Architectural Design Contracts in the Midlands

Architectural Design
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 151 172
Rank change year-on-year +56 +21 -53
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 39 12 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.43% 0.35% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 0.40% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 9 18
10th Percentile £429 £453 £418
25th Percentile £489 £495 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £759 £663 £638
90th Percentile £775 £813 £688
England median daily rate £600 £605 £631
% change year-on-year -0.83% -4.12% +9.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.97 - -
Median hourly rate £71.93 - -
75th Percentile £72.90 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,250 3,018 4,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.30% 88.43% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,107 3,273
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £680 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 122 147
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.05 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.60 £15.13 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.43 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +5.33% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.69 £22.18
90th Percentile £55.00 £53.53 £34.70
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the Midlands

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the Midlands

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the Midlands

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the Midlands

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
West Midlands +36 22 £700 +16.67% 7
East Midlands +38 16 £490 -14.87% 7
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) AWS
2 5 (12.82%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) SaaS
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) OCI
4 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.77%) VPN
2 10 (25.64%) LAN
2 10 (25.64%) WAN
3 9 (23.08%) Firewall
3 9 (23.08%) MPLS
3 9 (23.08%) PBX
3 9 (23.08%) VoIP
3 9 (23.08%) WLAN
4 5 (12.82%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (12.82%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (12.82%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (12.82%) DHCP
4 5 (12.82%) DNS
4 5 (12.82%) Internet
4 5 (12.82%) SD-WAN
5 4 (10.26%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.82%) RDBMS
2 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
3 4 (10.26%) DB2
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.56%) Metadata
4 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
General
1 12 (30.77%) Finance
2 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Banking
3 9 (23.08%) Telecoms
4 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
6 4 (10.26%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (76.92%) Architect
2 11 (28.21%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (20.51%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Network Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Service Manager
5 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Commercial Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Payments Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
7 1 (2.56%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) Web Services
2 6 (15.38%) RAML
2 6 (15.38%) RESTful
3 5 (12.82%) OpenAPI
3 5 (12.82%) Swagger
4 4 (10.26%) .NET
4 4 (10.26%) React
5 1 (2.56%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.56%) gRPC
5 1 (2.56%) IDoc
5 1 (2.56%) JMS
5 1 (2.56%) Kafka
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.56%) SAP PI
5 1 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (10.26%) Mainframe
3 4 (10.26%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (7.69%) CMDB
4 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Android
1 4 (10.26%) Apple iOS
1 4 (10.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Mentoring
1 14 (35.90%) SOA
2 10 (25.64%) Programme Management
2 10 (25.64%) Project Delivery
2 10 (25.64%) TOGAF
3 9 (23.08%) Analytics
3 9 (23.08%) Data Analytics
3 9 (23.08%) Network Architecture
3 9 (23.08%) Performance Management
3 9 (23.08%) Storage Management
4 8 (20.51%) CRM
4 8 (20.51%) Open Source
5 7 (17.95%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (17.95%) ITIL
5 7 (17.95%) Roadmaps
5 7 (17.95%) Service Delivery
6 6 (15.38%) API Design
6 6 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (15.38%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) Java
2 5 (12.82%) C#
3 4 (10.26%) C
4 1 (2.56%) ABAP
4 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) CCIE
1 9 (23.08%) CCIE Data Center
1 9 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (15.38%) Degree
3 4 (10.26%) CCNP
3 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.26%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) ISO 22301
1 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
1 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Cisco
2 5 (12.82%) CheckPoint
2 5 (12.82%) Infoblox
2 5 (12.82%) Palo Alto
2 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
2 5 (12.82%) Symantec
2 5 (12.82%) Zscaler
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Informatica
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) VMware