Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Architectural Design
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 49 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 -8 +10
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 14 6 15
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.20% 1.32% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 1.47% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 12
10th Percentile £464 £429 £426
25th Percentile £510 £435 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £445 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.06% -15.24% -16.67%
75th Percentile £753 £455 £540
90th Percentile £765 £461 £547
North West median daily rate £638 £478 £540
% change year-on-year +33.51% -11.57% -14.29%

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 561 409 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.21% 89.69% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 239 237
10th Percentile £268 £316 £265
25th Percentile £356 £374 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.69% -4.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £550
90th Percentile £683 £650 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 23 24
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.60
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +10.71% +43.21%
75th Percentile £40.00 £33.75 £35.19
90th Percentile £71.65 £84.30 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £31.75 £31.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year +1.60% -11.97% +33.81%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Cheshire over the 6 months to 18 December 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 18 December 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 -13 11 £534 +18.01% 1
Chester - 3 £750 - 1
Architectural Design
North West

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Tableau
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
2 1 (7.14%) Big Data
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 14 (100.00%) Banking
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Architect
2 9 (64.29%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Business Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Payments Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Technical Architecture
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Regulatory Compliance
3 6 (42.86%) Records Management
3 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (35.71%) Project Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) Business Strategy
5 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (21.43%) Batch Processing
6 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 3 (21.43%) Microservices
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 2 (14.29%) IT Strategy
7 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) ISO 20022
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Temenos
2 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft