Architect Contracts in Merseyside

Architect
North West > Merseyside

The median Architect daily rate in Merseyside is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 40 18
Rank change year-on-year +21 -22 +8
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 13 8 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 5.78% 2.45% 8.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.05% 2.55% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 22
10th Percentile - £525 £508
25th Percentile £563 £569 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £650
90th Percentile £677 £710 £673
North West median daily rate £650 £625 £613
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.04% +7.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 215 314 343
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.56% 96.02% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 230 243
10th Percentile £149 £234 £163
25th Percentile £233 £369 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +10.47% +16.22%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £538
90th Percentile £588 £627 £638
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 13 16
10th Percentile - - £9.23
25th Percentile £15.50 £10.09 £12.03
Median hourly rate £19.97 £16.37 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.96% +9.13% -6.25%
75th Percentile £34.80 £18.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £43.09 £26.59 £35.80
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -23.83% +70.73% +14.53%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Merseyside

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Merseyside

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Merseyside

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Liverpool +11 9 £650 -3.70% 8
Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 Merseyside region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) Migration
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (30.77%) Local Government
2 4 (30.77%) PLM
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Business Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Google
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Refactoring
5 1 (7.69%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (7.69%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.69%) TOGAF
5 1 (7.69%) VPN
5 1 (7.69%) CCNA

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
General
1 4 (30.77%) Local Government
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Migration
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) PLM
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
4 2 (15.38%) Business Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (7.69%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) ITIL
5 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2
5 1 (7.69%) Project Management
5 1 (7.69%) Refactoring
5 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) MCP
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google