Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Architectural Design
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 127 130
Rank change year-on-year -31 +3 +75
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 66 34 63
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.29% 1.02% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.15% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 15 38
10th Percentile £419 £477 £446
25th Percentile £455 £503 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.12% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £678 £656 £673
90th Percentile £750 £750 £740
England median daily rate £579 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -7.36% +4.17% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £72.75
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.75
75th Percentile £72.13 - £82.50
90th Percentile £73.41 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Architectural Design 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,464 2,955 4,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 87.46% 88.47% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,961 1,748 2,763
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £369 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 138 311
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £21.19 £18.03 £13.99
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.51% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £58.19 £45.76 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.23 £73.92 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the North of England

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the North of England

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 10 February 2026. 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
North West -4 49 £526 +0.24% 14
Yorkshire -43 16 £506 - 4
North East -13 1 £550 -11.95% 5
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 16 (24.24%) Confluence
2 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.52%) Apache
3 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (21.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.76%) Azure
2 12 (18.18%) AWS
3 9 (13.64%) GCP
4 4 (6.06%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.03%) Firebase
6 2 (3.03%) GitHub
6 2 (3.03%) IaaS
6 2 (3.03%) PaaS
6 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.52%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.52%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.52%) SaaS
7 1 (1.52%) Serverless
7 1 (1.52%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) DNS
1 3 (4.55%) Firewall
2 2 (3.03%) DHCP
2 2 (3.03%) Internet
2 2 (3.03%) Network Security
2 2 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.52%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.21%) Tableau
2 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.03%) MySQL
4 1 (1.52%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.52%) IDMS
4 1 (1.52%) Power BI
4 1 (1.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (22.73%) JIRA
2 3 (4.55%) Git
2 3 (4.55%) GitLab
3 2 (3.03%) JMeter
3 2 (3.03%) Postman
3 2 (3.03%) Selenium
4 1 (1.52%) CocoaPods
4 1 (1.52%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.52%) fastlane
4 1 (1.52%) Gradle
General
1 35 (53.03%) Banking
2 21 (31.82%) Finance
3 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.61%) Investment Banking
4 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.06%) Financial Institution
6 4 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Law
8 1 (1.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (75.76%) Architect
2 36 (54.55%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (21.21%) Payments Architect
3 14 (21.21%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 6 (9.09%) Business Architect
5 4 (6.06%) Senior
5 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.55%) SailPoint Architect
7 2 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 2 (3.03%) Developer
7 2 (3.03%) Lead
7 2 (3.03%) Platform Specialist
7 2 (3.03%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (1.52%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (1.52%) Power Apps Specialist
8 1 (1.52%) Power Platform Specialist
8 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow Architect
8 1 (1.52%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.61%) Middleware
2 4 (6.06%) SailPoint
2 4 (6.06%) Spring
2 4 (6.06%) Spring Boot
3 3 (4.55%) Kafka
3 3 (4.55%) React
3 3 (4.55%) REST
3 3 (4.55%) RESTful
4 2 (3.03%) .NET
4 2 (3.03%) OAuth
4 2 (3.03%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.03%) PySpark
4 2 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.03%) SOAP
5 1 (1.52%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (1.52%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.52%) Dagger
5 1 (1.52%) JWT
5 1 (1.52%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.52%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (30.30%) Product Ownership
2 9 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.03%) VMS
2 1 (1.52%) Android
2 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.82%) DevOps
2 20 (30.30%) Technical Architecture
3 19 (28.79%) Regulatory Compliance
4 18 (27.27%) Project Delivery
4 18 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (24.24%) Agile
5 16 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (21.21%) Records Management
6 14 (21.21%) Roadmaps
7 13 (19.70%) SDLC
8 12 (18.18%) CI/CD
9 10 (15.15%) Enterprise Architecture
9 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.64%) Microservices
11 8 (12.12%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 8 (12.12%) Identity Access Management
11 8 (12.12%) Waterfall
12 7 (10.61%) Business Strategy
12 7 (10.61%) Integration Patterns
12 7 (10.61%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.64%) Java
2 5 (7.58%) JavaScript
2 5 (7.58%) Python
3 4 (6.06%) SQL
3 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.03%) C#
4 2 (3.03%) Go
4 2 (3.03%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.52%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.52%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.52%) Bicep
5 1 (1.52%) Objective-C
5 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.52%) R
5 1 (1.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.58%) AWS Certification
2 5 (7.58%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.03%) CCSP
3 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.03%) CISSP
3 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.03%) Degree
3 2 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) GDPR
1 3 (4.55%) PSD2
2 2 (3.03%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.03%) NIST
2 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Temenos
3 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.03%) Databricks
4 2 (3.03%) Google
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle
4 2 (3.03%) PagerDuty
4 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) Adobe
5 1 (1.52%) F5
5 1 (1.52%) Foundry
5 1 (1.52%) IBM
5 1 (1.52%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.52%) NetScout
5 1 (1.52%) Pega
5 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.52%) SAP
5 1 (1.52%) SevOne
5 1 (1.52%) Snow
5 1 (1.52%) VMware