Architectural Design Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architectural Design
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Architectural Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Design over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 288 321
Rank change year-on-year +20 +33 -69
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 128 163 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.69% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.78% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 111 118
10th Percentile £409 £479 £450
25th Percentile £463 £529 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £594 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -5.03% +25.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £741
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £52.85 £35.00 £75.15
25th Percentile £59.00 £41.25 £96.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.37 £96.23
Median % change year-on-year +10.46% -34.15% +119.95%
75th Percentile £72.90 £73.50 -
90th Percentile £83.20 £75.88 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £71.50 £96.00
% change year-on-year -2.10% -25.52% +119.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Architectural Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the UK excluding London

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the UK excluding London

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the UK excluding London

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the UK excluding London

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architectural Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architectural Design in the UK excluding London

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
North of England +49 43 £530 -7.83% 22
Midlands +58 34 £550 -8.33% 15
South East +20 34 £675 +18.54% 24
North West +36 32 £530 -5.86% 11
West Midlands +33 21 £700 +12.00% 7
South West -4 17 £450 -30.77% 16
East Midlands +36 13 £467 -18.78% 8
Yorkshire +16 9 £588 -11.32% 4
Scotland +8 5 £600 +6.76% 5
North East - 4 £413 - 7
East of England +4 3 £575 +7.48% 14
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
Wales +11 1 - - 6
Architectural Design
UK

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.78%) CMS
2 1 (0.78%) MTS
2 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.78%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (30.47%) AWS
2 32 (25.00%) Azure
3 17 (13.28%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (8.59%) SaaS
5 5 (3.91%) IaaS
5 5 (3.91%) PaaS
6 4 (3.13%) Serverless
7 3 (2.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.56%) GCP
8 2 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.78%) Apigee
9 1 (0.78%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.78%) Firebase
9 1 (0.78%) GitHub
9 1 (0.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.16%) VPN
1 13 (10.16%) WAN
2 12 (9.38%) LAN
3 9 (7.03%) Firewall
3 9 (7.03%) MPLS
3 9 (7.03%) PBX
3 9 (7.03%) VoIP
3 9 (7.03%) WLAN
4 5 (3.91%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (3.91%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (3.91%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (3.91%) DHCP
4 5 (3.91%) DNS
4 5 (3.91%) Internet
4 5 (3.91%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (3.13%) Network Security
6 2 (1.56%) RS-232
7 1 (0.78%) HTTP
7 1 (0.78%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.28%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.72%) Oracle Database
2 15 (11.72%) Oracle Database 11g
3 8 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.13%) DB2
5 3 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.34%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.56%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.56%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.78%) Power BI
7 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.34%) JIRA
2 3 (2.34%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.78%) Crashlytics
3 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.78%) Git
3 1 (0.78%) GoCD
3 1 (0.78%) Gradle
3 1 (0.78%) JMeter
3 1 (0.78%) JUnit
3 1 (0.78%) Mockito
General
1 24 (18.75%) Finance
2 16 (12.50%) Banking
3 13 (10.16%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.38%) Telecoms
5 8 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.34%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.34%) Retail
8 2 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Local Government
9 1 (0.78%) Automotive
9 1 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.78%) Electronics
9 1 (0.78%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (56.25%) Architect
2 44 (34.38%) Solutions Architect
3 25 (19.53%) Developer
4 14 (10.94%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 11 (8.59%) Senior
6 10 (7.81%) Enterprise Architect
7 6 (4.69%) Applications Architect
8 4 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (3.13%) Informatica Developer
8 4 (3.13%) Security Architect
8 4 (3.13%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.34%) Commercial Architect
9 3 (2.34%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 3 (2.34%) Digital Architect
9 3 (2.34%) Digital Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.34%) Lead
9 3 (2.34%) Payments Architect
9 3 (2.34%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.34%) Salesforce Architect
9 3 (2.34%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.38%) Web Services
2 8 (6.25%) REST
3 7 (5.47%) .NET
3 7 (5.47%) React
3 7 (5.47%) RESTful
4 6 (4.69%) RAML
4 6 (4.69%) Swagger
5 5 (3.91%) OpenAPI
6 4 (3.13%) HTML
6 4 (3.13%) Spring
6 4 (3.13%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.34%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.34%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.34%) JPA
7 3 (2.34%) Middleware
8 2 (1.56%) CSS3
8 2 (1.56%) gRPC
8 2 (1.56%) Kafka
8 2 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.59%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (5.47%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.47%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.13%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.34%) PKI
4 3 (2.34%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.56%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.78%) FPGA
6 1 (0.78%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.78%) IoT
6 1 (0.78%) Life Science
6 1 (0.78%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.78%) Robotics
6 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.47%) Android
1 7 (5.47%) Windows
2 6 (4.69%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.34%) Linux
4 2 (1.56%) Unix
4 2 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (32.03%) DevOps
2 32 (25.00%) Agile
3 31 (24.22%) Migration
4 26 (20.31%) Project Delivery
5 25 (19.53%) Software Engineering
6 22 (17.19%) Computer Science
6 22 (17.19%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (16.41%) Architectural Patterns
8 19 (14.84%) Mentoring
9 18 (14.06%) Service Design
9 18 (14.06%) Software Testing
10 17 (13.28%) Data Management
10 17 (13.28%) Microservices
11 16 (12.50%) Clean Code
11 16 (12.50%) Unit Testing
12 15 (11.72%) Data Migration
12 15 (11.72%) Enterprise Architecture
12 15 (11.72%) Roadmaps
12 15 (11.72%) Secure Coding
12 15 (11.72%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.31%) SQL
2 20 (15.63%) Java
3 15 (11.72%) PL/SQL
4 8 (6.25%) C#
5 6 (4.69%) C
6 4 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.13%) Python
7 2 (1.56%) C++
7 2 (1.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.78%) ABAP
8 1 (0.78%) Bicep
8 1 (0.78%) Go
8 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.78%) Scala
8 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (17.97%) Degree
1 23 (17.97%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.03%) CCIE
3 9 (7.03%) CCIE Data Center
3 9 (7.03%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.13%) CCNP
5 4 (3.13%) CISSP
5 4 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.34%) CISM
6 3 (2.34%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.78%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.34%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) COBIT
4 1 (0.78%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.78%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.78%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.13%) Terraform
3 3 (2.34%) Ansible
4 2 (1.56%) Grafana
5 1 (0.78%) Kibana
5 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.78%) rkt
Vendors
1 18 (14.06%) Oracle
2 10 (7.81%) Cisco
3 7 (5.47%) Informatica
3 7 (5.47%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.91%) CheckPoint
4 5 (3.91%) Infoblox
4 5 (3.91%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.91%) Symantec
4 5 (3.91%) Zscaler
5 4 (3.13%) SAP
6 3 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.56%) VMware
8 1 (0.78%) Altera
8 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.78%) BT
8 1 (0.78%) Databricks
8 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.78%) IBM
8 1 (0.78%) Splunk
8 1 (0.78%) Xilinx