Architect Contract Job Trends in Chester

Architect
Cheshire > Chester

The median Architect daily rate in Chester is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 5 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 5.75% 7.04% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.25% 7.35% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £713 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +26.09% -
75th Percentile - £738 £613
90th Percentile - £745 -
Cheshire median daily rate £537 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.50% - +4.87%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Chester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Chester. 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 Chester with a recognized job title 80 68 75
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 95.77% 92.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 20 40
10th Percentile £244 £400 £284
25th Percentile £419 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.65% +7.58% +27.27%
75th Percentile £665 £700 £588
90th Percentile £758 £738 £619
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £465 £489
% change year-on-year -3.87% -4.91% +8.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 14
10th Percentile £22.67 £16.00 £21.41
25th Percentile £30.25 £25.50 £30.54
Median hourly rate £30.99 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% - +60.70%
75th Percentile - £41.25 -
90th Percentile £37.19 £47.50 £39.18
Cheshire median hourly rate £29.75 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +6.06% +42.83%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Chester

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Chester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Chester

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Chester.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Chester

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, 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 Chester region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (20.00%) Mule ESB
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (20.00%) Anypoint
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Management Information System

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 (20.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (20.00%) Mule
1 1 (20.00%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) J2EE
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk