Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Architectural Design
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.60% 0.93% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.01% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £624 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £550 £624 £425
% change year-on-year -11.90% +46.89% -34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 300 199 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 90.36% 92.13% 85.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 104 106
10th Percentile £174 £302 £204
25th Percentile £363 £350 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -4.84% -13.64%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £580
90th Percentile £583 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £450 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 3
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £15.65
25th Percentile £16.88 £14.97 £15.88
Median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £54.38 £37.25 -
North East median hourly rate £28.91 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +52.16% +8.57% -22.22%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 15 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -10 2 £550 -11.90% 4
Architectural Design
North East

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce