Architectural Design Contracts with Work from Home Options

Architectural Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 278 315
Rank change year-on-year +63 +37 -61
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 135 193 348
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.89% 0.77% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.86% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 250
10th Percentile £445 £470 £495
25th Percentile £466 £516 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £625 £640
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -2.31% +11.26%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £722
90th Percentile £825 £775 £823
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile £44.95 £63.15 £96.02
25th Percentile £70.00 £65.06 £96.06
Median hourly rate £71.93 £71.50 £96.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -25.61% +104.50%
75th Percentile £72.90 £78.00 £96.17
90th Percentile £78.66 £79.80 £96.21
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £71.50 £88.00
% change year-on-year -2.10% -18.75% +120.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Architectural Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Architectural Design trend for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Architectural Design.

Architectural Design daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Architectural Design daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Architectural Design.

Architectural Design hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Architectural Design hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (1.48%) Anypoint
1 2 (1.48%) Mule
2 1 (0.74%) Apache
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.74%) CMS
2 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.74%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.74%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (31.11%) AWS
2 37 (27.41%) Azure
3 18 (13.33%) GCP
4 8 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.93%) SaaS
5 4 (2.96%) IaaS
5 4 (2.96%) PaaS
5 4 (2.96%) Serverless
6 2 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.48%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.74%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.74%) GitHub
7 1 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.74%) Miro
7 1 (0.74%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.44%) VPN
2 4 (2.96%) LAN
2 4 (2.96%) Network Security
2 4 (2.96%) WAN
3 3 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (2.22%) MPLS
3 3 (2.22%) PBX
3 3 (2.22%) VoIP
3 3 (2.22%) WLAN
4 2 (1.48%) Firewall
5 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.85%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 13 (9.63%) Oracle Database 11g
4 8 (5.93%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.22%) DB2
6 3 (2.22%) OLAP
6 3 (2.22%) OLTP
6 3 (2.22%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.48%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.48%) Tableau
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.74%) Big Data
8 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.74%) HBase
8 1 (0.74%) Power BI
8 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.48%) Git
2 2 (1.48%) JIRA
2 2 (1.48%) JMeter
2 2 (1.48%) Mockito
3 1 (0.74%) Crashlytics
3 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.74%) Gatling
3 1 (0.74%) Gradle
3 1 (0.74%) JUnit
3 1 (0.74%) ScalaTest
General
1 35 (25.93%) Finance
2 24 (17.78%) Public Sector
3 19 (14.07%) Banking
4 17 (12.59%) Social Skills
5 4 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (2.96%) Retail
6 3 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.22%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.48%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.48%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.74%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.74%) Law
8 1 (0.74%) Local Government
8 1 (0.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 83 (61.48%) Architect
2 49 (36.30%) Solutions Architect
3 24 (17.78%) Developer
4 14 (10.37%) Senior
5 13 (9.63%) PostgreSQL Developer
6 10 (7.41%) Technical Architect
7 8 (5.93%) Security Architect
8 6 (4.44%) Data Architect
8 6 (4.44%) Senior Architect
8 6 (4.44%) SIEM Architect
9 5 (3.70%) Lead
9 5 (3.70%) Senior Developer
10 4 (2.96%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (2.96%) Informatica Developer
10 4 (2.96%) Project Manager
10 4 (2.96%) SailPoint Architect
11 3 (2.22%) Network Architect
11 3 (2.22%) Salesforce Architect
11 3 (2.22%) Senior Data Architect
11 3 (2.22%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.89%) SailPoint
2 9 (6.67%) Web Services
3 7 (5.19%) REST
4 6 (4.44%) .NET
4 6 (4.44%) Spring
5 5 (3.70%) Kafka
5 5 (3.70%) RESTful
5 5 (3.70%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.96%) React
7 3 (2.22%) HTML
7 3 (2.22%) JPA
8 2 (1.48%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.48%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.48%) Pyramid
8 2 (1.48%) RAML
8 2 (1.48%) SOAP
8 2 (1.48%) Swagger
9 1 (0.74%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.74%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.19%) Data Centre
1 7 (5.19%) Mainframe
2 6 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.48%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.48%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.74%) CMDB
7 1 (0.74%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Life Science
7 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.74%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.70%) Android
2 4 (2.96%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.48%) Linux
3 2 (1.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.26%) Migration
2 42 (31.11%) DevOps
3 38 (28.15%) Agile
4 28 (20.74%) Roadmaps
5 22 (16.30%) Microservices
6 21 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
7 19 (14.07%) CI/CD
7 19 (14.07%) Project Delivery
7 19 (14.07%) Software Engineering
8 18 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
9 17 (12.59%) Containerisation
10 16 (11.85%) Service Design
11 15 (11.11%) Cloud Security
12 14 (10.37%) Clean Code
12 14 (10.37%) Secure Coding
12 14 (10.37%) Unit Testing
13 13 (9.63%) Data Migration
13 13 (9.63%) High Availability
13 13 (9.63%) Software Testing
13 13 (9.63%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.07%) Java
1 19 (14.07%) SQL
2 13 (9.63%) PL/SQL
3 8 (5.93%) Python
4 5 (3.70%) C#
5 3 (2.22%) C
5 3 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.22%) Scala
6 2 (1.48%) Go
6 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.74%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.63%) Degree
4 6 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.70%) CISSP
6 4 (2.96%) CISM
7 3 (2.22%) CCIE
7 3 (2.22%) CCIE Data Center
7 3 (2.22%) CCNP
7 3 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.74%) CEH
9 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.74%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.15%) NIST
2 6 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.48%) QA
5 1 (0.74%) COBIT
5 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.74%) IFRS
5 1 (0.74%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.74%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 4 (2.96%) Docker
2 2 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) ACF2
3 1 (0.74%) HDFS
3 1 (0.74%) IAG
3 1 (0.74%) RACF
3 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.96%) Terraform
3 2 (1.48%) CloudHub
3 2 (1.48%) Grafana
4 1 (0.74%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) Argo
4 1 (0.74%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.74%) Kibana
4 1 (0.74%) Oozie
4 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (12.59%) Oracle
2 15 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 12 (8.89%) BeyondTrust
3 12 (8.89%) CyberArk
4 10 (7.41%) LogRhythm
5 9 (6.67%) Informatica
6 8 (5.93%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.96%) Cisco
7 4 (2.96%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.96%) SAP
8 3 (2.22%) Google
9 2 (1.48%) Genesys
9 2 (1.48%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.48%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.74%) Databricks
10 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.74%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.74%) Sparx
10 1 (0.74%) Zscaler