Architectural Patterns Contracts in the South West

Architectural Patterns
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 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 100 130 148
Rank change year-on-year +30 +18 +13
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 11 27 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.66% 0.84% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.02% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 16
10th Percentile £468 £450 £527
25th Percentile £494 £523 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -7.84% +20.28%
75th Percentile £631 £728 £723
90th Percentile £706 £769 £724
England median daily rate £624 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.96% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
England median hourly rate £91.69 £81.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +13.20% +8.00% +57.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the South West

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the South West

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the South West

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the South West 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
Wiltshire +32 5 £638 -8.93% 3
Bristol +9 3 £475 -5.00% 7
Gloucestershire +15 2 £550 -6.38% 9
Dorset +1 1 £700 -8.20% 1
Architectural Patterns
England

Architectural Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Coordinator
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Security Assurance Coordinator
3 2 (18.18%) Security Technical Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Assurance Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Coordinator
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Architect
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior .NET Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Agile
1 3 (27.27%) Architectural Design
1 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps
1 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
1 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (18.18%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Data Security
2 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
2 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft