Architecture Roadmap Contracts in the North West

Architecture Roadmaps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Architecture Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architecture Roadmap over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 - 147
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Architecture Roadmap 7 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% - 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £570 - £434
25th Percentile £605 - £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 - £506
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.63%
75th Percentile £675 - £563
90th Percentile £705 - -
England median daily rate £600 £700 £654
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.12% -1.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Architecture Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Architecture Roadmap in the North West

Architecture Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Architecture Roadmap in the North West

Architecture Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architecture Roadmap in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architecture Roadmap in the North West

Architecture Roadmap
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 Architecture Roadmap 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
Lancashire - 5 £650 - 1
Cheshire - 2 £575 -
Architecture Roadmap
England

Architecture Roadmap
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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (14.29%) DMZ
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) DWDM
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) IPsec
1 1 (14.29%) L2TP
1 1 (14.29%) MPLS
1 1 (14.29%) Multicast
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
2 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (28.57%) IT Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Strategy Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Business Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (71.43%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
5 2 (28.57%) Data Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Information Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
6 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Data Encryption
6 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 1 (14.29%) Data Management
6 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (14.29%) Network Design
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
6 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) CCIE
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CISM
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Virgin Media
2 1 (14.29%) Arista
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) McAfee
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk