Information Architecture Contracts

Information Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Information Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 523 608
Rank change year-on-year +53 +85 +27
Contract jobs citing Information Architecture 60 69 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.19% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 43 55
10th Percentile £406 £258 £343
25th Percentile £500 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £572 £600
90th Percentile £716 £682 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £465 £463
% change year-on-year +31.72% +0.54% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £37.63 £45.75
25th Percentile - £39.76 £46.88
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.64% +23.46%
75th Percentile - - £54.38
90th Percentile - £65.32 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £46.18 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Information Architecture 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,473 37,081 49,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.06% 85.12% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,374 23,644 34,319
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,294 2,582 1,699
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.65 £11.45
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £15.83
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £54.56 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £70.92 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.83 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.86% +17.29% +54.76%

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 25 June 2025.

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
Top 13 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 25 June 2025. 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 +60 45 £544 +8.75% 69
UK excluding London +51 32 £613 +31.72% 25
North of England +31 19 £616 +76.07% 6
Work from Home +34 18 £559 +11.80% 41
North West +12 16 £620 +77.14% 2
London +24 15 £514 +0.24% 43
South West +46 7 £624 +55.94% 4
South East +46 3 £775 +44.19% 7
Yorkshire - 3 £538 - 4
Midlands +11 2 £318 -36.50% 3
East Midlands - 2 £318 -
Scotland -1 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £438 -

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 5 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.67%) CMS
3 3 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (1.67%) Apache
5 1 (1.67%) Confluence
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Sketch
2 4 (6.67%) Adobe XD
2 4 (6.67%) InVision
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.33%) SAP SCM
3 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) Figma
2 7 (11.67%) Azure
3 6 (10.00%) GCP
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.00%) AWS
4 3 (5.00%) dbt
5 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.33%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.67%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.67%) Miro
6 1 (1.67%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) BigQuery
1 4 (6.67%) Metadata
2 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.33%) Bigtable
3 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.67%) Big Data
4 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.67%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) MySQL
4 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Redis
4 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Axure RP
1 5 (8.33%) Balsamiq
2 4 (6.67%) JIRA
3 2 (3.33%) Git
General
1 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.67%) Finance
4 8 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (10.00%) Legal
5 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (8.33%) Banking
6 5 (8.33%) Manufacturing
7 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Automotive
8 2 (3.33%) Back Office
8 2 (3.33%) Marketing
8 2 (3.33%) Retail
9 1 (1.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 24 (40.00%) Architect
2 16 (26.67%) Designer
3 11 (18.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 10 (16.67%) UX Designer
5 9 (15.00%) Senior
6 6 (10.00%) Senior Designer
6 6 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (8.33%) Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) Business Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) Data Architect
7 5 (8.33%) Information Architect
7 5 (8.33%) Senior UX Designer
8 4 (6.67%) Data Migration Expert
8 4 (6.67%) Information Manager
8 4 (6.67%) Interaction Designer
9 3 (5.00%) Consultant
9 3 (5.00%) Product Designer
10 2 (3.33%) Banking Analyst
10 2 (3.33%) Banking Business Analyst
10 2 (3.33%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) CSS
1 4 (6.67%) HTML
1 4 (6.67%) Kafka
2 2 (3.33%) .NET
2 2 (3.33%) Middleware
2 2 (3.33%) XML
3 1 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 9 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 6 (10.00%) Taxonomies
4 5 (8.33%) Mobile App
5 4 (6.67%) Graphic Design
5 4 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
6 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.33%) Data Fabric
7 2 (3.33%) Fixed Income
7 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.67%) Sports Betting
8 1 (1.67%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Unix
2 1 (1.67%) Android
2 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.33%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (31.67%) User Experience
3 17 (28.33%) UX Design
4 15 (25.00%) Agile
4 15 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 14 (23.33%) Migration
6 13 (21.67%) Decision-Making
6 13 (21.67%) Strategic Thinking
7 11 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (18.33%) User Research
7 11 (18.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 11 (18.33%) Wireframes
8 10 (16.67%) Data Governance
8 10 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
8 10 (16.67%) ETL
8 10 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (15.00%) Data Design
9 9 (15.00%) Interaction Design
9 9 (15.00%) Project Management
10 8 (13.33%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.33%) Python
2 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.00%) Java
3 3 (5.00%) Scala
3 3 (5.00%) SQL
4 2 (3.33%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) Degree
3 5 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 7 (11.67%) NIST
3 4 (6.67%) QA
4 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.33%) PMO
4 2 (3.33%) WCAG
5 1 (1.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) SAP
2 5 (8.33%) Adobe
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) Databricks
4 2 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.67%) Hotjar
5 1 (1.67%) Informatica
5 1 (1.67%) Talend
5 1 (1.67%) Virgin Media
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