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 2 July 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
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 7 30
Rank change year-on-year -7 +23 -11
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 191 331 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 9.29% 11.91% 5.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.02% 12.61% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 226 117
10th Percentile £449 £458 £449
25th Percentile £492 £536 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £606
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +3.14% -1.06%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £788
England median daily rate £625 £650 £668
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.69% +2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - £43.50 £35.00
25th Percentile - - £50.50
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +14.78%
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - £72.35 -
England median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.79% - +14.90%

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 1,906 2,624 2,888
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 94.42% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,265 1,623 2,031
10th Percentile £268 £268 £294
25th Percentile £375 £382 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £588
90th Percentile £662 £669 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 305 141
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.20 £15.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £28.75 £32.90 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +12.27% +17.20%
75th Percentile £59.95 £48.00 £44.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £71.72 £59.25
England median hourly rate £28.34 £40.00 £43.93
% change year-on-year -29.15% -8.95% +75.72%

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 2 July 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 2 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
Manchester -9 85 £595 -4.80% 358
Cheshire -7 71 £537 -5.29% 73
Lancashire +8 15 £620 +7.83% 77
Cumbria -13 10 £625 -6.58% 8
Merseyside -5 6 £638 +10.87% 37
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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 51 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 44 (23.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (21.99%) Security Cleared
4 39 (20.42%) Banking
5 38 (19.90%) AWS
6 36 (18.85%) SC Cleared
6 36 (18.85%) Finance
7 35 (18.32%) Azure
7 35 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (16.75%) Microsoft
9 26 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
9 26 (13.61%) Roadmaps
10 25 (13.09%) Agile
11 23 (12.04%) Microservices
11 23 (12.04%) Architectural Design
11 23 (12.04%) CI/CD
12 22 (11.52%) Migration
13 20 (10.47%) Enterprise Architecture
13 20 (10.47%) Java
14 19 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (9.42%) DevOps
15 18 (9.42%) Degree
15 18 (9.42%) Containerisation
16 17 (8.90%) TOGAF
16 17 (8.90%) Public Sector
17 15 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
17 15 (7.85%) GCP
18 14 (7.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 14 (7.33%) IT Strategy
18 14 (7.33%) Technical Architecture

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 6 (3.14%) SAS
1 6 (3.14%) SharePoint
1 6 (3.14%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.05%) CICS
3 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.52%) Apache
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.52%) Appian
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) JBoss
3 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.57%) Magento
2 3 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.57%) Sage 200
3 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.05%) Maximo
4 1 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (19.90%) AWS
2 35 (18.32%) Azure
3 15 (7.85%) GCP
4 12 (6.28%) Serverless
5 8 (4.19%) SaaS
6 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (3.14%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.62%) OneDrive
9 4 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.09%) Amazon Glacier
9 4 (2.09%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.57%) GitHub
10 3 (1.57%) IaaS
10 3 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.62%) Firewall
2 3 (1.57%) NetScaler
2 3 (1.57%) SAN
3 2 (1.05%) FlexRay
3 2 (1.05%) Network Security
4 1 (0.52%) ATM
4 1 (0.52%) BGP
4 1 (0.52%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (0.52%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.52%) Internet
4 1 (0.52%) OSPF
4 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.52%) VPN
4 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.62%) Hadoop
3 4 (2.09%) Big Data
3 4 (2.09%) DynamoDB
3 4 (2.09%) Metadata
4 3 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.57%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.05%) DB2
5 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.52%) HBase
6 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.52%) Power BI
6 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (4.19%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.09%) Hudson
3 2 (1.05%) ERwin
3 2 (1.05%) JIRA
3 2 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.05%) Selenium
3 2 (1.05%) SOAtest
4 1 (0.52%) GitLab
General
1 51 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.42%) Banking
3 36 (18.85%) Finance
4 26 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.90%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.71%) Legal
7 7 (3.66%) Automotive
8 6 (3.14%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.09%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.57%) Military
12 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.05%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.05%) German Language
12 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.05%) Marketing
12 2 (1.05%) Retail
12 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.76%) Middleware
2 10 (5.24%) .NET
2 10 (5.24%) Kafka
3 8 (4.19%) OAuth
4 7 (3.66%) OAuth2
5 6 (3.14%) .NET Framework
6 5 (2.62%) REST
6 5 (2.62%) RESTful
7 4 (2.09%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (2.09%) Web Services
8 3 (1.57%) JSON
8 3 (1.57%) Node.js
8 3 (1.57%) OpenID
8 3 (1.57%) SAML
8 3 (1.57%) SOAP
8 3 (1.57%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (1.05%) Express.js
9 2 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.76%) Public Cloud
2 9 (4.71%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.71%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.19%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.62%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.62%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.09%) CSOC
6 4 (2.09%) Cyberattack
6 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.09%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.09%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.57%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.05%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.05%) EMV
8 2 (1.05%) IVR
8 2 (1.05%) Mobile Payment
8 2 (1.05%) Replication
8 2 (1.05%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.71%) Windows
2 7 (3.66%) Android
2 7 (3.66%) Apple iOS
2 7 (3.66%) Unix
3 6 (3.14%) Linux
4 3 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.05%) HPUX
5 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.05%) Solaris
6 1 (0.52%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (23.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (13.61%) Roadmaps
4 25 (13.09%) Agile
5 23 (12.04%) Architectural Design
5 23 (12.04%) CI/CD
5 23 (12.04%) Microservices
6 22 (11.52%) Migration
7 20 (10.47%) Enterprise Architecture
8 19 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
9 18 (9.42%) Containerisation
9 18 (9.42%) DevOps
10 17 (8.90%) TOGAF
11 15 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (7.33%) IT Strategy
12 14 (7.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (7.33%) Technical Architecture
13 13 (6.81%) Data Governance
13 13 (6.81%) Data Security
13 13 (6.81%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.47%) Java
2 8 (4.19%) SQL
3 6 (3.14%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.09%) C#
5 3 (1.57%) PHP
6 2 (1.05%) COBOL
6 2 (1.05%) JCL
6 2 (1.05%) REXX
7 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.52%) Bicep
7 1 (0.52%) C++
7 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.52%) Python
7 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 36 (18.85%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.42%) Degree
4 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.62%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.62%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.62%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.09%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.57%) CISM
7 3 (1.57%) CISSP
7 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.19%) GDPR
1 8 (4.19%) SEPA
2 6 (3.14%) QA
3 5 (2.62%) NIST
3 5 (2.62%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.09%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.05%) COBIT
5 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.05%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.05%) PSD2
5 2 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) GRC
6 1 (0.52%) GxP
6 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.52%) NCSC
6 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (6.81%) Docker
2 4 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.14%) Terraform
3 3 (1.57%) Ansible
4 2 (1.05%) Kibana
4 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.24%) Virgin Media
3 7 (3.66%) Google
3 7 (3.66%) IBM
3 7 (3.66%) Oracle
3 7 (3.66%) SAP
4 6 (3.14%) Citrix
4 6 (3.14%) Splunk
5 5 (2.62%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.09%) F5
6 4 (2.09%) Informatica
6 4 (2.09%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.09%) VMware
7 3 (1.57%) HP
8 2 (1.05%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.05%) Adobe
8 2 (1.05%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.05%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.05%) Sun