Technical Architecture Contracts in the North West

Technical Architecture
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 129 134
Rank change year-on-year +22 +5 +30
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 20 1 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.00% 0.036% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.043% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 15
10th Percentile £436 - £453
25th Percentile £466 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £685 £614
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% +11.65% +2.25%
75th Percentile £738 - £678
90th Percentile £773 - £685
England median daily rate £623 £588 £625
% change year-on-year +5.96% -6.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Technical Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,791 2,352 2,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.46% 83.82% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,435 1,884
10th Percentile £303 £306 £313
25th Percentile £384 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £664 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 264 140
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.75 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +15.32% -8.33% +28.56%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.17 £66.61 £57.68
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the North West

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the North West

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in the North West over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the North West

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the North West

Technical Architecture
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 Technical Architecture within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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
Cheshire - 9 £593 - 4
Manchester - 6 £500 - 3
Cumbria - 5 £605 -
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Maximo
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (25.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 16 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.00%) Military
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Product Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Product Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 5 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 5 (25.00%) Due Diligence
4 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (25.00%) Zero Trust
5 3 (15.00%) Workflow
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (10.00%) Data Extraction
6 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (10.00%) Data Management
6 2 (10.00%) Data Transformation
6 2 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) Degree
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) Graylog
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Packer
1 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.00%) Puppet
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
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