Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Architectural Design
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 66 80
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 +50
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 17 15 23
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.42% 1.39% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.55% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 12
10th Percentile £463 £465 £513
25th Percentile £565 £478 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £480 £650
Median % change year-on-year +38.54% -26.15% +20.93%
75th Percentile £678 £656 £681
90th Percentile £750 £664 £734
North West median daily rate £638 £478 £540
% change year-on-year +33.51% -11.57% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.25
25th Percentile - - £73.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £80.63
90th Percentile - - £81.75
North West median hourly rate £70.00 - £77.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,076 966 1,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.89% 89.44% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 578 977
10th Percentile £308 £294 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £681 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 39 50
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.98 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.39 £22.75 £17.53
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% +8.33% -21.36%
75th Percentile £52.88 £40.38 £60.94
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £75.70
North West median hourly rate £31.50 £31.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year +0.80% -11.97% +33.81%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Manchester

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in Manchester

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 19 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
Bolton - 1 £425 - 3
Architectural Design
North West

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) GCP
2 5 (29.41%) GitHub
2 5 (29.41%) SaaS
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EMR
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EventBridge
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (23.53%) Apigee
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Fargate
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (23.53%) Datadog
3 4 (23.53%) Loggly
3 4 (23.53%) PaaS
3 4 (23.53%) Route 53
3 4 (23.53%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (29.41%) MySQL
1 5 (29.41%) Redis
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (23.53%) BigQuery
2 4 (23.53%) DynamoDB
2 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
2 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (23.53%) RDBMS
2 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
1 5 (29.41%) Gradle
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) Maven
2 4 (23.53%) SonarLint
2 4 (23.53%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.88%) CocoaPods
3 1 (5.88%) Crashlytics
3 1 (5.88%) fastlane
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 4 (23.53%) Influencing Skills
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Architect
2 7 (41.18%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Java Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Java Technical Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Technical Architect
4 3 (17.65%) SailPoint Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (5.88%) SAP Architect
6 1 (5.88%) SAP Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
2 4 (23.53%) Dropwizard
2 4 (23.53%) J2EE
2 4 (23.53%) JWT
2 4 (23.53%) Micronaut
2 4 (23.53%) RESTful
2 4 (23.53%) SailPoint
3 3 (17.65%) Celery
4 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.88%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (5.88%) Bootstrap
5 1 (5.88%) Dagger
5 1 (5.88%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (5.88%) Laravel
5 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
5 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
5 1 (5.88%) SwiftUI
5 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
5 1 (5.88%) UIKit
5 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
1 4 (23.53%) N-Tier
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
1 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Technical Leadership
2 7 (41.18%) Design Patterns
2 7 (41.18%) Mentoring
2 7 (41.18%) TDD
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) AI
3 6 (35.29%) Clean Code
3 6 (35.29%) Roadmaps
3 6 (35.29%) TOGAF
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Microservices
4 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (23.53%) BDD
5 4 (23.53%) CQRS
5 4 (23.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (23.53%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (23.53%) MVC
5 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
5 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (23.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.88%) Objective-C
4 1 (5.88%) PHP
4 1 (5.88%) R
4 1 (5.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Gigya
2 2 (11.76%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Foundry
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) SAP