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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 142 125
Rank change year-on-year -29 -17 +45
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 83 43 41
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.09% 1.09% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.23% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 29 29
10th Percentile £400 £389 £445
25th Percentile £450 £447 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +4.17% -16.52%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £738
90th Percentile £686 £690 -
England median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile £40.00 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - -
Median hourly rate £69.75 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile £94.20 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - -17.33%

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 6,325 3,505 3,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.13% 88.98% 83.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,745 2,260 2,021
10th Percentile £313 £268 £313
25th Percentile £405 £375 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -7.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 514 200 190
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.32 £12.53
25th Percentile £21.17 £17.42 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -35.34% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £36.19 £51.66
90th Percentile £78.38 £71.56 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -40 45 £550 -4.35% 40
Yorkshire -32 26 £504 +5.33% 16
North East -29 12 £650 +18.18% 4
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 4 (4.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.87%) AWS
2 9 (10.84%) Azure
2 9 (10.84%) Serverless
3 5 (6.02%) GitHub
3 5 (6.02%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.61%) IaaS
5 3 (3.61%) PaaS
6 2 (2.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.41%) GCP
6 2 (2.41%) SaaS
7 1 (1.20%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.20%) Miro
7 1 (1.20%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) VPN
2 3 (3.61%) DNS
3 2 (2.41%) Firewall
4 1 (1.20%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) Db2
2 3 (3.61%) Power BI
3 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Bitbucket
1 4 (4.82%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) GitLab
General
1 26 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (27.71%) Finance
3 19 (22.89%) Banking
4 14 (16.87%) Public Sector
5 10 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (8.43%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.82%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Aviation
9 2 (2.41%) Legal
9 2 (2.41%) Military
9 2 (2.41%) Retail
10 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.20%) Police
Job Titles
1 56 (67.47%) Architect
2 19 (22.89%) Lead
3 17 (20.48%) Solutions Architect
4 14 (16.87%) Technical Architect
5 11 (13.25%) Payments Architect
5 11 (13.25%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 11 (13.25%) Software Architect
6 9 (10.84%) Lead Architect
7 8 (9.64%) Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Python Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Senior
9 4 (4.82%) Technologist
10 3 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (3.61%) DB2 Specialist
10 3 (3.61%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Lead Python Developer
10 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Technical Specialist
11 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 2 (2.41%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) HTML
1 9 (10.84%) REST
2 8 (9.64%) Terraform
3 7 (8.43%) Middleware
4 6 (7.23%) OAuth
5 5 (6.02%) CSS
5 5 (6.02%) Flask
5 5 (6.02%) Kafka
5 5 (6.02%) Vue
6 4 (4.82%) OpenID
7 3 (3.61%) AWS CDK
7 3 (3.61%) Node.js
8 2 (2.41%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.41%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.20%) LDAP
9 1 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (1.20%) RESTful
9 1 (1.20%) SAML
9 1 (1.20%) Spring
9 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.43%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.43%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.23%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.23%) Operational Technology
3 6 (7.23%) Private Cloud
4 5 (6.02%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.82%) NHS
6 3 (3.61%) Blog
6 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.41%) Replication
8 1 (1.20%) CMDB
8 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.20%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) MVS
1 2 (2.41%) zOS
2 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.96%) Agile
2 24 (28.92%) Technical Leadership
3 21 (25.30%) Roadmaps
4 18 (21.69%) CI/CD
5 14 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (16.87%) Design Patterns
6 13 (15.66%) Scrum
7 12 (14.46%) Software Engineering
8 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (13.25%) Mentoring
8 11 (13.25%) Strategic Thinking
9 10 (12.05%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (12.05%) DevOps
9 10 (12.05%) DevSecOps
9 10 (12.05%) Software Testing
9 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (10.84%) Microservices
10 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (10.84%) Technical Architecture
10 9 (10.84%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.66%) JavaScript
2 9 (10.84%) Java
2 9 (10.84%) SQL
3 8 (9.64%) Python
4 4 (4.82%) Kotlin
5 3 (3.61%) Bicep
5 3 (3.61%) C#
5 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.41%) JCL
7 1 (1.20%) CLIST
7 1 (1.20%) REXX
Qualifications
1 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.61%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.41%) Degree
5 1 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.20%) CCSP
5 1 (1.20%) CEH
5 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.20%) CISM
5 1 (1.20%) CISSP
5 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.20%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) NIST
3 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.41%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.20%) COBIT
4 1 (1.20%) IFRS
4 1 (1.20%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Docker
2 4 (4.82%) ACF2
2 4 (4.82%) RACF
3 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.02%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.82%) CyberArk
3 4 (4.82%) IBM
4 2 (2.41%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.20%) Cisco
5 1 (1.20%) McAfee
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle
5 1 (1.20%) VMware