Architectural Patterns Contracts in England

Architectural Patterns
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Patterns over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 301 340
Rank change year-on-year -55 +39 -50
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 129 257 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.69% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.80% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 161 254
10th Percentile £456 £450 £450
25th Percentile £506 £525 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £624 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £748 £775 £723
90th Percentile £795 £813 £784
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £68.70
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 £81.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.20% +8.00% +57.89%
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - £84.00
UK median hourly rate £91.69 £81.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +13.20% +8.00% +57.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in England

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in England

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in England

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Patterns in England

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -41 67 £656 +0.19% 190
North of England -9 20 £525 -0.94% 62
South East +39 14 £688 +10.00% 47
North West -6 12 £600 +14.29% 39
South West +30 11 £550 -6.38% 22
Midlands +17 11 £700 - 12
West Midlands +15 11 £700 - 6
Yorkshire +2 6 £490 -27.41% 19
North East -1 2 £527 -10.27% 5
East of England +29 1 - - 18
Architectural Patterns
UK

Architectural Patterns
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 2 (1.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.78%) CMS
2 1 (0.78%) JBoss
2 1 (0.78%) OpenROAD
2 1 (0.78%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.55%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (34.11%) AWS
1 44 (34.11%) Azure
2 22 (17.05%) Serverless
3 17 (13.18%) GitHub
4 16 (12.40%) GCP
5 10 (7.75%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (6.20%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (6.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.43%) SaaS
9 6 (4.65%) IaaS
9 6 (4.65%) PaaS
10 5 (3.88%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (3.88%) CloudBees
10 5 (3.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (3.10%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.10%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.65%) LAN
1 6 (4.65%) WAN
2 5 (3.88%) Firewall
2 5 (3.88%) HTTP
3 2 (1.55%) IPsec
3 2 (1.55%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.55%) SSL
4 1 (0.78%) DNS
4 1 (0.78%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.78%) Network Security
4 1 (0.78%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.43%) DynamoDB
3 6 (4.65%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.10%) MySQL
5 4 (3.10%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.10%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.33%) Redis
7 2 (1.55%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.55%) Metadata
7 2 (1.55%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.78%) DataStage
8 1 (0.78%) DB2
8 1 (0.78%) Ingres
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.78%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 17 (13.18%) Git
2 11 (8.53%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.88%) git-flow
3 5 (3.88%) Maven
3 5 (3.88%) Mockito
4 4 (3.10%) Gradle
4 4 (3.10%) JUnit
5 3 (2.33%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.33%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.33%) GitLab
5 3 (2.33%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.33%) Plastic SCM
5 3 (2.33%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.33%) TestNG
6 1 (0.78%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.78%) JIRA
General
1 44 (34.11%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.95%) Finance
2 18 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 14 (10.85%) Banking
4 13 (10.08%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.65%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.88%) Military
7 5 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.10%) Retail
9 3 (2.33%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.33%) Games
9 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.33%) Legal
10 2 (1.55%) Front Office
10 2 (1.55%) Marketing
10 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Back Office
11 1 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (58.14%) Architect
2 30 (23.26%) Developer
3 23 (17.83%) Technical Architect
4 19 (14.73%) Senior
5 17 (13.18%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (7.75%) Cloud Architect
6 10 (7.75%) Senior Architect
7 9 (6.98%) Security Architect
8 8 (6.20%) AWS Architect
9 7 (5.43%) Lead
10 6 (4.65%) Node.js Developer
10 6 (4.65%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.88%) .NET Architect
11 5 (3.88%) Azure Architect
11 5 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.88%) Salesforce Architect
12 4 (3.10%) Applications Architect
12 4 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.10%) Java Applications Architect
12 4 (3.10%) Java Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.63%) RESTful
2 10 (7.75%) .NET
3 9 (6.98%) HTML
3 9 (6.98%) Kafka
3 9 (6.98%) Node.js
4 8 (6.20%) Web Services
5 7 (5.43%) Middleware
5 7 (5.43%) React
6 6 (4.65%) AWS CDK
6 6 (4.65%) CSS
6 6 (4.65%) OAuth
6 6 (4.65%) Redux
6 6 (4.65%) REST
7 5 (3.88%) Jest
7 5 (3.88%) JSON
7 5 (3.88%) LESS
7 5 (3.88%) Sass
7 5 (3.88%) Spring
7 5 (3.88%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.98%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.43%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.10%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.10%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (3.10%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.10%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.10%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.33%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.55%) Derivative
5 2 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.55%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.55%) Solar Panel
6 1 (0.78%) CCTV
6 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.53%) Windows
2 8 (6.20%) Android
3 7 (5.43%) Linux
4 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.55%) Unix
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (36.43%) Agile
2 40 (31.01%) DevOps
3 36 (27.91%) CI/CD
4 33 (25.58%) Design Patterns
5 24 (18.60%) Architectural Design
6 23 (17.83%) Microservices
7 22 (17.05%) Roadmaps
8 19 (14.73%) Event-Driven
8 19 (14.73%) Migration
9 18 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (12.40%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (11.63%) Decision-Making
12 14 (10.85%) Enterprise Architecture
12 14 (10.85%) Mentoring
13 13 (10.08%) Clean Code
13 13 (10.08%) Data Architecture
14 12 (9.30%) Containerisation
14 12 (9.30%) Machine Learning
15 11 (8.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.83%) Java
2 15 (11.63%) JavaScript
2 15 (11.63%) Kotlin
3 14 (10.85%) Python
4 11 (8.53%) SQL
5 10 (7.75%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.98%) C#
7 6 (4.65%) T-SQL
8 5 (3.88%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.33%) C++
9 3 (2.33%) Swift
10 2 (1.55%) ABAP
10 2 (1.55%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.55%) Groovy
10 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.55%) Rust
11 1 (0.78%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.78%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.78%) Ruby
11 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.75%) Degree
4 5 (3.88%) CISSP
4 5 (3.88%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.55%) CAPM
5 2 (1.55%) CCSP
5 2 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.55%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.55%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.78%) CISM
6 1 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) QA
2 4 (3.10%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.55%) GDPR
4 2 (1.55%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.78%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.78%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.78%) NCSC
5 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (13.18%) Docker
2 4 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.55%) RACF
3 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.20%) Terraform
3 5 (3.88%) Ansible
3 5 (3.88%) Grafana
3 5 (3.88%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.55%) CASB
5 2 (1.55%) Packer
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.78%) SCOM
6 1 (0.78%) vRealize
6 1 (0.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.53%) Google
3 8 (6.20%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.43%) Databricks
5 4 (3.10%) DocuSign
5 4 (3.10%) Virgin Media
6 3 (2.33%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.33%) Oracle
6 3 (2.33%) SAP
7 2 (1.55%) IBM
7 2 (1.55%) Temenos
7 2 (1.55%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.78%) Adobe
8 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.78%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco
8 1 (0.78%) EMC
8 1 (0.78%) F5
8 1 (0.78%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (0.78%) VMware