Architectural Design Contracts in Berkshire

Architectural Design
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 97 101
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +18
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 4 27 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.34% 1.36% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.53% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 26 10
10th Percentile £573 - £413
25th Percentile £589 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -0.04% +3.21%
75th Percentile £701 £688 £684
90th Percentile £753 - £750
South East median daily rate £550 £625 £569
% change year-on-year -12.00% +9.76% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £70.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £59.00 £68.62
% change year-on-year - -14.02% +16.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in Berkshire

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in Berkshire

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in Berkshire

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in Berkshire

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Bracknell - 2 £595 -
Reading +14 1 - - 5
Architectural Design
South East

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) MQTT
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PostGIS
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Infotainment
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Telematics
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
1 1 (25.00%) Zscaler