Architectural Patterns Contracts in the Midlands

Architectural Patterns
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 115 139
Rank change year-on-year +8 +24 +32
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 11 20 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.55% 0.74% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.90% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 13
10th Percentile £480 £445 £455
25th Percentile £600 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% +2.08% +23.08%
75th Percentile - £734 £738
90th Percentile £668 £750 £798
England median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,768 2,216 2,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.00% 82.20% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 1,487 2,017
10th Percentile £200 £234 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 169 104
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £11.86
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.52
Median hourly rate £18.51 £18.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -13.06% +18.31%
75th Percentile £24.75 £33.25 £30.50
90th Percentile £42.78 £55.00 £54.63
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the Midlands

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
West Midlands +5 11 £620 -11.43% 12
Architectural Patterns
England

Architectural Patterns
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Collibra
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) GIS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (18.18%) Delta Lake
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
2 2 (18.18%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) DataStage
3 1 (9.09%) DB2
3 1 (9.09%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Plastic SCM
General
1 3 (27.27%) Games
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Games Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
4 2 (18.18%) GIS Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 2 (18.18%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Axis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) IoT
1 2 (18.18%) SCADA
2 1 (9.09%) CCTV
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
1 5 (45.45%) Data Governance
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Data Management
2 4 (36.36%) Design Patterns
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) ETL
3 3 (27.27%) Project Planning
3 3 (27.27%) Software Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
3 3 (27.27%) User Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Batch Processing
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
4 2 (18.18%) Observability
4 2 (18.18%) RBAC
4 2 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Bicep
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 2 (18.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
1 2 (18.18%) ESRI
1 2 (18.18%) Informatica
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Autodesk
2 1 (9.09%) IBM