Technical Architect Contracts in the North West

Technical Architect
England > North West

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the North West is £825 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 77 129 132
Rank change year-on-year +52 +3 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 60 31 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.17% 0.97% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 1.02% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 26 41
10th Percentile £550 £444 £455
25th Percentile £672 £516 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% +8.70% +1.59%
75th Percentile £850 £753 £650
90th Percentile - £1,350 £738
England median daily rate £675 £675 £638
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 2,607 3,031 3,927
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.87% 96.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 2,172 2,878
10th Percentile £280 £300 £207
25th Percentile £390 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 134 175
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +49.05% +11.72%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.38 £43.25
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the North West

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the North West

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the North West

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the North West

Technical Architect
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 Technical Architect within the North West 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
Manchester +48 49 £850 +25.00% 4
Cumbria -19 7 £672 +7.52%
Merseyside +18 4 £575 -17.86% 1
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Technical 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 North West region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 43 (71.67%) Windows
2 41 (68.33%) Android
2 41 (68.33%) Apple iOS
3 40 (66.67%) Firewall
3 40 (66.67%) Windows Server
4 39 (65.00%) CI/CD
4 39 (65.00%) Node.js
5 38 (63.33%) Security Architecture
5 38 (63.33%) Mobile Device Management
5 38 (63.33%) VPN
5 38 (63.33%) Risk Management
5 38 (63.33%) Zero Trust
6 36 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 36 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
7 35 (58.33%) Agile
8 34 (56.67%) DevOps
9 31 (51.67%) Public Cloud
10 29 (48.33%) Design Patterns
11 24 (40.00%) Security Cleared
12 22 (36.67%) SC Cleared
13 15 (25.00%) Roadmaps
14 14 (23.33%) Microservices
15 13 (21.67%) Technical Leadership
16 12 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
16 12 (20.00%) Product Strategy
17 11 (18.33%) Public Sector
18 9 (15.00%) Product Ownership
19 8 (13.33%) Product Roadmap
19 8 (13.33%) Mobile App
20 7 (11.67%) Google

Technical Architect Skill Set
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 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.00%) Azure
2 2 (3.33%) AWS
2 2 (3.33%) GCP
3 1 (1.67%) Azure App Service
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (1.67%) Kong
3 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (66.67%) Firewall
2 38 (63.33%) VPN
3 4 (6.67%) LAN
4 3 (5.00%) Converged Networks
4 3 (5.00%) ISDN
4 3 (5.00%) Network Security
4 3 (5.00%) Skype
4 3 (5.00%) VoIP
4 3 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.67%) Delta Lake
1 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (18.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.00%) Legal
3 5 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.67%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (65.00%) Node.js
2 2 (3.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 31 (51.67%) Public Cloud
2 9 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 8 (13.33%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 43 (71.67%) Windows
2 41 (68.33%) Android
2 41 (68.33%) Apple iOS
3 40 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 38 (63.33%) Mobile Device Management
2 38 (63.33%) Risk Management
2 38 (63.33%) Security Architecture
2 38 (63.33%) Zero Trust
3 36 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 36 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 35 (58.33%) Agile
5 34 (56.67%) DevOps
6 29 (48.33%) Design Patterns
7 15 (25.00%) Roadmaps
8 14 (23.33%) Microservices
9 13 (21.67%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (20.00%) Product Strategy
10 12 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
11 8 (13.33%) Product Roadmap
12 7 (11.67%) User Experience
13 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 5 (8.33%) Migration
15 4 (6.67%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.33%) Kotlin
2 1 (1.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (36.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.67%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Google
2 5 (8.33%) Apple
3 1 (1.67%) Databricks
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.67%) Sophos