Architectural Patterns Contract Job Trends in England

Architectural Patterns
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 302 332
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 +3
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 297 219 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.75% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.85% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 133 156
10th Percentile £377 £465 £466
25th Percentile £464 £520 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £750 £800 £781
UK median daily rate £550 £624 £645
% change year-on-year -11.90% -3.21% +3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £39.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.84 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £85.75 £85.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +84.06% -36.30%
75th Percentile £119.00 £87.50 £66.59
90th Percentile - - £88.20
UK median hourly rate £85.75 £85.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +0.88% +84.06% -36.30%

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 27,668 25,905 33,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.00% 88.32% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,615 15,999 22,793
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,810 882 1,400
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.54 £14.74
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.26 £74.99 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Architectural Patterns job vacancy trend in England

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in England

Architectural Patterns
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Architectural Patterns
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architectural Patterns in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 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 0 135 £600 - 49
North of England +13 67 £500 -9.09% 39
Yorkshire -7 40 £475 +5.56% 4
Midlands -19 35 £537 -23.29% 8
West Midlands -20 29 £537 -23.29% 6
South East -3 28 £631 -12.17% 31
North West -12 21 £499 -5.05% 30
South West +1 16 £600 +4.35% 19
North East -5 6 £738 +18.14% 5
East Midlands -16 6 £520 +9.47% 2
East of England -23 1 £675 +50.00% 6
Architectural Patterns
UK

Architectural Patterns
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 20 (6.73%) SAS
2 19 (6.40%) Confluence
3 4 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.67%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.67%) Camunda
5 2 (0.67%) CMS
5 2 (0.67%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.67%) Mule
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.34%) Documentum
Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Oracle Retail
1 5 (1.68%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.67%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.34%) Endur
3 1 (0.34%) iTrent
3 1 (0.34%) Maximo
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) TrackWise
3 1 (0.34%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 93 (31.31%) Azure
2 92 (30.98%) AWS
3 37 (12.46%) GCP
4 27 (9.09%) GitHub
5 17 (5.72%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (5.72%) Serverless
6 16 (5.39%) Amazon S3
7 14 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (4.38%) Entra ID
9 11 (3.70%) PaaS
10 10 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (3.03%) Azure AKS
11 9 (3.03%) IaaS
11 9 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (3.03%) SaaS
12 8 (2.69%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.36%) Firebase
13 7 (2.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.38%) Firewall
2 6 (2.02%) Kerberos
2 6 (2.02%) Network Security
3 3 (1.01%) SSL
3 3 (1.01%) VPN
4 2 (0.67%) AMQP
4 2 (0.67%) DNS
4 2 (0.67%) DSL
5 1 (0.34%) Converged Networks
5 1 (0.34%) DHCP
5 1 (0.34%) HTTP
5 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.34%) SSH
5 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.40%) Oracle Database
2 17 (5.72%) Relational Database
2 17 (5.72%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 15 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.37%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.69%) Metadata
7 7 (2.36%) Pentaho
7 7 (2.36%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.68%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.01%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.01%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.67%) Big Data
11 2 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 43 (14.48%) Git
2 26 (8.75%) Jenkins
2 26 (8.75%) JIRA
3 15 (5.05%) GitLab
4 14 (4.71%) CircleCI
5 11 (3.70%) JUnit
6 7 (2.36%) Gradle
6 7 (2.36%) Snyk
7 6 (2.02%) Android Studio
7 6 (2.02%) Mockito
7 6 (2.02%) Selenium
8 5 (1.68%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.68%) Xcode
9 3 (1.01%) CocoaPods
9 3 (1.01%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.01%) Postman
10 2 (0.67%) fastlane
10 2 (0.67%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.34%) Mocha
11 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 94 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.90%) Finance
3 49 (16.50%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.08%) Banking
6 13 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.03%) Front Office
8 7 (2.36%) Back Office
8 7 (2.36%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.02%) Retail
10 5 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.68%) Marketing
10 5 (1.68%) Military
10 5 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Billing
11 3 (1.01%) Legal
12 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Local Government
12 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (48.82%) Architect
2 75 (25.25%) Developer
3 52 (17.51%) Solutions Architect
4 39 (13.13%) Lead
5 26 (8.75%) Security Architect
6 23 (7.74%) Senior
7 22 (7.41%) Technical Architect
8 16 (5.39%) Android Developer
8 16 (5.39%) Lead Architect
9 15 (5.05%) Data Architect
10 13 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (4.04%) iOS Developer
12 10 (3.37%) Enterprise Architect
12 10 (3.37%) Senior Architect
13 9 (3.03%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.03%) Technical Leader
14 8 (2.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 7 (2.36%) Azure Architect
15 7 (2.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 7 (2.36%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.47%) RESTful
2 37 (12.46%) REST
3 35 (11.78%) .NET
4 23 (7.74%) React
5 19 (6.40%) OAuth
6 18 (6.06%) GraphQL
7 16 (5.39%) Spring
7 16 (5.39%) Spring Boot
8 15 (5.05%) AngularJS
8 15 (5.05%) JSON
9 12 (4.04%) Kafka
9 12 (4.04%) SOAP
10 11 (3.70%) CSS
11 10 (3.37%) HTML
12 9 (3.03%) .NET Framework
12 9 (3.03%) jQuery
13 8 (2.69%) Middleware
13 8 (2.69%) SAML
13 8 (2.69%) XML
14 7 (2.36%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.53%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.42%) Mobile App
3 23 (7.74%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.36%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.36%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.02%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.68%) NHS
10 4 (1.35%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.35%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.01%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.67%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.08%) Android
2 21 (7.07%) Apple iOS
3 11 (3.70%) Linux
4 8 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.36%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.34%) tvOS
6 1 (0.34%) Unix
6 1 (0.34%) watchOS
6 1 (0.34%) Windows
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (34.68%) Agile
2 101 (34.01%) CI/CD
3 88 (29.63%) DevOps
4 76 (25.59%) Microservices
5 55 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (17.85%) Integration Patterns
7 51 (17.17%) Roadmaps
8 49 (16.50%) Mentoring
9 43 (14.48%) Design Patterns
9 43 (14.48%) Enterprise Architecture
10 41 (13.80%) Analytics
10 41 (13.80%) Containerisation
10 41 (13.80%) Technical Leadership
11 40 (13.47%) Test Automation
12 36 (12.12%) TOGAF
13 34 (11.45%) Architectural Design
13 34 (11.45%) Cloud Security
13 34 (11.45%) Data Modelling
14 31 (10.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 31 (10.44%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 54 (18.18%) Java
2 33 (11.11%) Python
3 32 (10.77%) SQL
4 25 (8.42%) C#
4 25 (8.42%) JavaScript
5 23 (7.74%) TypeScript
6 20 (6.73%) Kotlin
7 16 (5.39%) Swift
8 11 (3.70%) Objective-C
9 8 (2.69%) Bicep
10 6 (2.02%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.35%) Perl
11 4 (1.35%) PHP
11 4 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.67%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.67%) Go
14 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.34%) Bash
14 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (24.92%) Security Cleared
2 59 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.77%) Degree
4 23 (7.74%) CISSP
5 14 (4.71%) Master's Degree
6 13 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 12 (4.04%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.70%) CISM
9 10 (3.37%) AWS Certification
10 9 (3.03%) DV Cleared
11 7 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (2.36%) PhD
12 6 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.68%) CCSP
14 2 (0.67%) GIAC
14 2 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (6.40%) GDPR
2 19 (6.40%) NIST
3 14 (4.71%) QA
4 12 (4.04%) Accessibility
4 12 (4.04%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.69%) NCSC
6 7 (2.36%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.36%) ISO 20022
7 6 (2.02%) PSD2
8 4 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.35%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.35%) WCAG
9 3 (1.01%) ISO 9001
9 3 (1.01%) SLA
10 2 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.67%) HL7
11 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.34%) SOC 1
System Software
1 52 (17.51%) Docker
2 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (19.53%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.11%) Terraform
3 12 (4.04%) Prometheus
4 10 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (2.69%) Ansible
6 7 (2.36%) SCOM
7 4 (1.35%) Grafana
7 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.01%) Puppet
9 2 (0.67%) Argo
10 1 (0.34%) Cilium
10 1 (0.34%) HP Operations Orchestration
10 1 (0.34%) Podman
10 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.34%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.78%) Oracle
3 19 (6.40%) Google
4 11 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.03%) BiZZdesign
5 9 (3.03%) Databricks
6 8 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.36%) CyberArk
7 7 (2.36%) Denodo
8 6 (2.02%) GoldenSource
8 6 (2.02%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.02%) Talend
9 5 (1.68%) Apple
9 5 (1.68%) Centrify
9 5 (1.68%) SAP
10 4 (1.35%) Adobe
10 4 (1.35%) Splunk
11 3 (1.01%) Foundry
11 3 (1.01%) VMware
11 3 (1.01%) Zscaler