Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Architectural Design
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 87 112
Rank change year-on-year -15 +25 +7
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.23% 0.095% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.11% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £553 - £344
25th Percentile £631 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £458
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.38%
75th Percentile £738 - £531
90th Percentile - - £565
England median daily rate £594 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% -1.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,419 911 1,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 81.27% 86.27% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 421 828
10th Percentile £195 £240 £250
25th Percentile £340 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.50% -0.50%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £694 £711
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 444 154 448
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.62 £14.11
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.97 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £31.14
Median % change year-on-year -49.43% +28.46% +41.53%
75th Percentile £60.75 £69.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.23% - -

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the East of England

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the East of England

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Hertfordshire -13 3 £725 - 5
Cambridgeshire - 1 £500 -
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Perl Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) API Integration
2 1 (25.00%) API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) NVIDIA
3 1 (25.00%) VMware