Architecture Roadmap Contract Job Trends in the North West

Architecture Roadmaps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Architecture Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 118 145
Rank change year-on-year -2 +27 +33
Contract jobs citing Architecture Roadmap 11 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.48% 0.042% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.050% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £480 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% - -
75th Percentile £603 £625 -
90th Percentile £719 - -
England median daily rate £550 £621 £670
% change year-on-year -11.47% -7.28% +11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
England median hourly rate - - £75.00

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 2,048 1,982 2,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.93% 83.45% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 1,072 1,722
10th Percentile £250 £294 £274
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £678 £656 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 110 169
10th Percentile £14.13 £18.95 £15.95
25th Percentile £17.30 £26.81 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +41.19%
75th Percentile £44.61 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £65.08 £71.71 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.16 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -7.52% +27.14%

Architecture Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architecture Roadmap relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Architecture Roadmap job vacancy trend in the North West

Architecture Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Architecture Roadmap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Architecture Roadmap

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 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architecture Roadmap in the North West

Architecture Roadmap
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Architecture Roadmap.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Architecture Roadmap

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 22 October 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
Cheshire - 4 £474 -
Manchester 0 3 £525 -12.50% 5
Merseyside - 2 £734 -
Lancashire - 1 - - 1
Architecture Roadmap
England

Architecture Roadmap
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (9.09%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Architect
2 6 (54.55%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Architect
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Payments Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) REST
1 4 (36.36%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) PACS
1 4 (36.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (18.18%) PKI
3 1 (9.09%) FMCG
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Business Strategy
3 4 (36.36%) Fintech
3 4 (36.36%) Requirements Management
3 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
4 2 (18.18%) AI
4 2 (18.18%) Coaching
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (18.18%) Target Operating Model
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO 8583
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) NIST
2 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 2 (18.18%) SOC 1
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk