Architectural Design Contracts in the West Midlands

Architectural Design
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design 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 85 89 124
Rank change year-on-year +4 +35 +31
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 12 22 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.89% 1.13% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.34% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 10
10th Percentile - £528 £447
25th Percentile - £550 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £535
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +30.84% +0.71%
75th Percentile £529 £775 £659
90th Percentile £613 - £813
England median daily rate £614 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +2.29% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £71.93 -
England median hourly rate - £67.50 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -4.93% -19.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the West Midlands

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the West Midlands

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the West Midlands

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the West Midlands

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Warwickshire +2 6 £500 -33.33% 2
Birmingham +9 2 - - 4
Shropshire - 1 £539 -
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (25.00%) Route 53
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (25.00%) JUnit
1 3 (25.00%) Mockito
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Applications Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (25.00%) HTML
2 3 (25.00%) jQuery
2 3 (25.00%) REST
2 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (25.00%) Web Services
2 3 (25.00%) WireMock
3 1 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (8.33%) Django
3 1 (8.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (8.33%) Flask
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Blockchain
1 4 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 4 (33.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Microservices
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
4 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (33.33%) Interface Catalogue
4 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Project Planning
4 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 4 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (33.33%) SOA
4 4 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (25.00%) BDD
5 3 (25.00%) Kanban
5 3 (25.00%) SDLC
5 3 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (8.33%) Siemens