Architect Contracts in Manchester

Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Architect daily rate in Manchester is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 25 21
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 176 122 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 11.48% 6.44% 7.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.99% 6.67% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 86 155
10th Percentile £500 £513 £475
25th Percentile £568 £553 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +2.04% +9.38%
75th Percentile £825 £713 £676
90th Percentile £850 £788 £738
North West median daily rate £650 £640 £613
% change year-on-year +1.56% +4.49% +7.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 2
10th Percentile £40.75 £35.94 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £39.68 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +14.78% -
75th Percentile - £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile - - £64.00
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -9.09% +14.78% -0.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,468 1,829 2,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.76% 96.62% 97.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,019 1,360 1,993
10th Percentile £313 £313 £214
25th Percentile £394 £410 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 55 62
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.82
Median hourly rate £25.10 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +100.00% +8.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.13 £23.69
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.40 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.59% +49.05% +11.72%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Manchester

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Architect in Manchester

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Manchester

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Manchester

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in Manchester

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Salford -2 2 - - 1
Bolton -5 1 £525 - 1
Architect
North West

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 69 (39.20%) Agile
2 53 (30.11%) DevOps
3 50 (28.41%) Firewall
4 49 (27.84%) Windows
5 48 (27.27%) Risk Management
6 47 (26.70%) Android
6 47 (26.70%) Security Architecture
6 47 (26.70%) Apple iOS
6 47 (26.70%) CI/CD
7 46 (26.14%) Node.js
8 45 (25.57%) Windows Server
9 44 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
10 43 (24.43%) VPN
10 43 (24.43%) Zero Trust
11 42 (23.86%) Design Patterns
12 40 (22.73%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 40 (22.73%) Threat Intelligence
12 40 (22.73%) Security Cleared
13 38 (21.59%) Azure
14 37 (21.02%) SC Cleared
15 33 (18.75%) Public Sector
15 33 (18.75%) Public Cloud
16 25 (14.20%) Roadmaps
17 24 (13.64%) Data Management
17 24 (13.64%) Migration
18 21 (11.93%) Microservices
19 20 (11.36%) Microsoft
19 20 (11.36%) Social Skills
20 19 (10.80%) Architectural Patterns
20 19 (10.80%) Data Architecture

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (1.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.14%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.57%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.57%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.57%) SAP WM
2 1 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.59%) Azure
2 17 (9.66%) AWS
3 14 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (7.95%) PaaS
4 13 (7.39%) IaaS
5 11 (6.25%) SaaS
6 9 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (4.55%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (2.27%) Azure Stack
9 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.70%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 50 (28.41%) Firewall
2 43 (24.43%) VPN
3 11 (6.25%) Network Security
4 4 (2.27%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.57%) Internet
5 1 (0.57%) LAN
5 1 (0.57%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.41%) Metadata
2 6 (3.41%) Power BI
2 6 (3.41%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.84%) RDBMS
4 4 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.70%) GIS
6 2 (1.14%) Big Data
6 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.57%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.57%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (2.27%) ERwin
2 3 (1.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.14%) GitLab
3 2 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 33 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 20 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 17 (9.66%) Finance
4 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.55%) Marketing
5 8 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.98%) Electronics
6 7 (3.98%) Legal
6 7 (3.98%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.27%) Retail
9 3 (1.70%) Banking
9 3 (1.70%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.14%) Aviation
10 2 (1.14%) German Language
11 1 (0.57%) Billing
11 1 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.57%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (26.14%) Node.js
2 8 (4.55%) REST
3 4 (2.27%) JSON
3 4 (2.27%) Middleware
3 4 (2.27%) SOAP
3 4 (2.27%) XML
4 3 (1.70%) React
5 2 (1.14%) Express.js
5 2 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.14%) React Native
5 2 (1.14%) Redux
6 1 (0.57%) CSS
6 1 (0.57%) HTML
6 1 (0.57%) SAP TM
6 1 (0.57%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 13 (7.39%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.27%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.27%) Wiki
6 3 (1.70%) CMDB
6 3 (1.70%) NHS
7 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.14%) PKI
7 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.57%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (27.84%) Windows
2 47 (26.70%) Android
2 47 (26.70%) Apple iOS
3 45 (25.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.70%) Linux
4 3 (1.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (39.20%) Agile
2 53 (30.11%) DevOps
3 48 (27.27%) Risk Management
4 47 (26.70%) CI/CD
4 47 (26.70%) Security Architecture
5 44 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 43 (24.43%) Zero Trust
7 42 (23.86%) Design Patterns
8 40 (22.73%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 40 (22.73%) Threat Intelligence
9 25 (14.20%) Roadmaps
10 24 (13.64%) Data Management
10 24 (13.64%) Migration
11 21 (11.93%) Microservices
12 19 (10.80%) Architectural Patterns
12 19 (10.80%) Data Architecture
13 18 (10.23%) Architectural Design
14 16 (9.09%) Project Delivery
15 15 (8.52%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.55%) SQL
2 3 (1.70%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.70%) Python
3 2 (1.14%) Apex Code
3 2 (1.14%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.57%) Java
4 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 37 (21.02%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.23%) Degree
4 9 (5.11%) CISSP
5 4 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.27%) CCIE
5 4 (2.27%) CCIE Security
5 4 (2.27%) CCNP
5 4 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.27%) CISM
6 3 (1.70%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.57%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.57%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.52%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.68%) QA
3 7 (3.98%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.27%) GDPR
5 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.27%) Terraform
2 2 (1.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.68%) SAP
3 7 (3.98%) Google
4 6 (3.41%) Cisco
4 6 (3.41%) Databricks
4 6 (3.41%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.41%) Sparx
5 5 (2.84%) Apple
5 5 (2.84%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.27%) Pega
7 3 (1.70%) Oracle
7 3 (1.70%) Sophos
7 3 (1.70%) Thales
8 2 (1.14%) Mapbox
8 2 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.14%) NetIQ
8 2 (1.14%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.57%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.57%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.57%) VMware