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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 599 636
Rank change year-on-year +68 +37 -89
Contract jobs citing Information Architecture 71 96 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.19% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 63 153
10th Percentile £267 £353 £400
25th Percentile £400 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £569 £613 £625
90th Percentile £677 £698 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +13.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £37.63 £45.75 -
25th Percentile £39.76 £46.88 £10.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £50.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% +23.46% -7.95%
75th Percentile - £54.38 £43.95
90th Percentile £65.32 £56.25 £56.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 - £11.00

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +77 60 £500 -2.44% 12
London +67 34 £513 -3.30% 2
Work from Home +105 31 £500 +2.56% 6
UK excluding London +46 31 £450 -5.26% 12
South West +18 10 £400 -36.00%
North of England +25 9 £350 -28.21% 5
North West +17 8 £350 -27.27% 5
Scotland +42 6 £465 +9.41% 1
South East +12 4 £538 +4.88% 1
West Midlands - 3 £500 - 2
Midlands - 3 £500 - 2
Yorkshire +8 1 £450 -18.18%

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 19 (26.76%) SharePoint
2 7 (9.86%) SharePoint Server
3 6 (8.45%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (7.04%) SharePoint 2013
5 4 (5.63%) CMS
5 4 (5.63%) Confluence
6 1 (1.41%) Drupal
6 1 (1.41%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (8.45%) Adobe XD
4 3 (4.23%) InVision
4 3 (4.23%) Sketch
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (2.82%) MS Visio
6 1 (1.41%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.94%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (12.68%) Figma
3 6 (8.45%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.04%) Azure
5 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.82%) GCP
6 2 (2.82%) Google App Engine
6 2 (2.82%) Miro
6 2 (2.82%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.82%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.41%) Contentful
7 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.41%) Google Docs
7 1 (1.41%) IaaS
7 1 (1.41%) PaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.27%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.31%) Metadata
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Power View
2 6 (8.45%) PowerPivot
2 6 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (7.04%) Power BI
4 4 (5.63%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (4.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (4.23%) CockroachDB
5 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.41%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 5 (7.04%) JIRA
2 3 (4.23%) Axure RP
2 3 (4.23%) Balsamiq
General
1 21 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.31%) Public Sector
4 12 (16.90%) Finance
5 8 (11.27%) Publishing
6 7 (9.86%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (8.45%) Banking
8 4 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (5.63%) Investment Banking
8 4 (5.63%) Law
9 3 (4.23%) Legal
9 3 (4.23%) Marketing
9 3 (4.23%) Public Speaking
10 2 (2.82%) Local Government
10 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.41%) Games
11 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (25.35%) Designer
2 11 (15.49%) Architect
3 9 (12.68%) Project Manager
3 9 (12.68%) UX Designer
4 7 (9.86%) Content Designer
4 7 (9.86%) Information Architect
5 6 (8.45%) SharePoint Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Technical Manager
5 6 (8.45%) Technical Project Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Administrator
6 4 (5.63%) Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Intranet Administrator
7 3 (4.23%) Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Senior
7 3 (4.23%) Senior Designer
7 3 (4.23%) SharePoint Project Manager
7 3 (4.23%) UI Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) UX Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.72%) HTML
2 13 (18.31%) CSS
3 4 (5.63%) CSS3
4 3 (4.23%) JPA
4 3 (4.23%) REST
4 3 (4.23%) Spring
4 3 (4.23%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.41%) CAML
5 1 (1.41%) Middleware
5 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) Product Ownership
2 10 (14.08%) Management Information System
2 10 (14.08%) Taxonomies
3 5 (7.04%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.63%) Wiki
5 2 (2.82%) CMDB
5 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.82%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.41%) Acoustics
6 1 (1.41%) Animation
6 1 (1.41%) Blog
6 1 (1.41%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) IoT
6 1 (1.41%) Mobile Games
6 1 (1.41%) Photography
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (42.25%) Agile
2 27 (38.03%) User Experience
3 17 (23.94%) Wireframes
4 16 (22.54%) UX Design
5 15 (21.13%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 12 (16.90%) User Research
7 11 (15.49%) Metadata Management
7 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (15.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 9 (12.68%) Project Management
8 9 (12.68%) SDLC
8 9 (12.68%) Workshop Facilitation
9 8 (11.27%) Data Modelling
9 8 (11.27%) Storyboarding
10 7 (9.86%) Co-Creation
10 7 (9.86%) Data Management
10 7 (9.86%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
10 7 (9.86%) Microservices
10 7 (9.86%) Migration
10 7 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.49%) SQL
2 10 (14.08%) JavaScript
3 7 (9.86%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.63%) Java
5 1 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (9.86%) Degree
2 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.13%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.45%) WCAG
3 2 (2.82%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.41%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 16 (22.54%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.45%) VMware
3 5 (7.04%) Adobe
4 4 (5.63%) Freshdesk
4 4 (5.63%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.41%) Google
6 1 (1.41%) SAP