Lead Architect Contracts in Cheshire

Lead Architect
North West > Cheshire

As of 5 August 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Lead Architect daily rate in Cheshire.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 54 47
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.17% 0.21% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.22% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £567 £606
Median % change year-on-year - -6.44% -1.06%
North West median daily rate £750 £850 £606
% change year-on-year -11.76% +40.26% -13.43%

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 542 447 391
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 93.91% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 304 244
10th Percentile £270 £298 £263
25th Percentile £358 £380 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% -7.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £567 £576
90th Percentile £641 £638 £617
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.24 £14.18
25th Percentile £25.49 £13.49 £20.88
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £39.30 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £43.00
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £34.61 £29.65
% change year-on-year -21.98% +16.71% +27.68%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Cheshire

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in Cheshire

Lead 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 Lead Architect within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 5 August 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 - 1 - - 1
Lead Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 2025, Lead 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 Lead Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Mule
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Mule ESB
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Lead 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 1 (100.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (100.00%) Mule
1 1 (100.00%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk