Architectural Patterns Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 312 266
Rank change year-on-year +41 -46 -13
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 107 123 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.54% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.60% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 74 181
10th Percentile £450 £509 £463
25th Percentile £500 £552 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £644 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +3.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £750 £723 £688
90th Percentile £774 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +9.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate £81.00 £90.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +89.47% +20.25%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £75.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% +57.89% +20.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,095 20,476 27,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.93% 89.37% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,219 14,070 18,908
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £377 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,248 1,358
10th Percentile £12.37 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.63 £62.18
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the UK excluding London

Architectural Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
North of England +41 42 £523 -7.19% 32
North West +38 32 £500 -21.57% 19
South West +21 27 £588 -9.62% 6
South East +22 24 £700 +7.61% 10
Midlands +29 19 £675 +11.34% 13
West Midlands +7 11 £700 -3.45% 9
Yorkshire +15 9 £625 +19.05% 7
East Midlands +21 8 £450 -25.00% 4
Scotland +35 4 £700 +7.69% 7
North East +13 3 £588 -11.32% 6
East of England +1 2 - - 3
Architectural Patterns
UK

Architectural Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (3.74%) CMS
2 3 (2.80%) Drupal
3 2 (1.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.80%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 60 (56.07%) Azure
2 25 (23.36%) AWS
3 22 (20.56%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (12.15%) GCP
5 8 (7.48%) PaaS
6 6 (5.61%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (5.61%) OpenShift
6 6 (5.61%) SaaS
7 5 (4.67%) IaaS
8 4 (3.74%) OCI
8 4 (3.74%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.80%) Serverless
10 2 (1.87%) GitHub
11 1 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.93%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.95%) VPN
2 13 (12.15%) Firewall
3 12 (11.21%) Cisco Nexus
3 12 (11.21%) DMZ
4 10 (9.35%) LAN
4 10 (9.35%) WAN
5 4 (3.74%) SSL
6 3 (2.80%) DNS
7 2 (1.87%) Network Security
8 1 (0.93%) HTTP
8 1 (0.93%) IPsec
8 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.93%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.35%) Data Lake
2 5 (4.67%) SQLite
3 4 (3.74%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.93%) Big Data
5 1 (0.93%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.93%) DB2
5 1 (0.93%) GIS
5 1 (0.93%) OLAP
5 1 (0.93%) OLTP
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (14.02%) Jenkins
2 14 (13.08%) JIRA
3 13 (12.15%) Git
4 5 (4.67%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.80%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.80%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (2.80%) Selenium
5 3 (2.80%) Subversion
6 2 (1.87%) JUnit
7 1 (0.93%) Maven
General
1 28 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 25 (23.36%) Banking
3 18 (16.82%) Finance
4 12 (11.21%) Investment Banking
5 10 (9.35%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.74%) Legal
7 4 (3.74%) Retail
8 3 (2.80%) Law
9 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Automotive
10 1 (0.93%) Marketing
10 1 (0.93%) Military
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (66.36%) Architect
2 39 (36.45%) Solutions Architect
3 20 (18.69%) Technical Architect
4 14 (13.08%) Developer
5 12 (11.21%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Cisco Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Juniper Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Network Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Senior
7 7 (6.54%) Azure Architect
7 7 (6.54%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (6.54%) Security Architect
8 5 (4.67%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.74%) Data Architect
9 4 (3.74%) Security Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.74%) Systems Developer
10 3 (2.80%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.80%) Full Stack Developer
10 3 (2.80%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) .NET
2 11 (10.28%) Middleware
3 9 (8.41%) XML
4 8 (7.48%) SOAP
5 6 (5.61%) RESTful
6 4 (3.74%) ModSecurity
7 3 (2.80%) Kafka
7 3 (2.80%) REST
7 3 (2.80%) Spring
8 2 (1.87%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.87%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.87%) Jetpack Compose
8 2 (1.87%) RxJava
8 2 (1.87%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.87%) Web Services
9 1 (0.93%) Akka
9 1 (0.93%) gRPC
9 1 (0.93%) RAML
9 1 (0.93%) Retrofit
9 1 (0.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.89%) Public Cloud
2 7 (6.54%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.61%) Credit Risk
4 5 (4.67%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.67%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.74%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.80%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.87%) PKI
8 1 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.93%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.21%) Linux
2 11 (10.28%) Windows
3 4 (3.74%) Android
4 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (51.40%) Agile
2 47 (43.93%) DevOps
3 34 (31.78%) Design Patterns
4 26 (24.30%) Architectural Design
5 23 (21.50%) IT Strategy
6 22 (20.56%) Computer Science
7 19 (17.76%) Technology Strategy
8 18 (16.82%) Waterfall
9 17 (15.89%) Data Management
9 17 (15.89%) Project Delivery
9 17 (15.89%) Roadmaps
10 16 (14.95%) Architecture Governance
10 16 (14.95%) Business Strategy
11 14 (13.08%) CI/CD
11 14 (13.08%) High Availability
11 14 (13.08%) Migration
11 14 (13.08%) Service Design
12 13 (12.15%) Microservices
12 13 (12.15%) Translating Business Requirements
13 12 (11.21%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.28%) C#
2 8 (7.48%) Java
3 7 (6.54%) Python
4 6 (5.61%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.67%) Kotlin
5 5 (4.67%) SQL
6 2 (1.87%) C
7 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (25.23%) Degree
2 10 (9.35%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.54%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.74%) HND
6 2 (1.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.87%) CISSP
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) CCSP
7 1 (0.93%) CISM
7 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PMP
7 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.82%) QA
2 6 (5.61%) GDPR
3 3 (2.80%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.87%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (6.54%) Docker
2 4 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (9.35%) Progress Chef
2 9 (8.41%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.48%) Ansible
4 4 (3.74%) OPNET
5 3 (2.80%) Terraform
6 2 (1.87%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.93%) Grafana
7 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.93%) Istio
7 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.08%) Cisco
3 12 (11.21%) Blue Coat
3 12 (11.21%) CheckPoint
3 12 (11.21%) Fortinet
3 12 (11.21%) Juniper
4 7 (6.54%) Oracle
5 6 (5.61%) Databricks
5 6 (5.61%) Google
6 5 (4.67%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.67%) VMware
7 4 (3.74%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.80%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.93%) BT
9 1 (0.93%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) SAP