Architectural Patterns Contracts in London

Architectural Patterns
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 230 267
Rank change year-on-year -25 +37 -7
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 95 170 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.76% 0.96% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.09% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 120 145
10th Percentile £395 £448 £331
25th Percentile £460 £518 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £620
Median % change year-on-year - +4.84% -4.62%
75th Percentile £748 £780 £733
90th Percentile £788 £853 £825
England median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £68.70
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £61.43 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -18.09% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £81.94
England median hourly rate £91.69 £71.22 £75.00
% change year-on-year +28.75% -5.05% +57.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,579 15,607 22,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.34% 88.25% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,762 11,133 16,499
10th Percentile £338 £340 £375
25th Percentile £425 £448 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 312 260
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.89 £29.25 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% -26.72% +9.63%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £64.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £26.45 £38.12 £35.02
% change year-on-year -30.61% +8.87% +36.35%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in London

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in London

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in London

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Patterns in London

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Central London +1 10 £650 - 87
West London +13 1 £665 +101.52% 14
East London +12 1 £585 +1.74% 22
Architectural Patterns
England

Architectural Patterns
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 15 (15.79%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.05%) Camunda
3 1 (1.05%) JBoss
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (44.21%) AWS
2 30 (31.58%) Azure
3 18 (18.95%) GCP
4 13 (13.68%) GitHub
5 8 (8.42%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (8.42%) Serverless
6 7 (7.37%) Amazon S3
6 7 (7.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (6.32%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.11%) IaaS
10 2 (2.11%) PaaS
10 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.11%) SaaS
10 2 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) Firewall
1 3 (3.16%) HTTP
1 3 (3.16%) LAN
1 3 (3.16%) WAN
2 1 (1.05%) DNS
2 1 (1.05%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.05%) IPsec
2 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.05%) Network Security
2 1 (1.05%) RTSP
2 1 (1.05%) SMS
2 1 (1.05%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.37%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.32%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.32%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.21%) MySQL
5 4 (4.21%) RDBMS
5 4 (4.21%) Redis
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.16%) Big Data
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.05%) Flink
7 1 (1.05%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.05%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (14.74%) JIRA
2 9 (9.47%) Git
2 9 (9.47%) Gradle
3 8 (8.42%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.32%) Mockito
5 5 (5.26%) JUnit
6 4 (4.21%) Maven
7 3 (3.16%) Eclipse
7 3 (3.16%) git-flow
7 3 (3.16%) IntelliJ
7 3 (3.16%) TestNG
8 2 (2.11%) GitLab
9 1 (1.05%) Android Studio
9 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.05%) EasyMock
9 1 (1.05%) JBehave
9 1 (1.05%) MLflow
9 1 (1.05%) VisualVM
9 1 (1.05%) YourKit
General
1 36 (37.89%) Social Skills
2 30 (31.58%) Finance
3 17 (17.89%) Banking
4 13 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.47%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Front Office
7 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Retail
8 2 (2.11%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.11%) Marketing
8 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (45.26%) Architect
2 31 (32.63%) Developer
3 15 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
4 14 (14.74%) Senior
5 9 (9.47%) Android Developer
5 9 (9.47%) Technical Architect
6 8 (8.42%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (6.32%) Android Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Azure Architect
7 6 (6.32%) Lead
8 5 (5.26%) AWS Architect
8 5 (5.26%) Energy Trading Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Salesforce Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Consultant
9 4 (4.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.21%) React Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.95%) REST
2 17 (17.89%) React
3 13 (13.68%) RESTful
4 12 (12.63%) .NET
5 10 (10.53%) Spring
6 9 (9.47%) AngularJS
6 9 (9.47%) Kafka
7 8 (8.42%) Spring Boot
8 7 (7.37%) Android SDK
8 7 (7.37%) Node.js
9 6 (6.32%) CSS
9 6 (6.32%) HTML
9 6 (6.32%) RxJava
10 5 (5.26%) AWS CDK
10 5 (5.26%) GraphQL
10 5 (5.26%) Hibernate
11 4 (4.21%) Middleware
11 4 (4.21%) OAuth
11 4 (4.21%) Redux
11 4 (4.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.32%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.21%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.21%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.11%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.05%) Derivative
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) NHS
7 1 (1.05%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.79%) Android
2 6 (6.32%) Linux
3 4 (4.21%) Windows
4 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.89%) Agile
2 27 (28.42%) Design Patterns
3 21 (22.11%) CI/CD
4 18 (18.95%) Microservices
5 17 (17.89%) Event-Driven
5 17 (17.89%) Mentoring
5 17 (17.89%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (16.84%) Software Architecture
7 15 (15.79%) Architectural Design
7 15 (15.79%) DevOps
7 15 (15.79%) MVVM
8 13 (13.68%) Cloud Security
9 12 (12.63%) Containerisation
9 12 (12.63%) Machine Learning
9 12 (12.63%) Migration
10 11 (11.58%) Enterprise Architecture
10 11 (11.58%) Roadmaps
10 11 (11.58%) SDLC
11 10 (10.53%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.63%) Java
2 21 (22.11%) Python
3 16 (16.84%) Kotlin
3 16 (16.84%) TypeScript
4 13 (13.68%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.53%) SQL
6 5 (5.26%) C#
7 4 (4.21%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.05%) ABAP
9 1 (1.05%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.05%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.05%) Bicep
9 1 (1.05%) C++
9 1 (1.05%) Rust
9 1 (1.05%) Scala
9 1 (1.05%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (6.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.21%) Degree
2 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.16%) CISSP
3 3 (3.16%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.11%) CASP
4 2 (2.11%) CCSP
4 2 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.11%) CREST Certified
4 2 (2.11%) CSSLP
4 2 (2.11%) GIAC
5 1 (1.05%) CAPM
5 1 (1.05%) CISM
5 1 (1.05%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.05%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) QA
2 5 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.16%) NIST
4 2 (2.11%) GDPR
4 2 (2.11%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (2.11%) NCSC
5 1 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.05%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (13.68%) Docker
2 3 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.05%) RACF
4 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (8.42%) Kubernetes
1 8 (8.42%) Terraform
2 4 (4.21%) Grafana
3 3 (3.16%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.11%) SELinux
5 1 (1.05%) Ansible
5 1 (1.05%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.05%) Packer
5 1 (1.05%) SCOM
5 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.05%) vRealize
5 1 (1.05%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.53%) Google
3 9 (9.47%) ServiceNow
4 7 (7.37%) Salesforce
5 6 (6.32%) Databricks
6 4 (4.21%) DocuSign
7 2 (2.11%) SAP
7 2 (2.11%) Splunk
8 1 (1.05%) Adobe
8 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.05%) Cisco
8 1 (1.05%) EMC
8 1 (1.05%) F5
8 1 (1.05%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.05%) IBM
8 1 (1.05%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.05%) Oracle
8 1 (1.05%) ScienceLogic
8 1 (1.05%) VMware