Information Architecture Contracts

Information Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Information Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Architecture over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 573 612
Rank change year-on-year +69 +39 -97
Contract jobs citing Information Architecture 72 111 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.22% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 63 160
10th Percentile £283 £363 £399
25th Percentile £400 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +9.09%
75th Percentile £569 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £37.63 £45.75 £10.50
25th Percentile £39.76 £46.88 £24.88
Median hourly rate £46.18 £50.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% +14.94% -1.14%
75th Percentile - £54.38 £44.35
90th Percentile £65.32 £56.25 £52.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 - £27.48

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Information Architecture 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 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

Information Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Information Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Architecture.

Daily rate trend for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Architecture over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Architecture.

Hourly rate trend for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Architecture over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Architecture in the UK

Information Architecture
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +85 62 £490 -3.21% 30
London +82 35 £513 -4.65% 14
UK excluding London +51 32 £450 -5.26% 19
Work from Home +112 30 £525 +5.00% 12
North of England +29 9 £350 -36.36% 3
South West +4 9 £400 -20.00% 5
North West +26 8 £350 -41.67% 1
South East +13 7 £480 -6.34% 1
Scotland +36 6 £465 +9.41% 1
West Midlands - 2 £475 - 3
Midlands - 2 £475 - 5
Yorkshire +10 1 £450 -18.18% 2

Information Architecture
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 22 (30.56%) SharePoint
2 7 (9.72%) SharePoint Server
3 6 (8.33%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (6.94%) CMS
4 5 (6.94%) SharePoint 2013
5 4 (5.56%) Confluence
6 1 (1.39%) Drupal
6 1 (1.39%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.56%) Adobe XD
3 3 (4.17%) InVision
3 3 (4.17%) Sketch
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.78%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.39%) Acrobat
5 1 (1.39%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (12.50%) Figma
2 9 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.33%) Azure
4 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.56%) OneDrive
4 4 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 3 (4.17%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.78%) GCP
6 2 (2.78%) Google App Engine
6 2 (2.78%) Miro
6 2 (2.78%) ShareGate
7 1 (1.39%) Contentful
7 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.39%) Google Docs
7 1 (1.39%) IaaS
7 1 (1.39%) PaaS
7 1 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.44%) Metadata
2 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Power View
2 6 (8.33%) Power BI
2 6 (8.33%) PowerPivot
2 6 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (4.17%) CockroachDB
4 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.39%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.39%) Balsamiq
General
1 23 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.67%) Finance
4 11 (15.28%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.72%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (9.72%) Publishing
6 5 (6.94%) Banking
7 4 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.56%) Law
7 4 (5.56%) Marketing
8 3 (4.17%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.17%) Legal
9 2 (2.78%) Local Government
9 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.78%) Public Speaking
9 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.39%) Games
10 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) Designer
2 13 (18.06%) Architect
3 9 (12.50%) Information Architect
3 9 (12.50%) UX Designer
4 8 (11.11%) Project Manager
5 6 (8.33%) Administrator
5 6 (8.33%) Content Designer
5 6 (8.33%) SharePoint Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Technical Manager
6 5 (6.94%) Technical Project Manager
7 4 (5.56%) Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Intranet Administrator
8 3 (4.17%) SharePoint Project Manager
8 3 (4.17%) UI Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) UX Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Information Architect
9 2 (2.78%) Java Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.83%) HTML
2 14 (19.44%) CSS
3 4 (5.56%) CSS3
4 3 (4.17%) JPA
4 3 (4.17%) REST
4 3 (4.17%) Spring
4 3 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.78%) jQuery
5 2 (2.78%) SPFx
6 1 (1.39%) CAML
6 1 (1.39%) Middleware
6 1 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.06%) Taxonomies
2 12 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 11 (15.28%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.94%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.56%) Wiki
6 2 (2.78%) CMDB
6 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.39%) Acoustics
7 1 (1.39%) Animation
7 1 (1.39%) Blog
7 1 (1.39%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) IoT
7 1 (1.39%) Mobile Games
7 1 (1.39%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.11%) Agile
1 26 (36.11%) User Experience
2 16 (22.22%) UX Design
3 15 (20.83%) Wireframes
4 13 (18.06%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 12 (16.67%) Metadata Management
6 11 (15.28%) Data Modelling
7 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (12.50%) User Research
7 9 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 9 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
8 8 (11.11%) Microservices
8 8 (11.11%) Migration
8 8 (11.11%) Project Management
8 8 (11.11%) SDLC
8 8 (11.11%) Storyboarding
9 7 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (9.72%) Data Management
9 7 (9.72%) Data Science
10 6 (8.33%) Co-Creation
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.28%) SQL
2 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 9 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.44%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.17%) GDPR
2 3 (4.17%) WCAG
3 2 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.33%) VMware
3 4 (5.56%) Freshdesk
3 4 (5.56%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (4.17%) Adobe
5 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.39%) Google
6 1 (1.39%) SAP