Integration Patterns Contracts in the North West

Integration Patterns
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Integration Patterns skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Integration Patterns over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 117 141
Rank change year-on-year +3 +24 +47
Contract jobs citing Integration Patterns 11 16 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.51% 0.60% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.71% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 12
10th Percentile £356 £446 £487
25th Percentile £451 £454 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £615 £709 £628
90th Percentile £621 £747 £649
England median daily rate £575 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Integration 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 1,888 2,244 2,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.81% 84.52% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,237 1,380 1,884
10th Percentile £279 £300 £305
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +1.01%
75th Percentile £570 £582 £588
90th Percentile £670 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 240 158
10th Percentile £13.43 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.50 £17.94
Median hourly rate £29.01 £27.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -7.85% +19.20%
75th Percentile £59.93 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.38 £68.76 £56.73
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

Integration Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Integration Patterns in the North West

Integration Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Integration Patterns in the North West

Integration Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Patterns in the North West over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Patterns in the North West

Integration 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 Integration Patterns within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Cheshire -14 5 £447 -2.83% 1
Lancashire -1 4 £600 +33.33% 1
Manchester +11 1 £475 -29.63% 2
Merseyside - 1 - -
Integration Patterns
England

Integration 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) JBoss
1 1 (9.09%) Mule
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) Firebase
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MariaDB
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Hudson
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Automotive
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Applications Architect
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Architect
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Technical Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Java Applications Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Java Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Java Technical Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Payments Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) SOAP
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) CSS3
3 1 (9.09%) D3.js
3 1 (9.09%) Flask
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) Next.js
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) RAML
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) React Native
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Batch
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Swagger
3 1 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Microservices
2 4 (36.36%) Architectural Design
2 4 (36.36%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (36.36%) Domain-Driven Design
2 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Requirements Management
3 3 (27.27%) TOGAF
4 1 (9.09%) API Development
4 1 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (9.09%) Front End Development
4 1 (9.09%) Presales
4 1 (9.09%) SDLC
4 1 (9.09%) Secure Coding
4 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Apex Code
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Virgin Media
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Checkmarx
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Netlify
2 1 (9.09%) Okta
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAI
2 1 (9.09%) Ping Identity
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce