Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Architectural Design
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 100 96
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 +27
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 24 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.03% 0.67% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.77% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 8
10th Percentile £456 £482 £425
25th Percentile £513 £536 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £625 £548
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +14.16% +10.61%
75th Percentile £641 £656 £838
90th Percentile £650 £675 £841
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - £70.97
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £71.93
75th Percentile £69.99 - £72.90
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +61.11%

All Process & 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 2,005 1,425 1,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.42% 86.31% 84.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,265 888 1,022
10th Percentile £263 £221 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +3.90% -
75th Percentile £584 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 47 52
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.70 £14.57
25th Percentile £16.13 £16.51 £17.67
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £24.80
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -12.94% +46.44%
75th Percentile £27.21 £34.38 £58.13
90th Percentile £35.76 £52.50 £68.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Architectural Design

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 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the West Midlands

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Architectural Design

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 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
Warwickshire -6 12 £638 -5.56%
Birmingham - 5 £588 - 3
Shropshire - 3 £490 - 1
Coventry - 2 £525 -
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £575 -
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.33%) Anypoint
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Workday HCM
2 2 (8.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (20.83%) SaaS
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (8.33%) Collibra
4 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.33%) iPaaS
4 2 (8.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) LAN
2 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.17%) Automotive
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (87.50%) Architect
2 14 (58.33%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Payments Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Strategy Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.33%) MuleSoft Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.17%) FPGA Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Network Technical Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Middleware
2 2 (8.33%) OAuth
2 2 (8.33%) SAML
3 1 (4.17%) MUnit
3 1 (4.17%) NumPy
3 1 (4.17%) RAML
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) SciPy
3 1 (4.17%) Spring
3 1 (4.17%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) FPGA
2 1 (4.17%) MicroBlaze
2 1 (4.17%) RISC-V
2 1 (4.17%) Verilog
2 1 (4.17%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 6 (25.00%) Business Case
3 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (20.83%) Building Information Modelling
4 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
5 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (16.67%) Microservices
5 4 (16.67%) Migration
5 4 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (12.50%) AI
6 3 (12.50%) Architecture Governance
6 3 (12.50%) Architecture Roadmap
6 3 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 3 (12.50%) Co-Creation
6 3 (12.50%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Generative AI
6 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) C
1 1 (4.17%) C++
1 1 (4.17%) Java
1 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
1 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
1 1 (4.17%) Python
1 1 (4.17%) SQL
1 1 (4.17%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
1 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 3 (12.50%) GDPR
2 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.17%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.50%) Workday
2 2 (8.33%) Informatica
2 2 (8.33%) MuleSoft
2 2 (8.33%) OneTrust
2 2 (8.33%) Palantir
3 1 (4.17%) Autodesk
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) SAP