Architectural Design Contracts in the North of England

Architectural Design
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 129 195
Rank change year-on-year +5 +66 -13
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 42 56 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.27% 1.17% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.37% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 15
10th Percentile £448 £443 £509
25th Percentile £473 £450 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £663
90th Percentile £734 £747 £760
England median daily rate £614 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +2.29% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £55.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +59.29% -63.63%
England median hourly rate - £67.50 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -4.93% -19.32%

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 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the North of England

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the North of England

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the North of England

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 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
North West +3 28 £525 -0.94% 14
Yorkshire +7 11 £491 -26.05% 17
North East -2 2 £625 +51.43% 2
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) JBoss
2 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Maximo
2 1 (2.38%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) AWS
2 9 (21.43%) GitHub
3 6 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (11.90%) CloudBees
5 4 (9.52%) Azure
5 4 (9.52%) GCP
5 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (4.76%) Serverless
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.38%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) ATM
1 1 (2.38%) Firewall
1 1 (2.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.76%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.76%) Power BI
2 2 (4.76%) Power Query
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.38%) Flink
3 1 (2.38%) Metadata
3 1 (2.38%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Git
1 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.38%) Hudson
General
1 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Banking
3 7 (16.67%) Finance
4 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.52%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.38%) Aviation
7 1 (2.38%) Billing
7 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Legal
7 1 (2.38%) Military
7 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (78.57%) Architect
2 15 (35.71%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Payments Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Applications Architect
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Architect
6 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Head of Architecture
8 1 (2.38%) SAP Architect
8 1 (2.38%) SAP Technical Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Security Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Data Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Technical Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Kafka
2 4 (9.52%) Middleware
2 4 (9.52%) OAuth
2 4 (9.52%) OAuth2
2 4 (9.52%) OpenID
2 4 (9.52%) SAML
3 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.76%) CSS
3 2 (4.76%) CSS3
3 2 (4.76%) HTML
3 2 (4.76%) HTML5
3 2 (4.76%) REST
3 2 (4.76%) RESTful
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Beam
4 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.38%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.38%) Node.js
4 1 (2.38%) React
4 1 (2.38%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Blockchain
2 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.76%) IoT
2 2 (4.76%) NHS
2 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.76%) Private Cloud
2 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) Agile
2 11 (26.19%) DevOps
3 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 10 (23.81%) Roadmaps
4 9 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (19.05%) Architectural Patterns
5 8 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 7 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (16.67%) Migration
6 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 6 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
7 6 (14.29%) Data Security
7 6 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (14.29%) SDLC
8 5 (11.90%) Analytics
8 5 (11.90%) High Availability
8 5 (11.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.05%) Java
2 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (14.29%) Python
4 5 (11.90%) Kotlin
4 5 (11.90%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.76%) Groovy
6 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.38%) CISM
4 1 (2.38%) CISSP
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) ISO 20022
1 2 (4.76%) SEPA
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) GRC
2 1 (2.38%) NCSC
2 1 (2.38%) NIST
2 1 (2.38%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.90%) Terraform
3 3 (7.14%) Grafana
3 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) ServiceNow
2 3 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.76%) Databricks
3 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (2.38%) Adobe
4 1 (2.38%) Ariba
4 1 (2.38%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.38%) VMware