Architectural Patterns Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Architectural Patterns
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 83 75 86
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 8 8 20
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.71% 0.70% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.79% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 12
10th Percentile £311 £394 £530
25th Percentile £313 £428 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £488 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% -25.00% +4.00%
75th Percentile £750 £580 £719
90th Percentile - £716 £744
North West median daily rate £492 £550 £609
% change year-on-year -10.55% -9.65% -4.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,015 1,014 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.66% 88.71% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 597 1,026
10th Percentile £300 £294 £285
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 48
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.00 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +64.56% -43.57%
75th Percentile £31.40 £45.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £74.28
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Architectural Patterns job vacancy trend in Manchester

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in Manchester

Architectural Patterns
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AI
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Vertex AI
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
1 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Licensing
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
1 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (37.50%) Microservices
1 3 (37.50%) OO
1 3 (37.50%) OOP
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) AI
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Open Source
2 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) IT Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
3 1 (12.50%) UML
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Foundry
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce