Architectural Patterns Contracts in the South East

Architectural Patterns
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 174 193
Rank change year-on-year +41 +19 -19
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 23 25 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.79% 0.45% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.54% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 13
10th Percentile £385 £579 £587
25th Percentile £500 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £651
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.61% +0.08%
75th Percentile £694 £775 £738
90th Percentile £736 £809 £748
England median daily rate £600 £648 £625
% change year-on-year -7.34% +3.60% -1.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,668 4,666 4,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.34% 83.55% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,716 2,714 3,430
10th Percentile £250 £255 £249
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +1.95% +0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 446 214
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.23 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +127.79%
75th Percentile £62.37 £62.50 £64.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.93 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the South East

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the South East

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the South East over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the South East

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the South East

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Thames Valley +33 11 £510 -11.30% 87
Berkshire +27 11 £510 -11.30% 59
Hampshire +32 6 £688 +13.40% 42
Surrey +7 5 £514 -26.61% 18
West Sussex +12 1 £325 -56.67% 11
Architectural Patterns
England

Architectural Patterns
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 2 (8.70%) Camunda
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
3 4 (17.39%) GCP
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) LAN
1 7 (30.43%) WAN
2 3 (13.04%) 4G
2 3 (13.04%) 5G
2 3 (13.04%) DOCSIS
2 3 (13.04%) GPON
2 3 (13.04%) LTE
2 3 (13.04%) MPLS
2 3 (13.04%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (13.04%) VoIP
2 3 (13.04%) xDSL
3 2 (8.70%) Converged Networks
4 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Advertising
5 1 (4.35%) Back Office
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (91.30%) Architect
2 8 (34.78%) Technical Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.04%) OSS Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Migration Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Public Cloud
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) TM Forum
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
1 8 (34.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Machine Learning
1 9 (39.13%) Migration
2 8 (34.78%) API Management
2 8 (34.78%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (30.43%) Business Strategy
3 7 (30.43%) IT Strategy
3 7 (30.43%) ITIL
3 7 (30.43%) TOGAF
4 6 (26.09%) Microservices
5 4 (17.39%) Analytics
5 4 (17.39%) Application Packaging
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (13.04%) eTOM
6 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
6 3 (13.04%) Fault Management
6 3 (13.04%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) OASIS TOSCA
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) MuleSoft
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Amdocs
3 2 (8.70%) Databricks
3 2 (8.70%) Ericsson
3 2 (8.70%) Huawei
3 2 (8.70%) NetCracker
3 2 (8.70%) Nokia
4 1 (4.35%) Criteo
4 1 (4.35%) Zscaler