Service Management Architect Contract Job Trends in the North West

Service Management Architect
England > North West

The median Service Management Architect daily rate in the North West is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Service Management Architect 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £681 - -
90th Percentile £738 - -
England median daily rate £563 £530 £475
% change year-on-year +6.13% +11.58% -26.92%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,405 1,943 2,698
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 92.74% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,546 1,139 1,822
10th Percentile £213 £261 £299
25th Percentile £360 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £572 £565 £588
90th Percentile £650 £652 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 98 242
10th Percentile £17.31 £15.45 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.65 £19.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £41.94 £29.52 £28.65
Median % change year-on-year +42.10% +3.02% +10.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.91 £73.92 £61.13
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.64% +2.71%

Service Management Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Service Management Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Service Management Architect job vacancy trend in the North West

Service Management Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Management Architect job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Management Architect job vacancies in the North West

Service Management Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Management Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Management Architect in the North West

Service Management 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 Service Management Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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 - 6 £575 - 2
Service Management Architect
England

Service Management Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 2 February 2026, Service Management Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Service Management Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Service Management
2 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) ITSM
3 4 (66.67%) BMC
4 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) ITIL
4 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
5 2 (33.33%) ETL
5 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (33.33%) Middleware
5 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (33.33%) Observability
5 2 (33.33%) PaaS
5 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (33.33%) SaaS
5 2 (33.33%) SCCM
5 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (33.33%) Workflow
6 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering

Service Management Architect Skill Set
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 2 (33.33%) PaaS
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) CMDB
2 3 (50.00%) Taxonomies
3 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Service Management
2 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) ITSM
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) BMC
2 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds