Architect Contracts in Northern Ireland

Architect
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Architect daily rate in Northern Ireland is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 25 29
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 -10
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 15 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 10.00% 1.49% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.42% 1.61% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 2
10th Percentile £500 - £533
25th Percentile £505 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +15.46%
75th Percentile £650 - £594
90th Percentile £675 - £598
UK median daily rate £650 £663 £635
% change year-on-year -1.89% +4.33% +10.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 144 186 188
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.00% 92.08% 94.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 81 90
10th Percentile £173 £171 £145
25th Percentile £306 £300 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £419
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +1.49% +4.69%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £500
90th Percentile £650 £623 £538
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 16
10th Percentile - £12.97 £10.26
25th Percentile £12.25 £14.32 £11.88
Median hourly rate £15.38 £15.25 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% -7.27% +26.50%
75th Percentile £21.00 £16.31 £21.00
90th Percentile £28.54 £17.11 £22.63
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
% change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Northern Ireland

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Architect in Northern Ireland

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Northern Ireland

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
County Antrim +16 15 £600 +9.09% 7
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Northern Ireland region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (26.67%) TOGAF Certification
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (26.67%) Mainframe
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) ERP
2 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
2 4 (26.67%) OCI
3 3 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 3 (20.00%) IDMS
3 3 (20.00%) VSAM
3 3 (20.00%) PLM
3 3 (20.00%) IBM
3 3 (20.00%) COBOL
3 3 (20.00%) DB2
3 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (20.00%) System Integration Testing

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (13.33%) CICS
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) OCI
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) DB2
1 3 (20.00%) IDMS
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Mainframe
2 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (20.00%) VSAM
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (26.67%) ERP
2 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
3 3 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 3 (20.00%) PLM
3 3 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Batch Processing
4 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (13.33%) System Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Defect Management
5 1 (6.67%) Migration
5 1 (6.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) COBOL
2 2 (13.33%) Assembly Language
2 2 (13.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) TOGAF Certification
2 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) IBM
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) VMware