Architectural Design Contracts in London

Architectural Design
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 315 328
Rank change year-on-year +84 +13 -67
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 167 191 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.93% 0.70% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.77% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 122 218
10th Percentile £411 £458 £461
25th Percentile £500 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £620 £639
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -2.94% +6.46%
75th Percentile £756 £734 £762
90th Percentile £825 £800 £825
England median daily rate £600 £600 £630
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £49.75 -
25th Percentile - £67.13 £75.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +48.15%
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - £79.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £71.00 £88.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% -19.32% +101.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,803 24,767 35,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 91.14% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,321 17,758 26,094
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 288 429
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.23
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.86 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +10.18%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.55 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.10 £78.15 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in London

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in London

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in London

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in London

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 25 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
Central London +47 23 £700 +9.80% 7
West London +26 10 £525 -
East London -6 10 £770 +2.67% 8
South London +11 1 - -
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.60%) Apache
2 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.60%) Camunda
2 1 (0.60%) CMS
2 1 (0.60%) IBM Domino
2 1 (0.60%) IBM Notes
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.20%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.60%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.60%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 79 (47.31%) Azure
2 37 (22.16%) AWS
3 24 (14.37%) GCP
4 20 (11.98%) Serverless
5 17 (10.18%) GitHub
6 14 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.39%) Azure Functions
9 8 (4.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (4.19%) Azure AKS
10 7 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.99%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (2.99%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (2.99%) SaaS
13 4 (2.40%) IaaS
14 3 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.59%) SAN
2 2 (1.20%) Firewall
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) LAN
3 1 (0.60%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) SMTP
3 1 (0.60%) SSL
3 1 (0.60%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.60%) VPN
3 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.19%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.59%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.99%) Amazon QuickSight
3 5 (2.99%) OLAP
3 5 (2.99%) OLTP
4 4 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (2.40%) Redis
5 3 (1.80%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.20%) Big Data
6 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.60%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.60%) HBase
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (4.79%) JIRA
1 8 (4.79%) JMeter
2 7 (4.19%) Cypress.io
2 7 (4.19%) Git
2 7 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.59%) Mockito
4 4 (2.40%) Gatling
4 4 (2.40%) ScalaTest
5 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.60%) Gradle
5 1 (0.60%) JUnit
5 1 (0.60%) Maven
5 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.60%) Spock
5 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (32.34%) Finance
2 35 (20.96%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.98%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (7.78%) Banking
6 9 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.80%) Legal
9 3 (1.80%) Police
10 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.20%) Retail
11 1 (0.60%) Law
11 1 (0.60%) Local Government
11 1 (0.60%) Military
11 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 100 (59.88%) Architect
2 43 (25.75%) Solutions Architect
3 17 (10.18%) Senior
4 16 (9.58%) Developer
5 14 (8.38%) Enterprise Architect
5 14 (8.38%) Security Architect
6 13 (7.78%) Technical Architect
7 10 (5.99%) Senior Architect
8 9 (5.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.39%) Lead
8 9 (5.39%) Project Manager
9 8 (4.79%) Testing Manager
10 7 (4.19%) Azure Architect
10 7 (4.19%) CISSP Architect
10 7 (4.19%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.19%) SIEM Architect
11 6 (3.59%) C# Developer
11 6 (3.59%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
11 6 (3.59%) Enterprise Security Architect
12 5 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.98%) Kafka
2 13 (7.78%) SailPoint
3 10 (5.99%) HTML
4 9 (5.39%) Web Services
5 8 (4.79%) ADO
5 8 (4.79%) Node.js
5 8 (4.79%) React
6 7 (4.19%) .NET
7 6 (3.59%) LDAP
7 6 (3.59%) REST
7 6 (3.59%) RESTful
7 6 (3.59%) SOAP
7 6 (3.59%) Spring
8 5 (2.99%) Hibernate
8 5 (2.99%) JSP
8 5 (2.99%) Servlets
8 5 (2.99%) SPML
8 5 (2.99%) XML
9 4 (2.40%) Akka
9 4 (2.40%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.38%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.39%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.79%) Mainframe
4 6 (3.59%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.99%) Machine to Machine
6 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.80%) Derivative
7 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.80%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.20%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.60%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.60%) Solar Panel
9 1 (0.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.58%) Linux
2 12 (7.19%) Windows
3 4 (2.40%) Unix
4 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.74%) Agile
2 49 (29.34%) DevOps
3 44 (26.35%) Migration
4 37 (22.16%) Roadmaps
5 32 (19.16%) CI/CD
6 27 (16.17%) Risk Management
6 27 (16.17%) TOGAF
7 23 (13.77%) Architectural Patterns
8 21 (12.57%) Computer Science
8 21 (12.57%) Enterprise Architecture
9 20 (11.98%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (11.38%) Microservices
11 18 (10.78%) Project Management
12 17 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (9.58%) Project Delivery
14 14 (8.38%) High Availability
14 14 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (7.78%) Scrum
15 13 (7.78%) Software Engineering
15 13 (7.78%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 23 (13.77%) Python
2 20 (11.98%) Java
3 17 (10.18%) SQL
4 11 (6.59%) C#
4 11 (6.59%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.79%) Scala
6 5 (2.99%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.40%) Go
8 2 (1.20%) Bicep
8 2 (1.20%) Haskell
9 1 (0.60%) Bash
9 1 (0.60%) Groovy
9 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (17.96%) Degree
2 21 (12.57%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.58%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.19%) CISSP
4 12 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.79%) CISA
5 8 (4.79%) CISM
6 7 (4.19%) SANS
7 5 (2.99%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.40%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.80%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (1.80%) CITP
9 3 (1.80%) CRISC
9 3 (1.80%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.20%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.38%) NIST
2 10 (5.99%) QA
3 5 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.20%) PSD2
5 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) COBIT
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) GRC
5 1 (0.60%) IFRS
5 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
System Software
1 22 (13.17%) Docker
2 11 (6.59%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.99%) ACF2
3 5 (2.99%) IAG
3 5 (2.99%) RACF
4 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (13.77%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.98%) Terraform
3 7 (4.19%) Argo
4 5 (2.99%) Grafana
4 5 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) Ansible
5 1 (0.60%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.60%) Kibana
5 1 (0.60%) Oozie
5 1 (0.60%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.60%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.58%) ServiceNow
3 13 (7.78%) BeyondTrust
3 13 (7.78%) CyberArk
4 12 (7.19%) LogRhythm
5 6 (3.59%) Google
6 5 (2.99%) Oracle
7 4 (2.40%) SAP
7 4 (2.40%) Sparx
8 3 (1.80%) Cisco
8 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.20%) EMC
9 2 (1.20%) Genesys
9 2 (1.20%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.20%) VMware
10 1 (0.60%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.60%) Databricks
10 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.60%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.60%) Workday