Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Architectural Design
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.52% 0.52% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate £670 £465 £538
% change year-on-year +44.09% -13.49% -14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 - £77.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 165 141 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 85.49% 72.68% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 49 133
10th Percentile £179 £257 £360
25th Percentile £400 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +7.58%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £650
90th Percentile £671 £634 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 60
10th Percentile £22.75 £26.25 £20.58
25th Percentile £41.94 £36.18 £37.78
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +56.23% -12.68% +22.19%
75th Percentile £70.81 £46.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £58.13 £63.21
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.27
% change year-on-year -37.63% +14.35% +35.10%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes