Technical Architecture Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Technical Architecture
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Technical Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 46 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 17 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.67% 1.97% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 2.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 0
10th Percentile £459 £508 -
25th Percentile £500 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% - -
75th Percentile £750 £647 -
90th Percentile £769 £664 -
North West median daily rate £550 £525 £700
% change year-on-year +4.76% -25.00% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 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 561 409 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.21% 89.69% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 239 237
10th Percentile £268 £316 £265
25th Percentile £356 £374 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.69% -4.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £550
90th Percentile £683 £650 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 23 24
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.60
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +10.71% +43.21%
75th Percentile £40.00 £33.75 £35.19
90th Percentile £71.65 £84.30 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £31.75 £31.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year +1.60% -11.97% +33.81%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in Cheshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in Cheshire

Technical Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Technical Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Technical Architecture

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 18 December 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
Knutsford -8 16 £534 +4.20% 1
Technical Architecture
North West

Technical Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) Confluence
1 6 (35.29%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
1 6 (35.29%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (35.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
General
1 10 (58.82%) Banking
2 8 (47.06%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
4 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Business Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Payments Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Product Ownership
2 6 (35.29%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Regulatory Compliance
2 10 (58.82%) Architectural Design
3 8 (47.06%) IT Strategy
4 7 (41.18%) Machine Learning
5 6 (35.29%) Analytical Modelling
5 6 (35.29%) Analytics
5 6 (35.29%) Data Analysis
5 6 (35.29%) Data Science
5 6 (35.29%) Decision-Making
5 6 (35.29%) DevOps
5 6 (35.29%) Portfolio Management
5 6 (35.29%) Records Management
5 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (35.29%) Statistical Modelling
5 6 (35.29%) Stress Testing
5 6 (35.29%) Technology Strategy
6 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
7 4 (23.53%) Credit Risk Modelling
7 4 (23.53%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (23.53%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
1 6 (35.29%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Pega
2 3 (17.65%) Temenos
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike