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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 130 172
Rank change year-on-year -15 +42 +8
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 41 42 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.03% 1.01% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.21% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 15
10th Percentile £397 £445 £425
25th Percentile £454 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £480 £535
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -10.28% -15.21%
75th Percentile £673 £691 £681
90th Percentile £741 £738 £760
England median daily rate £589 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -1.88% -7.69% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.88
25th Percentile - - £72.81
Median hourly rate - - £76.25
75th Percentile - - £80.31
90th Percentile - - £81.63
England median hourly rate - £62.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -17.33% +66.67%

All Process and 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 3,555 3,470 4,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.05% 83.84% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,305 2,009 2,944
10th Percentile £268 £300 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -0.08% +0.08%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £652 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 180 205
10th Percentile £13.58 £12.55 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.44 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.45 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.87% +27.27% +36.61%
75th Percentile £36.19 £51.88 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.11 £70.00 £63.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -31 25 £594 +23.70% 19
Yorkshire - 14 £466 - 6
North East 0 2 £550 -15.38% 3
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.88%) Apache
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.44%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (31.71%) AWS
2 11 (26.83%) Azure
3 10 (24.39%) GCP
4 8 (19.51%) GitHub
5 5 (12.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (12.20%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (12.20%) SaaS
5 5 (12.20%) Serverless
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (9.76%) Apigee
6 4 (9.76%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (9.76%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (9.76%) Datadog
6 4 (9.76%) Loggly
6 4 (9.76%) PaaS
6 4 (9.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) ATM
1 1 (2.44%) Firewall
1 1 (2.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) BigQuery
2 7 (17.07%) MySQL
3 6 (14.63%) NoSQL
3 6 (14.63%) RDBMS
3 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
4 5 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (12.20%) Redis
5 4 (9.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (9.76%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.88%) Bigtable
6 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.44%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.44%) Big Data
7 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.44%) IDMS
7 1 (2.44%) Power BI
7 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (29.27%) Git
2 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.76%) Gradle
3 4 (9.76%) JIRA
3 4 (9.76%) Maven
3 4 (9.76%) SonarLint
3 4 (9.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.44%) CircleCI
General
1 13 (31.71%) Banking
2 11 (26.83%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.44%) Legal
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (68.29%) Architect
2 20 (48.78%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (9.76%) Developer
3 4 (9.76%) Java Architect
3 4 (9.76%) Java Technical Architect
3 4 (9.76%) Lead
3 4 (9.76%) Payments Architect
3 4 (9.76%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 4 (9.76%) Technical Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Data Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) GCP Architect
5 2 (4.88%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (4.88%) SailPoint Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Senior
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.44%) Platform Specialist
6 1 (2.44%) Power Apps Specialist
6 1 (2.44%) Power Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) RESTful
2 4 (9.76%) Dropwizard
2 4 (9.76%) J2EE
2 4 (9.76%) JWT
2 4 (9.76%) Micronaut
2 4 (9.76%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.32%) Celery
3 3 (7.32%) GraphQL
3 3 (7.32%) Kafka
3 3 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (7.32%) React Native
4 2 (4.88%) .NET
4 2 (4.88%) HTML
4 2 (4.88%) Node.js
4 2 (4.88%) SailPoint
4 2 (4.88%) Vue
5 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.44%) Bootstrap
5 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.20%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.76%) Mobile App
3 4 (9.76%) N-Tier
4 3 (7.32%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.44%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Unix
2 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Agile
2 13 (31.71%) DevOps
3 12 (29.27%) CI/CD
4 11 (26.83%) Roadmaps
4 11 (26.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (24.39%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (24.39%) TOGAF
6 9 (21.95%) Mentoring
6 9 (21.95%) Microservices
7 8 (19.51%) Design Patterns
8 7 (17.07%) Architectural Patterns
8 7 (17.07%) Containerisation
8 7 (17.07%) Domain-Driven Design
8 7 (17.07%) Integration Patterns
8 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (17.07%) TDD
9 6 (14.63%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (14.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (14.63%) Information Architecture
9 6 (14.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (29.27%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) Java
3 6 (14.63%) Kotlin
4 5 (12.20%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.76%) SQL
5 4 (9.76%) Swift
6 3 (7.32%) Objective-C
7 2 (4.88%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (4.88%) Groovy
7 2 (4.88%) Scala
8 1 (2.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) ISO 20022
1 1 (2.44%) QA
1 1 (2.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (19.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.20%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) Grafana
3 3 (7.32%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.88%) Control-M
5 1 (2.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Gigya
1 4 (9.76%) Google
2 3 (7.32%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.88%) Databricks
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.44%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.44%) Foundry
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.44%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) VMware