Information Architecture Contracts

Information Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Information Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Architecture over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 574 610
Rank change year-on-year +65 +36 -65
Contract jobs citing Information Architecture 69 108 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.21% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 63 160
10th Percentile £271 £363 £400
25th Percentile £397 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £569 £613 £632
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £37.63 £45.75 £10.50
25th Percentile £39.76 £46.88 £24.88
Median hourly rate £46.18 £50.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% +14.94% -1.14%
75th Percentile - £54.38 £44.35
90th Percentile £65.32 £56.25 £52.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 - £27.48

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Information Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,498 50,798 79,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 89.72% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,542 35,172 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £482
% change year-on-year - +3.73% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,685 1,905
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £15.99 £15.53
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -5.88%

Information Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Information Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Architecture.

Daily rate trend for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Architecture over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Architecture.

Hourly rate trend for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Architecture over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 May 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
England +83 59 £480 -4.00% 26
London +70 33 £513 - 11
UK excluding London +51 31 £450 -5.26% 16
Work from Home +109 28 £500 +5.26% 12
North of England +38 9 £350 -36.36% 3
South West +9 9 £400 -20.00% 5
North West - 8 £350 - 1
Scotland +41 6 £465 +9.41%
South East +13 6 £451 -11.95%
Midlands - 2 £475 - 5
West Midlands - 2 £475 - 4
Yorkshire +11 1 £450 -18.18% 2

Information Architecture
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 20 (28.99%) SharePoint
2 7 (10.14%) SharePoint Server
3 6 (8.70%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (7.25%) CMS
4 5 (7.25%) SharePoint 2013
5 4 (5.80%) Confluence
6 1 (1.45%) Drupal
6 1 (1.45%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.80%) Adobe XD
3 3 (4.35%) InVision
3 3 (4.35%) Sketch
4 2 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.90%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.45%) Acrobat
5 1 (1.45%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 17 (24.64%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (13.04%) Figma
3 7 (10.14%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.25%) Azure
5 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.35%) OneDrive
6 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.90%) GCP
7 2 (2.90%) Google App Engine
7 2 (2.90%) Miro
7 2 (2.90%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.45%) Contentful
8 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.45%) Google Docs
8 1 (1.45%) IaaS
8 1 (1.45%) PaaS
8 1 (1.45%) SaaS
8 1 (1.45%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) Metadata
2 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Power View
2 6 (8.70%) PowerPivot
2 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (7.25%) Power BI
4 4 (5.80%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (4.35%) CockroachDB
5 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.45%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (5.80%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.45%) Balsamiq
General
1 22 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (17.39%) Finance
4 11 (15.94%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.14%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (10.14%) Publishing
6 5 (7.25%) Banking
7 4 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.80%) Law
7 4 (5.80%) Marketing
8 3 (4.35%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.35%) Legal
9 2 (2.90%) Local Government
9 2 (2.90%) Public Speaking
9 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.45%) Games
10 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (24.64%) Designer
2 12 (17.39%) Architect
3 9 (13.04%) UX Designer
4 8 (11.59%) Information Architect
4 8 (11.59%) Project Manager
5 6 (8.70%) Content Designer
5 6 (8.70%) SharePoint Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Administrator
6 5 (7.25%) Technical Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Technical Project Manager
7 4 (5.80%) Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Intranet Administrator
8 3 (4.35%) SharePoint Project Manager
8 3 (4.35%) UI Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) UX Engineer
9 2 (2.90%) Data Modeller
9 2 (2.90%) Java Developer
9 2 (2.90%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.29%) HTML
2 13 (18.84%) CSS
3 4 (5.80%) CSS3
4 3 (4.35%) JPA
4 3 (4.35%) REST
4 3 (4.35%) Spring
4 3 (4.35%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.45%) CAML
5 1 (1.45%) jQuery
5 1 (1.45%) Middleware
5 1 (1.45%) SPFx
5 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.39%) Product Ownership
2 11 (15.94%) Taxonomies
3 10 (14.49%) Management Information System
4 5 (7.25%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.80%) Wiki
6 2 (2.90%) CMDB
6 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.45%) Acoustics
7 1 (1.45%) Animation
7 1 (1.45%) Blog
7 1 (1.45%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) IoT
7 1 (1.45%) Mobile Games
7 1 (1.45%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (37.68%) Agile
1 26 (37.68%) User Experience
2 16 (23.19%) UX Design
3 15 (21.74%) Wireframes
4 13 (18.84%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 11 (15.94%) Metadata Management
6 9 (13.04%) Data Modelling
6 9 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (13.04%) User Research
6 9 (13.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 9 (13.04%) Workshop Facilitation
7 8 (11.59%) Project Management
7 8 (11.59%) SDLC
7 8 (11.59%) Storyboarding
8 7 (10.14%) Microservices
8 7 (10.14%) Migration
9 6 (8.70%) Data Management
9 6 (8.70%) Data Science
9 6 (8.70%) ITIL
9 6 (8.70%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.94%) SQL
2 9 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 8 (11.59%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.80%) Java
5 1 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (11.59%) Degree
2 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.35%) WCAG
3 2 (2.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.90%) GDPR
4 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 15 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.70%) VMware
3 4 (5.80%) Freshdesk
3 4 (5.80%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (4.35%) Adobe
5 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.45%) Google
6 1 (1.45%) SAP