Architectural Patterns Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Architectural Patterns
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 81 114
Rank change year-on-year -18 +33 +8
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 9 19 9
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.61% 1.24% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.38% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 9
10th Percentile £469 £506 £595
25th Percentile £494 £525 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £562 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -16.81% - -1.82%
75th Percentile £631 £800 £700
90th Percentile £713 - £710
South East median daily rate £631 £719 £653
% change year-on-year -12.17% +10.15% +8.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Architectural Patterns 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 1,304 1,377 1,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.71% 90.18% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 761 971
10th Percentile £306 £313 £213
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.20%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £693 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 41 69
10th Percentile £14.75 £26.00 £24.32
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £38.86 £59.00 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year -34.14% -4.29% +52.21%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.87 £76.84
South East median hourly rate £22.23 £50.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -55.55% -5.66% +41.33%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Patterns relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Architectural Patterns job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Architectural Patterns.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Architectural Patterns

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in Berkshire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in Berkshire

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Reading +9 5 £600 -20.00% 4
Windsor - 2 £524 -
Slough -4 1 - - 14
Architectural Patterns
South East

Architectural Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) GCP
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Boomi
4 1 (11.11%) Datadog
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
4 1 (11.11%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Mocha
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Billing
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) OpenAPI
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
1 2 (22.22%) Swagger
2 1 (11.11%) Fastify
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) Jest
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (44.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (44.44%) Security Posture
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (33.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (22.22%) TM Forum
5 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Application Security
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
2 4 (44.44%) Data Privacy
2 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
2 4 (44.44%) Security Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) TOGAF
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) CRM
3 3 (33.33%) Data Security
3 3 (33.33%) Information Security
3 3 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 3 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 3 (33.33%) SIEM
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 3 (33.33%) CCSP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (33.33%) CISSP
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
1 4 (44.44%) PCI DSS
1 4 (44.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk