Architectural Patterns Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Architectural Patterns
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - 58
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 12 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.32% - 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% - 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £506 - £713
90th Percentile £555 - £840
West Midlands median daily rate £625 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +15.74% +2.86% -27.59%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 755 540 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.24% 89.85% 82.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 351 393
10th Percentile £298 £203 £200
25th Percentile £400 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £585 £574 £638
90th Percentile £688 £649 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 54 10
10th Percentile £13.45 - £21.18
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.62 £29.30
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -62.26% +81.82%
75th Percentile £55.00 £22.08 £55.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £57.53
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.60 £24.34 £28.50
% change year-on-year +21.61% -14.60% +3.64%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Architectural Patterns job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in Birmingham over the 6 months to 21 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in Birmingham

Architectural Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (25.00%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) GitHub
5 2 (16.67%) SaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (8.33%) Metadata
4 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Gatling
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
1 2 (16.67%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Administrator
3 3 (25.00%) Lead Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Security Architect
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Information Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Principal Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) EDI
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) Playwright
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Blog
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (41.67%) Data Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) Observability
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (16.67%) NCSC
3 1 (8.33%) GRC
3 1 (8.33%) NIST
3 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
1 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk