Architectural Design Contracts in England

Architectural Design
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 332 353
Rank change year-on-year +43 +21 -65
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 276 341 530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.71% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.79% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 222 356
10th Percentile £426 £491 £455
25th Percentile £489 £519 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £631
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.87% +11.84%
75th Percentile £700 £745 £725
90th Percentile £800 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 5
10th Percentile £49.78 £37.95 £75.15
25th Percentile £59.00 £65.06 £96.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £71.50 £96.23
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% -25.70% +102.59%
75th Percentile £72.90 £76.88 -
90th Percentile £75.78 £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £72.00 £96.23
% change year-on-year -2.78% -25.18% +119.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,359 43,239 64,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.26% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,563 30,348 45,861
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,528 1,759
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.02 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architectural Design in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architectural Design in England

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
London +44 142 £600 -7.69% 87
North of England +52 48 £528 -8.26% 21
Midlands +50 40 £515 -20.77% 17
North West +52 37 £525 -6.75% 11
South East +15 30 £675 +8.00% 24
West Midlands +27 21 £700 +9.80% 7
East Midlands +34 19 £460 -31.85% 10
South West -8 17 £450 -33.33% 11
Yorkshire +18 9 £588 -11.32% 3
North East - 4 £413 - 7
East of England +10 3 £575 +7.48% 12
Architectural Design
UK

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.72%) CMS
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) MTS
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.36%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.72%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.36%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 93 (33.70%) Azure
2 77 (27.90%) AWS
3 30 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (9.06%) GCP
5 19 (6.88%) Serverless
6 17 (6.16%) GitHub
7 16 (5.80%) SaaS
8 12 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.26%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.90%) Azure AKS
10 8 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (2.90%) IaaS
10 8 (2.90%) PaaS
11 7 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.81%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.45%) AWS CodeBuild
13 4 (1.45%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.07%) VPN
1 14 (5.07%) WAN
2 12 (4.35%) Firewall
2 12 (4.35%) LAN
3 9 (3.26%) MPLS
3 9 (3.26%) PBX
3 9 (3.26%) VoIP
3 9 (3.26%) WLAN
4 7 (2.54%) Network Security
5 6 (2.17%) Internet
6 5 (1.81%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (1.81%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (1.81%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (1.81%) DHCP
6 5 (1.81%) DNS
6 5 (1.81%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.45%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (1.09%) SAN
9 2 (0.72%) RS-232
10 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
1 16 (5.80%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.43%) Oracle Database
3 14 (5.07%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.71%) Oracle Database 11g
5 10 (3.62%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.81%) DB2
7 5 (1.81%) OLAP
7 5 (1.81%) OLTP
8 4 (1.45%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.45%) Power BI
8 4 (1.45%) Redis
9 3 (1.09%) CockroachDB
9 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.72%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.72%) Tableau
11 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (5.43%) Git
2 14 (5.07%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.26%) JIRA
4 8 (2.90%) Cypress.io
4 8 (2.90%) JMeter
5 6 (2.17%) Mockito
6 4 (1.45%) Gatling
6 4 (1.45%) ScalaTest
7 3 (1.09%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.72%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.72%) Gradle
9 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.36%) GoCD
9 1 (0.36%) JUnit
9 1 (0.36%) Maven
9 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.36%) Spock
9 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (25.36%) Finance
2 51 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.86%) Banking
4 25 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.90%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.81%) Retail
10 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.45%) Legal
10 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Local Government
11 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.72%) Automotive
12 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.72%) Marketing
12 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 166 (60.14%) Architect
2 94 (34.06%) Solutions Architect
3 45 (16.30%) Developer
4 21 (7.61%) Enterprise Architect
5 20 (7.25%) Senior
6 13 (4.71%) Lead
6 13 (4.71%) PostgreSQL Developer
6 13 (4.71%) Security Architect
7 11 (3.99%) Senior Architect
8 10 (3.62%) Project Manager
9 8 (2.90%) Applications Architect
9 8 (2.90%) C# Developer
9 8 (2.90%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (2.90%) Data Architect
9 8 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.90%) Java Developer
9 8 (2.90%) Software Engineer
10 7 (2.54%) Azure Architect
10 7 (2.54%) Technical Architect
11 5 (1.81%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.33%) Kafka
2 21 (7.61%) Web Services
3 16 (5.80%) React
4 14 (5.07%) .NET
4 14 (5.07%) RESTful
5 13 (4.71%) HTML
5 13 (4.71%) SailPoint
6 11 (3.99%) REST
6 11 (3.99%) Spring
7 10 (3.62%) Node.js
8 8 (2.90%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.54%) JPA
9 7 (2.54%) SOAP
9 7 (2.54%) XML
10 6 (2.17%) .NET Core
10 6 (2.17%) LDAP
10 6 (2.17%) RAML
10 6 (2.17%) Swagger
11 5 (1.81%) Akka
11 5 (1.81%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.88%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.52%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.71%) Mainframe
4 9 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.17%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.81%) Credit Risk
7 5 (1.81%) Machine to Machine
8 4 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.45%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.09%) Derivative
9 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.09%) IoT
9 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.72%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.72%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.72%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.52%) Linux
2 14 (5.07%) Windows
3 9 (3.26%) Android
4 6 (2.17%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.17%) Unix
5 3 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (31.88%) Agile
2 80 (28.99%) DevOps
3 69 (25.00%) Migration
4 45 (16.30%) Architectural Patterns
5 43 (15.58%) Computer Science
6 42 (15.22%) Project Delivery
7 40 (14.49%) Roadmaps
8 39 (14.13%) TOGAF
9 38 (13.77%) Microservices
10 36 (13.04%) Software Engineering
11 35 (12.68%) CI/CD
12 34 (12.32%) Mentoring
13 33 (11.96%) Enterprise Architecture
14 31 (11.23%) Risk Management
15 30 (10.87%) Service Design
16 29 (10.51%) Data Management
17 27 (9.78%) Technical Leadership
18 25 (9.06%) Problem-Solving
19 24 (8.70%) Design Patterns
20 23 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 43 (15.58%) Java
1 43 (15.58%) SQL
2 20 (7.25%) Python
3 17 (6.16%) C#
4 14 (5.07%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.71%) PL/SQL
6 9 (3.26%) Scala
7 7 (2.54%) C
8 5 (1.81%) Go
9 4 (1.45%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.09%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.72%) Bicep
11 2 (0.72%) C++
11 2 (0.72%) Haskell
11 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.36%) ABAP
12 1 (0.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 52 (18.84%) Degree
2 36 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 32 (11.59%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.71%) CISSP
6 10 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.26%) CCIE
7 9 (3.26%) CCIE Data Center
7 9 (3.26%) CISM
7 9 (3.26%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.45%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.45%) CCNP
8 4 (1.45%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (1.45%) CISA
8 4 (1.45%) CITP
8 4 (1.45%) SANS
8 4 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.99%) NIST
2 10 (3.62%) QA
3 7 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.09%) COBIT
4 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.72%) GDPR
5 2 (0.72%) PSD2
6 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.36%) GRC
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.36%) NCSC
6 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (9.06%) Docker
2 7 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.81%) ACF2
3 5 (1.81%) IAG
3 5 (1.81%) RACF
4 3 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (11.23%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.07%) Terraform
3 7 (2.54%) Argo
3 7 (2.54%) Grafana
3 7 (2.54%) Progress Chef
4 6 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.72%) Ansible
5 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.36%) CASB
6 1 (0.36%) Kibana
6 1 (0.36%) rkt
6 1 (0.36%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.36%) SCCM
6 1 (0.36%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 26 (9.42%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.70%) Oracle
3 16 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
4 12 (4.35%) Cisco
4 12 (4.35%) CyberArk
4 12 (4.35%) SAP
5 9 (3.26%) Informatica
6 8 (2.90%) LogRhythm
7 6 (2.17%) Google
7 6 (2.17%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.81%) CheckPoint
8 5 (1.81%) Infoblox
8 5 (1.81%) Symantec
8 5 (1.81%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.45%) VMware
10 3 (1.09%) Sparx
11 2 (0.72%) Databricks
11 2 (0.72%) Genesys