Architectural Design Contracts

Architectural Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 327 340
Rank change year-on-year +51 +13 -41
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 357 459 695
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.77% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.86% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 308 466
10th Percentile £411 £474 £463
25th Percentile £500 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £700
90th Percentile £784 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £588 £625
% change year-on-year +2.04% -5.92% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 8
10th Percentile £52.85 £35.00 £58.63
25th Percentile £59.00 £63.38 £71.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 £71.50 £88.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -18.75% +120.00%
75th Percentile £72.90 £76.88 £96.23
90th Percentile £83.20 £80.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £63.37 £96.12
% change year-on-year +10.46% -34.07% +140.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,597 53,655 80,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,227 37,238 56,437
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,746 1,926
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.98 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.34 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.72% +80.00% -8.00%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architectural Design in the UK

Architectural Design
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +78 312 £600 - 208
London +83 164 £600 -3.23% 107
UK excluding London +32 151 £600 +2.04% 106
Work from Home +67 140 £625 +0.81% 100
North of England +66 56 £588 -2.08% 24
North West +51 42 £530 -5.86% 16
Midlands +58 39 £550 +2.80% 13
South East +9 37 £625 +9.76% 33
West Midlands +35 22 £700 +30.84% 10
South West -12 18 £450 -30.77% 15
East Midlands - 16 £490 - 3
Yorkshire +25 12 £665 +9.38% 3
Scotland +1 9 £600 +8.45% 7
North East - 4 £413 - 5
East of England +7 3 £575 -8.73% 14
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2
Wales +9 1 - - 3

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (0.84%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.56%) CMS
2 2 (0.56%) Confluence
2 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.28%) Apache
3 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.28%) Camunda
3 1 (0.28%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.28%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.28%) MTS
3 1 (0.28%) Mule
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.56%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.28%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 137 (38.38%) Azure
2 92 (25.77%) AWS
3 37 (10.36%) GCP
4 35 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (6.16%) Serverless
6 21 (5.88%) SaaS
7 17 (4.76%) GitHub
8 15 (4.20%) IaaS
9 13 (3.64%) PaaS
10 11 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (2.52%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.24%) Azure AKS
13 8 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.40%) AWS CodeBuild
15 5 (1.40%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.20%) VPN
2 14 (3.92%) LAN
2 14 (3.92%) WAN
3 11 (3.08%) Firewall
4 9 (2.52%) MPLS
4 9 (2.52%) PBX
4 9 (2.52%) VoIP
4 9 (2.52%) WLAN
5 7 (1.96%) Network Security
6 6 (1.68%) DNS
6 6 (1.68%) SAN
7 5 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (1.40%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (1.40%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (1.40%) DHCP
7 5 (1.40%) Internet
7 5 (1.40%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.56%) RS-232
10 1 (0.28%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.32%) Oracle Database
3 17 (4.76%) Oracle Database 11g
3 17 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 14 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.36%) RDBMS
5 12 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.40%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.40%) DB2
7 5 (1.40%) OLAP
7 5 (1.40%) OLTP
7 5 (1.40%) Redis
8 4 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.84%) CockroachDB
9 3 (0.84%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.84%) Power BI
10 2 (0.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (3.08%) JIRA
2 10 (2.80%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.52%) Git
4 8 (2.24%) Cypress.io
4 8 (2.24%) JMeter
5 6 (1.68%) Mockito
6 4 (1.12%) Gatling
6 4 (1.12%) ScalaTest
7 3 (0.84%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.56%) Gradle
9 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.28%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.28%) GoCD
9 1 (0.28%) JUnit
9 1 (0.28%) Maven
9 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) Spock
9 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 82 (22.97%) Finance
2 69 (19.33%) Social Skills
3 46 (12.89%) Public Sector
4 35 (9.80%) Banking
5 25 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.96%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.68%) Retail
13 4 (1.12%) Legal
13 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.84%) Local Government
14 3 (0.84%) Police
15 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
16 1 (0.28%) Automotive
16 1 (0.28%) Electronics
16 1 (0.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 216 (60.50%) Architect
2 116 (32.49%) Solutions Architect
3 44 (12.32%) Developer
4 29 (8.12%) Senior
5 26 (7.28%) Enterprise Architect
6 19 (5.32%) Data Architect
7 17 (4.76%) Security Architect
8 16 (4.48%) Lead
9 15 (4.20%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 15 (4.20%) Technical Architect
10 13 (3.64%) Senior Architect
11 12 (3.36%) ServiceNow Architect
12 11 (3.08%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (2.80%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (2.80%) Project Manager
13 10 (2.80%) SailPoint Architect
14 9 (2.52%) Software Engineer
15 8 (2.24%) Azure Architect
15 8 (2.24%) Testing Manager
16 7 (1.96%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.72%) SailPoint
2 22 (6.16%) Kafka
3 21 (5.88%) Web Services
4 17 (4.76%) .NET
5 16 (4.48%) React
6 15 (4.20%) HTML
6 15 (4.20%) RESTful
7 13 (3.64%) REST
8 11 (3.08%) Spring
9 10 (2.80%) SOAP
10 9 (2.52%) Node.js
10 9 (2.52%) XML
11 8 (2.24%) ADO
11 8 (2.24%) LDAP
12 7 (1.96%) JPA
12 7 (1.96%) JSP
12 7 (1.96%) Servlets
12 7 (1.96%) SPML
12 7 (1.96%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.68%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 21 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 16 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (4.20%) Mainframe
4 12 (3.36%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.80%) CMDB
7 9 (2.52%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.68%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.40%) Machine to Machine
11 4 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.12%) PKI
12 3 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.84%) Derivative
13 2 (0.56%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.56%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.88%) Linux
1 21 (5.88%) Windows
2 9 (2.52%) Android
3 7 (1.96%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.68%) Unix
5 5 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (30.81%) Agile
2 108 (30.25%) DevOps
3 101 (28.29%) Migration
4 66 (18.49%) Architectural Patterns
5 55 (15.41%) Roadmaps
6 53 (14.85%) Computer Science
7 52 (14.57%) Project Delivery
8 51 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 45 (12.61%) TOGAF
10 41 (11.48%) Software Engineering
11 40 (11.20%) Microservices
12 39 (10.92%) Design Patterns
13 38 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (10.64%) Service Design
14 37 (10.36%) Enterprise Architecture
14 37 (10.36%) Mentoring
14 37 (10.36%) Risk Management
15 34 (9.52%) Data Management
16 29 (8.12%) Containerisation
16 29 (8.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 48 (13.45%) SQL
2 47 (13.17%) Java
3 28 (7.84%) Python
4 20 (5.60%) C#
5 17 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 9 (2.52%) Scala
7 7 (1.96%) C
8 6 (1.68%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.40%) Go
10 2 (0.56%) Bicep
10 2 (0.56%) C++
10 2 (0.56%) Haskell
10 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.28%) ABAP
11 1 (0.28%) Groovy
11 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 67 (18.77%) Degree
2 56 (15.69%) Security Cleared
3 44 (12.32%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.76%) CISSP
6 13 (3.64%) CISM
7 12 (3.36%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (2.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (2.52%) CCIE
10 9 (2.52%) CCIE Data Center
10 9 (2.52%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.96%) CISA
11 7 (1.96%) SANS
12 4 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.12%) CCNP
12 4 (1.12%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.84%) CITP
13 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.64%) NIST
1 13 (3.64%) QA
2 8 (2.24%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.56%) COBIT
5 2 (0.56%) GDPR
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.56%) PSD2
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) GRC
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (7.00%) Docker
2 14 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.96%) ACF2
3 7 (1.96%) IAG
3 7 (1.96%) RACF
4 3 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) HDFS
5 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.32%) Terraform
3 7 (1.96%) Argo
3 7 (1.96%) Grafana
4 6 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.40%) Ansible
6 1 (0.28%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.28%) Kibana
6 1 (0.28%) Oozie
6 1 (0.28%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.28%) rkt
6 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (12.04%) ServiceNow
2 34 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 26 (7.28%) Oracle
4 24 (6.72%) BeyondTrust
4 24 (6.72%) CyberArk
5 13 (3.64%) Cisco
6 10 (2.80%) LogRhythm
6 10 (2.80%) SAP
7 9 (2.52%) Informatica
8 7 (1.96%) Google
8 7 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.68%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.40%) CheckPoint
10 5 (1.40%) Infoblox
10 5 (1.40%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.40%) Symantec
11 4 (1.12%) Sparx
11 4 (1.12%) VMware
12 2 (0.56%) Databricks
12 2 (0.56%) Guidewire