Technical Architecture Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Technical Architecture
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford 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 35 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 16 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 6.99% 1.63% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 1.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile £459 £503 -
25th Percentile £498 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% - -
75th Percentile £622 £519 -
90th Percentile £763 £523 -
Cheshire median daily rate £534 £575 -
% change year-on-year -7.13% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 223 118 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.38% 95.93% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 97 62
10th Percentile £308 £349 £450
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -23.81% +12.18%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £582
90th Percentile £579 £638 £587
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -6.69% -4.40% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £21.84
% change year-on-year -5.50% +10.71% +43.21%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in Knutsford

Technical Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (37.50%) Confluence
1 6 (37.50%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
1 6 (37.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (37.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 10 (62.50%) Banking
2 7 (43.75%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Business Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Payments Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Payments Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Product Ownership
2 6 (37.50%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Regulatory Compliance
2 10 (62.50%) Architectural Design
3 8 (50.00%) IT Strategy
4 6 (37.50%) Analytical Modelling
4 6 (37.50%) Analytics
4 6 (37.50%) Data Analysis
4 6 (37.50%) Data Science
4 6 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Machine Learning
4 6 (37.50%) Portfolio Management
4 6 (37.50%) Records Management
4 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (37.50%) Statistical Modelling
4 6 (37.50%) Stress Testing
4 6 (37.50%) Technology Strategy
5 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
6 4 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
6 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
1 6 (37.50%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Pega
2 3 (18.75%) Temenos
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft