Java Architect Contracts in Manchester

Java Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Java Architect daily rate in Manchester is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 August 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
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - 112
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.99% - 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% - 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £528 - -
25th Percentile £538 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.34%
75th Percentile £581 - £775
90th Percentile £585 - -
North West median daily rate £550 £444 £750
% change year-on-year +23.87% -40.80% +45.99%

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 927 1,143 1,714
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 95.57% 95.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 736 1,268
10th Percentile £280 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £409 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £706 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 52 60
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.65 £14.59
25th Percentile £13.70 £24.51 £16.54
Median hourly rate £20.26 £45.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.99% +136.84% +8.57%
75th Percentile £34.63 £63.13 £36.56
90th Percentile £73.75 £82.15 £66.40
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -28.14% +14.60% +32.02%

Java Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Architect in Manchester

Java Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Java Architect in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 12 August 2025, Java 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 Java Architect in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
1 10 (100.00%) Microservices
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 10 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 9 (90.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 8 (80.00%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (80.00%) DynamoDB
3 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (80.00%) GCP
3 8 (80.00%) TOGAF
3 8 (80.00%) Git
3 8 (80.00%) RESTful
3 8 (80.00%) AWS
3 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (80.00%) Clean Code
3 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (80.00%) Design Patterns
3 8 (80.00%) Terraform
3 8 (80.00%) Serverless
4 7 (70.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 7 (70.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (70.00%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (70.00%) Azure
4 7 (70.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (70.00%) OOP
4 7 (70.00%) Relational Database
4 7 (70.00%) Spring Boot
4 7 (70.00%) API Design

Java 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Amazon SQS
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) GCP
1 8 (80.00%) Serverless
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (70.00%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 6 (60.00%) Apigee
3 6 (60.00%) Datadog
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (50.00%) GitHub
4 5 (50.00%) Loggly
4 5 (50.00%) Route 53
5 4 (40.00%) PaaS
5 4 (40.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (80.00%) DynamoDB
3 7 (70.00%) NoSQL
3 7 (70.00%) Relational Database
4 6 (60.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (50.00%) BigQuery
5 5 (50.00%) MySQL
5 5 (50.00%) RDBMS
5 5 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Git
1 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (60.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (50.00%) Gradle
3 5 (50.00%) Maven
3 5 (50.00%) SonarLint
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) RESTful
2 7 (70.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (60.00%) Dropwizard
3 6 (60.00%) J2EE
3 6 (60.00%) JWT
3 6 (60.00%) Micronaut
4 5 (50.00%) Celery
5 4 (40.00%) GraphQL
6 2 (20.00%) Express.js
6 2 (20.00%) Node.js
7 1 (10.00%) OAuth
7 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
7 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (60.00%) N-Tier
2 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 10 (100.00%) Microservices
2 9 (90.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (80.00%) Clean Code
3 8 (80.00%) Design Patterns
3 8 (80.00%) TOGAF
4 7 (70.00%) API Design
4 7 (70.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 7 (70.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (70.00%) OOP
4 7 (70.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (60.00%) Agile
5 6 (60.00%) BDD
5 6 (60.00%) CQRS
5 6 (60.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (60.00%) SOLID
5 6 (60.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Gigya
2 2 (20.00%) Virgin Media