP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (30.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (20.00%) Databricks
4 1 (10.00%) Blue Coat
4 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft