Architectural Patterns Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Architectural Patterns
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 11 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 4.30% 3.95% 6.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 4.17% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 2
10th Percentile £458 £593 £501
25th Percentile £460 £656 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £775 £518
Median % change year-on-year -36.52% +49.76% -
75th Percentile £559 £788 £533
90th Percentile £600 - £536
Cheshire median daily rate £492 £775 £518
% change year-on-year -36.52% +49.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Architectural Patterns 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 248 144 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.88% 94.74% 96.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 117 63
10th Percentile £310 £323 £450
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £415 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -20.95% +12.18%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £582
90th Percentile £579 £615 £588
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -9.90% -0.77% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.18 £24.18 £23.61
% change year-on-year -4.16% +2.41% +54.82%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Architectural Patterns job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in Knutsford over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in Knutsford

Architectural Patterns
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 1 (9.09%) JBoss
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Gradle
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) JUnit
1 1 (9.09%) Maven
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Banking
3 6 (54.55%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Architect
2 7 (63.64%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (36.36%) Payments Architect
3 4 (36.36%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer in Test
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Spring
1 8 (72.73%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Microservices
2 7 (63.64%) Data Modelling
2 7 (63.64%) OOA/OOD
2 7 (63.64%) UML
3 6 (54.55%) Logical Data Model
4 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
4 5 (45.45%) OO
5 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 4 (36.36%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
7 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (18.18%) Client Onboarding
7 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
7 2 (18.18%) DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) Fintech
7 2 (18.18%) Physical Data Model
7 2 (18.18%) Programme Delivery
7 2 (18.18%) Programme Governance
7 2 (18.18%) Service Design
7 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) ISO 20022
2 4 (36.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Google
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle