Architectural Patterns Contracts in the West Midlands

Architectural Patterns
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 95 108 155
Rank change year-on-year +13 +47 -35
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 11 21 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.58% 0.93% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.05% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 13
10th Percentile £650 £450 -
25th Percentile £656 £525 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +45.00% -15.97%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £575
90th Percentile £820 £813 £599
England median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +10.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,582 1,992 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.70% 88.26% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,359 2,336
10th Percentile £272 £263 £273
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +4.52% +15.94%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £576
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 65
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.15
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the West Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the West Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the West Midlands

Architectural Patterns
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham +8 6 £700 +27.27% 3
Warwickshire +3 4 £675 -6.90%
Staffordshire - 1 - -
Architectural Patterns
England

Architectural Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (27.27%) CMS
1 3 (27.27%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) SSL
2 3 (27.27%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) WAN
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (9.09%) DMZ
4 1 (9.09%) Firewall
4 1 (9.09%) IPsec
4 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) DB2
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) OLAP
1 1 (9.09%) OLTP
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) Artifactory
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Selenium
2 3 (27.27%) Subversion
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Juniper Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Security Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) Swagger
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 3 (27.27%) Private Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
4 4 (36.36%) Design Patterns
4 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Software Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) Analytics
5 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Epics
5 3 (27.27%) IT Strategy
5 3 (27.27%) Kanban
5 3 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (27.27%) SDLC
5 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Software Assurance
5 3 (27.27%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (9.09%) CCSP
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.09%) CISSP
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Salesforce
1 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Blue Coat
3 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Juniper
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle