Architectural Patterns Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Architectural Patterns
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 248 233 307
Rank change year-on-year -15 +74 -28
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 56 112 174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.73% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.83% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 79 121
10th Percentile £459 £447 £450
25th Percentile £481 £523 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £646
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% -2.48% +5.47%
75th Percentile £675 £744 £725
90th Percentile £750 £780 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - £64.50
Median hourly rate £91.69 £81.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.20% +20.90% +41.05%
75th Percentile £98.56 - £69.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £91.69 £81.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +13.20% +8.00% +57.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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 Patterns
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns.

Architectural Patterns daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Architectural Patterns daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns.

Architectural Patterns hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Patterns
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 (1.79%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.79%) Mule
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) AWS
2 23 (41.07%) Azure
3 15 (26.79%) GCP
4 10 (17.86%) Serverless
5 9 (16.07%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (16.07%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (14.29%) GitHub
7 7 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (8.93%) SaaS
10 4 (7.14%) PaaS
11 3 (5.36%) AWS KMS
11 3 (5.36%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (5.36%) CloudBees
11 3 (5.36%) IaaS
11 3 (5.36%) Route 53
12 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (3.57%) Azure AKS
12 2 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 1 (1.79%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) HTTP
2 3 (5.36%) IPsec
2 3 (5.36%) Kerberos
2 3 (5.36%) SSL
3 2 (3.57%) LAN
3 2 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (3.57%) WAN
4 1 (1.79%) DNS
4 1 (1.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.64%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.71%) DynamoDB
4 5 (8.93%) NoSQL
4 5 (8.93%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.36%) MySQL
5 3 (5.36%) Redis
6 2 (3.57%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.57%) Metadata
6 2 (3.57%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.79%) Big Data
7 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.79%) DataStage
7 1 (1.79%) DB2
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.79%) QualityStage
7 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Git
2 6 (10.71%) Maven
3 5 (8.93%) git-flow
4 4 (7.14%) Mockito
5 3 (5.36%) Eclipse
5 3 (5.36%) GitLab
5 3 (5.36%) Gradle
5 3 (5.36%) IntelliJ
5 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.36%) JUnit
5 3 (5.36%) TestNG
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle Forms
General
1 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.29%) Banking
4 4 (7.14%) Finance
4 4 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.57%) Front Office
6 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Military
6 2 (3.57%) Retail
6 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.79%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) Marketing
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (62.50%) Architect
2 14 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 13 (23.21%) Developer
4 11 (19.64%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (10.71%) Node.js Developer
6 6 (10.71%) Senior
7 5 (8.93%) Lead
8 4 (7.14%) Azure Architect
9 3 (5.36%) Backend Developer
9 3 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Digital Developer
9 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (5.36%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.36%) Security Architect
9 3 (5.36%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Principal Software Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Security Assurance Coordinator
10 2 (3.57%) Technical Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.43%) RESTful
2 9 (16.07%) Node.js
2 9 (16.07%) Web Services
3 7 (12.50%) Spring
4 6 (10.71%) AWS CDK
4 6 (10.71%) CSS
4 6 (10.71%) HTML
4 6 (10.71%) JSON
4 6 (10.71%) OAuth
4 6 (10.71%) React
4 6 (10.71%) Redux
4 6 (10.71%) Spring Boot
5 5 (8.93%) Apache Cordova
5 5 (8.93%) Jest
5 5 (8.93%) LESS
5 5 (8.93%) Sass
5 5 (8.93%) WebSockets
6 4 (7.14%) Kafka
6 4 (7.14%) OpenAPI
6 4 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Public Cloud
2 5 (8.93%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.79%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) NHS
5 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) Android
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.71%) Design Patterns
2 19 (33.93%) Agile
3 18 (32.14%) Roadmaps
4 17 (30.36%) Microservices
5 16 (28.57%) DevOps
6 14 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
8 10 (17.86%) Data Architecture
8 10 (17.86%) Event-Driven
8 10 (17.86%) Mentoring
9 9 (16.07%) Architectural Design
10 8 (14.29%) Analytics
10 8 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 7 (12.50%) Clean Code
11 7 (12.50%) Machine Learning
12 6 (10.71%) Containerisation
12 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering
12 6 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (10.71%) TDD
12 6 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.21%) Java
1 13 (23.21%) JavaScript
2 11 (19.64%) SQL
3 7 (12.50%) Python
4 6 (10.71%) T-SQL
4 6 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.93%) Kotlin
6 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.79%) ABAP
7 1 (1.79%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.79%) Bicep
7 1 (1.79%) C#
7 1 (1.79%) DataWeave
7 1 (1.79%) Groovy
7 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) AWS Certification
3 5 (8.93%) Azure Certification
3 5 (8.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (8.93%) Degree
3 5 (8.93%) Master's Degree
4 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.57%) CITP
6 2 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.79%) CAPM
7 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (16.07%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) RACF
3 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.93%) Grafana
2 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
2 5 (8.93%) Terraform
3 3 (5.36%) Ansible
3 3 (5.36%) Packer
3 3 (5.36%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.79%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Google
2 9 (16.07%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.14%) Databricks
4 2 (3.57%) BT
4 2 (3.57%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.57%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) Ariba
5 1 (1.79%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.79%) IBM
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) SAP
5 1 (1.79%) Sybase