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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 138 124
Rank change year-on-year -28 -14 +50
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 84 46 41
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.11% 1.15% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.29% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 29 29
10th Percentile £400 £389 £445
25th Percentile £453 £447 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.17% -13.90%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £738
90th Percentile £686 £728 -
England median daily rate £575 £581 £600
% change year-on-year -1.03% -3.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 1
10th Percentile £40.00 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - £28.25
Median hourly rate £69.75 - £31.50
75th Percentile £70.00 - £34.75
90th Percentile £94.20 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 - £54.00
% change year-on-year - - -31.56%

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 6,274 3,561 3,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.08% 89.07% 83.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,710 2,281 2,094
10th Percentile £313 £268 £313
25th Percentile £402 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £563 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 515 211 232
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.46 £13.87
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -16.19% -2.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.74 £49.06
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £69.65
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +2.41%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -30 47 £550 -4.35% 31
Yorkshire -29 24 £509 +3.93% 12
North East -32 13 £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 5 (5.95%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.19%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.86%) AWS
2 9 (10.71%) Azure
2 9 (10.71%) Serverless
3 5 (5.95%) GitHub
3 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.57%) IaaS
5 3 (3.57%) PaaS
6 2 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.38%) GCP
6 2 (2.38%) SaaS
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.19%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.19%) Miro
7 1 (1.19%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) VPN
2 3 (3.57%) DNS
3 2 (2.38%) Firewall
4 1 (1.19%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.57%) Db2
1 3 (3.57%) Power BI
1 3 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) JIRA
2 4 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.19%) Git
3 1 (1.19%) GitLab
General
1 24 (28.57%) Finance
2 23 (27.38%) Social Skills
3 22 (26.19%) Banking
4 16 (19.05%) Public Sector
5 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (10.71%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Military
9 2 (2.38%) Aviation
9 2 (2.38%) Legal
9 2 (2.38%) Retail
10 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.19%) Police
Job Titles
1 57 (67.86%) Architect
2 20 (23.81%) Solutions Architect
3 19 (22.62%) Lead
4 14 (16.67%) Payments Architect
5 13 (15.48%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 13 (15.48%) Technical Architect
6 11 (13.10%) Software Architect
7 9 (10.71%) Developer
7 9 (10.71%) Lead Architect
8 5 (5.95%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.76%) Senior
9 4 (4.76%) Technologist
10 3 (3.57%) DB2 Specialist
10 3 (3.57%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.57%) Lead Python Developer
10 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow Developer
10 3 (3.57%) Technical Specialist
11 2 (2.38%) Administrator
11 2 (2.38%) Business Architect
11 2 (2.38%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.71%) HTML
1 9 (10.71%) Middleware
1 9 (10.71%) REST
2 8 (9.52%) Terraform
3 6 (7.14%) OAuth
4 5 (5.95%) CSS
4 5 (5.95%) Flask
4 5 (5.95%) Vue
5 4 (4.76%) Kafka
5 4 (4.76%) OpenID
6 3 (3.57%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.57%) Node.js
7 2 (2.38%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.38%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.19%) LDAP
8 1 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (1.19%) RESTful
8 1 (1.19%) SAML
8 1 (1.19%) Spring
8 1 (1.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.14%) Operational Technology
5 5 (5.95%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (5.95%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.95%) Private Cloud
6 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.76%) NHS
7 3 (3.57%) Blog
8 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.19%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.19%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.19%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) MVS
1 2 (2.38%) zOS
2 1 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (44.05%) Agile
2 21 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 19 (22.62%) Roadmaps
4 18 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 16 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 13 (15.48%) DevOps
7 13 (15.48%) Scrum
7 13 (15.48%) Software Engineering
8 12 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 12 (14.29%) SDLC
9 11 (13.10%) Strategic Thinking
10 10 (11.90%) DevSecOps
10 10 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (11.90%) Software Testing
11 9 (10.71%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 9 (10.71%) Microservices
11 9 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.71%) Technical Architecture
11 9 (10.71%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.48%) JavaScript
2 9 (10.71%) Java
2 9 (10.71%) Python
2 9 (10.71%) SQL
3 4 (4.76%) Kotlin
3 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.57%) Bicep
4 3 (3.57%) C#
5 2 (2.38%) JCL
6 1 (1.19%) CLIST
6 1 (1.19%) REXX
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.38%) Degree
5 1 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.19%) CCSP
5 1 (1.19%) CEH
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.19%) CISM
5 1 (1.19%) CISSP
5 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.19%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) NIST
3 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.19%) COBIT
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) IFRS
4 1 (1.19%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.19%) SLA
4 1 (1.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (8.33%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) ACF2
2 3 (3.57%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.76%) CyberArk
3 3 (3.57%) IBM
3 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.38%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco
5 1 (1.19%) McAfee
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle