Architectural Design Contracts in England

Architectural Design
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Architectural Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Design over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 346 355
Rank change year-on-year +75 +9 -71
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 317 351 523
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.69% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.76% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 225 344
10th Percentile £411 £459 £461
25th Percentile £500 £513 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £631
Median % change year-on-year - -4.84% +14.64%
75th Percentile £738 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £795 £813
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 8
10th Percentile £49.78 £40.00 £58.63
25th Percentile £59.00 £64.50 £71.56
Median hourly rate £67.50 £71.00 £88.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% -19.32% +101.14%
75th Percentile £72.90 £76.50 £96.23
90th Percentile £75.78 £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £71.50 £88.00
% change year-on-year -2.10% -18.75% +120.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Architectural Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,223 45,987 64,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.26% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,190 32,199 46,005
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,635 1,786
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.23
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in England.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in England.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architectural Design in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
London +81 164 £600 -2.00% 88
North of England +61 55 £650 +8.33% 19
Midlands +61 41 £550 +2.80% 12
North West +48 41 £650 +15.45% 13
South East +13 38 £625 +9.76% 27
West Midlands +44 23 £663 +23.83% 8
South West +1 18 £450 -29.63% 12
East Midlands - 17 £490 - 4
Yorkshire +19 12 £665 +9.38% 3
North East +25 4 £413 -36.54% 3
East of England +10 3 £575 -8.73% 15
Architectural Design
UK

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.95%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.63%) CMS
2 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.32%) Apache
3 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.32%) Camunda
3 1 (0.32%) Confluence
3 1 (0.32%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.32%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) MTS
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.32%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.63%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.32%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 106 (33.44%) Azure
2 79 (24.92%) AWS
3 31 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (8.52%) GCP
5 21 (6.62%) Serverless
6 17 (5.36%) GitHub
7 13 (4.10%) IaaS
7 13 (4.10%) SaaS
8 11 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (2.84%) Azure Functions
9 9 (2.84%) PaaS
10 8 (2.52%) Azure AKS
10 8 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.58%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (1.58%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.05%) VPN
2 13 (4.10%) Firewall
2 13 (4.10%) LAN
2 13 (4.10%) WAN
3 9 (2.84%) MPLS
3 9 (2.84%) PBX
3 9 (2.84%) VoIP
3 9 (2.84%) WLAN
4 6 (1.89%) DNS
4 6 (1.89%) Network Security
4 6 (1.89%) SAN
5 5 (1.58%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.58%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (1.58%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (1.58%) DHCP
5 5 (1.58%) Internet
5 5 (1.58%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.26%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.63%) SSL
7 2 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.68%) Oracle Database
3 17 (5.36%) Oracle Database 11g
4 13 (4.10%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.47%) RDBMS
5 11 (3.47%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.84%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (1.58%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (1.58%) OLAP
8 5 (1.58%) OLTP
8 5 (1.58%) Redis
9 4 (1.26%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.95%) CockroachDB
10 3 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.95%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.63%) Big Data
11 2 (0.63%) Metadata
11 2 (0.63%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (3.15%) JIRA
2 9 (2.84%) Git
3 8 (2.52%) Cypress.io
3 8 (2.52%) JMeter
4 7 (2.21%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.89%) Mockito
6 4 (1.26%) Gatling
6 4 (1.26%) ScalaTest
7 3 (0.95%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.63%) Gradle
9 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.32%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.32%) GoCD
9 1 (0.32%) JUnit
9 1 (0.32%) Maven
9 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.32%) Spock
9 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 75 (23.66%) Finance
2 55 (17.35%) Social Skills
3 30 (9.46%) Banking
4 29 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (4.10%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.21%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.58%) Retail
13 4 (1.26%) Legal
13 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.95%) Local Government
14 3 (0.95%) Police
15 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
16 1 (0.32%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 186 (58.68%) Architect
2 91 (28.71%) Solutions Architect
3 42 (13.25%) Developer
4 26 (8.20%) Senior
5 23 (7.26%) Enterprise Architect
6 20 (6.31%) Security Architect
7 17 (5.36%) Data Architect
7 17 (5.36%) Lead
8 15 (4.73%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 14 (4.42%) Senior Architect
10 13 (4.10%) Technical Architect
11 10 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.15%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.15%) Salesforce Architect
11 10 (3.15%) ServiceNow Architect
11 10 (3.15%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.52%) Azure Architect
12 8 (2.52%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 8 (2.52%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.94%) Kafka
2 20 (6.31%) Web Services
3 14 (4.42%) RESTful
3 14 (4.42%) SailPoint
4 13 (4.10%) REST
5 12 (3.79%) .NET
6 11 (3.47%) HTML
6 11 (3.47%) Spring
7 9 (2.84%) Node.js
7 9 (2.84%) React
8 8 (2.52%) ADO
8 8 (2.52%) SOAP
9 7 (2.21%) JPA
9 7 (2.21%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.21%) XML
10 6 (1.89%) LDAP
10 6 (1.89%) OpenAPI
10 6 (1.89%) RAML
10 6 (1.89%) Swagger
11 5 (1.58%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.94%) Management Information System
2 20 (6.31%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.84%) CMDB
6 8 (2.52%) Mainframe
7 6 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.58%) Machine to Machine
8 5 (1.58%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.26%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.95%) Derivative
10 3 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.63%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.63%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.68%) Linux
1 18 (5.68%) Windows
2 6 (1.89%) Unix
3 5 (1.58%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.95%) Android
5 2 (0.63%) zOS
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (28.71%) DevOps
2 84 (26.50%) Migration
3 83 (26.18%) Agile
4 57 (17.98%) Architectural Patterns
5 49 (15.46%) Roadmaps
6 45 (14.20%) TOGAF
7 43 (13.56%) CI/CD
7 43 (13.56%) Computer Science
7 43 (13.56%) Project Delivery
8 41 (12.93%) Software Engineering
9 36 (11.36%) Risk Management
10 35 (11.04%) Design Patterns
11 33 (10.41%) Enterprise Architecture
12 31 (9.78%) Mentoring
12 31 (9.78%) Microservices
13 30 (9.46%) Service Design
14 29 (9.15%) Data Management
15 27 (8.52%) Unit Testing
16 25 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 41 (12.93%) SQL
2 37 (11.67%) Java
3 25 (7.89%) Python
4 17 (5.36%) C#
4 17 (5.36%) PL/SQL
5 12 (3.79%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.84%) Scala
7 6 (1.89%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.58%) Go
9 2 (0.63%) Bicep
9 2 (0.63%) C
9 2 (0.63%) C++
9 2 (0.63%) Haskell
9 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.32%) ABAP
10 1 (0.32%) Groovy
10 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.32%) XAML
Qualifications
1 57 (17.98%) Degree
2 48 (15.14%) Security Cleared
3 39 (12.30%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.99%) CISSP
5 14 (4.42%) CISM
5 14 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (3.79%) TOGAF Certification
7 9 (2.84%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.84%) CCIE
7 9 (2.84%) CCIE Data Center
8 8 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.52%) CISA
9 7 (2.21%) SANS
10 6 (1.89%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.58%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.26%) CCNP
12 4 (1.26%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.95%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.73%) NIST
2 11 (3.47%) QA
3 8 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.63%) COBIT
5 2 (0.63%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.63%) PSD2
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) GRC
6 1 (0.32%) IFRS
6 1 (0.32%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.32%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (8.20%) Docker
2 12 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.58%) ACF2
3 5 (1.58%) IAG
3 5 (1.58%) RACF
4 1 (0.32%) HDFS
4 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (8.83%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.05%) Terraform
3 7 (2.21%) Argo
3 7 (2.21%) Grafana
4 6 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.63%) Ansible
6 1 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.32%) Kibana
6 1 (0.32%) Oozie
6 1 (0.32%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.32%) rkt
6 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (9.46%) ServiceNow
2 28 (8.83%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.26%) Oracle
4 14 (4.42%) BeyondTrust
4 14 (4.42%) CyberArk
5 12 (3.79%) Cisco
5 12 (3.79%) LogRhythm
6 11 (3.47%) SAP
7 10 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.52%) Informatica
9 7 (2.21%) Google
10 5 (1.58%) CheckPoint
10 5 (1.58%) Infoblox
10 5 (1.58%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.58%) Symantec
10 5 (1.58%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.63%) Databricks
11 2 (0.63%) Genesys
11 2 (0.63%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.63%) Sparx