Architect Contracts in Knutsford

Architect
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Architect daily rate in Knutsford is £447, 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 10 10 33
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 -10
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 23 15 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 15.75% 13.89% 2.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.40% 14.29% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 4
10th Percentile £391 £437 £650
25th Percentile £405 £445 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £489 £680
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -28.09% +7.94%
75th Percentile £492 £516 £700
90th Percentile £537 £599 £736
Cheshire median daily rate £550 £620 £640
% change year-on-year -11.29% -3.13% +1.99%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. 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 Knutsford with a recognized job title 125 105 138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.62% 97.22% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 97 111
10th Percentile £330 £356 £415
25th Percentile £358 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -11.09% +18.28%
75th Percentile £492 £582 £620
90th Percentile £537 £619 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £456 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Knutsford

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Knutsford

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Knutsford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Knutsford

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Knutsford region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 13 (56.52%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (39.13%) Banking
3 9 (39.13%) Java
4 8 (34.78%) Agile
5 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
5 7 (30.43%) Microservices
5 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
6 6 (26.09%) SDLC
6 6 (26.09%) Public Cloud
6 6 (26.09%) Serverless
6 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
6 6 (26.09%) Docker
6 6 (26.09%) Kafka
6 6 (26.09%) Azure
6 6 (26.09%) Migration
7 5 (21.74%) Data Governance
7 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
7 5 (21.74%) RESTful
7 5 (21.74%) Project Planning
7 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
8 4 (17.39%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
8 4 (17.39%) Architectural Design
8 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
8 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
1 3 (13.04%) WebSphere
2 2 (8.70%) CICS
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Appian
3 1 (4.35%) CMS
3 1 (4.35%) JBoss
3 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Serverless
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon Glacier
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon Kinesis
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
4 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (13.04%) OneDrive
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (8.70%) GCP
7 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) ATM
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.70%) DB2
2 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) Selenium
2 2 (8.70%) SOAtest
3 1 (4.35%) Hudson
General
1 9 (39.13%) Banking
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) General Ledger
4 2 (8.70%) Legal
4 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Billing
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Kafka
2 5 (21.74%) RESTful
3 4 (17.39%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (13.04%) JSON
4 3 (13.04%) Web Services
5 2 (8.70%) J2EE
5 2 (8.70%) REST
5 2 (8.70%) XML
6 1 (4.35%) Ajax
6 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.35%) CSS
6 1 (4.35%) CSS3
6 1 (4.35%) HTML
6 1 (4.35%) HTML5
6 1 (4.35%) JAX-WS
6 1 (4.35%) jQuery
6 1 (4.35%) JSP
6 1 (4.35%) Servlets
6 1 (4.35%) SOAP
6 1 (4.35%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.70%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (8.70%) Private Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) VSAM
3 1 (4.35%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.35%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Android
2 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (34.78%) Agile
3 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
3 7 (30.43%) Microservices
4 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
4 6 (26.09%) Migration
4 6 (26.09%) SDLC
5 5 (21.74%) Data Governance
5 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
5 5 (21.74%) Project Planning
6 4 (17.39%) Architectural Design
6 4 (17.39%) Budget Control
6 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
6 4 (17.39%) Contingency Planning
6 4 (17.39%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 4 (17.39%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
6 4 (17.39%) Service Delivery
6 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.70%) COBOL
3 2 (8.70%) JCL
3 2 (8.70%) REXX
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
1 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Ansible
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Ab Initio
2 2 (8.70%) Informatica
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Parasoft
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) VMware