Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Architectural Design
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 52 49
Rank change year-on-year -25 -3 +16
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 4 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.33% 1.44% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 1.68% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 12
10th Percentile £573 £393 -
25th Percentile £588 £429 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +11.11% -28.00%
75th Percentile £663 - £480
90th Percentile £678 £700 £490
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -11.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 915 654 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.57% 85.60% 80.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 447 407
10th Percentile £235 £224 £263
25th Percentile £400 £332 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £403 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.12% -10.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £656 £625 £625
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 59 38
10th Percentile £13.14 £15.11 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.56 £17.87 £14.74
Median hourly rate £17.97 £18.87 £18.16
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% +3.91% -41.19%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £37.00 £25.42 £50.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Derbyshire -7 2 - - 1
Nottinghamshire -17 1 £675 -3.57% 4
Lincolnshire - 1 £575 -
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) OSPF
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Workday