Architect Contracts in Leeds

Architect
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Architect daily rate in Leeds is £620 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 14 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -12
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 73 111 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 9.29% 8.67% 8.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.01% 8.83% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 73 79
10th Percentile £483 £540 £513
25th Percentile £540 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £745 £725
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
West Yorkshire median daily rate £625 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 729 1,257 1,508
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 98.20% 97.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 915 1,112
10th Percentile £300 £359 £272
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +7.80% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £661
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 22
10th Percentile £11.24 £12.00 £17.77
25th Percentile £11.75 £15.94 £19.25
Median hourly rate £12.53 £38.25 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -67.24% +70.76% +3.04%
75th Percentile £15.25 £68.44 £26.50
90th Percentile £17.67 £70.00 £28.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.34 £21.25 £17.57
% change year-on-year -32.54% +20.94% -19.18%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Leeds

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Leeds

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Leeds over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Leeds

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 Leeds region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 27 (36.99%) Azure
2 16 (21.92%) Migration
2 16 (21.92%) AWS
2 16 (21.92%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.07%) F5
4 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (10.96%) Agile
5 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
6 7 (9.59%) NHS
6 7 (9.59%) Data Modelling
6 7 (9.59%) Data Management
6 7 (9.59%) Architectural Design
6 7 (9.59%) Cloudflare
7 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
7 6 (8.22%) Firewall
7 6 (8.22%) Brio
7 6 (8.22%) Retail
7 6 (8.22%) Degree
7 6 (8.22%) Computer Science
7 6 (8.22%) RAD
7 6 (8.22%) Java
7 6 (8.22%) Akamai
7 6 (8.22%) SailPoint
8 5 (6.85%) Data Governance
8 5 (6.85%) Relational Database
8 5 (6.85%) CheckPoint
8 5 (6.85%) Project Delivery
8 5 (6.85%) Architecture Governance
8 5 (6.85%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (6.85%) Technical Leadership

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.37%) Apache
1 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 2 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.99%) Azure
2 16 (21.92%) AWS
3 7 (9.59%) Cloudflare
4 6 (8.22%) Akamai
5 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.48%) SaaS
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.74%) GCP
6 2 (2.74%) IaaS
6 2 (2.74%) PaaS
6 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.74%) Serverless
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) Firewall
2 4 (5.48%) Wireshark
3 3 (4.11%) DNS
4 2 (2.74%) LAN
4 2 (2.74%) WAN
5 1 (1.37%) DHCP
5 1 (1.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.48%) Big Data
2 4 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.74%) Power BI
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.37%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.37%) Flink
4 1 (1.37%) Metadata
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
General
1 16 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
2 6 (8.22%) Retail
3 4 (5.48%) Finance
4 3 (4.11%) Health Technology
4 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.11%) Tech for Good
5 2 (2.74%) Games
6 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) SailPoint
2 2 (2.74%) Kafka
2 2 (2.74%) XML
2 2 (2.74%) XSLT
3 1 (1.37%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (1.37%) Middleware
3 1 (1.37%) React
3 1 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) NHS
2 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.74%) Sports Betting
3 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Linux
1 3 (4.11%) Windows
1 3 (4.11%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.74%) Unix
2 2 (2.74%) zOS
3 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.92%) Migration
2 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (10.96%) Agile
4 7 (9.59%) Architectural Design
4 7 (9.59%) Data Management
4 7 (9.59%) Data Modelling
5 6 (8.22%) Computer Science
5 6 (8.22%) RAD
6 5 (6.85%) Architecture Governance
6 5 (6.85%) Data Governance
6 5 (6.85%) Project Delivery
6 5 (6.85%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (6.85%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (5.48%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (5.48%) DevOps
7 4 (5.48%) Service Design
7 4 (5.48%) Storage Management
7 4 (5.48%) TOGAF
8 3 (4.11%) Threat Modelling
8 3 (4.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.22%) Java
2 3 (4.11%) Python
3 2 (2.74%) SQL
4 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (8.22%) Degree
2 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.74%) CCNP
3 2 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Docker
1 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (15.07%) F5
2 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.22%) Brio
4 5 (6.85%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.48%) Oracle
6 3 (4.11%) VMware
7 2 (2.74%) OpenText
7 2 (2.74%) SAP
7 2 (2.74%) Splunk
8 1 (1.37%) Adobe
8 1 (1.37%) Confluent
8 1 (1.37%) Google
8 1 (1.37%) Sparx