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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 130 123
Rank change year-on-year -36 -7 +57
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 88 44 42
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.19% 1.11% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.25% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 26 31
10th Percentile £400 £389 £425
25th Percentile £468 £421 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +7.53% -27.06%
75th Percentile £638 £633 £706
90th Percentile £692 £700 £738
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 1
10th Percentile £40.00 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - £28.25
Median hourly rate £69.75 - £31.50
75th Percentile £70.00 - £34.75
90th Percentile £94.20 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 - £42.75
% change year-on-year - - -43.00%

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 6,172 3,522 3,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.54% 88.96% 84.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,642 2,246 2,091
10th Percentile £313 £268 £310
25th Percentile £402 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.20% -
75th Percentile £588 £556 £588
90th Percentile £675 £649 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 205 244
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.48 £14.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £25.30
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -10.55% -13.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.78 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.75 £69.93
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 8 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architectural Design in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Architectural Design in the North of England

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 8 August 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 -21 52 £538 -6.52% 28
Yorkshire -32 23 £514 +7.53% 12
North East -31 13 £650 - 6
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 4 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.05%) AWS
2 11 (12.50%) Azure
3 8 (9.09%) Serverless
4 4 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (4.55%) GitHub
4 4 (4.55%) IaaS
4 4 (4.55%) PaaS
4 4 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.27%) GCP
6 2 (2.27%) SaaS
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.14%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.14%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.14%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) VPN
2 4 (4.55%) DNS
3 2 (2.27%) Firewall
4 1 (1.14%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) Db2
1 3 (3.41%) Power BI
1 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.14%) Data Hub
2 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.14%) Spark SQL
2 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) JIRA
2 3 (3.41%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.14%) Git
3 1 (1.14%) GitLab
General
1 28 (31.82%) Banking
2 23 (26.14%) Finance
3 22 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 16 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 11 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.68%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.41%) Military
9 2 (2.27%) Aviation
9 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Retail
10 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.14%) Law
10 1 (1.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 61 (69.32%) Architect
2 24 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 18 (20.45%) Lead
4 17 (19.32%) Payments Architect
5 16 (18.18%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 12 (13.64%) Technical Architect
7 11 (12.50%) Software Architect
8 9 (10.23%) Lead Architect
9 8 (9.09%) Developer
10 5 (5.68%) Senior
11 4 (4.55%) Python Developer
11 4 (4.55%) Technologist
12 3 (3.41%) Business Architect
12 3 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
12 3 (3.41%) DB2 Specialist
12 3 (3.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow Developer
12 3 (3.41%) Technical Specialist
13 2 (2.27%) Security Architect
13 2 (2.27%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.64%) Middleware
2 8 (9.09%) REST
3 7 (7.95%) HTML
4 6 (6.82%) OAuth
5 4 (4.55%) CSS
5 4 (4.55%) Flask
5 4 (4.55%) OpenID
5 4 (4.55%) Vue
6 3 (3.41%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.41%) Kafka
6 3 (3.41%) Node.js
7 2 (2.27%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.27%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.14%) LDAP
8 1 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (1.14%) PySpark
8 1 (1.14%) RESTful
8 1 (1.14%) SAML
8 1 (1.14%) Spring
8 1 (1.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.91%) Product Ownership
2 11 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 8 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.82%) Operational Technology
5 5 (5.68%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.68%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.68%) Private Cloud
6 4 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.55%) NHS
7 3 (3.41%) Blog
7 3 (3.41%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.14%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.14%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.14%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.27%) MVS
1 2 (2.27%) zOS
2 1 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.18%) Agile
2 20 (22.73%) Roadmaps
2 20 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
3 18 (20.45%) CI/CD
3 18 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (15.91%) Design Patterns
4 14 (15.91%) SDLC
5 13 (14.77%) DevOps
5 13 (14.77%) Mentoring
5 13 (14.77%) Scrum
5 13 (14.77%) Software Engineering
6 12 (13.64%) Technical Architecture
7 11 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 11 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
7 11 (12.50%) Waterfall
8 10 (11.36%) DevSecOps
8 10 (11.36%) Integration Patterns
8 10 (11.36%) Software Testing
8 10 (11.36%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 9 (10.23%) Python
3 8 (9.09%) Java
3 8 (9.09%) SQL
4 4 (4.55%) Bicep
4 4 (4.55%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.41%) C#
5 3 (3.41%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.27%) JCL
7 1 (1.14%) CLIST
7 1 (1.14%) REXX
Qualifications
1 16 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.27%) Degree
6 1 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) CCSP
6 1 (1.14%) CEH
6 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.14%) CISM
6 1 (1.14%) CISSP
6 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) QA
2 3 (3.41%) NIST
3 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.14%) COBIT
4 1 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) IFRS
4 1 (1.14%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.14%) SLA
4 1 (1.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Docker
2 3 (3.41%) ACF2
2 3 (3.41%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (10.23%) Terraform
2 6 (6.82%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.55%) CyberArk
3 3 (3.41%) IBM
3 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.27%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.14%) Cisco
5 1 (1.14%) Databricks
5 1 (1.14%) McAfee
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle
5 1 (1.14%) SAP
5 1 (1.14%) Temenos