Technical Architect Contracts in Manchester

Technical Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Manchester is £850 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 94 111
Rank change year-on-year +47 +17 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 50 15 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.47% 0.84% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.63% 0.88% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 11 23
10th Percentile £531 £431 £455
25th Percentile £775 £603 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +20.83% +2.13%
75th Percentile - £1,350 £694
90th Percentile - £1,650 £725
North West median daily rate £850 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +41.67% -4.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,378 1,708 2,569
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.56% 96.06% 97.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 1,271 1,999
10th Percentile £313 £313 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +2.56% +12.07%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £661
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 48 61
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.53 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +12.50% +23.23%
75th Percentile £63.13 £40.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £30.00 £24.10
% change year-on-year +9.65% +24.48% +33.89%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in Manchester

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in Manchester

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in Manchester

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architect within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Salford +4 2 - - 3
Technical Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Technical 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 Manchester region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 41 (82.00%) Android
1 41 (82.00%) Apple iOS
2 40 (80.00%) Windows
2 40 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 39 (78.00%) CI/CD
3 39 (78.00%) Firewall
3 39 (78.00%) Node.js
4 38 (76.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 38 (76.00%) Security Architecture
4 38 (76.00%) Risk Management
4 38 (76.00%) VPN
4 38 (76.00%) Zero Trust
5 36 (72.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 36 (72.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 36 (72.00%) Agile
6 33 (66.00%) DevOps
7 30 (60.00%) Public Cloud
8 28 (56.00%) Design Patterns
9 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
10 20 (40.00%) SC Cleared
11 14 (28.00%) Roadmaps
12 13 (26.00%) Microservices
13 12 (24.00%) Product Strategy
13 12 (24.00%) Strategic Roadmap
14 10 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
15 9 (18.00%) Public Sector
15 9 (18.00%) Product Ownership
16 8 (16.00%) Product Roadmap
16 8 (16.00%) Mobile App
17 7 (14.00%) User Experience

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (2.00%) AWS
2 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (2.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 39 (78.00%) Firewall
2 38 (76.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (18.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (12.00%) Legal
3 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.00%) Military
3 1 (2.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (78.00%) Node.js
2 2 (4.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 30 (60.00%) Public Cloud
2 9 (18.00%) Product Ownership
3 8 (16.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 41 (82.00%) Android
1 41 (82.00%) Apple iOS
2 40 (80.00%) Windows
2 40 (80.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (78.00%) CI/CD
2 38 (76.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 38 (76.00%) Risk Management
2 38 (76.00%) Security Architecture
2 38 (76.00%) Zero Trust
3 36 (72.00%) Agile
3 36 (72.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 36 (72.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 33 (66.00%) DevOps
5 28 (56.00%) Design Patterns
6 14 (28.00%) Roadmaps
7 13 (26.00%) Microservices
8 12 (24.00%) Product Strategy
8 12 (24.00%) Strategic Roadmap
9 10 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (16.00%) Product Roadmap
11 7 (14.00%) User Experience
12 4 (8.00%) Containerisation
13 3 (6.00%) Technology Roadmap
14 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.00%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Google
2 5 (10.00%) Apple
3 1 (2.00%) Databricks
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.00%) Sophos