Architectural Design Contracts in the City of London

Architectural Design
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 107 173
Rank change year-on-year +5 +66 -19
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 25 43 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.18% 1.55% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.72% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 19
10th Percentile £450 £495 £550
25th Percentile £472 £588 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% +10.64%
75th Percentile £675 £863 £825
90th Percentile £700 £884 £835
Central London median daily rate £650 £750 £650
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,941 2,497 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.43% 89.92% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,754 2,734
10th Percentile £375 £363 £363
25th Percentile £470 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 51
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% -35.15% +49.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £52.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.25 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £43.24
% change year-on-year +6.87% -24.26% +26.25%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (8.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 10 (40.00%) Azure App Service
2 10 (40.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 10 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (12.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) SaaS
4 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) Extranet
2 1 (4.00%) Internet
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) NoSQL
2 10 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) Big Data
3 2 (8.00%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 13 (52.00%) Banking
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.00%) French Language
5 1 (4.00%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.00%) .NET Developer
3 4 (16.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Salesforce Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Big Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Information Security Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Information Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Scala Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Security Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) .NET
1 10 (40.00%) .NET Core
1 10 (40.00%) Kafka
2 5 (20.00%) CSS
3 3 (12.00%) CSS3
3 3 (12.00%) HTML
3 3 (12.00%) HTML5
3 3 (12.00%) React
4 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.00%) Spring
5 1 (4.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) CMDB
3 2 (8.00%) Credit Risk
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 12 (48.00%) Design Patterns
3 10 (40.00%) SDLC
4 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (16.00%) Information Security
4 4 (16.00%) Scrum
5 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (12.00%) Workflow
6 2 (8.00%) Antivirus Management
6 2 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (8.00%) Data Development
6 2 (8.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (8.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (8.00%) Scorecard
6 2 (8.00%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) C#
1 10 (40.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.00%) Python
4 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.00%) Java
5 2 (8.00%) R
5 2 (8.00%) Scala
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) CISM
1 2 (8.00%) CISSP
1 2 (8.00%) CRISC
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) COBIT
1 2 (8.00%) GDPR
1 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) CASB
3 1 (4.00%) SCCM
3 1 (4.00%) SCOrch
3 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (16.00%) MuleSoft
3 4 (16.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.00%) Cloudera
4 2 (8.00%) Google
5 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.00%) Databricks
5 1 (4.00%) Imperva
5 1 (4.00%) Netskope
5 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.00%) SAP