Sketch Contract Job Trends in the North West

Sketch
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Sketch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Sketch 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.32% - -
As % of the Applications category 3.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £302 - -
25th Percentile £306 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 - -
75th Percentile £356 - -
90th Percentile £360 - -
England median daily rate £425 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -15.00%

All Software Application Skills
North West

Sketch falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 218 151 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 8.75% 7.00% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 78 156
10th Percentile £164 £161 £142
25th Percentile £259 £209 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £381 £261
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% +45.93% -38.53%
75th Percentile £484 £513 £438
90th Percentile £579 £618 £500
England median daily rate £448 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +8.48% +3.13% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 28 44
10th Percentile £18.54 £17.48 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £23.26 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.32 £30.00 £20.58
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +45.77% -14.25%
75th Percentile £24.05 £33.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £35.18 £49.06 £49.70
England median hourly rate £20.35 £25.00 £28.30
% change year-on-year -18.60% -11.66% +4.81%

Sketch
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Sketch job vacancy trend in the North West

Sketch
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Sketch
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 Sketch within the North West region over the 6 months to 17 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 - 7 £322 -
Cheshire - 1 - -
Sketch
England

Sketch
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 5 (62.50%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe XD
1 1 (12.50%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Figma
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Designer
2 6 (75.00%) UX Designer
3 2 (25.00%) Content Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Graphic Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Interface Designer
4 1 (12.50%) UI Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Interaction Design
1 8 (100.00%) User Experience
1 8 (100.00%) UX Design
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Personalization
2 6 (75.00%) Usability Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Validation
3 4 (50.00%) Content Management
4 2 (25.00%) User Research
4 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (25.00%) Wireframes
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Behavioural Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Content Writing
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) ERP
5 1 (12.50%) Inclusive Design
5 1 (12.50%) Service Design
5 1 (12.50%) Storyboarding
5 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Hopewiser
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Adobe