Technical Architecture Contracts in Manchester

Technical Architecture
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - 97
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 6 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.60% - 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% - 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £480 - £530
25th Percentile £488 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.76%
75th Percentile - - £681
90th Percentile - - £728
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Technical 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 884 1,063 1,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.05% 86.92% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 687 1,184
10th Percentile £308 £325 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 54 59
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.94 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.12 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +98.72% +8.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.19 £38.13
90th Percentile £77.00 £80.45 £66.80
North West median hourly rate £27.90 £33.61 £33.00
% change year-on-year -16.97% +1.83% +43.48%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in Manchester

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in Manchester

Technical 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Maximo
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Fastly
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Heroku
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Head of Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Product Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (16.67%) Flask
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Debt
3 2 (33.33%) API Integration
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (33.33%) Data Extraction
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow