Architectural Patterns Contracts with Work from Home Options

Architectural Patterns
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 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 245 293 267
Rank change year-on-year +48 -26 -61
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 100 165 411
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.68% 0.67% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.75% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 113 303
10th Percentile £450 £465 £475
25th Percentile £524 £550 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £648 £620
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +4.44% +12.73%
75th Percentile £741 £725 £750
90th Percentile £804 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £64.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £81.00 £67.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.90% +41.05% -
75th Percentile - £69.50 £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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
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 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
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 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Architectural Patterns
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Architectural Patterns trend for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns.

Architectural Patterns daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Architectural Patterns over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Architectural Patterns daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns.

Architectural Patterns hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architectural Patterns
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 3 (3.00%) Mule
2 2 (2.00%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.00%) Apache
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.00%) CMS
3 1 (1.00%) Confluence
3 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 43 (43.00%) Azure
2 30 (30.00%) AWS
3 14 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (9.00%) Power Platform
5 8 (8.00%) GCP
6 7 (7.00%) SaaS
7 5 (5.00%) Serverless
8 4 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.00%) GitHub
9 3 (3.00%) Azure API Management
9 3 (3.00%) Azure Batch
9 3 (3.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.00%) Azure Storage
9 3 (3.00%) Datadog
9 3 (3.00%) OCI
9 3 (3.00%) PaaS
9 3 (3.00%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.00%) Network Security
2 5 (5.00%) LAN
2 5 (5.00%) WAN
3 2 (2.00%) Firewall
3 2 (2.00%) SCCP
4 1 (1.00%) 4G
4 1 (1.00%) ATM
4 1 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.00%) DMZ
4 1 (1.00%) SMS
4 1 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.00%) Big Data
2 5 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 5 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.00%) RDBMS
3 4 (4.00%) SQLite
4 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.00%) OLTP
4 3 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.00%) Metadata
5 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.00%) Redis
6 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.00%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.00%) HBase
6 1 (1.00%) MySQL
6 1 (1.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (13.00%) Git
2 7 (7.00%) JIRA
3 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.00%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (2.00%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.00%) Postman
5 2 (2.00%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.00%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.00%) Gatling
6 1 (1.00%) JUnit
6 1 (1.00%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.00%) Mockito
6 1 (1.00%) ScalaTest
6 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.00%) Subversion
General
1 25 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.00%) Finance
3 9 (9.00%) Banking
4 7 (7.00%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.00%) Retail
5 6 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.00%) Legal
7 4 (4.00%) Law
8 3 (3.00%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.00%) Retail Banking
8 3 (3.00%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (2.00%) Marketing
10 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.00%) Military
10 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (68.00%) Architect
2 27 (27.00%) Solutions Architect
3 21 (21.00%) Security Architect
4 19 (19.00%) Developer
5 12 (12.00%) Senior
6 11 (11.00%) Lead
6 11 (11.00%) Technical Architect
7 7 (7.00%) Lead Architect
7 7 (7.00%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.00%) Azure Architect
9 5 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (4.00%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.00%) Lead Security Architect
10 4 (4.00%) Principal Architect
11 3 (3.00%) Android Developer
11 3 (3.00%) Digital Architect
11 3 (3.00%) Salesforce Architect
11 3 (3.00%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.00%) .NET
2 8 (8.00%) XML
3 7 (7.00%) Spring
4 6 (6.00%) .NET Framework
4 6 (6.00%) Middleware
5 5 (5.00%) JSON
5 5 (5.00%) RESTful
5 5 (5.00%) Spring Boot
5 5 (5.00%) Web Services
6 4 (4.00%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.00%) Kafka
6 4 (4.00%) REST
7 3 (3.00%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.00%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.00%) DAO
7 3 (3.00%) PyTorch
7 3 (3.00%) scikit-learn
7 3 (3.00%) SOAP
7 3 (3.00%) TensorFlow
8 2 (2.00%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.00%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.00%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.00%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.00%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.00%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.00%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.00%) IoT
6 1 (1.00%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.00%) Tandem
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.00%) Linux
2 6 (6.00%) Windows
3 4 (4.00%) Android
4 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (38.00%) Agile
2 32 (32.00%) DevOps
3 24 (24.00%) Design Patterns
4 23 (23.00%) Information Security
5 22 (22.00%) Microservices
6 17 (17.00%) Architectural Design
7 16 (16.00%) Computer Science
7 16 (16.00%) Security Management
8 15 (15.00%) Information Security Management
8 15 (15.00%) Migration
8 15 (15.00%) TOGAF
9 12 (12.00%) Information Assurance
9 12 (12.00%) IT Strategy
9 12 (12.00%) Machine Learning
9 12 (12.00%) Risk Assessment
9 12 (12.00%) Roadmaps
10 11 (11.00%) Analytics
10 11 (11.00%) Scrum
10 11 (11.00%) Software Architecture
10 11 (11.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.00%) Java
2 14 (14.00%) C#
3 9 (9.00%) SQL
4 6 (6.00%) Kotlin
5 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.00%) Python
6 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.00%) Scala
8 1 (1.00%) C
8 1 (1.00%) C++
8 1 (1.00%) Jython
8 1 (1.00%) PHP
8 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (21.00%) Degree
2 18 (18.00%) Security Cleared
3 17 (17.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.00%) CISSP
4 10 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (9.00%) CISM
6 8 (8.00%) CISA
6 8 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (8.00%) CREST Certified
7 5 (5.00%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.00%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.00%) CCSP
10 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.00%) CSSLP
10 1 (1.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.00%) NCSC
2 9 (9.00%) NIST
3 8 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (8.00%) QA
4 6 (6.00%) GDPR
5 3 (3.00%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.00%) COBIT
6 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (5.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.00%) HDFS
3 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.00%) Grafana
1 6 (6.00%) Terraform
2 5 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.00%) CloudHub
3 2 (2.00%) Istio
3 2 (2.00%) Kibana
3 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.00%) Argo
4 1 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.00%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.00%) Oozie
4 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.00%) Rancher
4 1 (1.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.00%) Oracle
3 6 (6.00%) Databricks
4 4 (4.00%) Google
4 4 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.00%) Sparx
5 3 (3.00%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.00%) Workday
6 2 (2.00%) Conga
6 2 (2.00%) DocuSign
6 2 (2.00%) New Relic
6 2 (2.00%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.00%) BT
7 1 (1.00%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.00%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.00%) Pega
7 1 (1.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Splunk
7 1 (1.00%) TIBCO