Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Architectural Design
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.23% 0.36% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 0.40% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - -
75th Percentile £508 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £575 £550 £675
% change year-on-year +4.55% -18.52% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69.25 - -
Median hourly rate £69.50 - -
75th Percentile £69.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £69.50 - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 481 250 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 84.68% 90.25% 81.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 179 368
10th Percentile £204 £200 £250
25th Percentile £363 £309 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £596
90th Percentile £650 £588 £696
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.15% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 22 64
10th Percentile £21.03 £13.69 £11.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £22.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.68% -6.67% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.98 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.99 £61.63 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -4.76%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Surrey

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Staines - 3 £450 -
Guildford - 1 - - 1
Architectural Design
South East

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Financial Institution
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Community of Practice
4 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
4 3 (42.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Portfolio Management
4 3 (42.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (42.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
1 3 (42.86%) WCAG