Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in the North West

Architectural Design
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 99 100
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +52
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 33 24 39
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.33% 1.11% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.28% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 25
10th Percentile £461 £443 £430
25th Percentile £515 £451 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £478 £540
Median % change year-on-year +33.51% -11.57% -14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £612 £663
90th Percentile £764 £658 £690
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.25
25th Percentile - - £73.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £72.13 - £80.63
90th Percentile £73.41 - £81.75
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +61.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,193 1,874 2,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.39% 86.48% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,055 1,596
10th Percentile £213 £265 £295
25th Percentile £358 £390 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £567 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 108 157
10th Percentile £16.67 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.87 £21.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.75 £31.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -11.97% +33.81%
75th Percentile £52.13 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £69.83 £68.65 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the North West

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Architectural Design

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 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the North West

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Architectural Design

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 18 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
Manchester -11 17 £665 +38.54% 7
Cheshire -9 14 £557 +25.06% 8
Lancashire -10 1 - - 2
Merseyside - 1 - - 2
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (21.21%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) AWS
1 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) GCP
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (15.15%) GitHub
3 5 (15.15%) SaaS
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon EventBridge
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (12.12%) Apigee
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Fargate
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (12.12%) Datadog
4 4 (12.12%) Loggly
4 4 (12.12%) PaaS
4 4 (12.12%) Route 53
4 4 (12.12%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) MySQL
1 6 (18.18%) Tableau
2 5 (15.15%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (15.15%) NoSQL
2 5 (15.15%) Redis
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (12.12%) BigQuery
3 4 (12.12%) DynamoDB
3 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.12%) RDBMS
3 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.03%) Big Data
4 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) JIRA
2 6 (18.18%) Git
3 5 (15.15%) Gradle
3 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
4 4 (12.12%) Maven
4 4 (12.12%) SonarLint
4 4 (12.12%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.03%) CocoaPods
5 1 (3.03%) Crashlytics
5 1 (3.03%) fastlane
5 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 16 (48.48%) Banking
2 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (81.82%) Architect
2 17 (51.52%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Business Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Java Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Java Technical Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Technical Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Payments Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.09%) SailPoint Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Applications Architect
6 1 (3.03%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Lead Architect
6 1 (3.03%) SAP Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 5 (15.15%) JWT
2 5 (15.15%) RESTful
3 4 (12.12%) Dropwizard
3 4 (12.12%) J2EE
3 4 (12.12%) Micronaut
3 4 (12.12%) SailPoint
4 3 (9.09%) Celery
5 2 (6.06%) .NET
5 2 (6.06%) GraphQL
5 2 (6.06%) Middleware
5 2 (6.06%) Spring
6 1 (3.03%) Bootstrap
6 1 (3.03%) HTML
6 1 (3.03%) Laravel
6 1 (3.03%) Node.js
6 1 (3.03%) OAuth
6 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.03%) REST
6 1 (3.03%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (39.39%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.12%) N-Tier
3 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Android
1 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (30.30%) Agile
2 10 (30.30%) DevOps
2 10 (30.30%) Technical Architecture
3 9 (27.27%) Microservices
3 9 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
4 8 (24.24%) Containerisation
4 8 (24.24%) Design Patterns
4 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (24.24%) Regulatory Compliance
4 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
4 8 (24.24%) TOGAF
5 7 (21.21%) AI
5 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (21.21%) Integration Patterns
5 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
5 7 (21.21%) TDD
5 7 (21.21%) Waterfall
6 6 (18.18%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Java
2 8 (24.24%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) C#
3 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.06%) Kotlin
3 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.03%) Objective-C
4 1 (3.03%) PHP
4 1 (3.03%) R
4 1 (3.03%) SQL
4 1 (3.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) PSD2
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Gigya
2 3 (9.09%) Google
2 3 (9.09%) Temenos
3 1 (3.03%) Cloudera
3 1 (3.03%) Foundry
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.03%) SAP