Architectural Design Contracts in the North of England

Architectural Design
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Architectural Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Design over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 185 188
Rank change year-on-year +45 +3 -28
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 43 23 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.93% 0.41% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.45% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 28
10th Percentile £445 £500 £419
25th Percentile £450 £550 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £628
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -8.37% +5.46%
75th Percentile £738 £688 £645
90th Percentile - £768 £725
England median daily rate £600 £620 £631
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.74% +12.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £33.18 - £96.07
25th Percentile £40.56 - £96.17
Median hourly rate £55.75 £35.00 £96.23
Median % change year-on-year +59.29% -63.63% -
75th Percentile £70.56 - -
90th Percentile £77.73 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £71.00 £96.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% -26.04% +102.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Architectural Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,950 5,140 6,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.44% 90.62% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 3,555 4,654
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £565
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 204 268
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.08 £13.69
Median hourly rate £17.72 £28.85 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -38.58% +50.87% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £45.05 £35.86
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £60.82
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%

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 14 May 2024.

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
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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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 +49 32 £530 -5.86% 10
Yorkshire +18 9 £588 -11.32% 4
North East - 4 £413 - 6
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 1 (2.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) Azure
2 16 (37.21%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (20.93%) AWS
4 8 (18.60%) SaaS
5 4 (9.30%) IaaS
5 4 (9.30%) PaaS
6 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.33%) Azure App Service
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.33%) Firebase
6 1 (2.33%) GCP
6 1 (2.33%) GitHub
6 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.33%) Miro
6 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Network Security
2 3 (6.98%) WAN
3 2 (4.65%) LAN
4 1 (2.33%) HTTP
4 1 (2.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) DB2
1 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Crashlytics
1 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (2.33%) Git
1 1 (2.33%) GoCD
1 1 (2.33%) Gradle
1 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 11 (25.58%) Banking
2 10 (23.26%) Finance
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.33%) Marketing
5 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (83.72%) Architect
2 28 (65.12%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Applications Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Commercial Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Developer
3 3 (6.98%) Payments Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Security Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Senior
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Architect
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Angular Developer
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Security Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (2.33%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) React
2 3 (6.98%) .NET
2 3 (6.98%) Middleware
3 2 (4.65%) XML
3 2 (4.65%) XSLT
4 1 (2.33%) Akka
4 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.33%) Dagger
4 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.33%) HTML
4 1 (2.33%) Jest
4 1 (2.33%) JSON
4 1 (2.33%) Kafka
4 1 (2.33%) Node.js
4 1 (2.33%) REST
4 1 (2.33%) RESTful
4 1 (2.33%) Sass
4 1 (2.33%) SOAP
4 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (9.30%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.98%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (2.33%) IoT
4 1 (2.33%) Life Science
4 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Android
2 4 (9.30%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.65%) Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Unix
3 2 (4.65%) Windows
3 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (51.16%) Agile
2 18 (41.86%) DevOps
3 16 (37.21%) Computer Science
4 15 (34.88%) Architectural Patterns
5 14 (32.56%) Project Delivery
6 13 (30.23%) Architecture Governance
6 13 (30.23%) Data Management
6 13 (30.23%) Migration
6 13 (30.23%) Service Design
7 9 (20.93%) Business Strategy
7 9 (20.93%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (16.28%) Design Patterns
9 6 (13.95%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 6 (13.95%) Risk Management
9 6 (13.95%) Waterfall
10 5 (11.63%) IT Strategy
10 5 (11.63%) Microservices
10 5 (11.63%) SDLC
10 5 (11.63%) TOGAF
11 4 (9.30%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) Java
2 3 (6.98%) C
3 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.33%) Bicep
4 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.33%) Scala
4 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) CISM
2 3 (6.98%) CISSP
3 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Grafana
1 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud