Architect Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Architect
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The median Architect daily rate in Bradford is £669, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 10 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 13 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 16.88% 4.88% 8.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.06% 5.00% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £579 - £625
25th Percentile £621 - £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.41% +23.08% -8.77%
75th Percentile £695 - £678
90th Percentile - - £694
West Yorkshire median daily rate £625 £635 £625
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% -3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bradford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bradford. 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 Bradford with a recognized job title 72 40 72
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 97.56% 98.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 25 64
10th Percentile £264 £178 £314
25th Percentile £413 £350 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £408 £463
Median % change year-on-year +23.61% -11.94% -7.45%
75th Percentile £610 £438 £566
90th Percentile £681 - £625
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £15.54 - £27.10
25th Percentile £19.48 - £27.59
Median hourly rate £21.30 - £28.42
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.17%
75th Percentile £21.93 - £29.25
90th Percentile £37.32 - £29.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.00 £24.18 £19.85
% change year-on-year +7.53% +21.80% -7.66%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford.

Architect job vacancy trend in Bradford

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Bradford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Bradford

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bradford region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Django
3 5 (38.46%) FastAPI
3 5 (38.46%) Flask
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
3 5 (38.46%) Microservices
3 5 (38.46%) MongoDB
3 5 (38.46%) NoSQL
3 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (38.46%) RESTful
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) AI
4 4 (30.77%) Celery
4 4 (30.77%) Clean Code
4 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) Docker
4 4 (30.77%) Git
4 4 (30.77%) GraphQL
4 4 (30.77%) gRPC
4 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
4 4 (30.77%) Kafka
4 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
4 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
4 4 (30.77%) OOP
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (15.38%) SAP ERP
1 2 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Azure API Management
3 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) MongoDB
1 5 (38.46%) NoSQL
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Django
1 5 (38.46%) FastAPI
1 5 (38.46%) Flask
1 5 (38.46%) RESTful
2 4 (30.77%) Celery
2 4 (30.77%) GraphQL
2 4 (30.77%) gRPC
2 4 (30.77%) Kafka
2 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (30.77%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
1 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
1 5 (38.46%) Microservices
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) AI
2 4 (30.77%) Clean Code
2 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
2 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
2 4 (30.77%) OOP
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (30.77%) TOGAF
3 3 (23.08%) Asynchronous Programming
3 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) API Management
4 2 (15.38%) Programme Governance
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) ESRI
1 3 (23.08%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft