Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Architectural Design
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warwickshire requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 36 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 13 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 2.56% 2.06% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 2.38% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £444 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% - -
75th Percentile £650 £688 -
90th Percentile £760 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £563 £650 £548
% change year-on-year -13.46% +18.72% +10.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Warwickshire

Architectural Design 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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 431 294 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 84.84% 86.47% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 169 199
10th Percentile £303 £413 £214
25th Percentile £400 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +10.20% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £605
90th Percentile £725 £670 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £494
% change year-on-year -3.75% +5.22% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 9
10th Percentile £16.11 - £19.60
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £28.42
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -29.63% +97.91%
75th Percentile £35.60 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile - - £38.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £28.34
% change year-on-year -7.36% -23.80% +67.32%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in Warwickshire

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Warwick -5 8 £650 -3.70%
Leamington Spa - 2 £363 -
Architectural Design
West Midlands

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) SaaS
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (15.38%) Collibra
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Metadata
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Architect
2 10 (76.92%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Lead Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Strategy Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Network Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Network Technical Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) OAuth
1 2 (15.38%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) Business Case
2 5 (38.46%) Building Information Modelling
2 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
2 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
2 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (38.46%) Waterfall
3 4 (30.77%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (23.08%) AI
4 3 (23.08%) Architecture Governance
4 3 (23.08%) Architecture Roadmap
4 3 (23.08%) Co-Creation
4 3 (23.08%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
4 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Generative AI
4 3 (23.08%) Line Management
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) QA
3 1 (7.69%) ISO 19650
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Informatica
1 2 (15.38%) OneTrust
1 2 (15.38%) Palantir
2 1 (7.69%) Autodesk
2 1 (7.69%) Workday