Architecture Roadmap Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Architecture Roadmaps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Architecture Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 168 184
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 +51
Contract jobs citing Architecture Roadmap 21 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.49% 0.049% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.059% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 5
10th Percentile £360 £551 £609
25th Percentile £443 £555 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £574 £610
Median % change year-on-year -14.07% -5.81% +1.62%
75th Percentile £499 £606 £610
90th Percentile £654 £617 £664
England median daily rate £550 £621 £670
% change year-on-year -11.47% -7.28% +11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
England median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Architecture Roadmap 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,786 3,418 4,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.00% 84.29% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,490 1,855 2,979
10th Percentile £250 £294 £285
25th Percentile £368 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £562 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £655 £676
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 178 208
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.28 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £24.38 £35.00 £28.65
Median % change year-on-year -30.34% +22.16% +34.82%
75th Percentile £41.94 £51.90 £46.18
90th Percentile £64.63 £70.00 £62.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.16 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -7.52% +27.14%

Architecture Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architecture Roadmap relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Architecture Roadmap job vacancy trend in the North of England

Architecture Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Architecture Roadmap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Architecture Roadmap

Architecture Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architecture Roadmap in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architecture Roadmap in the North of England

Architecture Roadmap
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Architecture Roadmap.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Architecture Roadmap

Architecture Roadmap
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architecture Roadmap within the North of England region over the 6 months to 22 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -2 11 £498 -17.08% 6
Yorkshire -11 11 £422 -23.07% 6
Architecture Roadmap
England

Architecture Roadmap
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (9.52%) dbt
4 2 (9.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
1 2 (9.52%) Bigtable
1 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
1 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Banking
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Architect
2 8 (38.10%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.52%) GCP Architect
4 2 (9.52%) GCP Data Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Security Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Strategy Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Payments Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) .NET
1 4 (19.05%) REST
1 4 (19.05%) Web Services
2 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
2 2 (9.52%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) PACS
1 4 (19.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) PKI
2 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) FMCG
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 10 (47.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (33.33%) Business Case
3 7 (33.33%) Fintech
3 7 (33.33%) Migration
3 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) Portfolio Management
4 6 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
4 6 (28.57%) Validation
5 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (19.05%) Business Strategy
6 4 (19.05%) DevOps
6 4 (19.05%) Requirements Management
6 4 (19.05%) TOGAF
7 3 (14.29%) Commercial Awareness
7 3 (14.29%) Emotional Intelligence
7 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
7 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) ANSI SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) Scala
3 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.76%) CISSP
2 1 (4.76%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) ISO 8583
2 3 (14.29%) PMO
3 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (9.52%) NIST
3 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
3 2 (9.52%) SOC 1
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Control-M
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) Splunk