Architect Contracts in Cheshire

Architect
North West > Cheshire

The median Architect daily rate in Cheshire is £610 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 42 21
Rank change year-on-year +36 -21 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 73 16 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.64% 3.11% 8.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.29% 3.40% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 12 25
10th Percentile £445 £459 £525
25th Percentile £477 £584 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £606 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.66% -3.04% -6.72%
75th Percentile £679 £641 £675
90th Percentile £738 £717 £727
North West median daily rate £636 £618 £625
% change year-on-year +2.91% -1.20% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 511 470 514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.51% 91.44% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 316 285
10th Percentile £282 £288 £184
25th Percentile £375 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 26 30
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.13 £12.48
25th Percentile £16.40 £20.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £25.57 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% +14.18% +5.36%
75th Percentile £40.88 £35.00 £33.51
90th Percentile £43.75 £45.00 £59.18
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £30.54 £23.22
% change year-on-year +7.71% +31.51% +29.37%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Cheshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Architect in Cheshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Cheshire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Cheshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Knutsford +16 25 £489 -19.31% 3
Crewe +16 15 £600 -6.25%
Macclesfield -5 9 £535 +29.70%
Chester +18 8 £725 +26.09%
Warrington +8 7 £680 +4.62%
Architect
North West

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 31 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 Cheshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 23 (31.51%) Banking
2 22 (30.14%) Azure
2 22 (30.14%) Finance
3 18 (24.66%) AWS
4 17 (23.29%) Architectural Design
5 15 (20.55%) Enterprise Architecture
6 14 (19.18%) JIRA
6 14 (19.18%) Microservices
7 13 (17.81%) DevOps
8 12 (16.44%) Identity Access Management
8 12 (16.44%) Agile
9 11 (15.07%) Risk Management
9 11 (15.07%) Business Strategy
10 10 (13.70%) Automotive
10 10 (13.70%) Java
11 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (12.33%) Analytics
11 9 (12.33%) Event-Driven
12 8 (10.96%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 8 (10.96%) Design Patterns
12 8 (10.96%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (10.96%) Manufacturing
13 7 (9.59%) IBM
13 7 (9.59%) J2EE
13 7 (9.59%) Oracle
13 7 (9.59%) SOAP
13 7 (9.59%) Web Services
13 7 (9.59%) OLAP
13 7 (9.59%) OOA/OOD
13 7 (9.59%) OO

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (8.22%) Confluence
1 6 (8.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 7 (9.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Temenos T24
2 2 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.14%) Azure
2 18 (24.66%) AWS
3 7 (9.59%) Apigee
3 7 (9.59%) Kong
4 5 (6.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (5.48%) SaaS
6 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.11%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.11%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.74%) Azure Stack
7 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.37%) dbt
8 1 (1.37%) GitHub
8 1 (1.37%) IaaS
8 1 (1.37%) PaaS
8 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) Network Security
2 3 (4.11%) Firewall
2 3 (4.11%) LAN
2 3 (4.11%) VPN
2 3 (4.11%) WAN
3 2 (2.74%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.59%) MongoDB
1 7 (9.59%) OLAP
1 7 (9.59%) OLTP
2 6 (8.22%) Oracle OLAP
3 5 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.48%) Data Lake
4 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.11%) DB2
6 2 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.37%) Metadata
7 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.37%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (19.18%) JIRA
2 5 (6.85%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.48%) Git
General
1 23 (31.51%) Banking
2 22 (30.14%) Finance
3 10 (13.70%) Automotive
4 8 (10.96%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.85%) Social Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.37%) Marketing
8 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) IBM Integration Bus
1 7 (9.59%) J2EE
1 7 (9.59%) Kafka
1 7 (9.59%) RabbitMQ
1 7 (9.59%) SOAP
1 7 (9.59%) Web Services
2 6 (8.22%) Apache Camel
2 6 (8.22%) Spring
2 6 (8.22%) Spring Boot
2 6 (8.22%) Spring Integration
3 3 (4.11%) .NET
3 3 (4.11%) React
4 2 (2.74%) JSON
4 2 (2.74%) LDAP
4 2 (2.74%) Middleware
4 2 (2.74%) OAuth
4 2 (2.74%) OpenID
4 2 (2.74%) REST
4 2 (2.74%) SAML
4 2 (2.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) DataPower
2 5 (6.85%) CMDB
2 5 (6.85%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.48%) Industry 4.0
3 4 (5.48%) Taxonomies
4 3 (4.11%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.11%) Mainframe
4 3 (4.11%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.11%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.74%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.74%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (2.74%) IoT
5 2 (2.74%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.74%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.74%) Robotics
5 2 (2.74%) SCADA
6 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Android
1 3 (4.11%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.74%) Windows
3 1 (1.37%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.29%) Architectural Design
2 15 (20.55%) Enterprise Architecture
3 14 (19.18%) Microservices
4 13 (17.81%) DevOps
5 12 (16.44%) Agile
5 12 (16.44%) Identity Access Management
6 11 (15.07%) Business Strategy
6 11 (15.07%) Risk Management
7 9 (12.33%) Analytics
7 9 (12.33%) Event-Driven
7 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.96%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 8 (10.96%) Design Patterns
9 7 (9.59%) API Management
9 7 (9.59%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (9.59%) CQRS
9 7 (9.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (9.59%) OOA/OOD
9 7 (9.59%) SDLC
9 7 (9.59%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.70%) Java
2 5 (6.85%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.11%) C
4 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.37%) Python
4 1 (1.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.74%) Degree
2 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.37%) MCSE
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.37%) NIST
2 1 (1.37%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.74%) Docker
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (10.96%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (9.59%) IBM
1 7 (9.59%) Oracle
1 7 (9.59%) TSYS
2 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.74%) Adobe
3 2 (2.74%) ForgeRock
3 2 (2.74%) MuleSoft
3 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.74%) SAP
4 1 (1.37%) VMware