Architectural Patterns Contracts in the North of England

Architectural Patterns
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Patterns over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 137 190
Rank change year-on-year -9 +53 -30
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 20 48 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.61% 1.01% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.17% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 19
10th Percentile £453 £450 £513
25th Percentile £473 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £638
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -16.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £675
90th Percentile £650 £739 £728
England median daily rate £624 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.96% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 £81.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.20% - -
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £91.69 £81.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +13.20% +8.00% +57.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Architectural Patterns 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 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the North of England

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the North of England

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the North of England

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the North of England

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 12 £600 +14.29% 77
Yorkshire +2 6 £490 -27.41% 54
North East -1 2 £527 -10.27% 15
Architectural Patterns
England

Architectural Patterns
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) CloudBees
2 5 (25.00%) GitHub
2 5 (25.00%) Serverless
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Military
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Technical Architect
3 4 (20.00%) .NET Architect
3 4 (20.00%) .NET Technical Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Applications Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Java Applications Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Java Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Java Technical Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (5.00%) OAuth
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (50.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) Architectural Design
4 8 (40.00%) Microservices
5 7 (35.00%) Design Patterns
6 6 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
6 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (30.00%) TDD
7 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (20.00%) Data Integration
8 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven
8 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 4 (20.00%) Software Delivery
9 3 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
10 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
10 2 (10.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) Kotlin
3 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.00%) Apex Code
4 2 (10.00%) Groovy
5 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (5.00%) NCSC
1 1 (5.00%) QA
1 1 (5.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Virgin Media
2 3 (15.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) Okta
4 1 (5.00%) Ping Identity