Technical Architecture Contracts in the North West

Technical Architecture
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture 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 101 136 124
Rank change year-on-year +35 -12 +29
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 19 1 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.97% 0.036% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.042% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 26
10th Percentile £448 - £429
25th Percentile £489 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £685 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.85% +24.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £738 - £639
90th Percentile - - £684
England median daily rate £615 £575 £605
% change year-on-year +6.96% -4.96% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.23 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £71.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -13.24% +102.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Technical Architecture 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%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the North West

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the North West

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the North West

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the North West

Technical Architecture
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 Technical Architecture 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
Cheshire - 9 £700 - 5
Cumbria - 5 £605 -
Manchester - 5 £638 - 16
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
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 5 (26.32%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Maximo
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (26.32%) OneDrive
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Apache Hive
1 3 (15.79%) Hadoop
1 3 (15.79%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.26%) Maven
General
1 15 (78.95%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 4 (21.05%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Military
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Local Government
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Architect
2 8 (42.11%) Technical Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (5.26%) ICT Manager
5 1 (5.26%) ICT Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Network Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Product Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) PySpark
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.26%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Data Protection
3 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
4 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
4 5 (26.32%) Data Governance
4 5 (26.32%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (26.32%) Due Diligence
4 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
4 5 (26.32%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (26.32%) Zero Trust
5 3 (15.79%) Workflow
6 2 (10.53%) Agile
6 2 (10.53%) Design Patterns
6 2 (10.53%) DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (10.53%) Microservices
6 2 (10.53%) Project Management
6 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) Degree
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.26%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Graylog
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Packer
1 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.26%) Puppet
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Cloudera
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow