Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Architectural Design
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford 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 40 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 11 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 4.80% 1.63% 10.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 1.69% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 7
10th Percentile £460 £446 £500
25th Percentile £507 £448 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £453 £540
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -16.20% -14.29%
75th Percentile £755 £460 £544
90th Percentile £765 £463 £555
Cheshire median daily rate £557 £445 £525
% change year-on-year +25.06% -15.24% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 223 118 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.38% 95.93% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 97 62
10th Percentile £308 £349 £450
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -23.81% +12.18%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £582
90th Percentile £579 £638 £587
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -6.69% -4.40% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £21.84
% change year-on-year -5.50% +10.71% +43.21%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Knutsford over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in Knutsford

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (54.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) JIRA
General
1 11 (100.00%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Architect
2 7 (63.64%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (36.36%) Business Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Payments Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Spring
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Technical Architecture
2 8 (72.73%) Regulatory Compliance
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Records Management
3 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
5 4 (36.36%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (27.27%) Batch Processing
6 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
7 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
7 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
8 1 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
8 1 (9.09%) Architecture Roadmap
8 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
8 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
8 1 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
8 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Temenos
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft