Architectural Design Contracts in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 110 130 151
Rank change year-on-year +20 +21 -17
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 22 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.83% 0.70% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.77% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 12
10th Percentile - £413 £480
25th Percentile £463 £447 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £605 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -3.20% +8.70%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £674
90th Percentile - £694 £783
South East median daily rate £675 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.50 -
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £68.62 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.65% +9.79% +31.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,599 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.88% 90.75% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,764 2,187
10th Percentile £213 £317 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £585
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the Thames Valley

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +3 20 £675 +3.81% 5
Buckinghamshire +24 2 £668 +20.27% 1
Architectural Design
South East

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) IaaS
2 1 (4.55%) PaaS
2 1 (4.55%) SaaS
2 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (59.09%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (54.55%) Oracle Database
2 12 (54.55%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) JMeter
1 1 (4.55%) JUnit
1 1 (4.55%) Mockito
General
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
1 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.55%) Automotive
2 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (77.27%) Developer
2 12 (54.55%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Informatica Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Digital Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) IT Security Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Camel
1 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
1 1 (4.55%) HTML
1 1 (4.55%) jQuery
1 1 (4.55%) REST
1 1 (4.55%) Spring
1 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
1 1 (4.55%) Web Services
1 1 (4.55%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (59.09%) Migration
3 12 (54.55%) Clean Code
3 12 (54.55%) Data Migration
3 12 (54.55%) DevOps
3 12 (54.55%) Secure Coding
3 12 (54.55%) Software Engineering
3 12 (54.55%) Software Testing
3 12 (54.55%) Unit Testing
4 6 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (27.27%) Data Architecture
4 6 (27.27%) Data Governance
4 6 (27.27%) Data Integration
4 6 (27.27%) Information Management
4 6 (27.27%) Master Data Management
4 6 (27.27%) Product Information Management
5 2 (9.09%) Microservices
6 1 (4.55%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Analysis
6 1 (4.55%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 12 (54.55%) PL/SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Python
4 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
1 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kibana
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) VMware