Architectural Design Contracts with Work from Home Options

Architectural Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Architectural Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Design over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 269 317
Rank change year-on-year +57 +48 -56
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 140 212 349
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.91% 0.82% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.92% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 148 250
10th Percentile £447 £470 £494
25th Percentile £489 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £725 £714 £700
90th Percentile £825 £766 £813
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile £44.95 £63.15 £96.02
25th Percentile £70.00 £65.06 £96.06
Median hourly rate £71.93 £71.50 £96.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -25.61% +104.50%
75th Percentile £72.90 £78.00 £96.17
90th Percentile £78.66 £79.80 £96.21
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £71.50 £88.00
% change year-on-year -2.10% -18.75% +120.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Architectural Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,465 23,106 40,645
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.81% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,984 16,334 29,499
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

Architectural Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Architectural Design trend for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

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 a work from home option citing Architectural Design.

Architectural Design hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Architectural Design hourly rate histogram 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 1 (0.71%) Anypoint
1 1 (0.71%) Apache
1 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.71%) CMS
1 1 (0.71%) Confluence
1 1 (0.71%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.71%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.71%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (30.00%) AWS
2 41 (29.29%) Azure
3 18 (12.86%) GCP
4 9 (6.43%) SaaS
5 8 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.57%) IaaS
6 5 (3.57%) PaaS
7 4 (2.86%) Serverless
8 3 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.43%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.43%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.71%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.71%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.29%) LAN
1 6 (4.29%) VPN
1 6 (4.29%) WAN
2 4 (2.86%) Network Security
3 3 (2.14%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (2.14%) MPLS
3 3 (2.14%) PBX
3 3 (2.14%) VoIP
3 3 (2.14%) WLAN
4 2 (1.43%) Firewall
5 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.71%) Oracle Database
3 13 (9.29%) Oracle Database 11g
4 8 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.86%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.14%) DB2
6 3 (2.14%) OLAP
6 3 (2.14%) OLTP
7 2 (1.43%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.43%) Tableau
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.71%) Big Data
8 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.71%) HBase
8 1 (0.71%) Power BI
8 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.43%) Git
2 2 (1.43%) JIRA
2 2 (1.43%) JMeter
2 2 (1.43%) Mockito
3 1 (0.71%) Crashlytics
3 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.71%) Gatling
3 1 (0.71%) Gradle
3 1 (0.71%) JUnit
3 1 (0.71%) ScalaTest
General
1 37 (26.43%) Finance
2 26 (18.57%) Public Sector
3 21 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 19 (13.57%) Banking
5 5 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.14%) Retail
7 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.43%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.43%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.71%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Local Government
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 87 (62.14%) Architect
2 50 (35.71%) Solutions Architect
3 23 (16.43%) Developer
4 13 (9.29%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 13 (9.29%) Senior
5 12 (8.57%) Technical Architect
6 8 (5.71%) Security Architect
7 7 (5.00%) Data Architect
8 6 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (4.29%) Senior Architect
8 6 (4.29%) SIEM Architect
9 5 (3.57%) Lead
10 4 (2.86%) Informatica Developer
10 4 (2.86%) Project Manager
10 4 (2.86%) SailPoint Architect
10 4 (2.86%) Senior Developer
11 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Architect
11 3 (2.14%) Integration Architect
11 3 (2.14%) Service Delivery Manager
11 3 (2.14%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.57%) SailPoint
2 9 (6.43%) Web Services
3 7 (5.00%) REST
4 6 (4.29%) .NET
4 6 (4.29%) Spring
5 5 (3.57%) Kafka
5 5 (3.57%) RESTful
5 5 (3.57%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.86%) React
7 3 (2.14%) HTML
7 3 (2.14%) JPA
7 3 (2.14%) Middleware
8 2 (1.43%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.43%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.43%) Pyramid
8 2 (1.43%) RAML
8 2 (1.43%) SOAP
8 2 (1.43%) Swagger
9 1 (0.71%) Android Jetpack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.71%) Public Cloud
2 7 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 5 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.43%) CMDB
5 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.71%) Life Science
6 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.71%) Machine to Machine
6 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.57%) Android
2 4 (2.86%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.86%) Linux
2 4 (2.86%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.86%) Migration
2 41 (29.29%) DevOps
3 39 (27.86%) Agile
4 30 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 22 (15.71%) Microservices
6 20 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 20 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
7 19 (13.57%) CI/CD
7 19 (13.57%) Project Delivery
7 19 (13.57%) Software Engineering
8 17 (12.14%) Containerisation
9 16 (11.43%) Service Design
10 15 (10.71%) Cloud Security
11 14 (10.00%) Clean Code
11 14 (10.00%) Secure Coding
11 14 (10.00%) Unit Testing
12 13 (9.29%) Data Migration
12 13 (9.29%) High Availability
12 13 (9.29%) Software Testing
12 13 (9.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.57%) Java
1 19 (13.57%) SQL
2 13 (9.29%) PL/SQL
3 8 (5.71%) Python
4 5 (3.57%) C#
5 3 (2.14%) C
5 3 (2.14%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.14%) Scala
6 2 (1.43%) Go
6 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.71%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 26 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.71%) Degree
4 6 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.57%) CISSP
6 4 (2.86%) CISM
7 3 (2.14%) CCIE
7 3 (2.14%) CCIE Data Center
7 3 (2.14%) CCNP
7 3 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.14%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.43%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.71%) CRISC
9 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.71%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) NIST
2 6 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.86%) QA
4 3 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) COBIT
5 1 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.71%) IFRS
5 1 (0.71%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.71%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 4 (2.86%) Docker
2 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) ACF2
3 1 (0.71%) HDFS
3 1 (0.71%) IAG
3 1 (0.71%) RACF
3 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.86%) Terraform
3 2 (1.43%) Grafana
4 1 (0.71%) Ansible
4 1 (0.71%) Argo
4 1 (0.71%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.71%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.71%) Kibana
4 1 (0.71%) Oozie
4 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (12.14%) Oracle
1 17 (12.14%) ServiceNow
2 12 (8.57%) BeyondTrust
2 12 (8.57%) CyberArk
3 10 (7.14%) LogRhythm
3 10 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.43%) Informatica
5 4 (2.86%) Cisco
5 4 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.86%) SAP
6 3 (2.14%) Google
7 2 (1.43%) Genesys
7 2 (1.43%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.71%) Databricks
8 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.71%) Sparx
8 1 (0.71%) Zscaler