Architecture Governance Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Architecture Governance
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Architecture Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - 88
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Architecture Governance 6 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.43% - 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £562 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 - £450
75th Percentile £656 - £530
90th Percentile £672 - -
North West median daily rate £575 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -0.86% +10.48% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Architecture Governance 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,224 936 1,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.24% 90.96% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 615 946
10th Percentile £311 £294 £313
25th Percentile £383 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £672
North West median daily rate £451 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 31 73
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.90 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.68 £21.75 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £67.19 £35.38 £61.25
90th Percentile £78.38 £60.00 £77.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £26.00
% change year-on-year +42.23% +21.69% -30.67%

Architecture Governance
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Architecture Governance job vacancy trend in Manchester

Architecture Governance
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Architecture Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Architecture Governance

Architecture Governance
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 Architecture Governance within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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 - 1 £575 -
Architecture Governance
North West

Architecture Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (33.33%) IT Architect
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Salesforce Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CRM
1 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) GitOps
3 1 (16.67%) Product Backlog
3 1 (16.67%) Product Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Product Vision
3 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) BMC