Architectural Patterns Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Architectural Patterns
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 6.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £620 - -
25th Percentile £683 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £723 - -
75th Percentile £772 - -
90th Percentile £815 - -
South London median daily rate £723 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 126 101 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 89.36% 92.66% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 75 107
10th Percentile £459 £380 £231
25th Percentile £500 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -5.91%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £603
90th Percentile £634 £629 £673
South London median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.64
25th Percentile - - £17.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
% change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -46.11%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Architectural Patterns job vacancy trend in Croydon

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in Croydon over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in Croydon

Architectural Patterns
Contract Job Locations in Croydon

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 Croydon region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
South Croydon - 2 £766 -
Architectural Patterns
South London

Architectural Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 (77.78%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
1 5 (55.56%) TOGAF
2 4 (44.44%) Observability
3 3 (33.33%) API Design
3 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 2 (22.22%) Application Security
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Key Management
4 2 (22.22%) SFIA
4 2 (22.22%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
2 4 (44.44%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (11.11%) CCSP
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (11.11%) CISSP
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform