Architectural Design Contracts with Work from Home Options

Architectural Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 278 316
Rank change year-on-year +65 +38 -49
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 134 188 345
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.91% 0.77% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.86% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 136 239
10th Percentile £445 £478 £495
25th Percentile £463 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% - +10.64%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £725
90th Percentile £825 £801 £823
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £44.95 £64.95 £96.02
25th Percentile £70.00 £65.38 £96.06
Median hourly rate £71.93 £72.00 £96.12
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -25.09% +104.50%
75th Percentile £72.90 £78.00 £96.17
90th Percentile £78.66 £80.40 £96.21
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £72.00 £96.23
% change year-on-year -2.78% -25.18% +119.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,922 21,983 40,479
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.64% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 15,568 29,399
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 508 539
10th Percentile £14.74 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Architectural Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Architectural Design trend for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Architectural Design.

Architectural Design daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Architectural Design daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Architectural Design.

Architectural Design hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Architectural Design over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Architectural Design hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (1.49%) Anypoint
1 2 (1.49%) Confluence
1 2 (1.49%) Mule
2 1 (0.75%) Apache
2 1 (0.75%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.75%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.75%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (33.58%) AWS
2 37 (27.61%) Azure
3 19 (14.18%) GCP
4 9 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.97%) SaaS
6 4 (2.99%) IaaS
6 4 (2.99%) PaaS
6 4 (2.99%) Serverless
7 3 (2.24%) GitHub
8 2 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.49%) OCI
8 2 (1.49%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.75%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.75%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.75%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.48%) VPN
2 5 (3.73%) Network Security
2 5 (3.73%) WAN
3 4 (2.99%) LAN
4 3 (2.24%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (2.24%) MPLS
4 3 (2.24%) PBX
4 3 (2.24%) VoIP
4 3 (2.24%) WLAN
5 2 (1.49%) Firewall
6 1 (0.75%) SSL
6 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.19%) Oracle Database
3 13 (9.70%) Oracle Database 11g
4 7 (5.22%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.99%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.24%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.24%) DB2
6 3 (2.24%) OLAP
6 3 (2.24%) OLTP
7 2 (1.49%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.49%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.49%) Tableau
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.75%) Power BI
8 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (4.48%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.99%) Git
2 4 (2.99%) JIRA
3 2 (1.49%) JMeter
3 2 (1.49%) Mockito
4 1 (0.75%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.75%) Crashlytics
4 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.75%) Gatling
4 1 (0.75%) Gradle
4 1 (0.75%) JUnit
4 1 (0.75%) ScalaTest
General
1 33 (24.63%) Finance
2 22 (16.42%) Banking
2 22 (16.42%) Public Sector
3 17 (12.69%) Social Skills
4 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (2.99%) Retail
5 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.24%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.24%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.49%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.49%) Legal
7 1 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.75%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.75%) Law
7 1 (0.75%) Local Government
7 1 (0.75%) Marketing
7 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 82 (61.19%) Architect
2 52 (38.81%) Solutions Architect
3 24 (17.91%) Developer
4 13 (9.70%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 13 (9.70%) Senior
5 8 (5.97%) Technical Architect
6 7 (5.22%) Security Architect
7 6 (4.48%) Lead
7 6 (4.48%) Senior Architect
8 5 (3.73%) Data Architect
8 5 (3.73%) SIEM Architect
9 4 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (2.99%) ERP Architect
9 4 (2.99%) Informatica Developer
9 4 (2.99%) Project Manager
9 4 (2.99%) SailPoint Architect
9 4 (2.99%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.24%) Payments Architect
10 3 (2.24%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.24%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.96%) SailPoint
2 9 (6.72%) Web Services
3 7 (5.22%) REST
4 6 (4.48%) Spring
4 6 (4.48%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.73%) .NET
5 5 (3.73%) Kafka
5 5 (3.73%) React
5 5 (3.73%) RESTful
6 3 (2.24%) JPA
7 2 (1.49%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.49%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.49%) HTML
7 2 (1.49%) Node.js
7 2 (1.49%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.49%) Pyramid
7 2 (1.49%) RAML
7 2 (1.49%) SOAP
7 2 (1.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.22%) Data Centre
1 7 (5.22%) Mainframe
2 5 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.73%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.24%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.49%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.49%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.49%) IoT
6 1 (0.75%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.75%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.75%) Life Science
6 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.75%) Machine to Machine
6 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.48%) Android
2 4 (2.99%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.49%) Linux
3 2 (1.49%) Windows
4 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.06%) Migration
2 45 (33.58%) DevOps
3 36 (26.87%) Agile
4 24 (17.91%) Roadmaps
5 23 (17.16%) Performance Tuning
6 22 (16.42%) Microservices
7 20 (14.93%) CI/CD
8 19 (14.18%) Project Delivery
8 19 (14.18%) Software Engineering
9 17 (12.69%) Containerisation
10 16 (11.94%) Cloud Security
10 16 (11.94%) Service Design
11 15 (11.19%) Architectural Patterns
12 14 (10.45%) Clean Code
12 14 (10.45%) Mentoring
12 14 (10.45%) Secure Coding
12 14 (10.45%) Unit Testing
13 13 (9.70%) Data Migration
13 13 (9.70%) High Availability
13 13 (9.70%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.67%) SQL
2 19 (14.18%) Java
3 13 (9.70%) PL/SQL
4 9 (6.72%) Python
5 4 (2.99%) C#
6 3 (2.24%) C
6 3 (2.24%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.24%) Scala
7 2 (1.49%) Go
7 2 (1.49%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.75%) Bicep
8 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.21%) Degree
4 6 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.73%) CISSP
6 4 (2.99%) CISM
7 3 (2.24%) CCIE
7 3 (2.24%) CCIE Data Center
7 3 (2.24%) CCNP
7 3 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.75%) CEH
9 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.75%) RIBA
9 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.72%) NIST
2 6 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.24%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) COBIT
4 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.75%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 4 (2.99%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) ACF2
3 1 (0.75%) IAG
3 1 (0.75%) RACF
3 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.73%) Terraform
3 2 (1.49%) CloudHub
3 2 (1.49%) Grafana
3 2 (1.49%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.75%) Argo
4 1 (0.75%) Kibana
4 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (14.93%) Oracle
2 13 (9.70%) ServiceNow
3 12 (8.96%) BeyondTrust
3 12 (8.96%) CyberArk
4 9 (6.72%) Informatica
5 8 (5.97%) LogRhythm
5 8 (5.97%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.48%) SAP
7 4 (2.99%) Cisco
7 4 (2.99%) Google
7 4 (2.99%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.24%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.49%) Genesys
9 2 (1.49%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.75%) Ariba
10 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.75%) BT
10 1 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) Splunk
10 1 (0.75%) VMware