Architectural Patterns Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Architectural Patterns
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - 39
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.56% - 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% - 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £427 - £200
25th Percentile £458 - £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - £217
Median % change year-on-year - - -51.78%
75th Percentile £583 - -
90th Percentile £616 - -
Wales median daily rate £519 - £217
% change year-on-year - - -51.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 296 312 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 82.45% 85.25% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 176 263
10th Percentile £206 £165 £165
25th Percentile £283 £213 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% -6.94% -10.00%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £593
90th Percentile £609 £663 £650
Wales median daily rate £405 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -4.71% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 41 25
10th Percentile £13.19 - £17.40
25th Percentile £14.81 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £18.69 £25.18 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.79% -3.15% +30.59%
75th Percentile £21.27 £40.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £77.63 £48.75 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £19.10 £25.09 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.89% -3.50% +37.17%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Architectural Patterns job vacancy trend in South Wales

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Architectural Patterns.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Architectural Patterns

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in South Wales over the 6 months to 11 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in South Wales

Architectural Patterns
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 11 December 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
Cardiff - 1 £625 - 1
Newport - 1 £413 -
Architectural Patterns
Wales

Architectural Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Rubrik
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) VMware