Technical Architecture Contracts in the North of England

Technical Architecture
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 172 163
Rank change year-on-year +18 -9 +54
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 25 7 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.65% 0.15% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.18% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 26
10th Percentile £431 £510 £450
25th Percentile £466 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £622 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +3.67% +6.67%
75th Percentile £636 £685 £679
90th Percentile £761 £769 £694
England median daily rate £625 £588 £625
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,406 3,817 4,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.65% 83.96% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,182 2,307 3,253
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £556 £580 £600
90th Percentile £650 £664 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 323 198
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.19 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.47 £13.00 £17.73
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.00 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -18.06% +33.38%
75th Percentile £44.78 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.61 £53.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -7.06% +63.46%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the North of England

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the North of England

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the North of England

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the North of England

Technical Architecture
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 Technical Architecture within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 July 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 +20 18 £551 +4.90% 23
Yorkshire +5 5 £550 -22.64% 15
North East - 2 £590 - 3
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Maximo
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (20.00%) OneDrive
3 4 (16.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
1 1 (4.00%) Maven
General
1 18 (72.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Military
4 2 (8.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Architect
2 9 (36.00%) Technical Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.00%) .NET Technical Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Chief Technology Officer
6 1 (4.00%) Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Product Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Node.js
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) Middleware
2 1 (4.00%) React
2 1 (4.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Educational Technology
3 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Technical Leadership
2 11 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (28.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) Microservices
3 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (24.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 5 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 5 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 5 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 5 (20.00%) Due Diligence
5 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.00%) Zero Trust
6 3 (12.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (12.00%) DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (12.00%) Security Management
6 3 (12.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.00%) Bash
2 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) Perl
3 3 (12.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.00%) C#
4 1 (4.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) Python
4 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (48.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) Degree
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NCSC
2 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Ansible
1 1 (4.00%) Grafana
1 1 (4.00%) Graylog
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Packer
1 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.00%) Puppet
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco
3 3 (12.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow