Information Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Information Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Information Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 358 402
Rank change year-on-year +53 +44 +37
Contract jobs citing Information Architecture 38 32 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 21
10th Percentile £411 £381 £363
25th Percentile £517 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +37.78% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £500 £550
90th Percentile £752 £688 £600
UK median daily rate £575 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +19.79% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £19.80 £37.63 -
25th Percentile £20.63 £39.76 -
Median hourly rate £22.13 £46.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.08% - -
75th Percentile £23.51 - -
90th Percentile £24.26 £65.32 -
UK median hourly rate £22.13 £46.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.08% -7.64% +14.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Information Architecture 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 11,649 17,108 20,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.43% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,262 10,200 14,248
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 2,053 1,261
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.31 £10.75
25th Percentile £17.26 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.66 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Information Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Architecture in the UK excluding London

Information Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Information Architecture in the UK excluding London

Information Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Architecture in the UK excluding London

Information Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Architecture in the UK excluding London

Information Architecture
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 Information Architecture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 +31 22 £648 +85.00% 8
North West +20 20 £675 +92.86% 2
South West +41 9 £559 +39.75% 8
Midlands +16 4 £461 -2.95%
South East +47 3 £775 +61.46% 19
Yorkshire +15 2 £538 +19.44% 4
West Midlands +11 2 £613 +28.95%
East Midlands - 2 £318 -
Scotland +4 1 - - 9
East of England - 1 £675 - 4
Information Architecture
UK

Information Architecture
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 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.26%) CMS
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.63%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Adobe XD
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (7.89%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.63%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) Figma
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (2.63%) AWS
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (2.63%) dbt
4 1 (2.63%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.63%) ShareGate
4 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Metadata
2 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.63%) Bigtable
3 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Git
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (26.32%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (15.79%) Finance
5 5 (13.16%) Legal
5 5 (13.16%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Local Government
7 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Architect
2 8 (21.05%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Data Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Data Migration Expert
3 4 (10.53%) Designer
3 4 (10.53%) Information Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.89%) UX Designer
5 2 (5.26%) Business Information Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Information Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Migration Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Senior
5 2 (5.26%) UI Designer
5 2 (5.26%) UI/UX Designer
6 1 (2.63%) Associate Director
6 1 (2.63%) Junior UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) CSS
1 3 (7.89%) HTML
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Management Information System
2 5 (13.16%) Data Structures
3 4 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.26%) Data Fabric
5 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.26%) Taxonomies
6 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (28.95%) Migration
3 10 (26.32%) Data Migration
4 8 (21.05%) Agile
4 8 (21.05%) Data Design
4 8 (21.05%) ETL
4 8 (21.05%) Project Management
5 7 (18.42%) Analytics
5 7 (18.42%) Decision-Making
5 7 (18.42%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (15.79%) Information Management
6 6 (15.79%) Risk Management
6 6 (15.79%) User Experience
7 5 (13.16%) Architecture Governance
7 5 (13.16%) Business Analysis
7 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (13.16%) Data Analysis
7 5 (13.16%) Data Modelling
7 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.16%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.63%) ANSI SQL
2 1 (2.63%) Java
2 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.63%) Python
2 1 (2.63%) Scala
2 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.63%) GIAC
4 1 (2.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Accessibility
1 5 (13.16%) NIST
2 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) SAP
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) Adobe
4 1 (2.63%) Ariba
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Hotjar
4 1 (2.63%) Virgin Media