Technical Architecture Contracts in Cheshire

Technical Architecture
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical 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 49 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 9 0 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.00% - 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% - 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 17
10th Percentile £441 - £417
25th Percentile £451 - £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £445
75th Percentile £738 - £620
90th Percentile - - £680
North West median daily rate £618 £685 £550
% change year-on-year -9.85% +24.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.23 - -
North West median hourly rate £29.23 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Technical 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%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in Cheshire

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in Cheshire

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in Cheshire

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in Cheshire

Technical 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 Technical 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 - 3 £725 - 1
Knutsford - 3 £447 - 1
Technical Architecture
North West

Technical 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 5 (55.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Purview
1 5 (55.56%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 3 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) ICT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) ICT Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) Data Protection
3 5 (55.56%) Cloud Security
3 5 (55.56%) Data Governance
3 5 (55.56%) Data Loss Prevention
3 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
3 5 (55.56%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (55.56%) Zero Trust
4 2 (22.22%) Workflow
5 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
5 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Critical Path Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
5 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Cloudera