Architecture Roadmap Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Architecture Roadmaps
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Architecture Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 50 59
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing Architecture Roadmap 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.81% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £443 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% - -
75th Percentile £495 £575 -
90th Percentile £522 - -
North West median daily rate £500 £575 -
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
North West median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Architecture Roadmap 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 553 389 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.05% 89.63% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 231 237
10th Percentile £270 £303 £265
25th Percentile £351 £358 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £526 £575 £550
90th Percentile £671 £673 £599
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 25
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.80
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +2.41% +46.92%
75th Percentile £40.75 £33.75 £38.00
90th Percentile £72.75 £86.00 £42.25
North West median hourly rate £41.68 £30.20 £40.00
% change year-on-year +38.01% -24.50% +14.29%

Architecture Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Architecture Roadmap job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Architecture Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Architecture Roadmap
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 Roadmap within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Knutsford - 5 £492 - 1
Architecture Roadmap
North West

Architecture Roadmap
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) ATM
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Payments Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) REST
1 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) PACS
1 4 (80.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Business Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Fintech
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Requirements Management
2 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO 8583
2 1 (20.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google