Architectural Patterns Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Patterns over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 291 329
Rank change year-on-year +29 +38 -55
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 74 109 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.62% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 67 79
10th Percentile £455 £490 £496
25th Percentile £480 £534 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £630
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +3.17% +2.86%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £723
90th Percentile £755 £775 £740
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 £81.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.20% -10.00% +89.47%
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £91.69 £81.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +13.20% +8.00% +57.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
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 £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 -9 20 £525 -0.94% 145
South East +39 14 £688 +10.00% 131
Scotland +17 12 £674 -3.71% 41
North West -6 12 £600 +14.29% 77
South West +30 11 £550 -6.38% 67
Midlands +17 11 £700 - 88
West Midlands +15 11 £700 - 47
Yorkshire +2 6 £490 -27.41% 54
Wales - 4 £375 - 13
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 12
North East -1 2 £527 -10.27% 15
East of England +29 1 - - 78
Architectural Patterns
UK

Architectural Patterns
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 4 (5.41%) Anypoint
1 4 (5.41%) Mule
2 1 (1.35%) CMS
2 1 (1.35%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (48.65%) Azure
2 31 (41.89%) AWS
3 14 (18.92%) GCP
4 11 (14.86%) Serverless
5 8 (10.81%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (9.46%) GitHub
7 5 (6.76%) CloudBees
8 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (4.05%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.05%) SaaS
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.70%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) LAN
1 5 (6.76%) WAN
2 2 (2.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.05%) Metadata
1 3 (4.05%) Metadata Repository
1 3 (4.05%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.70%) BigQuery
2 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.35%) DataStage
3 1 (1.35%) DB2
3 1 (1.35%) QualityStage
3 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Git
2 7 (9.46%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.05%) Plastic SCM
4 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.35%) Storybook
General
1 29 (39.19%) Social Skills
2 19 (25.68%) Public Sector
3 13 (17.57%) Finance
4 4 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.05%) Games
5 3 (4.05%) Legal
5 3 (4.05%) Military
6 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.70%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.70%) Retail
6 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Back Office
7 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (75.68%) Architect
2 20 (27.03%) Solutions Architect
3 16 (21.62%) Technical Architect
4 10 (13.51%) Senior
5 9 (12.16%) Developer
5 9 (12.16%) Senior Architect
6 7 (9.46%) Security Architect
7 6 (8.11%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (6.76%) .NET Architect
9 4 (5.41%) .NET Technical Architect
9 4 (5.41%) Applications Architect
9 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Java Applications Architect
9 4 (5.41%) Java Architect
9 4 (5.41%) Java Technical Architect
9 4 (5.41%) MuleSoft Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.05%) AWS Architect
10 3 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Games Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) .NET
2 5 (6.76%) Middleware
2 5 (6.76%) RESTful
2 5 (6.76%) SOAP
3 4 (5.41%) JSON
3 4 (5.41%) OpenAPI
3 4 (5.41%) RAML
3 4 (5.41%) Swagger
3 4 (5.41%) XML
4 3 (4.05%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 2 (2.70%) JMS
5 2 (2.70%) Kafka
5 2 (2.70%) OAuth
6 1 (1.35%) Apache Axis
6 1 (1.35%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.35%) CSS
6 1 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.35%) REST
6 1 (1.35%) SAML
6 1 (1.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.46%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.76%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) CCTV
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.16%) Windows
2 6 (8.11%) Linux
3 2 (2.70%) Unix
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.14%) Agile
2 25 (33.78%) DevOps
3 20 (27.03%) Microservices
4 17 (22.97%) CI/CD
4 17 (22.97%) Enterprise Architecture
5 16 (21.62%) Architectural Design
5 16 (21.62%) Event-Driven
6 14 (18.92%) Design Patterns
7 13 (17.57%) Integration Patterns
7 13 (17.57%) Roadmaps
8 12 (16.22%) Migration
9 11 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (10.81%) Data Security
11 7 (9.46%) API Management
11 7 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (9.46%) Data Architecture
11 7 (9.46%) Decision-Making
11 7 (9.46%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.62%) Java
2 10 (13.51%) Python
3 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
3 6 (8.11%) Kotlin
4 5 (6.76%) C#
4 5 (6.76%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.41%) DataWeave
6 3 (4.05%) SQL
7 2 (2.70%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.70%) Groovy
8 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.35%) Ruby
8 1 (1.35%) Scala
8 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 13 (17.57%) AWS Certification
4 11 (14.86%) Azure Certification
5 9 (12.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (9.46%) Degree
7 6 (8.11%) Master's Degree
8 4 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (4.05%) CISSP
9 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.70%) CCSP
10 2 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (2.70%) CITP
10 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) QA
2 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.35%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.35%) NCSC
2 1 (1.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (8.11%) Docker
2 3 (4.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.70%) CASB
2 2 (2.70%) Grafana
2 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.81%) Google
2 8 (10.81%) MuleSoft
3 5 (6.76%) Databricks
4 4 (5.41%) Virgin Media
5 3 (4.05%) Oracle
5 3 (4.05%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.70%) Cloudera
6 2 (2.70%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.35%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.35%) IBM
7 1 (1.35%) Okta
7 1 (1.35%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.35%) Sybase
7 1 (1.35%) Zscaler