Enterprise Architecture Contracts in Cheshire

Enterprise Architecture
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 45 61
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 6 13 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% 2.58% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 3.06% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 1
10th Percentile £421 £483 -
25th Percentile £517 £489 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £688 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +14.58% +37.93%
75th Percentile £731 £738 £650
90th Percentile £735 - -
North West median daily rate £562 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -16.74% +12.50% +5.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Enterprise Architecture 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 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Enterprise Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architecture in Cheshire

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in Cheshire

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in Cheshire

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in Cheshire

Enterprise Architecture
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 Enterprise Architecture within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Chester -11 3 £713 -1.72% 1
Knutsford -8 1 £358 -26.79%
Warrington - 1 - - 2
Enterprise Architecture
North West

Enterprise Architecture
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 1 (16.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Hudson
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Billing
4 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (50.00%) Payments Architect
3 3 (50.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Applications Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Wintel Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) Ajax
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) CSS3
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) JAX-WS
2 1 (16.67%) JMS
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) JSP
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Servlets
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
2 1 (16.67%) Struts
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Benchmarking
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Content Management
3 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) VB
1 1 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) MCP
2 1 (16.67%) MCSA
2 1 (16.67%) MCSE
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) BitLocker
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) McAfee
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Symantec
1 1 (16.67%) VMware