Architect Contract Job Trends in Bolton

Architect
Manchester > Bolton

The median Architect daily rate in Bolton is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bolton 9.09% - 6.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.52% - 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £500
Manchester median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.84%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bolton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bolton. 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 Bolton with a recognized job title 21 24 33
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 96.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 18
10th Percentile £327 £156 £400
25th Percentile - £168 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £188 £492
Median % change year-on-year +193.33% -61.85% +3.47%
75th Percentile £650 £213 £500
90th Percentile - £250 £508
Manchester median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £32.33 -
25th Percentile £25.88 £33.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £45.75 £48.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% -1.02% -24.62%
75th Percentile £64.06 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.25 - £56.00
Manchester median hourly rate £36.50 £32.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year +12.31% +64.56% -51.23%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bolton.

Architect job vacancy trend in Bolton

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Bolton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Bolton.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Bolton

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Bolton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Bolton.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Bolton

Architect Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton

For the 6 months to 2 February 2026, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bolton region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI