Architect Contracts in Cheshire

Architect
North West > Cheshire

The median Architect daily rate in Cheshire is £623 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 19 47 22
Rank change year-on-year +28 -25 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 42 16 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.38% 3.02% 7.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.96% 3.35% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 22
10th Percentile £463 £560 £525
25th Percentile £489 £600 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £640 £628
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +1.99% -5.28%
75th Percentile £680 £680 £656
90th Percentile £738 £718 £746
North West median daily rate £650 £640 £613
% change year-on-year +1.56% +4.49% +7.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 469 477 502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 90.00% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 329 286
10th Percentile £276 £263 £183
25th Percentile £383 £400 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £435
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +9.20% -0.51%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £631 £651 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.23 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £19.71 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £29.26 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.27% +19.43% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £42.58 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.59% +49.05% +11.72%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Cheshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Cheshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Cheshire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Cheshire

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 Architect within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford +19 12 £489 -28.09%
Macclesfield -8 9 £535 +18.89%
Chester - 8 £725 - 2
Warrington +5 7 £680 +13.33% 1
Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 Cheshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 16 (38.10%) Azure
2 14 (33.33%) Finance
3 13 (30.95%) Banking
3 13 (30.95%) Enterprise Architecture
4 11 (26.19%) Business Strategy
5 9 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (21.43%) Agile
6 8 (19.05%) Architectural Design
6 8 (19.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 7 (16.67%) Event-Driven
7 7 (16.67%) AWS
7 7 (16.67%) Analytics
7 7 (16.67%) DevOps
7 7 (16.67%) Microservices
8 6 (14.29%) Data Governance
8 6 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 6 (14.29%) Manufacturing
8 6 (14.29%) Oracle
8 6 (14.29%) Design Patterns
8 6 (14.29%) Data Strategy
8 6 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (11.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (11.90%) Kong
9 5 (11.90%) API Management
9 5 (11.90%) Java
9 5 (11.90%) SOAP
9 5 (11.90%) Web Services
9 5 (11.90%) OLAP
9 5 (11.90%) OOA/OOD
9 5 (11.90%) OO

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (11.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (9.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Temenos T24
2 2 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (38.10%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (11.90%) Apigee
3 5 (11.90%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (11.90%) Kong
4 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Stack
5 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.38%) dbt
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) Firewall
1 3 (7.14%) LAN
1 3 (7.14%) Network Security
1 3 (7.14%) VPN
1 3 (7.14%) WAN
2 2 (4.76%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) MongoDB
1 5 (11.90%) OLAP
1 5 (11.90%) OLTP
1 5 (11.90%) Oracle OLAP
2 3 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.38%) Metadata
4 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) SAP HANA
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (30.95%) Banking
3 6 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.14%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) IBM Integration Bus
1 5 (11.90%) J2EE
1 5 (11.90%) Kafka
1 5 (11.90%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (11.90%) SOAP
1 5 (11.90%) Web Services
2 4 (9.52%) Apache Camel
2 4 (9.52%) Spring
2 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
2 4 (9.52%) Spring Integration
3 2 (4.76%) JSON
3 2 (4.76%) LDAP
3 2 (4.76%) Middleware
3 2 (4.76%) OAuth
3 2 (4.76%) OpenID
3 2 (4.76%) REST
3 2 (4.76%) SAML
3 2 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) DataPower
2 4 (9.52%) Industry 4.0
2 4 (9.52%) Taxonomies
3 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.76%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 2 (4.76%) IoT
3 2 (4.76%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.76%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.76%) Robotics
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) Enterprise Architecture
2 11 (26.19%) Business Strategy
3 9 (21.43%) Agile
3 9 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
4 8 (19.05%) Architectural Design
4 8 (19.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 7 (16.67%) Analytics
5 7 (16.67%) DevOps
5 7 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 7 (16.67%) Microservices
6 6 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 6 (14.29%) Data Strategy
6 6 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 6 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 5 (11.90%) API Management
7 5 (11.90%) CQRS
7 5 (11.90%) OO
7 5 (11.90%) OOA/OOD
7 5 (11.90%) SOA
7 5 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) Java
1 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.38%) Python
2 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Oracle
2 5 (11.90%) IBM
2 5 (11.90%) TSYS
3 2 (4.76%) ForgeRock
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) SAP