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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 127 127
Rank change year-on-year -25 0 +81
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 67 34 60
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.32% 1.02% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.16% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 15 35
10th Percentile £438 £477 £443
25th Percentile £455 £503 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £678 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £742
England median daily rate £582 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -6.88% +4.17% -1.64%
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% +2.84%

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 4,427 2,938 4,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 87.52% 88.36% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,952 1,712 2,815
10th Percentile £241 £263 £275
25th Percentile £366 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 140 302
10th Percentile £15.33 £15.00 £11.77
25th Percentile £20.82 £17.25 £13.99
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.51% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.68 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -8 50 £534 +1.71% 17
Yorkshire -37 16 £506 - 7
North East -15 1 £550 -11.95% 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 16 (23.88%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) Apache
2 2 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (20.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (20.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.87%) Azure
2 15 (22.39%) AWS
3 13 (19.40%) GCP
4 6 (8.96%) GitHub
5 5 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (7.46%) PaaS
5 5 (7.46%) SaaS
5 5 (7.46%) Serverless
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (5.97%) Apigee
6 4 (5.97%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.97%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (5.97%) Datadog
6 4 (5.97%) Loggly
6 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
6 4 (5.97%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) Firewall
2 2 (2.99%) DHCP
2 2 (2.99%) DNS
2 2 (2.99%) Internet
2 2 (2.99%) Network Security
2 2 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.49%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.49%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) Tableau
2 7 (10.45%) MySQL
2 7 (10.45%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.97%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.97%) BigQuery
3 4 (5.97%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.97%) RDBMS
3 4 (5.97%) Redis
3 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.49%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.49%) Big Data
5 1 (1.49%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.49%) IDMS
5 1 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (22.39%) JIRA
2 7 (10.45%) Git
3 5 (7.46%) Gradle
4 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.97%) Maven
4 4 (5.97%) SonarLint
4 4 (5.97%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.48%) GitLab
6 2 (2.99%) JMeter
6 2 (2.99%) Postman
6 2 (2.99%) Selenium
7 1 (1.49%) CocoaPods
7 1 (1.49%) Crashlytics
7 1 (1.49%) fastlane
General
1 34 (50.75%) Banking
2 22 (32.84%) Finance
3 19 (28.36%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.43%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.45%) Investment Banking
6 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.97%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.97%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 52 (77.61%) Architect
2 35 (52.24%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (20.90%) Payments Architect
3 14 (20.90%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 5 (7.46%) Business Architect
4 5 (7.46%) Technical Architect
5 4 (5.97%) Java Architect
5 4 (5.97%) Java Technical Architect
5 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.48%) SailPoint Architect
6 3 (4.48%) Senior
7 2 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 2 (2.99%) Security Architect
7 2 (2.99%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (1.49%) Automation Specialist
8 1 (1.49%) Data Engineer
8 1 (1.49%) Identity Management Architect
8 1 (1.49%) iOS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.94%) Spring Boot
2 7 (10.45%) Middleware
2 7 (10.45%) RESTful
3 5 (7.46%) JWT
4 4 (5.97%) Dropwizard
4 4 (5.97%) J2EE
4 4 (5.97%) Micronaut
4 4 (5.97%) SailPoint
4 4 (5.97%) Spring
5 3 (4.48%) Celery
5 3 (4.48%) Kafka
5 3 (4.48%) React
5 3 (4.48%) REST
6 2 (2.99%) .NET
6 2 (2.99%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.99%) OAuth
6 2 (2.99%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.99%) SOAP
7 1 (1.49%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (34.33%) Product Ownership
2 9 (13.43%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.97%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.99%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) VMS
2 1 (1.49%) Android
2 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (29.85%) Agile
2 20 (29.85%) DevOps
3 19 (28.36%) Technical Architecture
4 18 (26.87%) Project Delivery
4 18 (26.87%) Regulatory Compliance
5 16 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (23.88%) Roadmaps
5 16 (23.88%) SDLC
6 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (20.90%) CI/CD
7 14 (20.90%) Records Management
8 13 (19.40%) Microservices
9 12 (17.91%) Waterfall
10 11 (16.42%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (14.93%) AI
11 10 (14.93%) TOGAF
12 9 (13.43%) Design Patterns
12 9 (13.43%) Enterprise Architecture
12 9 (13.43%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) Java
2 9 (13.43%) Python
3 5 (7.46%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.48%) SQL
6 2 (2.99%) C#
6 2 (2.99%) Go
6 2 (2.99%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.49%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.49%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.49%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.49%) R
7 1 (1.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.97%) AWS Certification
2 4 (5.97%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.99%) CCSP
3 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.99%) CISSP
3 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.99%) Degree
3 2 (2.99%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) GDPR
1 3 (4.48%) PSD2
2 2 (2.99%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.99%) NIST
2 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (14.93%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (19.40%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.97%) Grafana
2 4 (5.97%) Terraform
3 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.97%) Gigya
3 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.48%) Temenos
4 2 (2.99%) Google
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle
4 2 (2.99%) PagerDuty
4 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.49%) Adobe
5 1 (1.49%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.49%) Databricks
5 1 (1.49%) F5
5 1 (1.49%) Foundry
5 1 (1.49%) IBM
5 1 (1.49%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.49%) NetScout
5 1 (1.49%) Pega
5 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.49%) SAP
5 1 (1.49%) Snow