Architect Contracts in Manchester

Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Architect daily rate in Manchester is £550, 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 15 8 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 -6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 91 178 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 9.83% 11.73% 6.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.50% 12.23% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 123 86
10th Percentile £450 £500 £513
25th Percentile £475 £571 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £700 £825 £713
90th Percentile £750 £850 £788
North West median daily rate £600 £650 £640
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 13
10th Percentile - £40.75 £35.94
25th Percentile - £53.13 £39.68
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +14.78%
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £80.59 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +34.31% -9.09% +14.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Manchester

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Manchester

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Manchester

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Manchester

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Manchester 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
Salford +3 7 £716 -
Stockport - 1 - - 24
Architect
North West

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

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 Manchester region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 33 (36.26%) Security Cleared
2 29 (31.87%) Social Skills
3 28 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 25 (27.47%) AWS
5 23 (25.27%) Azure
5 23 (25.27%) Microsoft
6 19 (20.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (16.48%) Migration
8 15 (16.48%) Software Engineering
9 14 (15.38%) Analytics
10 13 (14.29%) Agile
11 12 (13.19%) Degree
11 12 (13.19%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (12.09%) Architectural Design
12 11 (12.09%) Roadmaps
12 11 (12.09%) Finance
13 10 (10.99%) QA
13 10 (10.99%) Banking
13 10 (10.99%) OAuth
13 10 (10.99%) DevOps
13 10 (10.99%) MuleSoft
13 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
14 9 (9.89%) OAuth2
14 9 (9.89%) Microservices
14 9 (9.89%) GCP
14 9 (9.89%) Kubernetes
14 9 (9.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 9 (9.89%) High Availability
14 9 (9.89%) Google

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 6 (6.59%) SAS
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.20%) Maximo
2 2 (2.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (27.47%) AWS
2 23 (25.27%) Azure
3 9 (9.89%) GCP
4 6 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (5.49%) GitHub
5 5 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (5.49%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (3.30%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.30%) SaaS
7 2 (2.20%) Azure App Service
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Storage
7 2 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.20%) IaaS
7 2 (2.20%) PaaS
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) Firewall
2 1 (1.10%) Network Security
2 1 (1.10%) PBX
2 1 (1.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.49%) Big Data
3 4 (4.40%) Hadoop
3 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.30%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.20%) Metadata
5 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.10%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.10%) HBase
6 1 (1.10%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.10%) Power BI
6 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.20%) ERwin
1 2 (2.20%) JIRA
2 1 (1.10%) GitLab
2 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.09%) Finance
4 10 (10.99%) Banking
4 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.89%) Legal
6 8 (8.79%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Military
8 1 (1.10%) Aviation
8 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) OAuth
2 9 (9.89%) OAuth2
3 8 (8.79%) Kafka
4 6 (6.59%) OpenID
5 5 (5.49%) SAML
6 4 (4.40%) Middleware
6 4 (4.40%) Node.js
7 3 (3.30%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (2.20%) ARM Templates
8 2 (2.20%) Express.js
8 2 (2.20%) React
8 2 (2.20%) REST
8 2 (2.20%) SAP PI
9 1 (1.10%) .NET
9 1 (1.10%) LDAP
9 1 (1.10%) Next.js
9 1 (1.10%) Qt
9 1 (1.10%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Public Cloud
2 4 (4.40%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.30%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) BYOD
4 2 (2.20%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (2.20%) EMV
4 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.20%) Replication
4 2 (2.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.10%) IBM XIV
5 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.30%) Windows
2 2 (2.20%) Android
2 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.20%) HPUX
2 2 (2.20%) Linux
2 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.20%) Solaris
3 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (16.48%) Migration
2 15 (16.48%) Software Engineering
3 14 (15.38%) Analytics
4 13 (14.29%) Agile
5 12 (13.19%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (12.09%) Architectural Design
6 11 (12.09%) Roadmaps
7 10 (10.99%) DevOps
8 9 (9.89%) Computer Science
8 9 (9.89%) Data Security
8 9 (9.89%) High Availability
8 9 (9.89%) Microservices
8 9 (9.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (8.79%) Enterprise Architecture
9 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (7.69%) CI/CD
10 7 (7.69%) Data Modelling
10 7 (7.69%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.40%) Java
2 2 (2.20%) Bicep
2 2 (2.20%) SQL
3 1 (1.10%) C++
3 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (36.26%) Security Cleared
2 28 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.19%) Degree
4 8 (8.79%) Azure Certification
5 7 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.30%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.20%) CCSP
8 2 (2.20%) CEH
8 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.20%) CISM
8 2 (2.20%) CISSP
8 2 (2.20%) OSCP
9 1 (1.10%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) QA
2 6 (6.59%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.30%) COBIT
3 3 (3.30%) GDPR
3 3 (3.30%) NIST
4 2 (2.20%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.20%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.20%) PSD2
4 2 (2.20%) SEPA
5 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.10%) GRC
5 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.10%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (3.30%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (9.89%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.79%) Terraform
3 3 (3.30%) Kibana
4 1 (1.10%) Ansible
4 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (25.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.99%) MuleSoft
3 9 (9.89%) Google
4 8 (8.79%) SAP
5 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.30%) Cloudera
6 3 (3.30%) Concur
6 3 (3.30%) IBM
6 3 (3.30%) Splunk
7 2 (2.20%) Databricks
7 2 (2.20%) ForgeRock
7 2 (2.20%) Informatica
7 2 (2.20%) Sun
7 2 (2.20%) Virgin Media
8 1 (1.10%) EMC
8 1 (1.10%) F5
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle
8 1 (1.10%) Pega
8 1 (1.10%) Talend
8 1 (1.10%) Unisys