Architect Contracts in Merseyside

Architect
North West > Merseyside

The median Architect daily rate in Merseyside is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +15
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 22 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 9.95% 7.43% 8.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.78% 8.15% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 23
10th Percentile - £473 £520
25th Percentile £500 £510 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £647
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -16.92% +17.63%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £700
90th Percentile £676 £715 -
North West median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 204 184 294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 91.09% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 110 195
10th Percentile £153 £219 £253
25th Percentile £200 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -8.11% +3.06%
75th Percentile £501 £525 £550
90th Percentile £600 £589 £626
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 26
10th Percentile £15.22 £13.13 -
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.25 £10.09
Median hourly rate £18.10 £18.25 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +32.73% -14.06%
75th Percentile £23.40 £23.38 £17.56
90th Percentile £27.73 £40.00 £19.31
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +55.56% +25.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Merseyside

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Merseyside

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Merseyside

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Merseyside

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Liverpool +5 16 £500 -20.00% 6
Wirral - 2 £575 - 1
Architect
North West

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

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

1 7 (31.82%) Migration
2 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 5 (22.73%) Local Government
3 5 (22.73%) Azure
4 4 (18.18%) Manufacturing
4 4 (18.18%) Marketing
4 4 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (18.18%) Process Improvement
4 4 (18.18%) Target Operating Model
4 4 (18.18%) Programme Management
4 4 (18.18%) Electronics
4 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 4 (18.18%) Finance
4 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (18.18%) SAP
4 4 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
5 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
5 3 (13.64%) Web Filtering
5 3 (13.64%) ArcGIS
5 3 (13.64%) Patch Management
5 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (13.64%) AWS
6 2 (9.09%) Google

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (13.64%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Azure App Service
4 1 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (4.55%) Internet
2 1 (4.55%) LAN
2 1 (4.55%) MPLS
2 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.55%) WAN
2 1 (4.55%) WLAN
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Local Government
3 4 (18.18%) Electronics
3 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 4 (18.18%) Marketing
3 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Migration
2 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
2 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (18.18%) Process Improvement
2 4 (18.18%) Programme Management
2 4 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (18.18%) Target Operating Model
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (13.64%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (13.64%) Patch Management
3 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
3 3 (13.64%) Web Filtering
4 2 (9.09%) ITIL
4 2 (9.09%) ITSM
4 2 (9.09%) Network Design
4 2 (9.09%) Service Management
4 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) CCIE
2 1 (4.55%) CCNP
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) Google
3 2 (9.09%) VMware