Architect Contracts in the North West

Architect
England > North West

The median Architect daily rate in the North West is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 12 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 -6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 194 293 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 9.86% 10.64% 6.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.65% 11.26% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 206 145
10th Percentile £450 £488 £500
25th Percentile £489 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £640
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +4.49%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £700
90th Percentile £738 £850 £770
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 13
10th Percentile £71.76 £43.50 £35.94
25th Percentile £74.10 - £39.68
Median hourly rate £80.59 £60.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.31% -9.09% +14.78%
75th Percentile £84.48 - £70.00
90th Percentile £85.26 £72.35 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 1 May 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
Manchester -7 91 £550 -21.43% 114
Cheshire +7 59 £550 -11.29% 19
Lancashire +12 16 £620 +24.00% 56
Cumbria -16 16 £625 -5.73% 1
Merseyside 0 9 £625 -3.85% 11
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 54 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 53 (27.32%) Security Cleared
3 43 (22.16%) SC Cleared
4 42 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (20.10%) AWS
6 38 (19.59%) Roadmaps
7 36 (18.56%) Azure
8 33 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (17.01%) Banking
9 32 (16.49%) Microsoft
10 31 (15.98%) Migration
11 28 (14.43%) Agile
12 26 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
13 24 (12.37%) Architectural Design
13 24 (12.37%) Public Sector
14 23 (11.86%) Finance
15 22 (11.34%) Degree
15 22 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (10.31%) Enterprise Architecture
16 20 (10.31%) Microservices
16 20 (10.31%) DevOps
17 19 (9.79%) Analytics
18 17 (8.76%) Java
19 16 (8.25%) Legal
19 16 (8.25%) Software Engineering
19 16 (8.25%) TOGAF
19 16 (8.25%) CI/CD
20 15 (7.73%) Containerisation
20 15 (7.73%) GCP
20 15 (7.73%) Kubernetes

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 7 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.09%) SAS
3 5 (2.58%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.55%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.03%) CICS
6 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.52%) Apache
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) Appian
6 1 (0.52%) CMS
6 1 (0.52%) JBoss
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (4.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.55%) Magento
2 3 (1.55%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.55%) Sage 200
3 2 (1.03%) Maximo
3 2 (1.03%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (20.10%) AWS
2 36 (18.56%) Azure
3 15 (7.73%) GCP
4 11 (5.67%) Serverless
5 8 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.12%) SuccessFactors
6 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.58%) GitHub
8 5 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.58%) OneDrive
9 4 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.06%) Amazon Glacier
9 4 (2.06%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.06%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.06%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.09%) Firewall
2 3 (1.55%) Network Security
3 2 (1.03%) BGP
3 2 (1.03%) Cisco Wireless
3 2 (1.03%) EIGRP
3 2 (1.03%) OSPF
3 2 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.03%) VPN
3 2 (1.03%) Wireless
4 1 (0.52%) ATM
4 1 (0.52%) DNS
4 1 (0.52%) Internet
4 1 (0.52%) PBX
4 1 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (3.61%) Hadoop
3 5 (2.58%) Big Data
3 5 (2.58%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.06%) Tableau
5 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.55%) Data Mining
5 3 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.55%) Metadata
5 3 (1.55%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.55%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.03%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.03%) DB2
6 2 (1.03%) MySQL
6 2 (1.03%) Power BI
6 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.12%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.55%) JIRA
3 2 (1.03%) ERwin
3 2 (1.03%) Selenium
3 2 (1.03%) SOAtest
4 1 (0.52%) GitLab
4 1 (0.52%) Hudson
General
1 54 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.01%) Banking
3 26 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.37%) Public Sector
5 23 (11.86%) Finance
6 16 (8.25%) Legal
7 8 (4.12%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.09%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.06%) Military
11 3 (1.55%) Automotive
12 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.03%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.03%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.52%) Aviation
13 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.22%) Kafka
2 11 (5.67%) OAuth
3 10 (5.15%) Middleware
4 9 (4.64%) OAuth2
5 8 (4.12%) .NET
6 6 (3.09%) OpenID
6 6 (3.09%) RESTful
7 5 (2.58%) REST
7 5 (2.58%) SAML
7 5 (2.58%) Web Services
8 4 (2.06%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (2.06%) Node.js
9 3 (1.55%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.55%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (1.55%) D3.js
9 3 (1.55%) JSON
9 3 (1.55%) SOAP
10 2 (1.03%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.03%) J2EE
10 2 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.19%) Public Cloud
2 11 (5.67%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.58%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.06%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.06%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.55%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.03%) BYOD
8 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.03%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.03%) EMV
8 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) IoT
8 2 (1.03%) Replication
8 2 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.03%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.09%) Windows
2 5 (2.58%) Linux
3 4 (2.06%) Android
3 4 (2.06%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.55%) Unix
5 2 (1.03%) HPUX
5 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.03%) Solaris
6 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (19.59%) Roadmaps
3 33 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (15.98%) Migration
5 28 (14.43%) Agile
6 24 (12.37%) Architectural Design
7 22 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
8 20 (10.31%) DevOps
8 20 (10.31%) Enterprise Architecture
8 20 (10.31%) Microservices
9 19 (9.79%) Analytics
10 16 (8.25%) CI/CD
10 16 (8.25%) Software Engineering
10 16 (8.25%) TOGAF
11 15 (7.73%) Containerisation
12 14 (7.22%) Data Modelling
12 14 (7.22%) Performance Optimisation
12 14 (7.22%) Technical Architecture
13 13 (6.70%) Business Strategy
13 13 (6.70%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.76%) Java
2 7 (3.61%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.61%) SQL
3 3 (1.55%) C#
3 3 (1.55%) PHP
4 2 (1.03%) Bicep
4 2 (1.03%) COBOL
4 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.03%) JCL
4 2 (1.03%) REXX
5 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.52%) C++
5 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.52%) Python
5 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.52%) VB
5 1 (0.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (27.32%) Security Cleared
2 43 (22.16%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.34%) Degree
4 12 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.12%) AWS Certification
5 8 (4.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (4.12%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.58%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.06%) CISM
7 4 (2.06%) CISSP
7 4 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.03%) CCSP
8 2 (1.03%) CEH
8 2 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.03%) OSCP
9 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.19%) QA
2 9 (4.64%) GDPR
3 7 (3.61%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.58%) NIST
5 4 (2.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.06%) COBIT
5 4 (2.06%) ISO 20022
5 4 (2.06%) SEPA
6 3 (1.55%) NCSC
7 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.03%) GRC
7 2 (1.03%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.03%) PSD2
8 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (6.70%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.15%) Terraform
3 3 (1.55%) Ansible
3 3 (1.55%) Kibana
4 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.19%) SAP
3 10 (5.15%) MuleSoft
3 10 (5.15%) Virgin Media
4 9 (4.64%) Google
5 7 (3.61%) Oracle
6 5 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.06%) Cloudera
7 4 (2.06%) IBM
7 4 (2.06%) Informatica
7 4 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.06%) VMware
8 3 (1.55%) Concur
8 3 (1.55%) Splunk
9 2 (1.03%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.03%) Adobe
9 2 (1.03%) Ariba
9 2 (1.03%) Databricks
9 2 (1.03%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto