Technical Architect Contracts in Manchester

Technical Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Technical 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 69 47 102
Rank change year-on-year -22 +55 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 10 49 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.08% 3.23% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 3.37% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 31 14
10th Percentile - £568 £452
25th Percentile £450 £775 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £850 £680
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +25.00% +15.11%
75th Percentile £675 - £1,206
90th Percentile £788 - £1,560
North West median daily rate £600 £825 £625
% change year-on-year -27.27% +32.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
North West median hourly rate - - £35.00

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%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in Manchester

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in Manchester

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (30.00%) Node.js
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) Project Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Express.js
4 2 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (20.00%) Docker
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Debt
4 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Programming
4 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (20.00%) BYOD
4 2 (20.00%) Virgin Media
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (10.00%) Product Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns

Technical 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) BYOD
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Microservices
1 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Programming
3 2 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (20.00%) Project Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Debt
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Virgin Media
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft