Architectural Design Contracts in the North West

Architectural Design
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 141 145
Rank change year-on-year +49 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 43 9 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.54% 0.30% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 0.33% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 7 22
10th Percentile £445 £526 £381
25th Percentile £450 £556 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £563 £628
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -10.28% +5.46%
75th Percentile £738 £638 £642
90th Percentile £743 £723 £649
England median daily rate £600 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.96% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £33.18 - £96.07
25th Percentile £40.56 - £96.17
Median hourly rate £55.75 £35.00 £96.23
Median % change year-on-year +59.29% -63.63% +43.95%
75th Percentile £70.56 - -
90th Percentile £77.73 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.00 £96.23
% change year-on-year -9.72% -25.18% +78.20%

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 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the North West

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the North West

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 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the North West

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the North West

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architectural Design in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architectural Design in the North West

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 12 June 2024. 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 +28 22 £530 -21.48% 11
Cheshire +8 17 £465 -16.44% 1
Merseyside - 2 - -
Cumbria - 1 - -
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
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 (2.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (32.56%) Azure
2 11 (25.58%) AWS
3 10 (23.26%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.95%) SaaS
5 3 (6.98%) IaaS
5 3 (6.98%) PaaS
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.33%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.33%) Firebase
7 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) MQTT
2 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.98%) DB2
2 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.30%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Crashlytics
3 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.33%) GoCD
3 1 (2.33%) Gradle
General
1 16 (37.21%) Banking
2 9 (20.93%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Automotive
6 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (90.70%) Architect
2 29 (67.44%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (16.28%) Security Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Payments Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Applications Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Commercial Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Senior
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Android Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Platform Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Principal Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Security Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Android Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) React
2 3 (6.98%) .NET
3 2 (4.65%) Middleware
4 1 (2.33%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.33%) CSS
4 1 (2.33%) Dagger
4 1 (2.33%) HTML
4 1 (2.33%) Jest
4 1 (2.33%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (2.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) CMDB
1 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (9.30%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.98%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.65%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (2.33%) IoT
4 1 (2.33%) Life Science
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Android
2 4 (9.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Agile
1 15 (34.88%) DevOps
2 13 (30.23%) Architectural Patterns
3 10 (23.26%) Computer Science
4 9 (20.93%) Architecture Governance
4 9 (20.93%) Data Management
4 9 (20.93%) Migration
4 9 (20.93%) Project Delivery
4 9 (20.93%) Service Design
5 8 (18.60%) Business Strategy
5 8 (18.60%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (16.28%) CRM
6 7 (16.28%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (13.95%) Analytics
7 6 (13.95%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 5 (11.63%) Data Protection
8 5 (11.63%) Design Patterns
8 5 (11.63%) Risk Management
8 5 (11.63%) SDLC
8 5 (11.63%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.30%) Java
2 3 (6.98%) C
3 1 (2.33%) Bicep
3 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
3 1 (2.33%) SQL
3 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) CISM
2 3 (6.98%) CISSP
3 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.33%) Grafana
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe