Hybrid/Remote Architectural Design Contract Job Trends

Architectural Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 237 234
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +72
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 78 79 161
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 0.65% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.74% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 43 106
10th Percentile £360 £450 £400
25th Percentile £500 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £550 £562
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -2.06% -6.41%
75th Percentile £713 £644 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 £82.50 £68.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £85.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.54% +17.24% +6.23%
75th Percentile £69.99 £87.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £77.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -16.14% +3.33% +66.67%

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 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Design and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Architectural Design daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.28%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.28%) CICS
2 1 (1.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.28%) ResourceLink
2 1 (1.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.90%) Azure
2 18 (23.08%) AWS
3 11 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (10.26%) GitHub
5 7 (8.97%) SaaS
6 6 (7.69%) GCP
6 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.41%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (6.41%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.13%) Serverless
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.85%) Datadog
9 3 (3.85%) PaaS
10 2 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (2.56%) Loggly
10 2 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) Firewall
1 3 (3.85%) Network Security
1 3 (3.85%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.56%) DNS
2 2 (2.56%) IPsec
2 2 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.28%) DHCP
3 1 (1.28%) InfiniBand
3 1 (1.28%) Internet
3 1 (1.28%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.10%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (14.10%) Redis
2 5 (6.41%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.13%) MySQL
3 4 (5.13%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.56%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.28%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.28%) DB2
6 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.28%) Power BI
6 1 (1.28%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.97%) Git
2 7 (8.97%) Maven
2 7 (8.97%) SonarQube
3 6 (7.69%) JMeter
3 6 (7.69%) MSTest
3 6 (7.69%) Selenium
3 6 (7.69%) Visual Studio
4 5 (6.41%) JIRA
5 4 (5.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (5.13%) JUnit
5 4 (5.13%) Mockito
5 4 (5.13%) Postman
5 4 (5.13%) REST Assured
5 4 (5.13%) SoapUI
5 4 (5.13%) Subversion
5 4 (5.13%) Xcode
5 4 (5.13%) XCTest
6 2 (2.56%) Gradle
6 2 (2.56%) SonarLint
General
1 32 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.36%) Finance
3 15 (19.23%) Banking
4 13 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.41%) Investment Banking
7 4 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.56%) Automotive
8 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.56%) Law
8 2 (2.56%) Legal
8 2 (2.56%) Marketing
8 2 (2.56%) Retail
8 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.28%) Front Office
9 1 (1.28%) Military
9 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (61.54%) Architect
2 18 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 10 (12.82%) Lead
3 10 (12.82%) Senior
4 9 (11.54%) Developer
4 9 (11.54%) Security Architect
5 5 (6.41%) Automation Tester
5 5 (6.41%) Java Developer
5 5 (6.41%) Lead Developer
5 5 (6.41%) Technical Architect
5 5 (6.41%) Tester
6 4 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 4 (5.13%) Lead Architect
6 4 (5.13%) Lead Java Developer
6 4 (5.13%) Senior Automation Tester
6 4 (5.13%) Senior Tester
7 3 (3.85%) Integration Architect
7 3 (3.85%) Salesforce Architect
7 3 (3.85%) SAP Architect
7 3 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.67%) Web Services
2 10 (12.82%) Kafka
3 6 (7.69%) J2EE
3 6 (7.69%) REST
3 6 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 5 (6.41%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.41%) SOAP
5 4 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (5.13%) Bootstrap
5 4 (5.13%) CSS
5 4 (5.13%) CSS3
5 4 (5.13%) Hibernate
5 4 (5.13%) HTML
5 4 (5.13%) HTML5
5 4 (5.13%) JPA
5 4 (5.13%) Material-UI
5 4 (5.13%) Spring
5 4 (5.13%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (5.13%) Spring MVC
5 4 (5.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.85%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.56%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.56%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.56%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Replication
5 2 (2.56%) SCADA
6 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Linux
2 6 (7.69%) Unix
2 6 (7.69%) Windows
3 3 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.28%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.90%) Agile
2 21 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (24.36%) DevOps
4 16 (20.51%) CI/CD
4 16 (20.51%) Integration Patterns
5 15 (19.23%) Design Patterns
6 13 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 13 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 13 (16.67%) TOGAF
7 11 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (14.10%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (12.82%) Data Modelling
8 10 (12.82%) TDD
8 10 (12.82%) Test Automation
8 10 (12.82%) Translating Business Requirements
9 9 (11.54%) AI
9 9 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
9 9 (11.54%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.51%) SQL
2 11 (14.10%) JavaScript
2 11 (14.10%) Python
3 10 (12.82%) Java
4 7 (8.97%) C#
5 4 (5.13%) Groovy
5 4 (5.13%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.85%) ABAP
6 3 (3.85%) Bash
7 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.28%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.28%) COBOL
8 1 (1.28%) Go
8 1 (1.28%) JCL
8 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.28%) PHP
8 1 (1.28%) R
8 1 (1.28%) Rust
8 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.38%) Degree
4 5 (6.41%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.13%) ISTQB
5 4 (5.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (5.13%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (3.85%) CISSP
6 3 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.56%) CCSP
7 2 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.56%) ISEB
7 2 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (7.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 3 (3.85%) GDPR
3 3 (3.85%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.56%) COBIT
4 2 (2.56%) NIST
4 2 (2.56%) PSD2
5 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.28%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.28%) QA
5 1 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (19.23%) Docker
2 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.28%) Ceph
3 1 (1.28%) Firmware
3 1 (1.28%) Lustre
3 1 (1.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (3.85%) Terraform
3 2 (2.56%) Ansible
4 1 (1.28%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.28%) Control-M
4 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.28%) rkt
Vendors
1 8 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 5 (6.41%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.41%) Oracle
3 5 (6.41%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.41%) SAP
3 5 (6.41%) Splunk
4 4 (5.13%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (3.85%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.56%) Databricks
6 2 (2.56%) Dell
6 2 (2.56%) Gigya
6 2 (2.56%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.28%) Ariba
7 1 (1.28%) Cisco
7 1 (1.28%) Informatica
7 1 (1.28%) Juniper
7 1 (1.28%) Siemens
7 1 (1.28%) VMware