Architect Contracts in the North West

Architect
England > North West

The median Architect daily rate in the North West is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 27 21
Rank change year-on-year +14 -6 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 288 189 318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 10.42% 5.88% 7.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.05% 6.21% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 141 233
10th Percentile £489 £510 £475
25th Percentile £563 £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £638 £613
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +4.08% +8.22%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £763 £738
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 2
10th Percentile £43.50 £35.94 -
25th Percentile - £39.68 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +14.78% -0.86%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.35 - £64.00
England median hourly rate £75.20 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year +7.43% +2.94% +14.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 2,607 3,043 3,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.71% 96.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 2,182 2,880
10th Percentile £280 £300 £207
25th Percentile £390 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +6.38% +10.59%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 135 174
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +10.74%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.25 £43.50
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the North West

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the North West

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the North West

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the North West

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the North West

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Manchester +18 176 £700 +12.00% 63
Cumbria +5 46 £660 +20.00% 2
Cheshire +26 42 £623 -2.56% 5
Merseyside +6 12 £650 -7.14% 6
Lancashire +2 7 £500 -16.32% 12
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 North West region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 81 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 79 (27.43%) Agile
3 77 (26.74%) SC Cleared
4 64 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 62 (21.53%) DevOps
6 61 (21.18%) Security Architecture
7 59 (20.49%) Azure
8 54 (18.75%) Firewall
9 53 (18.40%) Windows
9 53 (18.40%) Public Sector
10 48 (16.67%) Design Patterns
11 47 (16.32%) CI/CD
11 47 (16.32%) Android
11 47 (16.32%) Apple iOS
12 46 (15.97%) Node.js
12 46 (15.97%) VPN
13 45 (15.63%) Windows Server
14 44 (15.28%) Mobile Device Management
15 43 (14.93%) Zero Trust
16 41 (14.24%) Threat Intelligence
17 40 (13.89%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
18 38 (13.19%) Social Skills
19 36 (12.50%) Network Security
20 33 (11.46%) TOGAF
20 33 (11.46%) Public Cloud
21 32 (11.11%) Finance
21 32 (11.11%) Migration
22 31 (10.76%) IT Strategy
23 30 (10.42%) Business Strategy
24 29 (10.07%) Technology Strategy

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (1.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.39%) Confluence
3 3 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.69%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Temenos T24
2 4 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.04%) Aareon QL
3 3 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.69%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.35%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.35%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.35%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 59 (20.49%) Azure
2 26 (9.03%) AWS
3 17 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (4.86%) PaaS
5 13 (4.51%) IaaS
6 11 (3.82%) SaaS
7 10 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (2.78%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.08%) Azure Stack
9 6 (2.08%) Kong
9 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.74%) Apigee
10 5 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.39%) GCP
12 3 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 54 (18.75%) Firewall
2 46 (15.97%) VPN
3 36 (12.50%) Network Security
4 17 (5.90%) LAN
5 16 (5.56%) WAN
6 12 (4.17%) Skype
7 11 (3.82%) Converged Networks
7 11 (3.82%) ISDN
7 11 (3.82%) VoIP
8 4 (1.39%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (1.04%) MQTT
10 1 (0.35%) DHCP
10 1 (0.35%) DNS
10 1 (0.35%) Internet
10 1 (0.35%) SAN
10 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.43%) Metadata
2 7 (2.43%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.08%) Power BI
3 6 (2.08%) RDBMS
3 6 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
4 5 (1.74%) OLAP
4 5 (1.74%) OLTP
4 5 (1.74%) Oracle OLAP
5 3 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.04%) GIS
5 3 (1.04%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.69%) Big Data
6 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.35%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 5 (1.74%) JIRA
2 4 (1.39%) ERwin
2 4 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.69%) GitLab
3 2 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 53 (18.40%) Public Sector
2 38 (13.19%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.11%) Finance
4 19 (6.60%) Banking
5 14 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.51%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.78%) Marketing
7 8 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.43%) Electronics
8 7 (2.43%) Legal
8 7 (2.43%) Local Government
9 5 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.39%) Retail
11 3 (1.04%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.04%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.69%) Aviation
12 2 (0.69%) Billing
12 2 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.69%) German Language
12 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (15.97%) Node.js
2 10 (3.47%) REST
3 9 (3.13%) SOAP
4 6 (2.08%) JSON
4 6 (2.08%) Middleware
4 6 (2.08%) XML
5 5 (1.74%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (1.74%) J2EE
5 5 (1.74%) Kafka
5 5 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (1.74%) Web Services
6 4 (1.39%) Apache Camel
6 4 (1.39%) OAuth
6 4 (1.39%) Spring
6 4 (1.39%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.39%) Spring Integration
7 3 (1.04%) React
8 2 (0.69%) Express.js
8 2 (0.69%) React Native
8 2 (0.69%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.46%) Public Cloud
2 15 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.82%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.43%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.08%) NHS
6 6 (2.08%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.74%) DataPower
7 5 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.74%) Industry 4.0
8 4 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.39%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.39%) Wiki
9 3 (1.04%) CMDB
9 3 (1.04%) IoT
10 2 (0.69%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.69%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 53 (18.40%) Windows
2 47 (16.32%) Android
2 47 (16.32%) Apple iOS
3 45 (15.63%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.39%) Linux
4 4 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (27.43%) Agile
2 64 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 62 (21.53%) DevOps
4 61 (21.18%) Security Architecture
5 48 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 47 (16.32%) CI/CD
7 44 (15.28%) Mobile Device Management
8 43 (14.93%) Zero Trust
9 41 (14.24%) Threat Intelligence
10 40 (13.89%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 33 (11.46%) TOGAF
12 32 (11.11%) Migration
13 31 (10.76%) IT Strategy
14 30 (10.42%) Business Strategy
15 29 (10.07%) Architectural Design
15 29 (10.07%) Microservices
15 29 (10.07%) Roadmaps
15 29 (10.07%) Technology Strategy
16 28 (9.72%) Data Management
17 27 (9.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.13%) SQL
2 8 (2.78%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.08%) Java
4 4 (1.39%) Python
5 2 (0.69%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 81 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 77 (26.74%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.07%) Degree
4 9 (3.13%) CISSP
5 8 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.39%) CCIE
7 4 (1.39%) CCIE Security
7 4 (1.39%) CCNP
7 4 (1.39%) CISM
8 3 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) CCNA
10 1 (0.35%) MCP
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.35%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.90%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.82%) NIST
4 10 (3.47%) QA
5 7 (2.43%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.39%) GDPR
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.39%) Terraform
3 2 (0.69%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 27 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.51%) SAP
3 9 (3.13%) Google
3 9 (3.13%) Oracle
4 6 (2.08%) Cisco
4 6 (2.08%) Databricks
4 6 (2.08%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.08%) Sparx
5 5 (1.74%) Apple
5 5 (1.74%) IBM
5 5 (1.74%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.74%) TSYS
5 5 (1.74%) VMware
6 4 (1.39%) Pega
7 3 (1.04%) Aareon
7 3 (1.04%) Northgate
7 3 (1.04%) Sophos
7 3 (1.04%) Thales
8 2 (0.69%) Mapbox
8 2 (0.69%) MuleSoft