Architecture Governance Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Architecture Governance
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Architecture Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 53 59
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 -
Contract jobs citing Architecture Governance 7 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.99% 0.23% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.24% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £480 - £430
25th Percentile £529 - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £624 £580 £506
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +14.74% -
75th Percentile £731 - £553
90th Percentile £787 - £581
North West median daily rate £575 £580 £450
% change year-on-year -0.86% +28.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £103.72 - -
Median hourly rate £107.43 - -
75th Percentile £111.15 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £107.43 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Architecture Governance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 632 409 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.14% 95.34% 86.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 266 298
10th Percentile £313 £298 £310
25th Percentile £368 £358 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -5.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £560
90th Percentile £653 £639 £622
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 33 34
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.72 £24.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% +48.81% -5.66%
75th Percentile £43.00 £77.50 £38.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £22.98
% change year-on-year +42.23% +37.71% -38.57%

Architecture Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architecture Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Architecture Governance job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Architecture Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Architecture Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Architecture Governance

Architecture Governance
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architecture Governance in Cheshire over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architecture Governance in Cheshire

Architecture Governance
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 Architecture Governance within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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
Warrington - 4 £800 - 1
Knutsford -27 1 £447 -22.93%
Architecture Governance
North West

Architecture Governance
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 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Military
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
1 6 (85.71%) Lead
1 6 (85.71%) Lead Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Release Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Release Train Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Operational Technology
2 4 (57.14%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (57.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Design Patterns
1 6 (85.71%) Security Architecture
1 6 (85.71%) Technical Leadership
1 6 (85.71%) Threat Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (57.14%) Architectural Design
4 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (14.29%) API Integration
6 1 (14.29%) Burndown Charts
6 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 1 (14.29%) Coaching
6 1 (14.29%) DevOps
6 1 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Release Train
6 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (14.29%) Weighted Shortest Job First
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GRC
1 1 (14.29%) QA