Architectural Patterns Contracts in the North West

Architectural Patterns
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Patterns over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 102 140
Rank change year-on-year -6 +38 -6
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 12 35 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 1.27% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.47% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 9
10th Percentile £470 £450 £560
25th Percentile £500 £475 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £638
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% +2.00%
75th Percentile £615 £613 £675
90th Percentile £683 £738 £695
England median daily rate £624 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.96% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £81.00 -
England median hourly rate £91.69 £81.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +13.20% +8.00% +57.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Patterns in the North West

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the North West

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Patterns in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Patterns in the North West

Architectural Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Patterns in the North West

Architectural Patterns
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 Patterns within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -8 6 £488 -7.14% 44
Lancashire - 5 £600 - 22
Architectural Patterns
England

Architectural Patterns
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Serverless
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
General
1 8 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Architect
3 4 (33.33%) .NET Architect
3 4 (33.33%) .NET Technical Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Applications Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Java Applications Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Java Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Java Technical Architect
4 3 (25.00%) Senior
5 2 (16.67%) AWS Architect
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
5 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Integration Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
1 7 (58.33%) Microservices
2 5 (41.67%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
2 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
2 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Virgin Media
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Okta
3 1 (8.33%) Ping Identity
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce