Architectural Design Contracts in Cheshire

Architectural Design
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 47 57
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 13 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.90% 2.18% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 2.59% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 5
10th Percentile £344 - £466
25th Percentile £358 £445 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -38.34% +31.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £563
90th Percentile £733 - -
North West median daily rate £525 £530 £563
% change year-on-year -0.94% -5.86% -10.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in Cheshire

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in Cheshire

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in Cheshire

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford -2 5 £358 -19.55% 1
Chester -8 4 £713 -1.72% 2
Architectural Design
North West

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) CMS
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) JBoss
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
1 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) ATM
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Hudson
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 11 (84.62%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Billing
5 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Legal
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Architect
2 11 (84.62%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (46.15%) Payments Architect
3 6 (46.15%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Middleware
2 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) CSS3
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) HTML5
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Ajax
3 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.69%) JAX-WS
3 1 (7.69%) jQuery
3 1 (7.69%) JSP
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring MVC
3 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Blockchain
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
2 4 (30.77%) SDLC
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (23.08%) Front End Development
3 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO 20022
1 2 (15.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Adobe
1 1 (7.69%) IBM
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
1 1 (7.69%) VMware