Lead Architect Contracts in Manchester

Lead Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Lead Architect daily rate in Manchester is £850 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 110 128
Rank change year-on-year +42 +18 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 35 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.28% 0.37% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 0.38% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 4 8
10th Percentile £713 £815 £563
25th Percentile £825 £838 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £1,250 £665
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +87.97% +18.75%
75th Percentile - £1,650 £725
90th Percentile - - £733
North West median daily rate £850 £850 £700
% change year-on-year - +21.43% +26.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £35.00 -

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 1,470 1,836 2,512
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.70% 96.63% 97.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,368 1,976
10th Percentile £313 £313 £213
25th Percentile £394 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £655 £650
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -1.40% +7.53% +9.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 56 62
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.13 £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 £47.81 £22.90
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.53 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.15% +49.05% +12.41%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Manchester

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in Manchester

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Lead 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 Lead Architect in the job title.

1 30 (85.71%) Android
1 30 (85.71%) Apple iOS
1 30 (85.71%) Windows
1 30 (85.71%) VPN
1 30 (85.71%) Firewall
1 30 (85.71%) Risk Management
1 30 (85.71%) Mobile Device Management
1 30 (85.71%) Windows Server
2 29 (82.86%) Agile
3 28 (80.00%) Node.js
3 28 (80.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 28 (80.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 28 (80.00%) DevOps
3 28 (80.00%) Security Architecture
3 28 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 28 (80.00%) Zero Trust
4 27 (77.14%) Public Cloud
5 25 (71.43%) Design Patterns
6 16 (45.71%) Roadmaps
6 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
7 15 (42.86%) SC Cleared
8 13 (37.14%) Microservices
9 11 (31.43%) Product Strategy
9 11 (31.43%) Strategic Roadmap
10 10 (28.57%) Public Sector
10 10 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (25.71%) Product Ownership
12 7 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
12 7 (20.00%) User Experience
13 6 (17.14%) Legal

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (8.57%) AWS
1 3 (8.57%) IaaS
1 3 (8.57%) PaaS
1 3 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 30 (85.71%) Firewall
1 30 (85.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.14%) Legal
3 3 (8.57%) Electronics
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
3 3 (8.57%) Marketing
3 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.86%) Military
4 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (80.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (77.14%) Public Cloud
2 9 (25.71%) Product Ownership
3 5 (14.29%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (85.71%) Android
1 30 (85.71%) Apple iOS
1 30 (85.71%) Windows
1 30 (85.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (85.71%) Mobile Device Management
1 30 (85.71%) Risk Management
2 29 (82.86%) Agile
3 28 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 28 (80.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 28 (80.00%) DevOps
3 28 (80.00%) Security Architecture
3 28 (80.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 28 (80.00%) Zero Trust
4 25 (71.43%) Design Patterns
5 16 (45.71%) Roadmaps
6 13 (37.14%) Microservices
7 11 (31.43%) Product Strategy
7 11 (31.43%) Strategic Roadmap
8 10 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
9 7 (20.00%) User Experience
10 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
11 3 (8.57%) Digital Marketing
11 3 (8.57%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 15 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Apple
1 5 (14.29%) Google
2 3 (8.57%) SAP