Architectural Design Contracts in the South East

Architectural Design
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design 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 140 168 179
Rank change year-on-year +28 +11 +50
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 19 37 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.67% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.78% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 27
10th Percentile £443 - £420
25th Percentile £500 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £569
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £675
90th Percentile £798 - £750
England median daily rate £614 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +2.29% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £65.40
25th Percentile - - £65.62
Median hourly rate - £59.00 £68.62
Median % change year-on-year - -14.02% +16.80%
75th Percentile - £62.00 £73.50
90th Percentile - £63.80 £74.85
England median hourly rate - £67.50 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -4.93% -19.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the South East

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the South East

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the South East

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the South East

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Hampshire +31 11 £525 -4.55% 12
Thames Valley +18 4 £615 -5.38% 16
Berkshire +8 4 £615 -5.38% 8
Surrey - 3 £750 - 5
Middlesex - 1 - - 2
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2013
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (15.79%) Office Communications Server
1 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
1 3 (15.79%) SharePoint Server
1 3 (15.79%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) PaaS
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
3 2 (10.53%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DDNS
1 3 (15.79%) DHCP
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
1 3 (15.79%) SAN
1 3 (15.79%) VPN
2 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 2 (10.53%) MQTT
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Metadata
1 2 (10.53%) MySQL
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
1 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Automotive
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Electronics
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Architect
2 8 (42.11%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Exchange Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Exchange Support
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Electronics Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) PostGIS
1 2 (10.53%) REST
1 2 (10.53%) XML
2 1 (5.26%) Loki
2 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Algorithms
1 6 (31.58%) Device Driver
1 6 (31.58%) Embedded Systems
1 6 (31.58%) IoT
2 3 (15.79%) Replication
3 2 (10.53%) Infotainment
3 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Windows
3 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) Decision-Making
3 6 (31.58%) Cloud Enablement
3 6 (31.58%) Device Driver Development
3 6 (31.58%) Multithreading
3 6 (31.58%) Project Management
3 6 (31.58%) SDLC
3 6 (31.58%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (26.32%) Signal Processing
5 4 (21.05%) Data Integration
5 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (21.05%) High Availability
5 4 (21.05%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.79%) Content Management
6 3 (15.79%) DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) ITIL
6 3 (15.79%) SOA
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Embedded C
2 5 (26.32%) C
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) MCSE
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Firmware
2 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (15.79%) Brightmail
3 3 (15.79%) ISA Server
4 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Grafana
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe
2 1 (5.26%) EMC
2 1 (5.26%) VMware
2 1 (5.26%) Xilinx
2 1 (5.26%) Zscaler