Architectural Patterns Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Architectural Patterns
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.92% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 - -
North West median daily rate £523 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.22% -10.00% -23.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 129 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 78.46% 81.13% 69.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 81 78
10th Percentile £144 £129 £149
25th Percentile £255 £190 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £410
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +3.66% -18.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £494
90th Percentile £675 £663 £588
North West median daily rate £492 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +6.96% -8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 14
10th Percentile £17.46 - £15.30
25th Percentile £24.89 £12.21 £16.88
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.30 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year +46.71% -24.37% -0.97%
75th Percentile £39.32 £17.44 £36.19
90th Percentile £43.96 - £49.80
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £28.75 £32.00
% change year-on-year +73.91% -10.16% +4.78%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Architectural Patterns job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Architectural Patterns
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Patterns within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 30 July 2026. 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
Liverpool - 3 £441 - 2
Architectural Patterns
North West

Architectural Patterns
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
1 1 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Data Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Power Apps Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) IFRS
1 2 (66.67%) IFRS 17
1 2 (66.67%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft