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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 124 131
Rank change year-on-year -20 +7 +48
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 90 46 54
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.33% 1.34% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.49% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 26 32
10th Percentile £406 £389 £445
25th Percentile £438 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% -5.09% -8.09%
75th Percentile £556 £608 £738
90th Percentile £710 £681 -
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile - - £33.18
25th Percentile £62.50 - £40.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.75
75th Percentile - - £70.56
90th Percentile £104.37 - £77.73
England median hourly rate £69.75 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.72%

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 5,712 3,084 4,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.19% 89.78% 83.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 1,991 2,411
10th Percentile £313 £276 £300
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -6.20% -
75th Percentile £583 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £669
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 158 397
10th Percentile £16.18 £12.82 £11.10
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.93 £12.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% +19.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £71.50 £51.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.90 £76.63 £63.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
% change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -3 62 £455 -13.33% 11
Yorkshire -53 16 £514 +10.30% 2
North East -23 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 9 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.56%) AWS
1 14 (15.56%) Azure
2 5 (5.56%) GCP
2 5 (5.56%) Serverless
3 4 (4.44%) IaaS
3 4 (4.44%) PaaS
3 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.33%) SaaS
5 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.11%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) DNS
2 3 (3.33%) VPN
3 2 (2.22%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.11%) DHCP
4 1 (1.11%) Firewall
4 1 (1.11%) Internet
4 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) Tableau
2 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.22%) Db2
3 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.22%) MySQL
3 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.22%) Power BI
4 1 (1.11%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (10.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.33%) Git
3 2 (2.22%) GitLab
3 2 (2.22%) JMeter
3 2 (2.22%) Postman
3 2 (2.22%) Selenium
General
1 44 (48.89%) Banking
2 26 (28.89%) Finance
3 17 (18.89%) Investment Banking
4 13 (14.44%) Public Sector
4 13 (14.44%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (4.44%) Military
7 3 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Aviation
8 2 (2.22%) Retail
9 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 74 (82.22%) Architect
2 41 (45.56%) Solutions Architect
3 28 (31.11%) Payments Architect
4 27 (30.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 11 (12.22%) Lead
5 11 (12.22%) Software Architect
6 9 (10.00%) Lead Architect
6 9 (10.00%) Technical Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Senior
8 4 (4.44%) Business Architect
9 3 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Cloud Architect
10 2 (2.22%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 2 (2.22%) Developer
10 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 2 (2.22%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.11%) Middleware
2 6 (6.67%) OAuth
3 5 (5.56%) REST
4 4 (4.44%) OpenID
5 3 (3.33%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.33%) Node.js
5 3 (3.33%) React
5 3 (3.33%) RESTful
6 2 (2.22%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.22%) Kafka
6 2 (2.22%) LDAP
6 2 (2.22%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.22%) SAML
6 2 (2.22%) Spring
6 2 (2.22%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.11%) .NET
7 1 (1.11%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.11%) EDI
7 1 (1.11%) EDIFACT
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.44%) Product Ownership
2 17 (18.89%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.67%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.22%) Blog
7 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.11%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.11%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.11%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.11%) NHS
8 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) MVS
1 2 (2.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.11%) Agile
2 24 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (24.44%) Roadmaps
4 20 (22.22%) SDLC
5 19 (21.11%) Technical Architecture
6 18 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 18 (20.00%) DevOps
6 18 (20.00%) Waterfall
7 13 (14.44%) CI/CD
7 13 (14.44%) Design Patterns
7 13 (14.44%) Mentoring
7 13 (14.44%) Scrum
7 13 (14.44%) Software Engineering
7 13 (14.44%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (13.33%) DevSecOps
8 12 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
8 12 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (12.22%) Strategic Thinking
10 10 (11.11%) Project Delivery
10 10 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.89%) JavaScript
2 7 (7.78%) TypeScript
3 6 (6.67%) Java
4 5 (5.56%) Python
5 3 (3.33%) Bicep
5 3 (3.33%) C#
6 2 (2.22%) Go
6 2 (2.22%) JCL
7 1 (1.11%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.11%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.11%) CLIST
7 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.11%) REXX
7 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.22%) Degree
7 1 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.11%) CCSP
7 1 (1.11%) CEH
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.11%) CISM
7 1 (1.11%) CISSP
7 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.11%) OSCP
7 1 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) NIST
2 2 (2.22%) GDPR
2 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.11%) COBIT
3 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.11%) IFRS
3 1 (1.11%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.11%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.11%) PSD2
3 1 (1.11%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) ACF2
2 2 (2.22%) RACF
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.44%) Terraform
3 2 (2.22%) Grafana
3 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.33%) IBM
2 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.22%) Broadcom
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle
3 2 (2.22%) PagerDuty
3 2 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (1.11%) Adobe
4 1 (1.11%) Databricks
4 1 (1.11%) Snow
4 1 (1.11%) Temenos