Senior Architect Contracts in Cheshire

Senior Architect
North West > Cheshire

The median Senior Architect daily rate in Cheshire is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.22% - 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £625 £613 £656
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +0.96%

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 394 472 477
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.75% 93.65% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 324 329
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £358 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £640 £629 £651
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 36 20
10th Percentile £19.00 £14.00 £14.23
25th Percentile £26.71 £16.47 £19.71
Median hourly rate £47.50 £20.11 £29.26
Median % change year-on-year +136.20% -31.27% +19.43%
75th Percentile £86.00 £38.00 £35.00
90th Percentile - £43.75 £42.58
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in Cheshire

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in Cheshire

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview

Senior 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%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft