Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in England

Architectural Design
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 284 269
Rank change year-on-year +6 -15 +76
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 294 246 318
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 0.86% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.97% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 134 215
10th Percentile £422 £445 £413
25th Percentile £479 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% - -1.23%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 13
10th Percentile £54.75 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - £68.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +61.11%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile £72.56 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £77.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year -9.68% +6.90% +38.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,841 25,403 32,703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.68% 88.66% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,693 15,673 22,260
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,817 837 1,372
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +22.57%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.29 £74.92 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.86
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.90% +25.31%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in England

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in England over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architectural Design in England over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025. 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 -16 127 £625 - 42
South East +13 65 £536 -2.55% 19
North of England -17 52 £579 +20.63% 17
North West -18 33 £638 +33.51% 7
Midlands -23 27 £575 +7.08% 4
West Midlands -16 22 £569 -9.00% 1
Yorkshire - 17 £525 - 6
South West -11 15 £636 +21.14% 4
East Midlands -14 5 £700 +57.30% 3
East of England -18 4 £650 +44.44% 11
North East -6 2 £550 -11.90% 4
Architectural Design
UK

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (5.78%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.74%) Confluence
4 7 (2.38%) Exchange Server 2003
4 7 (2.38%) Exchange Server 2007
4 7 (2.38%) Exchange Server 2010
4 7 (2.38%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (2.38%) Office Communications Server
4 7 (2.38%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (2.38%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.02%) Apache
7 2 (0.68%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.68%) CMS
7 2 (0.68%) IIS
7 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.34%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.70%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.36%) Endur
3 4 (1.36%) SAP PM
4 3 (1.02%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.68%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.34%) Maximo
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.34%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 92 (31.29%) Azure
2 51 (17.35%) AWS
3 27 (9.18%) GCP
4 25 (8.50%) SaaS
5 16 (5.44%) Entra ID
6 13 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (4.08%) GitHub
8 11 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.74%) OpenShift
9 9 (3.06%) PaaS
10 8 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.38%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.38%) Serverless
12 6 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.70%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.16%) Firewall
2 11 (3.74%) DNS
2 11 (3.74%) VPN
2 11 (3.74%) WAN
3 10 (3.40%) Network Security
4 9 (3.06%) SD-WAN
5 8 (2.72%) DHCP
5 8 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (2.38%) DDNS
6 7 (2.38%) SAN
7 6 (2.04%) LAN
8 4 (1.36%) 5G
9 3 (1.02%) IPsec
10 2 (0.68%) 2G
10 2 (0.68%) BGP
10 2 (0.68%) EIGRP
10 2 (0.68%) MPLS
10 2 (0.68%) OSPF
10 2 (0.68%) S/MIME
10 2 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.42%) Redis
2 12 (4.08%) NoSQL
2 12 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.06%) MySQL
3 9 (3.06%) Tableau
4 7 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (1.70%) Metadata
6 5 (1.70%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.70%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.36%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.36%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.36%) Power BI
7 4 (1.36%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.68%) Big Data
9 2 (0.68%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 19 (6.46%) Git
2 18 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.44%) JIRA
4 10 (3.40%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.72%) Maven
6 6 (2.04%) Xcode
7 5 (1.70%) Gradle
8 4 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.36%) GitLab
8 4 (1.36%) JUnit
8 4 (1.36%) Mockito
8 4 (1.36%) Postman
8 4 (1.36%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.36%) SoapUI
8 4 (1.36%) SonarLint
8 4 (1.36%) Subversion
8 4 (1.36%) XCTest
9 3 (1.02%) CocoaPods
9 3 (1.02%) Crashlytics
9 3 (1.02%) fastlane
General
1 100 (34.01%) Social Skills
2 70 (23.81%) Finance
3 53 (18.03%) Banking
4 35 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (9.86%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.42%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (3.06%) Legal
8 9 (3.06%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.06%) Retail
9 6 (2.04%) Spanish Language
10 5 (1.70%) Automotive
10 5 (1.70%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.70%) Marketing
10 5 (1.70%) Military
11 4 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.36%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.02%) Back Office
12 3 (1.02%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 191 (64.97%) Architect
2 85 (28.91%) Solutions Architect
3 23 (7.82%) Lead
4 20 (6.80%) Developer
5 19 (6.46%) Technical Architect
6 18 (6.12%) Enterprise Architect
7 13 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (4.42%) Security Architect
7 13 (4.42%) Support Engineer
8 12 (4.08%) Lead Architect
9 11 (3.74%) Network Architect
10 10 (3.40%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (3.06%) Integration Architect
11 9 (3.06%) Senior
12 8 (2.72%) Analyst
12 8 (2.72%) Data Architect
13 7 (2.38%) Business Architect
13 7 (2.38%) Consultant
13 7 (2.38%) Project Manager
13 7 (2.38%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.78%) REST
2 12 (4.08%) SOAP
3 11 (3.74%) Kafka
3 11 (3.74%) Web Services
4 10 (3.40%) Spring Boot
5 9 (3.06%) J2EE
5 9 (3.06%) Middleware
5 9 (3.06%) Spring
6 8 (2.72%) .NET
6 8 (2.72%) React
7 7 (2.38%) OAuth
7 7 (2.38%) SAML
7 7 (2.38%) Swagger
8 6 (2.04%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.04%) HTML
8 6 (2.04%) RESTful
9 5 (1.70%) Bootstrap
9 5 (1.70%) HTML5
9 5 (1.70%) IDoc
9 5 (1.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.50%) Product Ownership
2 19 (6.46%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.78%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.06%) Replication
6 8 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.72%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.72%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.38%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.04%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.70%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.36%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.36%) CMDB
10 4 (1.36%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.02%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.20%) Linux
2 25 (8.50%) Windows
3 13 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.38%) Unix
5 7 (2.38%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (1.70%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.36%) VMS
8 2 (0.68%) Android
9 1 (0.34%) Debian
9 1 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (27.55%) Agile
2 75 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (23.47%) Roadmaps
4 54 (18.37%) DevOps
5 46 (15.65%) CI/CD
5 46 (15.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (14.63%) Microservices
6 43 (14.63%) Technical Leadership
7 41 (13.95%) TOGAF
8 38 (12.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 37 (12.59%) Enterprise Architecture
9 37 (12.59%) Integration Patterns
10 36 (12.24%) Mentoring
11 34 (11.56%) ITIL
12 33 (11.22%) Architectural Patterns
13 30 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (10.20%) Design Patterns
14 25 (8.50%) Risk Management
14 25 (8.50%) Technical Architecture
14 25 (8.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 30 (10.20%) SQL
2 29 (9.86%) Java
3 26 (8.84%) Python
4 14 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.74%) C#
6 5 (1.70%) Bash
6 5 (1.70%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.70%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.70%) Swift
7 4 (1.36%) Groovy
8 3 (1.02%) ABAP
8 3 (1.02%) Go
8 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.02%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.02%) R
8 3 (1.02%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.68%) Bicep
9 2 (0.68%) C++
9 2 (0.68%) PHP
9 2 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 65 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 42 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.52%) Degree
4 22 (7.48%) DV Cleared
5 20 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (5.78%) Azure Certification
7 14 (4.76%) CISSP
8 11 (3.74%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.40%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (2.72%) CCSP
11 8 (2.72%) Master's Degree
12 7 (2.38%) ISEB
12 7 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (2.04%) CISM
14 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (1.36%) PMI Certification
14 4 (1.36%) PMP
15 3 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.42%) GDPR
1 13 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.40%) NIST
2 10 (3.40%) PCI DSS
3 9 (3.06%) QA
4 7 (2.38%) COBIT
5 6 (2.04%) PSD2
5 6 (2.04%) SLA
6 4 (1.36%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.36%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.02%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.02%) NCSC
8 2 (0.68%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.68%) GRC
8 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.34%) MiFID
9 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (11.22%) Docker
2 21 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.38%) Brightmail
4 7 (2.38%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.68%) Ceph
5 2 (0.68%) Firmware
5 2 (0.68%) Lustre
5 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (12.93%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.12%) Ansible
3 16 (5.44%) Terraform
4 14 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (4.08%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (2.04%) CASB
7 6 (2.04%) SCCM
7 6 (2.04%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.68%) Grafana
8 2 (0.68%) rkt
9 1 (0.34%) Control-M
9 1 (0.34%) Kibana
9 1 (0.34%) QRadar
9 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 44 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.14%) SAP
3 16 (5.44%) Oracle
3 16 (5.44%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 14 (4.76%) VMware
5 12 (4.08%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.40%) Cisco
7 8 (2.72%) Splunk
8 7 (2.38%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.38%) Juniper
9 6 (2.04%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.04%) Google
10 5 (1.70%) Databricks
10 5 (1.70%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.70%) Software AG
11 4 (1.36%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (1.36%) Gigya
11 4 (1.36%) Temenos
12 3 (1.02%) Dell