Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Architectural Design
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 48 74
Rank change year-on-year -10 +26 +13
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 11 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.58% 1.39% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.58% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £588 - £611
25th Percentile £625 £513 £710
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £722
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -27.31% +19.38%
75th Percentile £705 £538 £742
90th Percentile - £628 £766
South West median daily rate £650 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% -15.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 566 380 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 81.32% 87.96% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 253 527
10th Percentile £400 £318 £308
25th Percentile £500 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -2.18%
75th Percentile £705 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £727
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 3 25
10th Percentile £12.50 £22.23 £14.36
25th Percentile £13.36 £36.40 £14.54
Median hourly rate £21.64 £60.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.94% +263.64% -74.81%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £46.95
90th Percentile £25.15 - £69.40
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £52.05
% change year-on-year -11.54% +24.89% -15.37%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in Wiltshire

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
Salisbury - 9 £677 - 1
Swindon -2 1 - - 1
Corsham -17 1 £575 +9.52%
Architectural Design
South West

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

General
1 5 (45.45%) Legal
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Military
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Architect
2 7 (63.64%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Project Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) ITIL
1 9 (81.82%) Roadmaps
1 9 (81.82%) TOGAF
2 8 (72.73%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (63.64%) IT4IT
3 7 (63.64%) Strategic Roadmap
4 5 (45.45%) Conflict Resolution
5 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (18.18%) Impact Assessments
6 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 1 (9.09%) Cyber Assurance
7 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (9.09%) Data Design
7 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
7 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
7 1 (9.09%) Service Design
7 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) ISEB
2 7 (63.64%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) CISM
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
3 1 (9.09%) CITP
3 1 (9.09%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) COBIT
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) JSP 440
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
1 1 (9.09%) Talend