Architectural Patterns Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Architectural Patterns
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 84 107
Rank change year-on-year -15 +23 +7
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 6 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.31% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £516 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.71%
75th Percentile £581 - £569
90th Percentile £638 - -
England median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,515 866 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.70% 87.56% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 457 797
10th Percentile £198 £250 £235
25th Percentile £350 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £694 £700
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 160 512
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.43 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.84 £20.55 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £52.75 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.29% +38.38% +15.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% -12.87%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Architectural Patterns job vacancy trend in the East of England

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the East of England

Architectural Patterns
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Norfolk - 4 £550 - 1
Hertfordshire -24 2 £675 - 1
Architectural Patterns
England

Architectural Patterns
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 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Route 53
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Perl Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) N-Tier
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
1 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Open Source
1 2 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security
2 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle