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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 291 324
Rank change year-on-year +28 +33 -47
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 85 105 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.52% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.61% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 62 76
10th Percentile £400 £450 £504
25th Percentile £464 £503 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £638
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -7.84% +2.82%
75th Percentile £694 £744 £723
90th Percentile £738 £774 £750
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 11,752 17,125 20,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.40% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,324 10,208 14,216
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,061 1,259
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

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 17 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 17 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
South East +43 22 £688 +7.84% 39
North of England 0 22 £496 -2.90% 53
North West +1 15 £600 +20.00% 31
Scotland +17 13 £674 -3.71% 38
South West +27 11 £550 -6.38% 18
Midlands +10 11 £620 -8.15% 16
West Midlands +7 11 £620 -11.43% 12
Yorkshire +11 6 £490 -21.60% 16
Wales - 4 £375 - 4
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 7
East of England +26 1 - - 14
North East -5 1 £430 -26.81% 6
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 (4.71%) Anypoint
1 4 (4.71%) Mule
2 2 (2.35%) Camunda
3 1 (1.18%) CMS
3 1 (1.18%) JBoss
3 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.18%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (50.59%) Azure
2 34 (40.00%) AWS
3 16 (18.82%) GCP
4 14 (16.47%) Serverless
5 10 (11.76%) GitHub
6 8 (9.41%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.88%) CloudBees
7 5 (5.88%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (3.53%) SaaS
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.35%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (2.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (2.35%) CloudFront
10 2 (2.35%) PaaS
10 2 (2.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) LAN
1 7 (8.24%) WAN
2 3 (3.53%) 4G
2 3 (3.53%) 5G
2 3 (3.53%) DOCSIS
2 3 (3.53%) GPON
2 3 (3.53%) LTE
2 3 (3.53%) MPLS
2 3 (3.53%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (3.53%) VoIP
2 3 (3.53%) xDSL
3 2 (2.35%) Converged Networks
3 2 (2.35%) Firewall
4 1 (1.18%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.71%) GIS
1 4 (4.71%) Metadata
1 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.35%) Delta Lake
3 2 (2.35%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.35%) Power BI
4 1 (1.18%) DataStage
4 1 (1.18%) DB2
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.18%) QualityStage
4 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (10.59%) Git
1 9 (10.59%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.53%) Plastic SCM
3 2 (2.35%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.35%) Storybook
4 1 (1.18%) GitLab
4 1 (1.18%) Gradle
4 1 (1.18%) JIRA
4 1 (1.18%) JUnit
4 1 (1.18%) Maven
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 17 (20.00%) Finance
4 5 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.53%) Banking
5 3 (3.53%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.53%) Games
5 3 (3.53%) Military
5 3 (3.53%) Retail
6 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.18%) Back Office
7 1 (1.18%) Legal
7 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (76.47%) Architect
2 25 (29.41%) Solutions Architect
3 18 (21.18%) Technical Architect
4 12 (14.12%) Developer
5 8 (9.41%) Senior
6 6 (7.06%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (7.06%) Senior Architect
7 5 (5.88%) .NET Architect
8 4 (4.71%) .NET Technical Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Applications Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Java Applications Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Java Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Java Technical Architect
8 4 (4.71%) MuleSoft Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Games Developer
9 3 (3.53%) OSS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.24%) Middleware
1 7 (8.24%) SOAP
2 6 (7.06%) .NET
2 6 (7.06%) RESTful
3 4 (4.71%) JSON
3 4 (4.71%) OpenAPI
3 4 (4.71%) RAML
3 4 (4.71%) Swagger
3 4 (4.71%) XML
4 3 (3.53%) Kafka
4 3 (3.53%) REST
4 3 (3.53%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 2 (2.35%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.35%) CSS
5 2 (2.35%) Jest
5 2 (2.35%) JMS
5 2 (2.35%) OAuth
5 2 (2.35%) Playwright
5 2 (2.35%) React
5 2 (2.35%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.24%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.53%) TM Forum
4 2 (2.35%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) IoT
4 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.35%) SCADA
5 1 (1.18%) CCTV
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.59%) Linux
1 9 (10.59%) Windows
2 1 (1.18%) Unix
2 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.65%) DevOps
2 28 (32.94%) Agile
3 26 (30.59%) Microservices
4 21 (24.71%) CI/CD
4 21 (24.71%) Enterprise Architecture
5 20 (23.53%) Event-Driven
6 16 (18.82%) Architectural Design
7 14 (16.47%) Migration
7 14 (16.47%) Roadmaps
8 13 (15.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (15.29%) Design Patterns
8 13 (15.29%) Integration Patterns
9 12 (14.12%) Machine Learning
9 12 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (11.76%) Analytics
10 10 (11.76%) IT Strategy
10 10 (11.76%) TOGAF
11 9 (10.59%) API Management
11 9 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.00%) Java
2 13 (15.29%) Python
3 7 (8.24%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.06%) Kotlin
4 6 (7.06%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.88%) C#
5 5 (5.88%) SQL
6 4 (4.71%) DataWeave
7 2 (2.35%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.35%) Bicep
7 2 (2.35%) Groovy
7 2 (2.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.18%) Ruby
8 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.47%) AWS Certification
3 13 (15.29%) Azure Certification
4 11 (12.94%) SC Cleared
5 9 (10.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (9.41%) Degree
7 6 (7.06%) Master's Degree
8 5 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (2.35%) CITP
11 2 (2.35%) DV Cleared
12 1 (1.18%) CISSP
12 1 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (1.18%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.35%) GDPR
3 2 (2.35%) OASIS TOSCA
4 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.18%) NCSC
4 1 (1.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (7.06%) Docker
2 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (14.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.53%) Ansible
2 3 (3.53%) Grafana
2 3 (3.53%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.53%) Terraform
3 2 (2.35%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.76%) MuleSoft
3 8 (9.41%) Google
4 7 (8.24%) Databricks
5 4 (4.71%) Oracle
5 4 (4.71%) Virgin Media
6 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.35%) Amdocs
7 2 (2.35%) Cloudera
7 2 (2.35%) Ericsson
7 2 (2.35%) ESRI
7 2 (2.35%) Huawei
7 2 (2.35%) Informatica
7 2 (2.35%) NetCracker
7 2 (2.35%) Nokia
7 2 (2.35%) SAP
8 1 (1.18%) Autodesk
8 1 (1.18%) IBM
8 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.18%) Sybase