Architectural Patterns Contracts

Architectural Patterns
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 348 308 345
Rank change year-on-year -40 +37 -53
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 178 295 423
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.68% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.78% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 184 288
10th Percentile £450 £449 £425
25th Percentile £480 £515 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £700 £769 £723
90th Percentile £788 £796 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £650 £630
% change year-on-year -7.69% +3.17% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £68.70
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 £81.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.20% +8.00% +57.89%
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £91.69 £81.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year +13.20% -10.00% +89.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Architectural Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Patterns.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Patterns.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK

Architectural Patterns
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England -55 129 £624 -3.96% 328
UK excluding London +29 74 £600 -7.69% 185
London -41 67 £656 +0.19% 193
Work from Home -15 56 £550 -12.70% 153
North of England -9 20 £525 -0.94% 60
South East +39 14 £688 +10.00% 48
Scotland +17 12 £674 -3.71% 25
North West -6 12 £600 +14.29% 38
South West +30 11 £550 -6.38% 22
Midlands +17 11 £700 - 10
West Midlands +15 11 £700 - 6
Yorkshire +2 6 £490 -27.41% 18
Wales - 4 £375 - 3
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 4
North East -1 2 £527 -10.27% 5
East of England +29 1 - - 19

Architectural Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.81%) Anypoint
1 5 (2.81%) Mule
2 3 (1.69%) Confluence
3 2 (1.12%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) OpenROAD
4 1 (0.56%) Sitefinity
4 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.12%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (45.51%) AWS
2 66 (37.08%) Azure
3 30 (16.85%) GCP
4 28 (15.73%) Serverless
5 19 (10.67%) GitHub
6 14 (7.87%) Amazon ELB
7 11 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (5.06%) SaaS
10 8 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.49%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (4.49%) PaaS
11 7 (3.93%) IaaS
12 5 (2.81%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.81%) CloudBees
12 5 (2.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (2.25%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (2.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.37%) LAN
1 6 (3.37%) WAN
2 5 (2.81%) Firewall
2 5 (2.81%) HTTP
3 3 (1.69%) IPsec
3 3 (1.69%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.69%) SSL
4 2 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.56%) DNS
5 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.56%) Network Security
5 1 (0.56%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (7.30%) Relational Database
2 12 (6.74%) MongoDB
2 12 (6.74%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.49%) MySQL
4 7 (3.93%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.81%) Metadata
5 5 (2.81%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.25%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.69%) Redis
8 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.56%) Big Data
9 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (9.55%) Git
2 13 (7.30%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.37%) Maven
4 5 (2.81%) git-flow
4 5 (2.81%) Mockito
5 4 (2.25%) GitLab
5 4 (2.25%) Gradle
5 4 (2.25%) JUnit
6 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.69%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.69%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.69%) Plastic SCM
6 3 (1.69%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.69%) TestNG
7 2 (1.12%) JIRA
8 1 (0.56%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.56%) Storybook
General
1 63 (35.39%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.29%) Finance
3 26 (14.61%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.11%) Banking
5 13 (7.30%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.49%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.37%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.81%) Military
9 5 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.81%) Retail
10 4 (2.25%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.69%) Games
11 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.69%) Legal
11 3 (1.69%) Marketing
12 2 (1.12%) Front Office
12 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Back Office
13 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 114 (64.04%) Architect
2 36 (20.22%) Developer
3 33 (18.54%) Solutions Architect
4 28 (15.73%) Technical Architect
5 23 (12.92%) Senior
6 17 (9.55%) AWS Architect
7 14 (7.87%) Senior Architect
8 13 (7.30%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (5.62%) Security Architect
10 7 (3.93%) Lead
11 6 (3.37%) Azure Architect
11 6 (3.37%) Node.js Developer
11 6 (3.37%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.37%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.81%) .NET Architect
12 5 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (2.81%) MuleSoft Developer
12 5 (2.81%) Salesforce Architect
13 4 (2.25%) .NET Technical Architect
13 4 (2.25%) Java Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.04%) RESTful
2 14 (7.87%) JSON
3 12 (6.74%) OpenAPI
3 12 (6.74%) Swagger
4 10 (5.62%) .NET
4 10 (5.62%) Kafka
4 10 (5.62%) Node.js
5 9 (5.06%) HTML
5 9 (5.06%) RAML
5 9 (5.06%) SOAP
5 9 (5.06%) Web Services
5 9 (5.06%) XML
6 8 (4.49%) OAuth
6 8 (4.49%) React
7 7 (3.93%) AWS CDK
7 7 (3.93%) CSS
7 7 (3.93%) Middleware
7 7 (3.93%) REST
7 7 (3.93%) Spring
8 6 (3.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.67%) Onboarding
2 16 (8.99%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.30%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.06%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.25%) Genomics
6 4 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.25%) LIMS
6 4 (2.25%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.69%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.12%) Derivative
8 2 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.12%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.18%) Windows
2 8 (4.49%) Android
2 8 (4.49%) Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.12%) Unix
4 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (33.71%) Agile
2 53 (29.78%) DevOps
3 44 (24.72%) Design Patterns
4 43 (24.16%) CI/CD
4 43 (24.16%) Microservices
5 39 (21.91%) Architectural Design
6 33 (18.54%) Enterprise Architecture
6 33 (18.54%) Roadmaps
7 31 (17.42%) Event-Driven
8 29 (16.29%) Migration
9 26 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (12.92%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (10.11%) High Availability
11 18 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (9.55%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (9.55%) Data Architecture
12 17 (9.55%) Data Migration
12 17 (9.55%) Software Engineering
13 16 (8.99%) Decision-Making
13 16 (8.99%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 33 (18.54%) Java
2 24 (13.48%) Python
3 18 (10.11%) JavaScript
4 15 (8.43%) Kotlin
5 14 (7.87%) SQL
6 11 (6.18%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.06%) C#
8 6 (3.37%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.81%) DataWeave
9 5 (2.81%) Ruby
9 5 (2.81%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.69%) ABAP
10 3 (1.69%) C++
10 3 (1.69%) Swift
11 2 (1.12%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.12%) Groovy
11 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.12%) Rust
12 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (22.47%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.10%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.11%) Degree
4 14 (7.87%) AWS Certification
5 11 (6.18%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (5.06%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.81%) CISSP
8 5 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.69%) CAPM
9 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.69%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.12%) CCSP
10 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.12%) CITP
10 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.62%) QA
2 4 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.12%) GDPR
4 2 (1.12%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.12%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.56%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.56%) NCSC
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (12.92%) Docker
2 4 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.69%) RACF
4 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (9.55%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.06%) Terraform
3 6 (3.37%) Ansible
4 5 (2.81%) Grafana
4 5 (2.81%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.69%) Packer
6 2 (1.12%) CASB
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.56%) SCOM
7 1 (0.56%) vRealize
7 1 (0.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.67%) Google
3 13 (7.30%) MuleSoft
3 13 (7.30%) Salesforce
4 9 (5.06%) Databricks
5 8 (4.49%) Oracle
6 4 (2.25%) DocuSign
6 4 (2.25%) LabVantage
6 4 (2.25%) SAP
6 4 (2.25%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.12%) Adobe
7 2 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.12%) BT
7 2 (1.12%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.12%) IBM
7 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.12%) Temenos
7 2 (1.12%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.56%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (0.56%) VMware