Applications Architect Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Application Architect
North West > Cheshire

The median Application Architect daily rate in Cheshire is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
North West median daily rate £402 £600 -
% change year-on-year -33.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 582 402 346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.72% 89.14% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 232 231
10th Percentile £271 £308 £265
25th Percentile £358 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -5.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £540
90th Percentile £688 £645 £586
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 20 23
10th Percentile £15.69 £15.35 £17.14
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.33 £22.09 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% -33.06% +74.51%
75th Percentile £37.08 £25.45 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £86.00 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £31.75 £27.31 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.25% -21.96% +64.51%

Applications Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Applications Architect job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Architect job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Architect job vacancies in Cheshire

Applications Architect
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Architect within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Knutsford - 1 £402 -
Applications Architect
North West

Applications Architect Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Applications 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 Cheshire region featuring Applications Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Banking
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements

Applications Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google