Architectural Design Contracts in the North of England

Architectural Design
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 132 177
Rank change year-on-year +5 +45 +5
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 46 48 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.25% 0.99% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.18% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 32 12
10th Percentile £389 £444 £539
25th Percentile £452 £449 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -8.51% -6.89%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £747
90th Percentile £731 - £775
England median daily rate £595 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -0.83% -7.69% +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £55.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +59.29% -63.63%
England median hourly rate - £59.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -21.33% -21.97%

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 3,276 4,052 4,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.31% 83.81% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,117 2,415 3,348
10th Percentile £269 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £556 £582 £600
90th Percentile £650 £665 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 378 214
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.11 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.44 £12.55 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £22.00 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +13.98% -4.97% +15.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £43.68
90th Percentile £77.50 £64.61 £56.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the North of England

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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the North of England

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 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 -6 27 £525 - 17
Yorkshire +17 17 £478 -18.64% 3
North East -1 2 £625 +51.52% 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 3 (6.52%) Apache Spark
1 3 (6.52%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) CMS
3 1 (2.17%) JBoss
3 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Maximo
1 2 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) AWS
2 7 (15.22%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) GitHub
3 6 (13.04%) GCP
4 5 (10.87%) CloudBees
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (4.35%) dbt
7 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) ATM
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
1 1 (2.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.35%) Bigtable
2 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.35%) Power BI
2 2 (4.35%) Power Query
2 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.17%) Flink
3 1 (2.17%) MySQL
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.87%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) Hudson
General
1 15 (32.61%) Banking
2 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Aviation
6 1 (2.17%) Billing
6 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Military
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (73.91%) Architect
2 19 (41.30%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (17.39%) Payments Architect
3 8 (17.39%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Data Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Applications Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 2 (4.35%) GCP Architect
6 2 (4.35%) GCP Data Architect
7 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Head of Architecture
7 1 (2.17%) SAP Architect
7 1 (2.17%) Senior
7 1 (2.17%) Senior Architect
7 1 (2.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) Kafka
2 4 (8.70%) Middleware
3 3 (6.52%) React Native
4 2 (4.35%) .NET
4 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.35%) CSS
4 2 (4.35%) CSS3
4 2 (4.35%) HTML
4 2 (4.35%) HTML5
4 2 (4.35%) OAuth
4 2 (4.35%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.35%) OpenID
4 2 (4.35%) REST
4 2 (4.35%) RESTful
4 2 (4.35%) SAML
5 1 (2.17%) JAX-WS
5 1 (2.17%) jQuery
5 1 (2.17%) Node.js
5 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.17%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.52%) Blockchain
2 3 (6.52%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.35%) IoT
3 2 (4.35%) NHS
3 2 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Agile
2 16 (34.78%) DevOps
3 13 (28.26%) Roadmaps
4 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 8 (17.39%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (17.39%) Migration
5 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (15.22%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
6 7 (15.22%) TOGAF
7 6 (13.04%) Microservices
7 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.04%) SDLC
7 6 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (10.87%) Containerisation
8 5 (10.87%) Design Patterns
8 5 (10.87%) Integration Patterns
8 5 (10.87%) TDD
8 5 (10.87%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) Java
2 8 (17.39%) Kotlin
2 8 (17.39%) Python
3 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
3 7 (15.22%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.52%) Objective-C
4 3 (6.52%) SQL
4 3 (6.52%) Swift
5 2 (4.35%) ANSI SQL
5 2 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.35%) Groovy
5 2 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Degree
3 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) ISO 20022
1 2 (4.35%) SEPA
2 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.17%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.52%) Grafana
2 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
2 3 (6.52%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) Control-M
4 1 (2.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (8.70%) ServiceNow
2 3 (6.52%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (2.17%) Adobe
4 1 (2.17%) Databricks
4 1 (2.17%) IBM
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.17%) VMware