Architect Contracts in the North West

Architect
England > North West

The median Architect daily rate in the North West is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 29 23
Rank change year-on-year +17 -6 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 287 187 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 10.64% 5.93% 7.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.27% 6.25% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 136 225
10th Percentile £489 £456 £494
25th Percentile £563 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.04% +7.83%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £788 £738
England median daily rate £650 £669 £650
% change year-on-year -2.77% +2.85% +11.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 2
10th Percentile £43.50 £35.47 -
25th Percentile - £39.68 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £68.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +18.26% -0.86%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.35 - £64.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +14.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,546 2,993 3,902
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 94.84% 96.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 2,145 2,849
10th Percentile £281 £300 £208
25th Percentile £390 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £568
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 130 171
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.64 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +70.73% +14.53%
75th Percentile £46.18 £50.04 £42.63
90th Percentile £67.63 £66.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

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 4 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 4 May 2024. 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 +19 178 £675 +8.00% 61
Cheshire +24 47 £594 -4.56% 9
Cumbria -4 38 £669 +37.65% 4
Merseyside +21 13 £650 - 8
Lancashire +2 6 £500 -16.32% 10
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 83 (28.92%) Agile
2 74 (25.78%) Security Cleared
3 70 (24.39%) SC Cleared
4 64 (22.30%) Risk Management
5 63 (21.95%) Azure
6 62 (21.60%) Security Architecture
6 62 (21.60%) DevOps
7 54 (18.82%) Firewall
8 53 (18.47%) Windows
8 53 (18.47%) Public Sector
9 50 (17.42%) Apple iOS
9 50 (17.42%) Android
10 49 (17.07%) CI/CD
11 48 (16.72%) Design Patterns
12 47 (16.38%) VPN
13 46 (16.03%) Node.js
14 45 (15.68%) Windows Server
15 44 (15.33%) Mobile Device Management
16 43 (14.98%) Zero Trust
17 41 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
18 40 (13.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
19 37 (12.89%) Social Skills
20 36 (12.54%) Public Cloud
20 36 (12.54%) Finance
21 33 (11.50%) TOGAF
22 32 (11.15%) Migration
22 32 (11.15%) Microservices
22 32 (11.15%) Architectural Design
23 31 (10.80%) IT Strategy
24 30 (10.45%) Network Security

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 5 (1.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.39%) Confluence
3 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.70%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.05%) Aareon QL
2 3 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.35%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (21.95%) Azure
2 29 (10.10%) AWS
3 17 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (4.88%) PaaS
4 14 (4.88%) SaaS
5 13 (4.53%) IaaS
6 9 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (2.79%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.09%) Azure Stack
8 6 (2.09%) Kong
8 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.74%) Apigee
9 5 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.39%) GCP
11 3 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 54 (18.82%) Firewall
2 47 (16.38%) VPN
3 30 (10.45%) Network Security
4 9 (3.14%) LAN
5 8 (2.79%) WAN
6 5 (1.74%) Converged Networks
6 5 (1.74%) ISDN
6 5 (1.74%) Skype
6 5 (1.74%) VoIP
7 4 (1.39%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (1.05%) MQTT
9 1 (0.35%) DHCP
9 1 (0.35%) DNS
9 1 (0.35%) Internet
9 1 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.44%) Metadata
2 7 (2.44%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.09%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.09%) Power BI
3 6 (2.09%) RDBMS
3 6 (2.09%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (2.09%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.74%) OLAP
4 5 (1.74%) OLTP
4 5 (1.74%) Oracle OLAP
5 3 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.05%) DB2
5 3 (1.05%) GIS
6 2 (0.70%) Big Data
6 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.74%) JIRA
2 4 (1.39%) ERwin
2 4 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.70%) GitLab
3 2 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 53 (18.47%) Public Sector
2 37 (12.89%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.54%) Finance
4 22 (7.67%) Banking
5 14 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.53%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.79%) Legal
7 8 (2.79%) Marketing
7 8 (2.79%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.44%) Electronics
8 7 (2.44%) Local Government
9 5 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.39%) Retail
11 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.05%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.70%) Aviation
12 2 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.70%) German Language
12 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.03%) Node.js
2 10 (3.48%) REST
3 9 (3.14%) SOAP
4 6 (2.09%) JSON
4 6 (2.09%) Middleware
4 6 (2.09%) XML
5 5 (1.74%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (1.74%) J2EE
5 5 (1.74%) Kafka
5 5 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (1.74%) React
5 5 (1.74%) Web Services
6 4 (1.39%) .NET
6 4 (1.39%) Apache Camel
6 4 (1.39%) OAuth
6 4 (1.39%) Spring
6 4 (1.39%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.39%) Spring Integration
7 2 (0.70%) LDAP
7 2 (0.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.54%) Public Cloud
2 15 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.79%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.09%) NHS
5 6 (2.09%) Reference Data
6 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.74%) DataPower
6 5 (1.74%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (1.74%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (1.39%) CMDB
7 4 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.39%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.39%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.39%) Wiki
8 3 (1.05%) IoT
8 3 (1.05%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (18.47%) Windows
2 50 (17.42%) Android
2 50 (17.42%) Apple iOS
3 45 (15.68%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.39%) Linux
4 4 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (28.92%) Agile
2 64 (22.30%) Risk Management
3 62 (21.60%) DevOps
3 62 (21.60%) Security Architecture
4 49 (17.07%) CI/CD
5 48 (16.72%) Design Patterns
6 44 (15.33%) Mobile Device Management
7 43 (14.98%) Zero Trust
8 41 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
9 40 (13.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 33 (11.50%) TOGAF
11 32 (11.15%) Architectural Design
11 32 (11.15%) Microservices
11 32 (11.15%) Migration
12 31 (10.80%) IT Strategy
13 30 (10.45%) Business Strategy
14 29 (10.10%) Roadmaps
14 29 (10.10%) Technology Strategy
15 28 (9.76%) Data Management
16 27 (9.41%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.48%) Java
2 9 (3.14%) SQL
3 8 (2.79%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.39%) Python
5 3 (1.05%) C
6 2 (0.70%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 74 (25.78%) Security Cleared
2 70 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.10%) Degree
4 9 (3.14%) CISSP
5 8 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.39%) CCIE
7 4 (1.39%) CCIE Security
7 4 (1.39%) CCNP
7 4 (1.39%) CISM
8 3 (1.05%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) CCNA
10 1 (0.35%) MCP
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.35%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.92%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.83%) NIST
4 10 (3.48%) QA
5 6 (2.09%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.39%) GDPR
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Docker
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.39%) Terraform
3 2 (0.70%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 27 (9.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.18%) SAP
3 9 (3.14%) Google
3 9 (3.14%) Oracle
4 7 (2.44%) Sparx
5 6 (2.09%) Cisco
5 6 (2.09%) Databricks
5 6 (2.09%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.74%) Apple
6 5 (1.74%) IBM
6 5 (1.74%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.74%) TSYS
6 5 (1.74%) VMware
7 4 (1.39%) Pega
8 3 (1.05%) Aareon
8 3 (1.05%) Northgate
8 3 (1.05%) Sophos
8 3 (1.05%) Thales
9 2 (0.70%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft