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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 124 154
Rank change year-on-year -31 +30 +32
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 40 40 36
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.93% 1.00% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.18% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 24 24
10th Percentile £406 £444 £429
25th Percentile £500 £445 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £465 £540
Median % change year-on-year +39.78% -13.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £731 £642 £641
90th Percentile £760 £719 £675
England median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.25
25th Percentile - - £73.75
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £80.63
90th Percentile - - £81.75
England median hourly rate £69.63 £62.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +12.30% -17.33% +68.33%

All Process and 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 3,826 3,380 4,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.96% 84.48% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,519 1,830 2,976
10th Percentile £250 £294 £281
25th Percentile £368 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £560 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £683
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 173 207
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.54 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.88 £18.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% +23.67% +33.18%
75th Percentile £44.09 £51.88 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.06 £70.00 £62.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%

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 25 October 2025.

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 25 October 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
North West -34 25 £670 +44.09% 17
Yorkshire - 13 £569 - 6
North East -6 2 £550 -
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 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.50%) Confluence
3 2 (5.00%) Apache
3 2 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) Azure
2 13 (32.50%) AWS
3 11 (27.50%) GCP
4 5 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (12.50%) GitHub
4 5 (12.50%) SaaS
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (10.00%) Apigee
5 4 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (10.00%) Datadog
5 4 (10.00%) Loggly
5 4 (10.00%) PaaS
5 4 (10.00%) Route 53
5 4 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) BigQuery
1 6 (15.00%) MySQL
1 6 (15.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (15.00%) RDBMS
1 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (12.50%) Redis
3 4 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.00%) Bigtable
4 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.00%) Tableau
5 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (2.50%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.50%) IDMS
5 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Git
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.50%) JIRA
3 4 (10.00%) Gradle
3 4 (10.00%) Maven
3 4 (10.00%) SonarLint
3 4 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
General
1 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (32.50%) Banking
3 9 (22.50%) Finance
4 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (77.50%) Architect
2 19 (47.50%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Business Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Developer
3 4 (10.00%) Java Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Java Technical Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Lead
3 4 (10.00%) Technical Architect
4 3 (7.50%) SailPoint Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.00%) GCP Architect
5 2 (5.00%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Payments Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (2.50%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Developer
6 1 (2.50%) Lead Architect
6 1 (2.50%) SAP Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) RESTful
2 5 (12.50%) JWT
3 4 (10.00%) Dropwizard
3 4 (10.00%) J2EE
3 4 (10.00%) Micronaut
3 4 (10.00%) SailPoint
3 4 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (7.50%) .NET
4 3 (7.50%) Celery
4 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (7.50%) React Native
5 2 (5.00%) GraphQL
5 2 (5.00%) Kafka
5 2 (5.00%) REST
5 2 (5.00%) SOAP
6 1 (2.50%) Bootstrap
6 1 (2.50%) Laravel
6 1 (2.50%) Node.js
6 1 (2.50%) OAuth
6 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 4 (10.00%) N-Tier
4 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Agile
2 14 (35.00%) Technical Leadership
3 11 (27.50%) CI/CD
3 11 (27.50%) DevOps
3 11 (27.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (27.50%) TOGAF
4 10 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 10 (25.00%) Microservices
4 10 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 8 (20.00%) Information Architecture
5 8 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (17.50%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (17.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (17.50%) Event-Driven
6 7 (17.50%) IT Strategy
6 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.50%) SDLC
7 6 (15.00%) Domain-Driven Design
7 6 (15.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 6 (15.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) Java
3 4 (10.00%) SQL
3 4 (10.00%) Swift
4 3 (7.50%) Kotlin
4 3 (7.50%) Objective-C
5 2 (5.00%) ANSI SQL
5 2 (5.00%) Scala
5 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.50%) C#
6 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) PHP
6 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.50%) CCSP
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.50%) CISSP
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) GDPR
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
1 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.50%) PSD2
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Gigya
2 3 (7.50%) Temenos
3 2 (5.00%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.50%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) Foundry
4 1 (2.50%) SAP