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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 123 140
Rank change year-on-year -23 +17 +45
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 83 43 43
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.32% 1.31% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.46% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 24 23
10th Percentile £413 £448 £445
25th Percentile £445 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -0.94% -7.83%
75th Percentile £556 £623 £738
90th Percentile £710 £699 -
England median daily rate £575 £606 £600
% change year-on-year -5.15% +1.04% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £62.50 - £33.18
25th Percentile £64.38 - £40.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.75
75th Percentile £100.86 - £70.56
90th Percentile £111.15 - £77.73
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.93%

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 5,293 2,950 3,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.46% 89.75% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,317 1,900 2,410
10th Percentile £313 £263 £300
25th Percentile £400 £377 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £563 £588
90th Percentile £653 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 152 362
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.52 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.68 £18.51 £12.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.28 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +105.50% +48.29% -38.58%
75th Percentile £71.50 £56.34 £44.94
90th Percentile £80.60 £78.63 £57.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -1 62 £475 -9.52% 9
Yorkshire -52 17 £507 +3.17% 2
North East -16 4 - - 11
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 (10.84%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (10.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (10.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.87%) AWS
2 12 (14.46%) Azure
3 5 (6.02%) GCP
3 5 (6.02%) Serverless
4 4 (4.82%) IaaS
4 4 (4.82%) PaaS
5 3 (3.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.61%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.61%) SaaS
6 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.41%) Firebase
6 2 (2.41%) GitHub
6 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.20%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.20%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) DNS
2 3 (3.61%) VPN
3 2 (2.41%) DHCP
3 2 (2.41%) Internet
3 2 (2.41%) Kerberos
3 2 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.20%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.84%) Tableau
2 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.41%) DB2
3 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.41%) MySQL
3 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.20%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.20%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) JIRA
2 3 (3.61%) Git
2 3 (3.61%) GitLab
3 2 (2.41%) JMeter
3 2 (2.41%) Postman
3 2 (2.41%) Selenium
4 1 (1.20%) CocoaPods
4 1 (1.20%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.20%) fastlane
4 1 (1.20%) Gradle
General
1 41 (49.40%) Banking
2 29 (34.94%) Finance
3 17 (20.48%) Investment Banking
4 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
5 11 (13.25%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.02%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (4.82%) Military
8 3 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.20%) Law
10 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (75.90%) Architect
2 38 (45.78%) Solutions Architect
3 27 (32.53%) Payments Architect
4 26 (31.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 11 (13.25%) Lead
6 9 (10.84%) Lead Architect
7 8 (9.64%) Technical Architect
8 7 (8.43%) Senior
9 4 (4.82%) Business Architect
9 4 (4.82%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Software Architect
11 2 (2.41%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 2 (2.41%) DB2 Specialist
11 2 (2.41%) Developer
11 2 (2.41%) Lead Security Architect
11 2 (2.41%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.41%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (22.89%) Middleware
2 6 (7.23%) OAuth
3 4 (4.82%) OpenID
3 4 (4.82%) REST
4 3 (3.61%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.61%) Node.js
4 3 (3.61%) React
4 3 (3.61%) RESTful
4 3 (3.61%) Spring
4 3 (3.61%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.41%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.41%) Kafka
5 2 (2.41%) LDAP
5 2 (2.41%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.41%) SAML
6 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.20%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.20%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.20%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.48%) Management Information System
2 16 (19.28%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.23%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.23%) Operational Technology
4 5 (6.02%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (6.02%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.20%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.20%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) MVS
1 2 (2.41%) VMS
1 2 (2.41%) zOS
2 1 (1.20%) Android
2 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (33.73%) Agile
2 27 (32.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (27.71%) Roadmaps
4 20 (24.10%) SDLC
5 19 (22.89%) Technical Architecture
6 18 (21.69%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 18 (21.69%) Waterfall
7 17 (20.48%) DevOps
8 14 (16.87%) Design Patterns
9 13 (15.66%) CI/CD
9 13 (15.66%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (14.46%) Project Delivery
10 12 (14.46%) Regulatory Compliance
11 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (10.84%) Enterprise Architecture
12 9 (10.84%) Integration Patterns
12 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (10.84%) Records Management
13 8 (9.64%) Microservices
13 8 (9.64%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.64%) Java
1 8 (9.64%) JavaScript
2 7 (8.43%) TypeScript
3 4 (4.82%) Python
4 3 (3.61%) Bicep
5 2 (2.41%) Go
5 2 (2.41%) JCL
5 2 (2.41%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.20%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.20%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (1.20%) C#
6 1 (1.20%) CLIST
6 1 (1.20%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.20%) R
6 1 (1.20%) REXX
6 1 (1.20%) SQL
6 1 (1.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (19.28%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.82%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.41%) Degree
7 1 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.20%) CCSP
7 1 (1.20%) CEH
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.20%) CISM
7 1 (1.20%) CISSP
7 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.20%) OSCP
7 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) NIST
2 2 (2.41%) GDPR
2 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.20%) COBIT
3 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.20%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) ACF2
2 2 (2.41%) RACF
3 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.82%) Grafana
2 4 (4.82%) Terraform
3 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (8.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.61%) IBM
2 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.41%) Broadcom
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle
3 2 (2.41%) PagerDuty
3 2 (2.41%) SAP
4 1 (1.20%) Adobe
4 1 (1.20%) Databricks
4 1 (1.20%) Snow
4 1 (1.20%) Temenos