Technical Architect Contracts in Manchester

Technical Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Manchester is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 36 102
Rank change year-on-year -36 +66 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 11 54 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.11% 4.39% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 4.59% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 37 7
10th Percentile £450 £450 £515
25th Percentile £500 £568 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £850 £650
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% +30.77% +16.59%
75th Percentile £581 - £739
90th Percentile £619 - £768
North West median daily rate £500 £825 £538
% change year-on-year -39.39% +53.49% -5.70%
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 918 1,176 1,711
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 95.53% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 770 1,268
10th Percentile £291 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £671 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 57 58
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.01 £14.46
25th Percentile £13.70 £22.00 £16.37
Median hourly rate £20.26 £45.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.99% +136.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £44.38 £65.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.90 £65.30
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £34.21 £29.30
% change year-on-year -21.08% +16.76% +21.58%

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 August 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 August 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 5 (45.45%) Java
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Node.js
4 2 (18.18%) Project Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Express.js
4 2 (18.18%) Windows
4 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (18.18%) Clustering
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
4 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Programming
4 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
4 2 (18.18%) Virgin Media
4 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
4 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 2 (18.18%) Relational Database

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 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Node.js
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Microservices
2 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
3 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Programming
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Project Governance
3 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) High Availability
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Virgin Media
3 1 (9.09%) Google