Architectural Design Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Architectural Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 231 207 274
Rank change year-on-year -24 +67 +46
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 73 140 211
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.74% 0.91% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.04% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 94 148
10th Percentile £411 £447 £470
25th Percentile £465 £489 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £620
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +0.81% -2.75%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £703
90th Percentile £838 £825 £766
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 8
10th Percentile - £44.95 £63.15
25th Percentile - £70.00 £65.06
Median hourly rate - £71.93 £71.50
Median % change year-on-year - +0.60% -25.61%
75th Percentile - £72.90 £78.00
90th Percentile - £78.66 £79.80
UK median hourly rate £45.02 £70.00 £71.50
% change year-on-year -35.69% -2.10% -18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Architectural Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Architectural Design trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Architectural Design.

Architectural Design daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Architectural Design daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Architectural Design.

Architectural Design hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (5.48%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (41.10%) AWS
2 17 (23.29%) Azure
3 7 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (9.59%) GCP
4 3 (4.11%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.11%) CloudBees
4 3 (4.11%) GitHub
5 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.74%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.37%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.37%) PaaS
6 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.37%) SaaS
6 1 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) DHCP
2 1 (1.37%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.70%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.33%) Redis
3 2 (2.74%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.37%) Flink
4 1 (1.37%) Metadata
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.37%) Power BI
4 1 (1.37%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.37%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.37%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (8.22%) JIRA
2 5 (6.85%) Git
2 5 (6.85%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.74%) JUnit
3 2 (2.74%) Maven
3 2 (2.74%) Mockito
3 2 (2.74%) Postman
3 2 (2.74%) REST Assured
3 2 (2.74%) SoapUI
3 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.74%) Subversion
3 2 (2.74%) Xcode
3 2 (2.74%) XCTest
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
General
1 26 (35.62%) Banking
1 26 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.18%) Finance
3 11 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.96%) Investment Banking
5 5 (6.85%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (4.11%) Military
7 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.37%) Front Office
7 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (54.79%) Architect
2 20 (27.40%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (16.44%) Developer
4 10 (13.70%) Senior
5 9 (12.33%) Senior Architect
6 8 (10.96%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.96%) Lead
7 7 (9.59%) Lead Developer
7 7 (9.59%) Lead Java Developer
7 7 (9.59%) Security Architect
8 5 (6.85%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 5 (6.85%) Payments Architect
8 5 (6.85%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Security Architect
8 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow Architect
8 5 (6.85%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) IT Architect
10 3 (4.11%) IT Security Architect
10 3 (4.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) Kafka
2 9 (12.33%) CSS
3 7 (9.59%) ActiveMQ
3 7 (9.59%) HTML
4 5 (6.85%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.85%) FastAPI
5 4 (5.48%) Spring
6 3 (4.11%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.74%) Bootstrap
7 2 (2.74%) CSS3
7 2 (2.74%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.74%) HTML5
7 2 (2.74%) J2EE
7 2 (2.74%) JPA
7 2 (2.74%) React
7 2 (2.74%) REST
7 2 (2.74%) SOAP
7 2 (2.74%) Spring MVC
7 2 (2.74%) Swagger
7 2 (2.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Algorithms
1 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.85%) Device Driver
1 5 (6.85%) Embedded Systems
1 5 (6.85%) IoT
2 4 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.11%) CMDB
4 2 (2.74%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.37%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.96%) Linux
2 6 (8.22%) Windows
2 6 (8.22%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.11%) Unix
4 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (49.32%) Agile
2 17 (23.29%) Computer Science
2 17 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (19.18%) Artificial Intelligence
4 13 (17.81%) Roadmaps
5 12 (16.44%) DevOps
5 12 (16.44%) TDD
6 10 (13.70%) Decision-Making
6 10 (13.70%) Software Engineering
6 10 (13.70%) Unit Testing
7 9 (12.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 9 (12.33%) Project Management
7 9 (12.33%) SDLC
8 8 (10.96%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (10.96%) Generative AI
8 8 (10.96%) TOGAF
9 7 (9.59%) Economics
9 7 (9.59%) End-to-End Testing
9 7 (9.59%) LLM
9 7 (9.59%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.77%) Java
2 13 (17.81%) JavaScript
3 11 (15.07%) Python
4 5 (6.85%) Embedded C
4 5 (6.85%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.48%) C
5 4 (5.48%) Kotlin
5 4 (5.48%) SQL
6 3 (4.11%) Groovy
7 1 (1.37%) COBOL
7 1 (1.37%) JCL
7 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (24.66%) Degree
2 10 (13.70%) Security Cleared
3 7 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (9.59%) Numerate Degree
3 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.22%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (8.22%) Master's Degree
5 5 (6.85%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.74%) CISM
7 2 (2.74%) CISSP
7 2 (2.74%) CITP
8 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.37%) PMP
8 1 (1.37%) RIBA
8 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) GRC
1 2 (2.74%) ISO 20022
1 2 (2.74%) NCSC
1 2 (2.74%) NIST
1 2 (2.74%) SEPA
2 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.37%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) Docker
2 5 (6.85%) Firmware
3 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (12.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.11%) Grafana
2 3 (4.11%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.74%) Terraform
4 1 (1.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (9.59%) Google
2 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.22%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.48%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.48%) Oracle
4 2 (2.74%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.74%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.74%) Splunk
4 2 (2.74%) VMware
5 1 (1.37%) Databricks
5 1 (1.37%) Genesys
5 1 (1.37%) Informatica
5 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.37%) SAP
5 1 (1.37%) Sparx
5 1 (1.37%) Sybase