Instructional Design Contract Job Trends in the North West

Instructional Design
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Instructional Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 - 136
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Instructional Design 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.071% - 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% - 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £447 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £522 - -
90th Percentile £539 - -
England median daily rate £402 £363 £475
% change year-on-year +10.90% -23.68% -29.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Instructional 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 2,427 1,842 2,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.19% 88.99% 86.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,563 1,119 1,580
10th Percentile £220 £275 £302
25th Percentile £363 £385 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 107 245
10th Percentile £17.13 £17.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £22.85 £23.23 £15.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.76 £25.60
Median % change year-on-year +41.69% +24.06% -31.73%
75th Percentile £63.50 £57.10 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.74 £54.59
England median hourly rate £28.55 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -18.43% +2.31% -2.92%

Instructional Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Instructional Design job vacancy trend in the North West

Instructional Design
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Instructional Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Instructional Design in the North West over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Instructional Design in the North West

Instructional Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Instructional 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 Instructional Design within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 March 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
Manchester - 2 £488 -
Instructional Design
England

Instructional 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Learning Designer
2 1 (50.00%) Instructional Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Educational Technology
1 2 (100.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Gamification
1 2 (100.00%) Pedagogy
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Adaptive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility