Service Management Architect Contract Job Trends in Salford

Service Management Architect
Manchester > Salford

The median Service Management Architect daily rate in Salford is £663, 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 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Service Management Architect 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Salford 18.75% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £579 - -
25th Percentile £603 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - -
75th Percentile £728 - -
90th Percentile £756 - -
Manchester median daily rate £575 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Salford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Salford. 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 Salford with a recognized job title 15 18 32
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 54.55% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 20
10th Percentile £353 £425 £248
25th Percentile £400 £444 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £566 £700 £450
90th Percentile £681 £732 £480
Manchester median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £15.58 - £17.23
25th Percentile £17.30 - £17.56
Median hourly rate £23.65 - £18.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.99%
75th Percentile £30.00 - £19.56
90th Percentile - - £19.68
Manchester median hourly rate £36.50 £32.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year +12.31% +64.56% -51.23%

Service Management Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Salford

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Management Architect in Salford

Service Management Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salford

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 Salford region featuring Service Management Architect in the job title.

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

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