Architectural Design Contracts in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design 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 98 116 127
Rank change year-on-year +18 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 4 29 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 1.08% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 1.24% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 28 12
10th Percentile £573 - £416
25th Percentile £589 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £650 £605
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +7.44% -3.20%
75th Percentile £701 £688 £678
90th Percentile £753 - £744
South East median daily rate £550 £625 £569
% change year-on-year -12.00% +9.76% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £70.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £59.00 £68.62
% change year-on-year - -14.02% +16.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +8 4 £615 -5.38% 10
Architectural Design
South East

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) MQTT
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PostGIS
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Infotainment
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Telematics
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
1 1 (25.00%) Zscaler