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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 127 130
Rank change year-on-year -22 +3 +61
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 85 40 55
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.40% 1.22% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.35% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 23 28
10th Percentile £413 £448 £443
25th Percentile £450 £471 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £569 £638 £738
90th Percentile £722 £735 £750
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £33.18
25th Percentile £70.00 - £40.56
Median hourly rate £88.72 - £55.75
75th Percentile £111.15 - £70.56
90th Percentile - - £77.73
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.93%

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 5,150 2,957 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.87% 90.15% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,278 1,908 2,536
10th Percentile £300 £263 £285
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £565 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 154 355
10th Percentile £16.24 £14.80 £11.00
25th Percentile £24.75 £18.60 £12.45
Median hourly rate £49.00 £28.75 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +70.43% +62.25% -35.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.76 £44.07
90th Percentile £78.88 £82.56 £53.36
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -1 63 £481 -8.38% 9
Yorkshire -42 20 £514 +4.60% 1
North East -15 2 - - 3
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 14 (16.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.47%) AWS
2 13 (15.29%) Azure
3 7 (8.24%) GCP
4 4 (4.71%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.71%) OpenShift
4 4 (4.71%) Serverless
5 3 (3.53%) IaaS
5 3 (3.53%) PaaS
5 3 (3.53%) SaaS
6 2 (2.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.35%) Firebase
6 2 (2.35%) GitHub
6 2 (2.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.18%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) DNS
2 2 (2.35%) DHCP
2 2 (2.35%) Firewall
2 2 (2.35%) Internet
2 2 (2.35%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.35%) VPN
2 2 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.18%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.29%) Tableau
2 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.35%) DB2
3 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.35%) MySQL
3 2 (2.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.18%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.18%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (15.29%) JIRA
2 3 (3.53%) Git
2 3 (3.53%) GitLab
3 2 (2.35%) JMeter
3 2 (2.35%) Postman
3 2 (2.35%) Selenium
4 1 (1.18%) CocoaPods
4 1 (1.18%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.18%) fastlane
4 1 (1.18%) Gradle
General
1 45 (52.94%) Banking
2 30 (35.29%) Finance
3 15 (17.65%) Investment Banking
3 15 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 11 (12.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.71%) Military
7 3 (3.53%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Law
9 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (77.65%) Architect
2 41 (48.24%) Solutions Architect
3 27 (31.76%) Payments Architect
4 26 (30.59%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 11 (12.94%) Lead
6 9 (10.59%) Lead Architect
7 7 (8.24%) Technical Architect
8 6 (7.06%) Senior
9 4 (4.71%) Business Architect
9 4 (4.71%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.53%) Security Architect
11 2 (2.35%) DB2 Specialist
11 2 (2.35%) Developer
11 2 (2.35%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.35%) Network Architect
11 2 (2.35%) Senior Architect
11 2 (2.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (2.35%) Technical Leader
11 2 (2.35%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.00%) Middleware
2 5 (5.88%) OAuth
3 4 (4.71%) REST
3 4 (4.71%) Spring
3 4 (4.71%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.53%) Kafka
4 3 (3.53%) OpenID
4 3 (3.53%) React
4 3 (3.53%) RESTful
5 2 (2.35%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.35%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.35%) LDAP
5 2 (2.35%) Node.js
5 2 (2.35%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.35%) SAML
6 1 (1.18%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (1.18%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.18%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (1.18%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 15 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.06%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (5.88%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.35%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.18%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.35%) MVS
1 2 (2.35%) VMS
1 2 (2.35%) zOS
2 1 (1.18%) Android
2 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.41%) Agile
1 25 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
2 24 (28.24%) Roadmaps
3 23 (27.06%) Technical Architecture
4 21 (24.71%) DevOps
5 20 (23.53%) SDLC
6 16 (18.82%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 16 (18.82%) Regulatory Compliance
6 16 (18.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (18.82%) Waterfall
7 15 (17.65%) Design Patterns
7 15 (17.65%) Project Delivery
8 13 (15.29%) CI/CD
8 13 (15.29%) Records Management
8 13 (15.29%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
9 10 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (10.59%) Integration Patterns
10 9 (10.59%) Microservices
10 9 (10.59%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.59%) Java
2 7 (8.24%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.06%) TypeScript
4 4 (4.71%) Python
5 2 (2.35%) Bicep
5 2 (2.35%) Go
5 2 (2.35%) JCL
5 2 (2.35%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.35%) SQL
6 1 (1.18%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.18%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (1.18%) C#
6 1 (1.18%) CLIST
6 1 (1.18%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.18%) R
6 1 (1.18%) REXX
6 1 (1.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.71%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.35%) CCSP
5 2 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.35%) CISSP
5 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.35%) Degree
6 1 (1.18%) CEH
6 1 (1.18%) CISM
6 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.18%) OSCP
6 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) NIST
2 3 (3.53%) GDPR
2 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.35%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.35%) PSD2
4 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.18%) COBIT
4 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (5.88%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) ACF2
2 2 (2.35%) RACF
3 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.71%) Grafana
3 3 (3.53%) Terraform
4 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.53%) IBM
2 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.35%) Broadcom
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle
3 2 (2.35%) PagerDuty
3 2 (2.35%) SAP
4 1 (1.18%) Adobe
4 1 (1.18%) Databricks
4 1 (1.18%) F5
4 1 (1.18%) Google
4 1 (1.18%) Infoblox
4 1 (1.18%) NetScout
4 1 (1.18%) Pega
4 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.18%) SevOne
4 1 (1.18%) Snow
4 1 (1.18%) Temenos
4 1 (1.18%) VMware