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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 128 127
Rank change year-on-year -25 -1 +79
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 72 34 59
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.29% 1.05% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.17% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 16 34
10th Percentile £417 £483 £450
25th Percentile £450 £525 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £587 £559
Median % change year-on-year -14.84% +5.13% -6.92%
75th Percentile £678 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £769 £743
England median daily rate £575 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -9.80% +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.85
25th Percentile - - £52.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £72.13 - £80.63
90th Percentile £73.41 - £81.75
England median hourly rate £67.50 - £71.93
% change year-on-year - - +2.03%

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 4,817 2,913 4,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 86.25% 89.77% 86.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,112 1,821 2,635
10th Percentile £255 £263 £281
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £580
90th Percentile £650 £650 £672
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 152 369
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.02 £11.06
25th Percentile £22.63 £20.14 £12.84
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% +59.72% -37.61%
75th Percentile £66.08 £50.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.38 £53.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -9.72%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -2 54 £492 -6.29% 17
Yorkshire -45 17 £513 -1.44% 6
North East -15 1 - - 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 16 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (19.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (19.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.83%) Azure
2 12 (16.67%) AWS
3 9 (12.50%) GCP
4 4 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.78%) Firebase
6 2 (2.78%) GitHub
6 2 (2.78%) IaaS
6 2 (2.78%) PaaS
6 2 (2.78%) SaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.39%) Serverless
7 1 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) DNS
1 3 (4.17%) Firewall
2 2 (2.78%) DHCP
2 2 (2.78%) Internet
2 2 (2.78%) Network Security
2 2 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.39%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.39%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.44%) Tableau
2 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.78%) MySQL
4 1 (1.39%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.39%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) JIRA
2 4 (5.56%) Git
3 3 (4.17%) GitLab
4 2 (2.78%) JMeter
4 2 (2.78%) Postman
4 2 (2.78%) Selenium
5 1 (1.39%) CocoaPods
5 1 (1.39%) Crashlytics
5 1 (1.39%) fastlane
5 1 (1.39%) Gradle
General
1 43 (59.72%) Banking
2 25 (34.72%) Finance
3 14 (19.44%) Social Skills
4 12 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 9 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Military
9 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 56 (77.78%) Architect
2 39 (54.17%) Solutions Architect
3 21 (29.17%) Payments Architect
4 20 (27.78%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 8 (11.11%) Business Architect
6 5 (6.94%) Senior
7 4 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.78%) Lead
9 2 (2.78%) Security Architect
9 2 (2.78%) Senior Architect
9 2 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
10 1 (1.39%) Java Software Engineer
10 1 (1.39%) Platform Specialist
10 1 (1.39%) SailPoint Architect
10 1 (1.39%) SAP Architect
10 1 (1.39%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow Architect
10 1 (1.39%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.06%) Middleware
2 4 (5.56%) Spring
2 4 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 3 (4.17%) Kafka
3 3 (4.17%) React
3 3 (4.17%) REST
3 3 (4.17%) RESTful
4 2 (2.78%) .NET
4 2 (2.78%) OAuth
4 2 (2.78%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.78%) SailPoint
4 2 (2.78%) SOAP
5 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.39%) LDAP
5 1 (1.39%) OpenID
5 1 (1.39%) PySpark
5 1 (1.39%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.39%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.39%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.56%) Product Ownership
2 13 (18.06%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.94%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.39%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) VMS
2 1 (1.39%) Android
2 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.94%) DevOps
1 23 (31.94%) Technical Architecture
2 22 (30.56%) Agile
3 21 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (29.17%) Regulatory Compliance
4 20 (27.78%) SDLC
5 18 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 18 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (23.61%) Roadmaps
7 14 (19.44%) Records Management
8 13 (18.06%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 13 (18.06%) CI/CD
8 13 (18.06%) Waterfall
9 11 (15.28%) Enterprise Architecture
9 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (13.89%) Microservices
11 9 (12.50%) Business Strategy
11 9 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
11 9 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
12 7 (9.72%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.50%) Java
2 5 (6.94%) JavaScript
2 5 (6.94%) Python
2 5 (6.94%) TypeScript
3 3 (4.17%) SQL
4 2 (2.78%) C#
4 2 (2.78%) Go
4 2 (2.78%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.39%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.39%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.39%) Bicep
5 1 (1.39%) Objective-C
5 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.39%) R
5 1 (1.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.94%) AWS Certification
2 5 (6.94%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (2.78%) CCSP
4 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.78%) CISSP
4 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.78%) Degree
4 2 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) GDPR
2 3 (4.17%) PSD2
3 2 (2.78%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.78%) NIST
3 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.56%) Grafana
3 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 4 (5.56%) Temenos
2 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle
3 2 (2.78%) PagerDuty
3 2 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (1.39%) Adobe
4 1 (1.39%) Databricks
4 1 (1.39%) F5
4 1 (1.39%) Google
4 1 (1.39%) IBM
4 1 (1.39%) Infoblox
4 1 (1.39%) NetScout
4 1 (1.39%) Pega
4 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.39%) SevOne
4 1 (1.39%) Snow
4 1 (1.39%) VMware