Architectural Design Contracts in the North West

Architectural Design
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Architectural Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Architectural Design over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 149 150
Rank change year-on-year +43 +1 -24
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 32 11 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.19% 0.35% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.39% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 18
10th Percentile £445 £482 £441
25th Percentile £450 £550 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £563 £628
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -10.28% +5.46%
75th Percentile £738 £638 £642
90th Percentile £771 £705 £646
England median daily rate £600 £620 £631
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.74% +12.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £33.18 - £96.07
25th Percentile £40.56 - £96.17
Median hourly rate £55.75 £35.00 £96.23
Median % change year-on-year +59.29% -63.63% -
75th Percentile £70.56 - -
90th Percentile £77.73 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £71.00 £96.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% -26.04% +102.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Architectural Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,300 2,829 3,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.88% 90.47% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 1,993 2,598
10th Percentile £308 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 139 169
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.80 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +46.94% +32.43%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.46 £50.78
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the North West

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the North West

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the North West

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the North West

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architectural Design in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architectural Design in the North West

Architectural Design
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Manchester +35 18 £528 -18.85% 9
Cheshire +14 11 £725 +31.82% 2
Merseyside - 2 - -
Cumbria - 1 - -
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) Azure
2 10 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (21.88%) AWS
4 6 (18.75%) SaaS
5 3 (9.38%) IaaS
5 3 (9.38%) PaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.13%) Firebase
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) MQTT
2 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) DB2
1 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Crashlytics
1 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
1 1 (3.13%) Git
1 1 (3.13%) GoCD
1 1 (3.13%) Gradle
General
1 11 (34.38%) Banking
2 9 (28.13%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (87.50%) Architect
2 23 (71.88%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Applications Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Commercial Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Payments Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Security Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Android Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) React
2 3 (9.38%) .NET
3 2 (6.25%) Middleware
4 1 (3.13%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.13%) Dagger
4 1 (3.13%) Jest
4 1 (3.13%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.38%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (3.13%) IoT
4 1 (3.13%) Life Science
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.13%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Android
2 4 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Agile
2 11 (34.38%) DevOps
3 10 (31.25%) Computer Science
4 9 (28.13%) Architectural Patterns
4 9 (28.13%) Architecture Governance
4 9 (28.13%) Data Management
4 9 (28.13%) Migration
4 9 (28.13%) Project Delivery
4 9 (28.13%) Service Design
5 8 (25.00%) Business Strategy
5 8 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (18.75%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 5 (15.63%) Design Patterns
7 5 (15.63%) Risk Management
7 5 (15.63%) SDLC
7 5 (15.63%) Waterfall
8 4 (12.50%) Identity Management
8 4 (12.50%) IT Strategy
8 4 (12.50%) Microservices
8 4 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) Java
2 3 (9.38%) C
3 1 (3.13%) Bicep
3 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) CISM
2 3 (9.38%) CISSP
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Grafana
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft