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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 122 129
Rank change year-on-year -32 +7 +55
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 88 47 49
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.35% 1.42% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.58% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 27 28
10th Percentile £410 £389 £435
25th Percentile £438 £453 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -5.21% -10.21%
75th Percentile £550 £597 £691
90th Percentile £704 £673 £738
England median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile - - £33.18
25th Percentile £62.50 - £40.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.75
75th Percentile - - £70.56
90th Percentile £111.15 - £77.73
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

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 5,513 2,977 3,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.31% 89.99% 84.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,396 1,915 2,415
10th Percentile £313 £268 £300
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £668 £648 £675
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 151 379
10th Percentile £16.20 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.99 £12.53
Median hourly rate £52.78 £25.15 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +109.84% +31.13% -31.11%
75th Percentile £71.50 £51.00 £45.88
90th Percentile £80.60 £76.25 £62.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
% change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 0 63 £475 -9.52% 8
Yorkshire -52 18 £500 +7.30% 3
North East -21 7 - - 6
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 9 (10.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.91%) AWS
2 13 (14.77%) Azure
3 5 (5.68%) GCP
3 5 (5.68%) Serverless
4 4 (4.55%) IaaS
4 4 (4.55%) PaaS
5 3 (3.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.41%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.41%) SaaS
6 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.27%) Firebase
6 2 (2.27%) GitHub
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.14%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.14%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) DNS
2 3 (3.41%) VPN
3 2 (2.27%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.14%) DHCP
4 1 (1.14%) Firewall
4 1 (1.14%) Internet
4 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) Tableau
2 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.27%) DB2
3 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.27%) MySQL
3 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.14%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.14%) Power BI
4 1 (1.14%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (10.23%) JIRA
2 3 (3.41%) Git
2 3 (3.41%) GitLab
3 2 (2.27%) JMeter
3 2 (2.27%) Postman
3 2 (2.27%) Selenium
4 1 (1.14%) CocoaPods
4 1 (1.14%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.14%) fastlane
4 1 (1.14%) Gradle
General
1 42 (47.73%) Banking
2 29 (32.95%) Finance
3 17 (19.32%) Investment Banking
4 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
5 11 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.68%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (4.55%) Military
8 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Aviation
9 2 (2.27%) Retail
10 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 68 (77.27%) Architect
2 40 (45.45%) Solutions Architect
3 27 (30.68%) Payments Architect
4 26 (29.55%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 11 (12.50%) Lead
6 9 (10.23%) Lead Architect
7 8 (9.09%) Technical Architect
8 7 (7.95%) Senior
9 6 (6.82%) Software Architect
10 4 (4.55%) Business Architect
10 4 (4.55%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Project Manager
11 3 (3.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 2 (2.27%) Cloud Architect
12 2 (2.27%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 2 (2.27%) DB2 Specialist
12 2 (2.27%) Lead Security Architect
12 2 (2.27%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 2 (2.27%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.59%) Middleware
2 6 (6.82%) OAuth
3 5 (5.68%) REST
4 4 (4.55%) OpenID
5 3 (3.41%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.41%) Node.js
5 3 (3.41%) React
5 3 (3.41%) RESTful
5 3 (3.41%) Spring
5 3 (3.41%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.27%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.27%) Kafka
6 2 (2.27%) LDAP
6 2 (2.27%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.27%) SAML
7 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.14%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.14%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.14%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.59%) Product Ownership
2 17 (19.32%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.82%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.68%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (5.68%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.41%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.14%) Blog
8 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.14%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.14%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.14%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.27%) MVS
1 2 (2.27%) VMS
1 2 (2.27%) zOS
2 1 (1.14%) Android
2 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.23%) Agile
2 27 (30.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (26.14%) Roadmaps
4 20 (22.73%) SDLC
5 19 (21.59%) DevOps
5 19 (21.59%) Technical Architecture
6 18 (20.45%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 18 (20.45%) Waterfall
7 15 (17.05%) Design Patterns
8 14 (15.91%) CI/CD
9 13 (14.77%) Project Delivery
9 13 (14.77%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (13.64%) Regulatory Compliance
11 11 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (11.36%) Integration Patterns
12 10 (11.36%) Mentoring
12 10 (11.36%) Software Engineering
13 9 (10.23%) Enterprise Architecture
13 9 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (10.23%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.23%) Java
2 8 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.95%) TypeScript
4 5 (5.68%) Python
5 3 (3.41%) Bicep
6 2 (2.27%) C#
6 2 (2.27%) Go
6 2 (2.27%) JCL
6 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.14%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.14%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.14%) CLIST
7 1 (1.14%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.14%) R
7 1 (1.14%) REXX
7 1 (1.14%) SQL
7 1 (1.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (19.32%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.68%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.27%) Degree
7 1 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.14%) CCSP
7 1 (1.14%) CEH
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.14%) CISM
7 1 (1.14%) CISSP
7 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) OSCP
7 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) NIST
2 2 (2.27%) GDPR
2 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.14%) COBIT
3 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.14%) IFRS
3 1 (1.14%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.14%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.14%) PSD2
3 1 (1.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) ACF2
2 2 (2.27%) RACF
3 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.55%) Grafana
2 4 (4.55%) Terraform
3 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.41%) IBM
3 2 (2.27%) Broadcom
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle
3 2 (2.27%) PagerDuty
3 2 (2.27%) SAP
3 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.14%) Adobe
4 1 (1.14%) Databricks
4 1 (1.14%) Snow
4 1 (1.14%) Temenos