Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in the South West

Architectural Design
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 103 136
Rank change year-on-year -15 +33 +14
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 15 23 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.64% 1.09% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.25% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 9
10th Percentile £538 £475 £525
25th Percentile £575 £480 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £636 £525 £720
Median % change year-on-year +21.14% -27.03% +18.93%
75th Percentile £672 £538 £738
90th Percentile £690 £688 £753
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +20.83%
75th Percentile - - £76.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +61.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,949 1,835 2,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.65% 86.88% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,124 1,725
10th Percentile £263 £280 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £733 £718
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 126 270
10th Percentile £15.25 £21.16 £20.48
25th Percentile £19.70 £48.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £32.75 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.62% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the South West

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the South West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the South West

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Wiltshire -9 13 £650 +23.81% 2
Bristol -11 2 £525 +9.38% 3
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
1 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
General
1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
2 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Legal
4 2 (13.33%) Military
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Architect
2 6 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.67%) IT Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Project Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) CMDB
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) ITIL
1 10 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 5 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
5 4 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
5 4 (26.67%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (26.67%) IT4IT
5 4 (26.67%) Operations Management
5 4 (26.67%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (26.67%) Validation
6 3 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
7 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Strategy
7 2 (13.33%) Impact Assessments
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) ISEB
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (6.67%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) CISM
4 1 (6.67%) CISSP
4 1 (6.67%) CITP
4 1 (6.67%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) COBIT
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) JSP 440
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.67%) Talend