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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 133 129
Rank change year-on-year -30 -4 +57
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 90 45 51
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.25% 1.18% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.33% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 25 36
10th Percentile £400 £389 £435
25th Percentile £448 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +3.63% -17.87%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £738
90th Percentile £704 £733 -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 2
10th Percentile £40.00 - £33.18
25th Percentile £62.50 - £40.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.75
75th Percentile - - £70.56
90th Percentile £97.59 - £77.73
England median hourly rate £69.50 - £56.50
% change year-on-year - - -24.67%

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 6,100 3,372 3,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.42% 88.76% 84.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,667 2,178 2,394
10th Percentile £313 £268 £295
25th Percentile £402 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £466 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -5.91% -2.46%
75th Percentile £588 £555 £580
90th Percentile £675 £650 £664
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 191 365
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.82 £11.20
25th Percentile £22.63 £17.46 £12.55
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% +13.64% -4.97%
75th Percentile £71.91 £47.12 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.90 £75.00 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -17 60 £492 -13.49% 10
Yorkshire -49 18 £505 +5.54% 8
North East -22 12 - - 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 6 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.67%) Azure
2 13 (14.44%) AWS
3 5 (5.56%) GitHub
3 5 (5.56%) IaaS
3 5 (5.56%) PaaS
3 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.56%) Serverless
4 4 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.44%) GCP
5 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (3.33%) SaaS
6 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.11%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.11%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) DNS
2 4 (4.44%) VPN
3 2 (2.22%) Firewall
3 2 (2.22%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.11%) DHCP
4 1 (1.11%) Internet
4 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) Tableau
2 3 (3.33%) Db2
2 3 (3.33%) Power BI
2 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.22%) MySQL
3 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.11%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) JIRA
2 3 (3.33%) Git
3 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.22%) GitLab
3 2 (2.22%) JMeter
3 2 (2.22%) Postman
3 2 (2.22%) Selenium
General
1 37 (41.11%) Banking
2 25 (27.78%) Finance
3 17 (18.89%) Social Skills
4 14 (15.56%) Investment Banking
5 12 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.78%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (4.44%) Military
8 3 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Aviation
9 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Retail
10 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 70 (77.78%) Architect
2 32 (35.56%) Solutions Architect
3 21 (23.33%) Payments Architect
4 20 (22.22%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 13 (14.44%) Lead
6 12 (13.33%) Technical Architect
7 11 (12.22%) Software Architect
8 9 (10.00%) Lead Architect
9 6 (6.67%) Senior
10 4 (4.44%) Business Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) DB2 Specialist
11 3 (3.33%) Developer
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Technical Specialist
11 3 (3.33%) Technologist
12 2 (2.22%) Cloud Architect
12 2 (2.22%) Lead Security Architect
12 2 (2.22%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) Middleware
2 7 (7.78%) REST
3 6 (6.67%) OAuth
4 4 (4.44%) Kafka
4 4 (4.44%) OpenID
5 3 (3.33%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.33%) Node.js
5 3 (3.33%) RESTful
6 2 (2.22%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.22%) HTML
6 2 (2.22%) LDAP
6 2 (2.22%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.22%) React
6 2 (2.22%) SAML
6 2 (2.22%) Spring
6 2 (2.22%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.11%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.11%) Next.js
7 1 (1.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.89%) Product Ownership
2 14 (15.56%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.78%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.67%) Operational Technology
5 5 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.56%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.33%) Blog
6 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.22%) NHS
8 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.11%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.11%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.11%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) MVS
1 2 (2.22%) zOS
2 1 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.00%) Agile
2 24 (26.67%) Roadmaps
3 23 (25.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 16 (17.78%) SDLC
6 15 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 15 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
7 14 (15.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 14 (15.56%) Design Patterns
7 14 (15.56%) DevOps
7 14 (15.56%) Scrum
7 14 (15.56%) Waterfall
8 13 (14.44%) Mentoring
8 13 (14.44%) Software Engineering
9 12 (13.33%) DevSecOps
10 11 (12.22%) Strategic Thinking
11 10 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
11 10 (11.11%) Software Testing
12 9 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.89%) JavaScript
2 7 (7.78%) Java
3 6 (6.67%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.56%) Python
5 4 (4.44%) Bicep
6 3 (3.33%) C#
6 3 (3.33%) SQL
7 2 (2.22%) Go
7 2 (2.22%) JCL
7 2 (2.22%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.11%) CLIST
8 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 17 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.44%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.22%) Degree
6 1 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.11%) CCSP
6 1 (1.11%) CEH
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.11%) CISM
6 1 (1.11%) CISSP
6 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) NIST
1 3 (3.33%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.11%) COBIT
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) IFRS
3 1 (1.11%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.11%) SLA
3 1 (1.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) ACF2
1 3 (3.33%) RACF
2 2 (2.22%) Docker
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 5 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (5.56%) Terraform
2 2 (2.22%) Grafana
2 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.33%) CyberArk
2 3 (3.33%) IBM
2 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.22%) Broadcom
3 2 (2.22%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.11%) Databricks
4 1 (1.11%) SAP
4 1 (1.11%) Temenos