Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 95 123
Rank change year-on-year 0 +28 +21
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 38 23 23
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.78% 1.19% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 1.33% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 10 21
10th Percentile £413 £508 £525
25th Percentile £461 £531 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% -12.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £510 £608 £663
90th Percentile £650 £683 £688
South East median daily rate £510 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -7.27% -12.00% +19.05%

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 1,848 1,733 2,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.80% 89.47% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,214 1,026 1,447
10th Percentile £268 £276 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £518
% change year-on-year -2.01% -1.50% +1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 47 98
10th Percentile £15.55 £23.31 £19.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £39.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £54.47
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +4.17% +144.82%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.22 £65.19
90th Percentile £90.45 £67.20 £73.21
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -55.00% -9.09% +46.67%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Architectural Design

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 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Architectural Design

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 26 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
Berkshire +10 35 £483 -23.72% 10
Buckinghamshire +3 3 £462 -14.05% 1
Architectural Design
South East

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP MDG
1 2 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (5.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Entra ID
3 4 (10.53%) GCP
4 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.89%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.26%) Collibra
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.63%) OCI
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle CX
6 1 (2.63%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) SD-WAN
2 5 (13.16%) Firewall
3 3 (7.89%) IPsec
3 3 (7.89%) Network Security
4 2 (5.26%) BGP
4 2 (5.26%) EIGRP
4 2 (5.26%) MPLS
4 2 (5.26%) OSPF
4 2 (5.26%) VPN
4 2 (5.26%) WAN
5 1 (2.63%) DWDM
5 1 (2.63%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Metadata
1 2 (5.26%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.63%) Data Vault
2 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.63%) MySQL
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
General
1 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Retail
3 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.63%) Automotive
4 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Architect
2 9 (23.68%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Security Architect
4 6 (15.79%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Security Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Network Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Product Architect
6 2 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) SAP MDG Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Web Services
2 2 (5.26%) BAPI
2 2 (5.26%) IDoc
2 2 (5.26%) REST
2 2 (5.26%) SAP Basis
2 2 (5.26%) SOAP
3 1 (2.63%) ADO
3 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.63%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) Node.js
3 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.89%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Operational Technology
2 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.26%) SCADA
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (34.21%) Linux
2 12 (31.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (13.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (39.47%) DevSecOps
3 12 (31.58%) ITIL
4 8 (21.05%) Zero Trust
5 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (13.16%) Agile
6 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
6 5 (13.16%) Data Governance
6 5 (13.16%) Data Modelling
6 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (13.16%) Mentoring
6 5 (13.16%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (10.53%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (10.53%) Data Security
7 4 (10.53%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.53%) Security Architecture
7 4 (10.53%) Security Testing
7 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) SQL
2 1 (2.63%) Bicep
2 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (7.89%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.89%) CCSP
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.89%) CISSP
4 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) NIST
1 4 (10.53%) PCI DSS
2 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) GDPR
2 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.89%) PSD2
3 1 (2.63%) NCSC
3 1 (2.63%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (31.58%) Ansible
1 12 (31.58%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Red Hat
1 12 (31.58%) VMware
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Cisco
4 2 (5.26%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.26%) Informatica
4 2 (5.26%) OneTrust
4 2 (5.26%) Palantir
4 2 (5.26%) SAP
4 2 (5.26%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.63%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) Juniper