Architectural Patterns Contracts in England

Architectural Patterns
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Architectural Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Patterns over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 348 289
Rank change year-on-year +47 -59 -7
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 253 352 679
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.68% 0.70% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.77% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 254 477
10th Percentile £450 £450 £475
25th Percentile £530 £522 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £775 £723 £738
90th Percentile £816 £784 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £68.70 -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +57.89% +20.25%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - £84.00 -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% +57.89% +20.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Architectural Patterns 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 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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 +28 145 £680 +9.68% 44
North of England +51 48 £530 -16.86% 28
North West +34 35 £525 -17.65% 15
South West +30 27 £588 -7.84% 1
South East +28 20 £688 +5.73% 18
Midlands +11 16 £700 +15.46% 10
Yorkshire +19 12 £675 +22.73% 9
West Midlands +16 10 £700 -3.45% 7
East Midlands +19 5 £704 +18.57% 3
North East +21 3 £588 -11.32% 4
East of England +5 2 - - 4
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 9 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.58%) CMS
2 4 (1.58%) Confluence
3 3 (1.19%) Drupal
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.79%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Mule
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (3.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.19%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 117 (46.25%) Azure
2 66 (26.09%) AWS
3 48 (18.97%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (10.28%) GCP
5 24 (9.49%) Serverless
6 23 (9.09%) SaaS
7 21 (8.30%) Power Platform
8 19 (7.51%) IaaS
8 19 (7.51%) PaaS
9 16 (6.32%) GitHub
10 12 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.77%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.77%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.77%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.37%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.37%) Azure Storage
12 6 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.14%) Network Security
1 13 (5.14%) VPN
2 12 (4.74%) Firewall
3 10 (3.95%) Cisco Nexus
3 10 (3.95%) DMZ
4 9 (3.56%) LAN
5 8 (3.16%) SSL
5 8 (3.16%) WAN
6 3 (1.19%) DNS
7 2 (0.79%) 4G
7 2 (0.79%) SCCP
8 1 (0.40%) ATM
8 1 (0.40%) HTTP
8 1 (0.40%) IPsec
8 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.40%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.86%) NoSQL
2 23 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 18 (7.11%) Relational Database
4 17 (6.72%) Big Data
4 17 (6.72%) Metadata
5 14 (5.53%) RDBMS
6 13 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.35%) Data Lake
7 11 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.35%) Power BI
8 8 (3.16%) Data Vault
8 8 (3.16%) OLTP
8 8 (3.16%) Pentaho
8 8 (3.16%) Qlik Sense
8 8 (3.16%) QlikView
8 8 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.37%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.37%) Redis
10 5 (1.98%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 19 (7.51%) Git
2 14 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.37%) JIRA
3 6 (2.37%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (1.98%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.98%) Mockito
5 4 (1.58%) Gatling
5 4 (1.58%) ScalaTest
6 3 (1.19%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.19%) JUnit
6 3 (1.19%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (1.19%) Selenium
6 3 (1.19%) Subversion
7 2 (0.79%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.79%) Gradle
8 1 (0.40%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) kappa
8 1 (0.40%) Postman
General
1 67 (26.48%) Finance
2 49 (19.37%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.86%) Banking
4 25 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (5.53%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.16%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.16%) Publishing
8 7 (2.77%) Front Office
8 7 (2.77%) Marketing
8 7 (2.77%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.37%) Electronics
10 5 (1.98%) Law
10 5 (1.98%) Legal
10 5 (1.98%) Retail
11 4 (1.58%) Police
11 4 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.19%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.19%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (60.47%) Architect
2 55 (21.74%) Solutions Architect
3 52 (20.55%) Developer
4 32 (12.65%) Security Architect
5 29 (11.46%) Data Architect
6 27 (10.67%) Senior
6 27 (10.67%) Technical Architect
7 16 (6.32%) Cloud Architect
8 13 (5.14%) Enterprise Architect
8 13 (5.14%) Senior Architect
9 11 (4.35%) Android Developer
10 10 (3.95%) Blue Coat Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) Cisco Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) Juniper Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) Network Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.56%) Cloud Security Architect
12 8 (3.16%) Senior Security Architect
12 8 (3.16%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.46%) .NET
2 17 (6.72%) XML
3 16 (6.32%) RESTful
4 13 (5.14%) Spring
4 13 (5.14%) Web Services
5 12 (4.74%) Middleware
6 11 (4.35%) Kafka
7 9 (3.56%) .NET Framework
7 9 (3.56%) REST
8 8 (3.16%) JSON
8 8 (3.16%) SOAP
9 7 (2.77%) ASP.NET
9 7 (2.77%) NumPy
9 7 (2.77%) Pandas
9 7 (2.77%) SciPy
10 6 (2.37%) ARM Templates
10 6 (2.37%) HTML
10 6 (2.37%) React
11 5 (1.98%) Akka
11 5 (1.98%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.67%) Mobile App
2 20 (7.91%) Public Cloud
3 16 (6.32%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.14%) IoT
5 11 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.95%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.95%) Reference Data
7 8 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.77%) Derivative
8 7 (2.77%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.37%) CMDB
9 6 (2.37%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.98%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.58%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.19%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (1.19%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.32%) Linux
2 14 (5.53%) Android
3 10 (3.95%) Windows
4 9 (3.56%) Unix
5 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (36.76%) Agile
2 76 (30.04%) Design Patterns
3 73 (28.85%) DevOps
4 56 (22.13%) Architectural Design
5 49 (19.37%) Computer Science
6 41 (16.21%) Roadmaps
7 40 (15.81%) Microservices
8 38 (15.02%) Project Delivery
9 37 (14.62%) Migration
10 33 (13.04%) Data Management
11 32 (12.65%) CI/CD
12 29 (11.46%) TOGAF
13 28 (11.07%) Enterprise Architecture
13 28 (11.07%) Service Design
14 26 (10.28%) Data Architecture
15 25 (9.88%) TDD
16 24 (9.49%) Architecture Governance
16 24 (9.49%) SDLC
16 24 (9.49%) Security Architecture
17 23 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (18.58%) Java
2 38 (15.02%) SQL
3 32 (12.65%) Python
4 26 (10.28%) C#
5 16 (6.32%) Kotlin
6 11 (4.35%) C++
6 11 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.16%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.16%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.16%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.77%) Rust
8 7 (2.77%) Scala
9 6 (2.37%) C
10 4 (1.58%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.79%) Bash
11 2 (0.79%) Go
11 2 (0.79%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) Jython
12 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 63 (24.90%) Degree
2 39 (15.42%) Security Cleared
3 35 (13.83%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.35%) CISSP
6 10 (3.95%) CISM
6 10 (3.95%) TOGAF Certification
7 8 (3.16%) CISA
7 8 (3.16%) CREST Certified
7 8 (3.16%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.37%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.58%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.58%) HND
10 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.19%) FFIEC
11 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.09%) NIST
2 20 (7.91%) QA
3 15 (5.93%) NCSC
4 11 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.56%) GDPR
6 7 (2.77%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.98%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.58%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.19%) COBIT
9 3 (1.19%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (6.72%) Docker
2 7 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.19%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (8.70%) Terraform
2 19 (7.51%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.95%) Ansible
4 8 (3.16%) Grafana
5 5 (1.98%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.19%) OPNET
7 2 (0.79%) Argo
7 2 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.79%) Kibana
8 1 (0.40%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.40%) Istio
8 1 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.40%) Oozie
8 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 43 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 21 (8.30%) Oracle
4 13 (5.14%) Informatica
5 11 (4.35%) Cisco
5 11 (4.35%) Sparx
6 10 (3.95%) Blue Coat
6 10 (3.95%) CheckPoint
6 10 (3.95%) Fortinet
6 10 (3.95%) Google
6 10 (3.95%) Juniper
7 9 (3.56%) SAP
8 8 (3.16%) Salesforce
8 8 (3.16%) VMware
9 6 (2.37%) Databricks
10 5 (1.98%) Talend
11 4 (1.58%) IBM
11 4 (1.58%) SEEBURGER
11 4 (1.58%) Symantec
11 4 (1.58%) Varonis