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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 130 129
Rank change year-on-year -26 -1 +54
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 86 43 51
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.25% 1.22% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.36% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 24 33
10th Percentile £400 £389 £444
25th Percentile £438 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -5.66% -9.79%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £738
90th Percentile £713 £699 -
England median daily rate £575 £581 £600
% change year-on-year -1.03% -3.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile £46.75 - £33.18
25th Percentile £62.50 - £40.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.75
75th Percentile - - £70.56
90th Percentile £100.98 - £77.73
England median hourly rate £69.50 - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - -15.07%

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 5,818 3,171 4,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.49% 89.83% 84.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,481 2,050 2,415
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £401 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £582
90th Percentile £675 £649 £666
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 421 175 378
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.63 £17.44 £12.55
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.08 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.46% +16.63% -14.00%
75th Percentile £71.50 £51.00 £46.11
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.25 £63.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -16 59 £481 -8.38% 14
Yorkshire -41 15 £507 +8.80% 5
North East -25 12 - - 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 6 (6.98%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.16%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.44%) Azure
2 13 (15.12%) AWS
3 5 (5.81%) IaaS
3 5 (5.81%) PaaS
3 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.81%) Serverless
4 4 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (4.65%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.65%) GCP
5 3 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (3.49%) GitHub
5 3 (3.49%) SaaS
6 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.16%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.16%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) DNS
2 4 (4.65%) VPN
3 2 (2.33%) Firewall
3 2 (2.33%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.16%) DHCP
4 1 (1.16%) Internet
4 1 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.98%) Tableau
2 3 (3.49%) Power BI
2 3 (3.49%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.33%) Db2
3 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.33%) MySQL
3 2 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.16%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.16%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.98%) JIRA
2 3 (3.49%) Git
3 2 (2.33%) GitLab
3 2 (2.33%) JMeter
3 2 (2.33%) Postman
3 2 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 38 (44.19%) Banking
2 24 (27.91%) Finance
3 15 (17.44%) Investment Banking
4 14 (16.28%) Social Skills
5 13 (15.12%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.98%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (4.65%) Military
8 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.33%) Aviation
9 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.33%) Retail
10 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 69 (80.23%) Architect
2 34 (39.53%) Solutions Architect
3 23 (26.74%) Payments Architect
4 22 (25.58%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 11 (12.79%) Lead
5 11 (12.79%) Software Architect
5 11 (12.79%) Technical Architect
6 9 (10.47%) Lead Architect
7 6 (6.98%) Senior
8 4 (4.65%) Business Architect
9 3 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (2.33%) Administrator
10 2 (2.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 2 (2.33%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.33%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.33%) Technical Specialist
10 2 (2.33%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.60%) Middleware
2 6 (6.98%) OAuth
2 6 (6.98%) REST
3 4 (4.65%) OpenID
4 3 (3.49%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.49%) Node.js
4 3 (3.49%) RESTful
5 2 (2.33%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.33%) Kafka
5 2 (2.33%) LDAP
5 2 (2.33%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.33%) React
5 2 (2.33%) SAML
5 2 (2.33%) Spring
5 2 (2.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.16%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.16%) Next.js
6 1 (1.16%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.09%) Product Ownership
2 15 (17.44%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.14%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.98%) Operational Technology
5 5 (5.81%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.81%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.49%) Blog
6 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.33%) NHS
8 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.16%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.16%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.16%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) MVS
1 2 (2.33%) zOS
2 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.70%) Agile
2 22 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (24.42%) Roadmaps
4 17 (19.77%) SDLC
4 17 (19.77%) Technical Architecture
5 16 (18.60%) DevOps
6 15 (17.44%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 15 (17.44%) Waterfall
7 14 (16.28%) CI/CD
7 14 (16.28%) Design Patterns
7 14 (16.28%) Scrum
7 14 (16.28%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (15.12%) Mentoring
8 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
9 12 (13.95%) DevSecOps
10 11 (12.79%) Strategic Thinking
11 10 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (11.63%) Integration Patterns
11 10 (11.63%) Software Testing
11 10 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.98%) JavaScript
1 6 (6.98%) TypeScript
2 5 (5.81%) Java
2 5 (5.81%) Python
3 4 (4.65%) Bicep
4 3 (3.49%) C#
5 2 (2.33%) Go
5 2 (2.33%) JCL
6 1 (1.16%) CLIST
6 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.16%) REXX
6 1 (1.16%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.65%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.33%) Degree
6 1 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.16%) CCSP
6 1 (1.16%) CEH
6 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.16%) CISM
6 1 (1.16%) CISSP
6 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) NIST
2 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.33%) QA
3 1 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.16%) COBIT
3 1 (1.16%) GDPR
3 1 (1.16%) IFRS
3 1 (1.16%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) ACF2
1 2 (2.33%) Docker
1 2 (2.33%) RACF
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.81%) Kubernetes
1 5 (5.81%) Terraform
2 3 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.33%) Grafana
3 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.33%) Broadcom
3 2 (2.33%) IBM
3 2 (2.33%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.16%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.16%) Databricks
4 1 (1.16%) SAP
4 1 (1.16%) Temenos