Architectural Design Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architectural Design
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 249 272
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 +42
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 96 151 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.75% 0.73% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.86% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 99 130
10th Percentile £447 £411 £474
25th Percentile £480 £490 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +2.04% -5.92%
75th Percentile £624 £713 £684
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £52.85 £35.00
25th Percentile £44.23 £59.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £45.02 £70.00 £63.37
Median % change year-on-year -35.69% +10.46% -34.07%
75th Percentile £45.80 £72.90 £73.50
90th Percentile - £83.20 £75.88
UK median hourly rate £45.02 £70.00 £71.50
% change year-on-year -35.69% -2.10% -18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

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 2 May 2025.

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
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 2 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
North of England +8 41 £525 -10.64% 54
North West 0 28 £525 -0.94% 24
South East +28 19 £550 -12.00% 80
Midlands -5 15 £500 -9.09% 30
West Midlands +5 12 £500 -28.57% 15
South West +36 11 £525 +16.67% 36
Yorkshire +6 11 £491 -26.05% 27
Scotland +13 9 £588 -2.08% 20
East Midlands +1 3 £380 -22.37% 11
Wales +5 2 £480 - 14
North East -4 2 £625 +51.43% 4
Northern Ireland -9 1 - - 2
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 5 (5.21%) Confluence
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.13%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (3.13%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (3.13%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (3.13%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (3.13%) Office Communications Server
3 3 (3.13%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (3.13%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.04%) Apache
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.04%) CMS
4 1 (1.04%) JBoss
4 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.04%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Maximo
2 1 (1.04%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (37.50%) AWS
2 16 (16.67%) Azure
3 9 (9.38%) GitHub
4 7 (7.29%) GCP
5 6 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 6 (6.25%) Serverless
6 5 (5.21%) CloudBees
7 4 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.13%) AWS KMS
8 3 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (3.13%) PaaS
8 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.13%) Route 53
8 3 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) DNS
2 4 (4.17%) DHCP
3 3 (3.13%) DDNS
3 3 (3.13%) SAN
3 3 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.13%) VPN
4 2 (2.08%) Firewall
4 2 (2.08%) HTTP
4 2 (2.08%) Internet
4 2 (2.08%) MQTT
5 1 (1.04%) ATM
5 1 (1.04%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.21%) RDBMS
2 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.17%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.13%) Metadata
4 3 (3.13%) MySQL
4 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.08%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.08%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.08%) Power BI
5 2 (2.08%) Power Query
5 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.04%) Flink
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.25%) Git
2 6 (6.25%) JIRA
3 3 (3.13%) JUnit
3 3 (3.13%) Mockito
4 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.04%) Hudson
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
General
1 31 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.67%) Banking
3 14 (14.58%) Finance
4 12 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Automotive
7 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Aviation
8 1 (1.04%) Billing
8 1 (1.04%) Electronics
8 1 (1.04%) Legal
8 1 (1.04%) Military
8 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (71.88%) Architect
2 35 (36.46%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (8.33%) Applications Architect
4 6 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
4 6 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 6 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 6 (6.25%) Payments Architect
4 6 (6.25%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.21%) Developer
5 5 (5.21%) Lead
5 5 (5.21%) Senior
5 5 (5.21%) Senior Architect
6 4 (4.17%) AWS Architect
6 4 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 4 (4.17%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Exchange Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Exchange Support
7 3 (3.13%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.29%) Kafka
1 7 (7.29%) REST
2 6 (6.25%) Spring
3 5 (5.21%) HTML
4 4 (4.17%) Hibernate
4 4 (4.17%) jQuery
4 4 (4.17%) Middleware
4 4 (4.17%) OAuth
4 4 (4.17%) OAuth2
4 4 (4.17%) OpenID
4 4 (4.17%) SAML
4 4 (4.17%) Web Services
5 3 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.13%) RESTful
5 3 (3.13%) Spring Boot
5 3 (3.13%) WireMock
6 2 (2.08%) CSS3
6 2 (2.08%) HTML5
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (2.08%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.50%) IoT
2 7 (7.29%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.29%) Blockchain
3 6 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.25%) Device Driver
3 6 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.13%) Replication
6 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.08%) Infotainment
6 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.08%) NHS
6 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.08%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Linux
2 5 (5.21%) Windows
3 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (2.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.50%) Agile
2 23 (23.96%) Technical Leadership
3 22 (22.92%) DevOps
4 20 (20.83%) Enterprise Architecture
5 19 (19.79%) Migration
5 19 (19.79%) Roadmaps
6 18 (18.75%) Microservices
7 17 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
8 16 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 15 (15.63%) SDLC
10 14 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (11.46%) Computer Science
11 11 (11.46%) Project Management
12 10 (10.42%) Analytics
12 10 (10.42%) Containerisation
12 10 (10.42%) Decision-Making
12 10 (10.42%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (10.42%) SOA
12 10 (10.42%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.58%) Java
2 13 (13.54%) JavaScript
3 10 (10.42%) Python
4 6 (6.25%) Embedded C
5 5 (5.21%) C
5 5 (5.21%) Kotlin
5 5 (5.21%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.21%) SQL
6 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.08%) Groovy
6 2 (2.08%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.04%) C#
7 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.58%) Degree
2 14 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (7.29%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.25%) Master's Degree
6 5 (5.21%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.08%) CITP
8 2 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.04%) CISM
9 1 (1.04%) CISSP
9 1 (1.04%) MCSE
9 1 (1.04%) Postgraduate
9 1 (1.04%) RIBA
9 1 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.08%) SEPA
3 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) GRC
3 1 (1.04%) NCSC
3 1 (1.04%) NIST
3 1 (1.04%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) Docker
2 6 (6.25%) Firmware
3 5 (5.21%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.13%) Brightmail
4 3 (3.13%) ISA Server
4 3 (3.13%) vCloud
4 3 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.13%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (19.79%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.29%) Terraform
3 4 (4.17%) Grafana
4 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.29%) Google
2 7 (7.29%) VMware
3 5 (5.21%) Oracle
3 5 (5.21%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.17%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.08%) Adobe
5 2 (2.08%) Databricks
5 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) Calypso
6 1 (1.04%) EMC
6 1 (1.04%) Genesys
6 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.04%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.04%) SAP
6 1 (1.04%) Siemens
6 1 (1.04%) Sybase
6 1 (1.04%) Workday
6 1 (1.04%) Xilinx