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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 102
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 7 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.70% - 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% - 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £530
25th Percentile - - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.76%
75th Percentile £644 - £681
90th Percentile £730 - £728
North West median daily rate £551 £525 £613
% change year-on-year +4.90% -14.29% +17.79%

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 877 1,105 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.70% 86.73% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 717 1,188
10th Percentile £306 £325 £304
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 59 59
10th Percentile £17.08 £14.00 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.07 £20.88 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £37.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.20 £65.20
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £30.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.77% +28.86%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 (14.29%) Maximo
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Fastly
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Heroku
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Military
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Head of Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Product Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Flask
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Debt
2 2 (28.57%) API Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (28.57%) Data Extraction
2 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Data Management
2 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
2 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Graylog
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Packer
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow