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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 272 298
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 -49
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 146 159 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.70% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.79% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 107 132
10th Percentile £444 £500 £450
25th Percentile £463 £541 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £620 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% -0.80% +23.03%
75th Percentile £688 £734 £700
90th Percentile £750 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £46.70 - £75.15
25th Percentile £62.00 £35.00 £96.00
Median hourly rate £71.93 £66.74 £96.23
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -30.65% +68.31%
75th Percentile £77.70 £75.75 -
90th Percentile £83.90 £75.90 -
UK median hourly rate £68.47 £72.00 £96.23
% change year-on-year -4.91% -25.18% +78.20%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +48 54 £540 -8.09% 22
Midlands +53 47 £500 -23.08% 22
North West +49 43 £530 -5.86% 15
West Midlands +40 30 £550 -13.73% 16
South East +2 25 £675 +3.77% 23
East Midlands +21 17 £460 -31.85% 6
South West -15 15 £450 -37.72% 11
Scotland +20 10 £600 +7.43% 5
Yorkshire +9 9 £588 -18.97% 7
East of England +1 4 £650 +20.37% 12
North East - 4 £413 -
Wales +15 2 £550 -15.38% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
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 3 (2.05%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.68%) Apache
2 1 (0.68%) CMS
2 1 (0.68%) MTS
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (6.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.68%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.68%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.14%) AWS
2 30 (20.55%) Azure
3 17 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.85%) SaaS
5 5 (3.42%) IaaS
5 5 (3.42%) PaaS
5 5 (3.42%) Serverless
6 3 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (2.05%) GCP
7 2 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.37%) GitHub
7 2 (1.37%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.90%) VPN
1 13 (8.90%) WAN
2 12 (8.22%) LAN
3 9 (6.16%) Firewall
3 9 (6.16%) MPLS
3 9 (6.16%) PBX
3 9 (6.16%) VoIP
3 9 (6.16%) WLAN
4 8 (5.48%) Network Security
5 5 (3.42%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (3.42%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (3.42%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (3.42%) DHCP
5 5 (3.42%) DNS
5 5 (3.42%) Internet
5 5 (3.42%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.74%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.68%) MQTT
7 1 (0.68%) RS-232
7 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.53%) Oracle Database
2 11 (7.53%) Oracle Database 11g
3 8 (5.48%) Data Lake
3 8 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.79%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.74%) DB2
6 3 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.05%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.37%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.37%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (9.59%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.85%) JIRA
3 8 (5.48%) Git
4 2 (1.37%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.68%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.68%) GoCD
5 1 (0.68%) Gradle
5 1 (0.68%) JMeter
5 1 (0.68%) JUnit
5 1 (0.68%) Mockito
General
1 24 (16.44%) Banking
1 24 (16.44%) Finance
2 13 (8.90%) Public Sector
2 13 (8.90%) Telecoms
3 11 (7.53%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.74%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.74%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.74%) Marketing
6 3 (2.05%) Electronics
6 3 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.37%) Automotive
7 2 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.37%) Local Government
7 2 (1.37%) Retail
8 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 88 (60.27%) Architect
2 53 (36.30%) Solutions Architect
3 22 (15.07%) Developer
4 11 (7.53%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 10 (6.85%) Enterprise Architect
6 9 (6.16%) Senior
7 8 (5.48%) Security Architect
8 7 (4.79%) Lead
9 6 (4.11%) Applications Architect
10 5 (3.42%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (2.74%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 4 (2.74%) Informatica Developer
11 4 (2.74%) Payments Architect
11 4 (2.74%) Payments Solutions Architect
12 3 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
12 3 (2.05%) Network Architect
12 3 (2.05%) Service Delivery Manager
12 3 (2.05%) Service Manager
12 3 (2.05%) Software Engineer
12 3 (2.05%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.22%) Web Services
2 7 (4.79%) React
2 7 (4.79%) REST
2 7 (4.79%) RESTful
3 6 (4.11%) RAML
3 6 (4.11%) Swagger
4 5 (3.42%) .NET
4 5 (3.42%) HTML
4 5 (3.42%) OpenAPI
5 4 (2.74%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.74%) Spring
5 4 (2.74%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.05%) CSS
6 3 (2.05%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.05%) JPA
6 3 (2.05%) Kafka
6 3 (2.05%) Middleware
7 2 (1.37%) SOAP
7 2 (1.37%) XML
7 2 (1.37%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.53%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (4.79%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.79%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.42%) Credit Risk
3 5 (3.42%) PKI
4 4 (2.74%) CMDB
4 4 (2.74%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.37%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.68%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.68%) IoT
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.68%) Replication
7 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.96%) Android
2 14 (9.59%) Apple iOS
3 9 (6.16%) Windows
4 5 (3.42%) Linux
5 2 (1.37%) Unix
5 2 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (30.82%) DevOps
2 32 (21.92%) Agile
3 28 (19.18%) Migration
4 25 (17.12%) Architectural Patterns
4 25 (17.12%) Project Delivery
5 23 (15.75%) TOGAF
6 22 (15.07%) Computer Science
7 21 (14.38%) Roadmaps
8 20 (13.70%) Software Engineering
9 18 (12.33%) Mentoring
9 18 (12.33%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (11.64%) Data Management
10 17 (11.64%) Service Design
11 16 (10.96%) Microservices
12 15 (10.27%) Analytics
13 14 (9.59%) Architecture Governance
13 14 (9.59%) CRM
13 14 (9.59%) Customer Requirements
14 13 (8.90%) Programme Management
14 13 (8.90%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (15.07%) SQL
2 20 (13.70%) Java
3 11 (7.53%) PL/SQL
4 7 (4.79%) C#
4 7 (4.79%) Python
5 5 (3.42%) C
5 5 (3.42%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.37%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.68%) ABAP
7 1 (0.68%) Bicep
7 1 (0.68%) C++
7 1 (0.68%) Go
7 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.68%) Scala
7 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (19.18%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 24 (16.44%) Degree
4 9 (6.16%) CCIE
4 9 (6.16%) CCIE Data Center
4 9 (6.16%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.11%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.74%) CCNP
7 4 (2.74%) CISSP
8 3 (2.05%) CISM
8 3 (2.05%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.68%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.42%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) COBIT
4 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.68%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.68%) PMO
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (6.16%) AirWatch
1 9 (6.16%) SCCM
2 7 (4.79%) Progress Chef
3 6 (4.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.11%) Terraform
4 5 (3.42%) Ansible
5 2 (1.37%) Grafana
6 1 (0.68%) Kibana
6 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.68%) rkt
Vendors
1 20 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.59%) Oracle
3 10 (6.85%) Cisco
4 9 (6.16%) Apple
5 8 (5.48%) Samsung
6 7 (4.79%) Informatica
7 6 (4.11%) SAP
8 5 (3.42%) CheckPoint
8 5 (3.42%) Infoblox
8 5 (3.42%) Palo Alto
8 5 (3.42%) Symantec
8 5 (3.42%) Zscaler
9 4 (2.74%) VMware
10 2 (1.37%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.68%) Adobe
11 1 (0.68%) Altera
11 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.68%) Google
11 1 (0.68%) IBM
11 1 (0.68%) Xilinx