Architectural Design Contracts in Central London

Architectural Design
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with 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 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 143 175
Rank change year-on-year +28 +32 -29
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 22 31 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.92% 0.84% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.92% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 12
10th Percentile £524 £358 £438
25th Percentile £625 £505 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £724 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.19% +15.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £738 £784 £728
90th Percentile £830 £840 £816
London median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,386 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.81% 91.29% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,291 3,136
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.85 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.56 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.38 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in Central London

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in Central London

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in Central London

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in Central London

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
City of London +36 22 £650 -10.19% 7
Architectural Design
London

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (4.55%) CMS
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) Azure AKS
2 7 (31.82%) Azure Service Bus
2 7 (31.82%) Serverless
3 6 (27.27%) Azure Functions
3 6 (27.27%) GitHub
3 6 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (22.73%) AWS
5 3 (13.64%) GCP
6 2 (9.09%) Azure App Service
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) Internet
1 1 (4.55%) WAN
1 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Cypress.io
1 5 (22.73%) JMeter
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Gradle
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Maven
2 1 (4.55%) Mockito
2 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Banking
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Information Security Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Information Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) Kafka
2 6 (27.27%) React
3 5 (22.73%) Node.js
4 2 (9.09%) .NET
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
4 2 (9.09%) HTML
5 1 (4.55%) CSS
5 1 (4.55%) CSS3
5 1 (4.55%) HTML5
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.55%) RESTful
5 1 (4.55%) SailPoint
5 1 (4.55%) SAML
5 1 (4.55%) Spring
5 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Machine to Machine
1 3 (13.64%) Mainframe
1 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Technical Leadership
2 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
2 7 (31.82%) DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) Agile
4 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
4 5 (22.73%) Microservices
4 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 4 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (13.64%) API Development
6 3 (13.64%) API Integration
6 3 (13.64%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
6 3 (13.64%) Digital Transformation Strategy
6 3 (13.64%) Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
6 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
6 3 (13.64%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (9.09%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Go
4 1 (4.55%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) CISM
2 1 (4.55%) CISSP
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) CRISC
2 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) COBIT
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (31.82%) Terraform
3 5 (22.73%) Argo
4 1 (4.55%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) CASB
4 1 (4.55%) SCCM
4 1 (4.55%) SCOrch
4 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.55%) Imperva
3 1 (4.55%) Netskope
3 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce