Architectural Patterns Contracts in the Midlands

Architectural Patterns
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Architectural Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Patterns over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 133 171
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 -46
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 20 25 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.74% 0.76% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.86% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 16
10th Percentile £445 £455 £400
25th Percentile £456 £525 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £734 £738 £580
90th Percentile £750 £798 £600
England median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +10.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Architectural Patterns 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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,210 2,891 4,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 88.14% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,028 3,224
10th Percentile £234 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £667
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 104 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.15 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +21.83% +13.27%
75th Percentile £33.25 £32.77 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.63 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Architectural Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Patterns within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
West Midlands +13 11 £700 -3.45% 4
East Midlands +19 9 £455 -23.37% 5
Architectural Patterns
England

Architectural Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (15.00%) CMS
1 3 (15.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) SSL
2 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) LAN
3 2 (10.00%) WAN
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (5.00%) DMZ
4 1 (5.00%) Firewall
4 1 (5.00%) IPsec
4 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security
4 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) DB2
3 1 (5.00%) OLAP
3 1 (5.00%) OLTP
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Git
2 10 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (40.00%) JIRA
4 3 (15.00%) Artifactory
4 3 (15.00%) Selenium
4 3 (15.00%) Subversion
5 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (45.00%) Banking
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Architect
2 8 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
1 2 (10.00%) RESTful
1 2 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.00%) gRPC
2 1 (5.00%) JMS
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.00%) RAML
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Swagger
2 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Credit Risk
2 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (15.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (15.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (30.00%) Architectural Design
5 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (25.00%) Design Patterns
6 4 (20.00%) IT Strategy
6 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Software Delivery
6 4 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
6 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
7 3 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (15.00%) Epics
7 3 (15.00%) Kanban
7 3 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Software Assurance
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (5.00%) CCSP
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Blue Coat
3 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.00%) Juniper
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft