Enterprise Architecture Contracts in Manchester

Enterprise Architecture
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 81 103
Rank change year-on-year +21 +22 +22
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 19 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.14% 0.99% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 1.14% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 4
10th Percentile £435 £506 £381
25th Percentile £450 £531 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £463
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +45.95% -16.67%
75th Percentile £564 £738 £516
90th Percentile £685 £747 £566
North West median daily rate £560 £694 £498
% change year-on-year -19.25% +39.40% -10.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £22.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Enterprise 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 792 1,226 1,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.19% 86.58% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 838 1,196
10th Percentile £300 £323 £316
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £557 £588 £591
90th Percentile £668 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 76 51
10th Percentile £16.73 £12.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.48 £13.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -5.45% +52.78%
75th Percentile £74.69 £61.56 £43.13
90th Percentile £86.63 £73.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.15% -25.71% +55.56%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Enterprise Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architecture in Manchester

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in Manchester

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in Manchester over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in Manchester

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in Manchester

Enterprise Architecture
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 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) IaaS
3 8 (42.11%) Entra ID
3 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure App Service
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Storage
4 2 (10.53%) PaaS
4 2 (10.53%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) Firewall
2 8 (42.11%) Intrusion Detection
2 8 (42.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.26%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.26%) HBase
2 1 (5.26%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) Pentaho
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) ERwin
General
1 8 (42.11%) Telecoms
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.79%) Finance
5 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Aviation
6 1 (5.26%) Banking
6 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
1 2 (10.53%) FastAPI
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (5.26%) Blazor
2 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
2 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) NHS
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) HPUX
3 1 (5.26%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Solaris
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (47.37%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (47.37%) Project Delivery
3 8 (42.11%) BCP
3 8 (42.11%) Business Continuity
3 8 (42.11%) Business Continuity Planning
3 8 (42.11%) Change Management
3 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (42.11%) Information Security
3 8 (42.11%) Risk Assessment
3 8 (42.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 7 (36.84%) Line Management
4 7 (36.84%) Web Operations
5 6 (31.58%) Analytics
5 6 (31.58%) High Availability
6 5 (26.32%) DevOps
6 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
7 3 (15.79%) IT Strategy
7 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Bicep
3 2 (10.53%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Azure Certification
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
1 8 (42.11%) vSphere
2 6 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (42.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) Sun