Architect Contracts in the North West

Architect
England > North West

The median Architect daily rate in the North West is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 32 22
Rank change year-on-year +21 -10 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 285 174 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 10.64% 5.60% 7.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.25% 5.90% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 125 219
10th Percentile £487 £456 £500
25th Percentile £553 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.04% +7.46%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £795 £738
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 2
10th Percentile £43.50 £35.00 -
25th Percentile - £52.84 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% -0.86%
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile £72.35 - £64.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +14.77%

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 2,533 2,949 3,871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 94.85% 96.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 2,098 2,817
10th Percentile £275 £300 £213
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 124 176
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.68 £11.56
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £24.10
Median % change year-on-year -17.88% +36.42% +34.26%
75th Percentile £46.91 £50.72 £49.00
90th Percentile £69.14 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the North West

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the North West

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the North West

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the North West

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the North West

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 Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Manchester +18 172 £669 +4.90% 61
Cheshire +35 53 £600 -3.52% 13
Cumbria -5 35 £668 +37.35% 3
Merseyside +23 13 £650 +4.00% 8
Lancashire +3 6 £500 -16.32% 9
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 North West region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 82 (28.77%) Agile
2 73 (25.61%) Security Cleared
3 69 (24.21%) SC Cleared
4 63 (22.11%) Risk Management
5 62 (21.75%) Azure
5 62 (21.75%) DevOps
6 60 (21.05%) Security Architecture
7 54 (18.95%) Firewall
8 53 (18.60%) Windows
9 50 (17.54%) Apple iOS
9 50 (17.54%) Android
9 50 (17.54%) Public Sector
9 50 (17.54%) CI/CD
10 47 (16.49%) VPN
11 46 (16.14%) Node.js
12 45 (15.79%) Windows Server
13 44 (15.44%) Mobile Device Management
14 43 (15.09%) Zero Trust
15 42 (14.74%) Design Patterns
16 41 (14.39%) Threat Intelligence
17 40 (14.04%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
18 35 (12.28%) Public Cloud
18 35 (12.28%) Social Skills
18 35 (12.28%) Finance
19 32 (11.23%) Migration
19 32 (11.23%) TOGAF
20 31 (10.88%) IT Strategy
20 31 (10.88%) Microservices
21 30 (10.53%) Business Strategy
22 29 (10.18%) Technology Strategy

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 5 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.40%) Confluence
2 4 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.70%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 9 (3.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.05%) Aareon QL
2 3 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.35%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (21.75%) Azure
2 27 (9.47%) AWS
3 18 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (4.91%) SaaS
5 13 (4.56%) PaaS
6 12 (4.21%) IaaS
7 11 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.51%) Power Platform
9 9 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.11%) Azure Stack
10 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.75%) Apigee
11 5 (1.75%) Kong
11 5 (1.75%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.40%) GCP
12 4 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (1.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 54 (18.95%) Firewall
2 47 (16.49%) VPN
3 28 (9.82%) Network Security
4 6 (2.11%) LAN
4 6 (2.11%) WAN
5 4 (1.40%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (1.05%) MQTT
7 2 (0.70%) Converged Networks
7 2 (0.70%) ISDN
7 2 (0.70%) Skype
7 2 (0.70%) VoIP
8 1 (0.35%) DHCP
8 1 (0.35%) DNS
8 1 (0.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.11%) Metadata
2 6 (2.11%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.11%) Power BI
2 6 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
2 6 (2.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.75%) OLAP
3 5 (1.75%) OLTP
3 5 (1.75%) Oracle OLAP
4 3 (1.05%) DB2
4 3 (1.05%) GIS
5 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.70%) Big Data
5 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.35%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (1.75%) JIRA
2 4 (1.40%) ERwin
3 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.70%) GitLab
4 2 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 50 (17.54%) Public Sector
2 35 (12.28%) Finance
2 35 (12.28%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.72%) Banking
4 12 (4.21%) Manufacturing
5 11 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.81%) Legal
7 7 (2.46%) Local Government
7 7 (2.46%) Marketing
7 7 (2.46%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.11%) Electronics
9 4 (1.40%) Retail
10 3 (1.05%) Automotive
10 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.05%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Aviation
11 2 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.70%) German Language
11 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.14%) Node.js
2 10 (3.51%) REST
3 9 (3.16%) SOAP
4 6 (2.11%) JSON
4 6 (2.11%) Middleware
4 6 (2.11%) XML
5 5 (1.75%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (1.75%) J2EE
5 5 (1.75%) Kafka
5 5 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (1.75%) React
5 5 (1.75%) Web Services
6 4 (1.40%) .NET
6 4 (1.40%) Apache Camel
6 4 (1.40%) OAuth
6 4 (1.40%) Spring
6 4 (1.40%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.40%) Spring Integration
7 2 (0.70%) LDAP
7 2 (0.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.28%) Public Cloud
2 15 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.81%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.11%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.11%) NHS
4 6 (2.11%) Reference Data
5 5 (1.75%) CMDB
5 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.75%) DataPower
5 5 (1.75%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.40%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.40%) Taxonomies
6 4 (1.40%) Wiki
7 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.05%) IoT
7 3 (1.05%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.70%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 2 (0.70%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 53 (18.60%) Windows
2 50 (17.54%) Android
2 50 (17.54%) Apple iOS
3 45 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.40%) Linux
4 4 (1.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (28.77%) Agile
2 63 (22.11%) Risk Management
3 62 (21.75%) DevOps
4 60 (21.05%) Security Architecture
5 50 (17.54%) CI/CD
6 44 (15.44%) Mobile Device Management
7 43 (15.09%) Zero Trust
8 42 (14.74%) Design Patterns
9 41 (14.39%) Threat Intelligence
10 40 (14.04%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 32 (11.23%) Migration
11 32 (11.23%) TOGAF
12 31 (10.88%) IT Strategy
12 31 (10.88%) Microservices
13 30 (10.53%) Business Strategy
14 29 (10.18%) Technology Strategy
15 28 (9.82%) Architectural Design
15 28 (9.82%) Data Management
16 27 (9.47%) Project Delivery
16 27 (9.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.51%) Java
1 10 (3.51%) SQL
2 8 (2.81%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.40%) Python
4 3 (1.05%) C
5 2 (0.70%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.35%) Bicep
6 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 73 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 69 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.82%) Degree
4 8 (2.81%) CISSP
5 7 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.40%) CCIE
7 4 (1.40%) CCIE Security
7 4 (1.40%) CCNP
8 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.05%) CISM
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) CCNA
10 1 (0.35%) MCP
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.35%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.86%) NIST
4 10 (3.51%) QA
5 6 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.40%) GDPR
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Docker
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.40%) Terraform
3 2 (0.70%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 27 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.86%) SAP
3 9 (3.16%) Google
3 9 (3.16%) Oracle
4 7 (2.46%) Sparx
5 6 (2.11%) Cisco
5 6 (2.11%) Databricks
5 6 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.75%) Apple
6 5 (1.75%) IBM
6 5 (1.75%) TSYS
6 5 (1.75%) VMware
7 4 (1.40%) Pega
8 3 (1.05%) Aareon
8 3 (1.05%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.05%) Northgate
8 3 (1.05%) Sophos
8 3 (1.05%) Thales
9 2 (0.70%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.70%) Rapid7