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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 127 127
Rank change year-on-year -26 0 +83
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 59 31 58
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.21% 0.93% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.06% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 13 32
10th Percentile £435 £480 £426
25th Percentile £455 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £624 £540
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% +15.61% -13.94%
75th Percentile £683 £656 £670
90th Percentile £750 £775 £728
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -0.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £72.75
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.75
75th Percentile £72.13 - £82.50
90th Percentile £73.41 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +5.45%

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 4,288 2,937 4,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.09% 87.93% 87.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,862 1,684 2,726
10th Percentile £250 £263 £286
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £642 £665 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 135 250
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.16 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.39 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.72% -8.72% +34.83%
75th Percentile £56.69 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £71.41 £61.33
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 20 January 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
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 20 January 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 -4 44 £534 +1.71% 9
Yorkshire -39 14 £506 - 4
North East -13 1 £550 -11.95% 2
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 16 (27.12%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) Apache
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (23.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.42%) Azure
2 13 (22.03%) AWS
3 11 (18.64%) GCP
4 5 (8.47%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (8.47%) PaaS
4 5 (8.47%) SaaS
4 5 (8.47%) Serverless
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon EventBridge
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (6.78%) Apigee
5 4 (6.78%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.78%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (6.78%) Datadog
5 4 (6.78%) Loggly
5 4 (6.78%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
1 2 (3.39%) Network Security
2 1 (1.69%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.69%) DHCP
2 1 (1.69%) DNS
2 1 (1.69%) Internet
2 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.73%) Tableau
2 5 (8.47%) MySQL
2 5 (8.47%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.78%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.78%) BigQuery
3 4 (6.78%) DynamoDB
3 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.78%) RDBMS
3 4 (6.78%) Redis
3 4 (6.78%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.69%) Big Data
4 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.69%) IDMS
4 1 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (25.42%) JIRA
2 5 (8.47%) Git
2 5 (8.47%) Gradle
3 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.78%) Maven
3 4 (6.78%) SonarLint
3 4 (6.78%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.69%) CocoaPods
4 1 (1.69%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.69%) fastlane
4 1 (1.69%) GitLab
General
1 31 (52.54%) Banking
2 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
3 18 (30.51%) Finance
4 8 (13.56%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.47%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (5.08%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 47 (79.66%) Architect
2 32 (54.24%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (20.34%) Payments Architect
3 12 (20.34%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.47%) Technical Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Business Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Java Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Java Technical Architect
6 3 (5.08%) Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.08%) SailPoint Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.69%) Automation Specialist
8 1 (1.69%) Data Engineer
8 1 (1.69%) Identity Management Architect
8 1 (1.69%) iOS Software Engineer
8 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Architect
8 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) Spring Boot
2 5 (8.47%) JWT
2 5 (8.47%) Middleware
2 5 (8.47%) RESTful
3 4 (6.78%) Dropwizard
3 4 (6.78%) J2EE
3 4 (6.78%) Micronaut
3 4 (6.78%) SailPoint
4 3 (5.08%) Celery
4 3 (5.08%) REST
5 2 (3.39%) .NET
5 2 (3.39%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.39%) OAuth
5 2 (3.39%) OAuth2
5 2 (3.39%) SOAP
5 2 (3.39%) Spring
6 1 (1.69%) EDI
6 1 (1.69%) EDIFACT
6 1 (1.69%) OpenID
6 1 (1.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (38.98%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.86%) Management Information System
3 6 (10.17%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.78%) N-Tier
5 2 (3.39%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.39%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) VMS
2 1 (1.69%) Android
2 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (33.90%) DevOps
3 18 (30.51%) Project Delivery
3 18 (30.51%) Regulatory Compliance
3 18 (30.51%) Technical Architecture
4 16 (27.12%) Agile
5 14 (23.73%) Records Management
5 14 (23.73%) Roadmaps
5 14 (23.73%) SDLC
6 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
6 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (18.64%) Microservices
7 11 (18.64%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (16.95%) TOGAF
8 10 (16.95%) Waterfall
9 9 (15.25%) AI
9 9 (15.25%) Design Patterns
10 8 (13.56%) Containerisation
10 8 (13.56%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.64%) Java
2 9 (15.25%) Python
3 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.08%) SQL
4 2 (3.39%) C#
4 2 (3.39%) Kotlin
4 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.69%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.69%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.69%) Objective-C
5 1 (1.69%) R
5 1 (1.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) AWS Certification
2 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.39%) CCSP
3 2 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.39%) CISSP
3 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.39%) Degree
3 2 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) GDPR
1 3 (5.08%) PSD2
2 2 (3.39%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.39%) NIST
2 2 (3.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (16.95%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (18.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.78%) Terraform
3 2 (3.39%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) Gigya
3 3 (5.08%) Temenos
4 2 (3.39%) Google
4 2 (3.39%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Adobe
5 1 (1.69%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) F5
5 1 (1.69%) Foundry
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.69%) NetScout
5 1 (1.69%) Pega
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) SevOne
5 1 (1.69%) VMware