Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Architectural Design
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 56 71
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 +27
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 4 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.41% 1.68% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 1.87% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile £520 £460 -
25th Percentile £531 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £480 £490
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -2.04% -32.18%
75th Percentile £600 - £530
90th Percentile £630 £507 £559
South West median daily rate £650 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £76.25
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 825 536 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 83.84% 90.08% 83.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 298 521
10th Percentile £325 £205 £300
25th Percentile £403 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 64 142
10th Percentile £17.69 £35.00 £33.20
25th Percentile £38.97 £57.19 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -
75th Percentile - £68.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £52.05
% change year-on-year -11.54% +24.89% -15.37%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Bristol

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) CAD
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow