Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in the South East

Architectural Design
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 137 167
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 +31
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 64 30 36
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.45% 0.84% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 0.95% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 15 29
10th Percentile £433 £408 £526
25th Percentile £470 £481 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -12.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £628 £645 £688
90th Percentile £675 £765 -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £59.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +61.11%

All Process & 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 3,716 3,166 4,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.32% 88.46% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,445 1,971 2,819
10th Percentile £224 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.06% +1.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 119 239
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.84 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.13 £27.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +37.50%
75th Percentile £49.38 £63.00 £66.73
90th Percentile £76.00 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the South East

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Architectural Design

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 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the South East

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Architectural Design

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 January 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
Thames Valley +6 38 £483 -12.27% 6
Berkshire +15 35 £483 -23.72% 4
Hampshire -9 18 £600 +34.08% 4
Kent - 6 £638 -
Buckinghamshire +1 3 £462 -12.00% 2
West Sussex - 1 £685 -
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (14.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (14.06%) SharePoint
2 7 (10.94%) Exchange Server 2003
2 7 (10.94%) Exchange Server 2007
2 7 (10.94%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (10.94%) Exchange Server 2013
2 7 (10.94%) Office Communications Server
2 7 (10.94%) SharePoint Server
2 7 (10.94%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (6.25%) SAP PM
3 2 (3.13%) SAP MDG
3 2 (3.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.56%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.31%) Azure
2 7 (10.94%) AWS
3 6 (9.38%) Entra ID
4 5 (7.81%) GCP
5 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (4.69%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.13%) Collibra
7 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.13%) GitHub
7 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.13%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.56%) OCI
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.06%) VPN
2 7 (10.94%) DDNS
2 7 (10.94%) DHCP
2 7 (10.94%) DNS
2 7 (10.94%) SAN
2 7 (10.94%) SD-WAN
3 6 (9.38%) Firewall
4 3 (4.69%) IPsec
4 3 (4.69%) Network Security
5 2 (3.13%) BGP
5 2 (3.13%) EIGRP
5 2 (3.13%) LAN
5 2 (3.13%) MPLS
5 2 (3.13%) OSPF
5 2 (3.13%) WAN
6 1 (1.56%) DWDM
6 1 (1.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) Metadata
1 2 (3.13%) SAP HANA
1 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.56%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.56%) MySQL
2 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Git
General
1 9 (14.06%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Finance
3 4 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.69%) Legal
5 2 (3.13%) Retail
5 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.56%) Automotive
6 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Military
6 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (51.56%) Architect
2 16 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 13 (20.31%) Support Engineer
4 7 (10.94%) Exchange Engineer
4 7 (10.94%) Exchange Support
4 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Support
5 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (9.38%) Security Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Security Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Product Architect
8 2 (3.13%) SAP MDG Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) Web Services
2 2 (3.13%) BAPI
2 2 (3.13%) IDoc
2 2 (3.13%) REST
2 2 (3.13%) SAP Basis
2 2 (3.13%) SOAP
3 1 (1.56%) ADO
3 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.56%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) Node.js
3 1 (1.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Replication
2 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.69%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) Operational Technology
3 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.13%) SCADA
5 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.44%) Linux
2 14 (21.88%) Windows
3 12 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (10.94%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.38%) ITIL
2 20 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (23.44%) DevSecOps
4 10 (15.63%) Roadmaps
5 9 (14.06%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (14.06%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (12.50%) Agile
6 8 (12.50%) Zero Trust
7 7 (10.94%) Content Management
7 7 (10.94%) Data Governance
7 7 (10.94%) Enterprise Content Management
7 7 (10.94%) Enterprise Search
7 7 (10.94%) High Availability
7 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (10.94%) Strategic Roadmap
7 7 (10.94%) TOGAF
8 6 (9.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (7.81%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (1.56%) Bicep
2 1 (1.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.88%) DV Cleared
3 10 (15.63%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.69%) CCSP
4 3 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.69%) CISSP
4 3 (4.69%) ISEB
4 3 (4.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) NIST
2 4 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.69%) COBIT
3 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.69%) GDPR
3 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.69%) PSD2
4 2 (3.13%) SLA
5 1 (1.56%) NCSC
5 1 (1.56%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.94%) Brightmail
2 7 (10.94%) ISA Server
3 4 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) Ansible
1 12 (18.75%) Red Hat Satellite
2 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.75%) Red Hat
2 12 (18.75%) VMware
3 6 (9.38%) SAP
4 5 (7.81%) Cisco
5 3 (4.69%) Juniper
5 3 (4.69%) Oracle
6 2 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.13%) Informatica
6 2 (3.13%) OneTrust
6 2 (3.13%) Palantir
6 2 (3.13%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.56%) Databricks
7 1 (1.56%) ESRI
7 1 (1.56%) IBM
7 1 (1.56%) Nokia
7 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto