Architectural Patterns Contracts in the West Midlands

Architectural Patterns
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 103 107
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +50
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 10 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.71% 0.62% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.75% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 9
10th Percentile £460 £613 £450
25th Percentile £550 £650 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £688 £725
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% -5.17% +31.82%
75th Percentile £620 £750 £738
90th Percentile - £803 £813
England median daily rate £600 £630 £625
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -1.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,253 1,610 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.80% 82.95% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 1,077 1,325
10th Percentile £200 £267 £263
25th Percentile £375 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £606
90th Percentile £663 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 116 49
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.22 £13.70
Median hourly rate £21.03 £22.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +7.30% +24.64%
75th Percentile £31.19 £40.81 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.75
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the West Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the West Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the West Midlands

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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 8 £610 -9.63% 2
Coventry - 2 - -
Architectural Patterns
England

Architectural Patterns
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Collibra
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) GIS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (20.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) DataStage
3 1 (10.00%) DB2
3 1 (10.00%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Plastic SCM
General
1 3 (30.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Games Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (20.00%) GIS Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Axis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) IoT
1 2 (20.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) CCTV
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Data Management
2 4 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) ETL
3 3 (30.00%) Project Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Software Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Observability
4 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Bicep
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
1 2 (20.00%) ESRI
1 2 (20.00%) Informatica
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Autodesk
2 1 (10.00%) IBM