Architect Contracts in Leeds

Architect
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Architect daily rate in Leeds is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025.

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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +8
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 52 72 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 10.97% 9.05% 8.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.23% 9.78% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 43 75
10th Percentile £508 £486 £543
25th Percentile £550 £540 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £726 £675 £748
90th Percentile £780 £750 £800
West Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - -
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 463 736 1,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.68% 92.46% 98.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 456 928
10th Percentile £263 £300 £361
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £625
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 13
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.24 £12.00
25th Percentile £27.87 £11.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £61.76 £12.53 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +392.92% -76.80% +141.07%
75th Percentile £99.42 £15.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £17.67 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £14.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +54.45% -36.29% +28.06%

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 2025, 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 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) DevOps
2 12 (23.08%) Banking
3 11 (21.15%) Kafka
3 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (21.15%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (19.23%) Grafana
4 10 (19.23%) GCP
5 9 (17.31%) Prometheus
5 9 (17.31%) Data Governance
5 9 (17.31%) High Availability
5 9 (17.31%) Azure
5 9 (17.31%) Agile
6 8 (15.38%) Migration
6 8 (15.38%) Splunk
6 8 (15.38%) Apache Spark
6 8 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 7 (13.46%) Observability
7 7 (13.46%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (13.46%) Collibra
7 7 (13.46%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (13.46%) Microservices
7 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
7 7 (13.46%) Decision-Making
7 7 (13.46%) Monte Carlo Method
7 7 (13.46%) Finance
7 7 (13.46%) Windows
7 7 (13.46%) Linux
8 6 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (11.54%) Databricks

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 8 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (5.77%) AutoCAD
1 3 (5.77%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.23%) GCP
2 9 (17.31%) Azure
3 7 (13.46%) Collibra
4 4 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.77%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.92%) AWS
7 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) SSL
2 2 (3.85%) NAS
2 2 (3.85%) SAN
3 1 (1.92%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Flink
2 5 (9.62%) BigQuery
3 3 (5.77%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.85%) Power BI
4 2 (3.85%) Power Query
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.92%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.92%) GitLab
General
1 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Banking
3 7 (13.46%) Finance
4 5 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Retail
6 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) Kafka
2 7 (13.46%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (11.54%) Apache Beam
3 6 (11.54%) Spark Streaming
4 5 (9.62%) LDAP
5 3 (5.77%) JDBC
5 3 (5.77%) REST
6 2 (3.85%) Middleware
6 2 (3.85%) OAuth
6 2 (3.85%) SAML
7 1 (1.92%) .NET
7 1 (1.92%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.92%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.92%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.92%) OpenID
7 1 (1.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) NHS
2 3 (5.77%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.85%) Blockchain
3 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.85%) Clustering
3 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.85%) IoT
3 2 (3.85%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.85%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.85%) Replication
4 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Linux
1 7 (13.46%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) HPUX
2 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) DevOps
2 11 (21.15%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (17.31%) Agile
3 9 (17.31%) Data Governance
3 9 (17.31%) High Availability
4 8 (15.38%) Migration
4 8 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 7 (13.46%) Decision-Making
5 7 (13.46%) Microservices
5 7 (13.46%) Monte Carlo Method
5 7 (13.46%) Observability
5 7 (13.46%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (9.62%) Architectural Design
7 5 (9.62%) Data Modelling
7 5 (9.62%) DevSecOps
7 5 (9.62%) Event-Driven
7 5 (9.62%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (7.69%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.77%) Python
1 3 (5.77%) Scala
2 2 (3.85%) C#
2 2 (3.85%) C++
2 2 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (3.85%) Java
3 1 (1.92%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (5.77%) CISSP
3 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.85%) CCSP
3 2 (3.85%) CEH
3 2 (3.85%) CISM
3 2 (3.85%) Degree
3 2 (3.85%) OSCP
4 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) NIST
2 2 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.85%) COBIT
2 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Grafana
2 9 (17.31%) Prometheus
3 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.77%) Terraform
5 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Splunk
2 6 (11.54%) Databricks
3 5 (9.62%) Google
4 4 (7.69%) IBM
5 3 (5.77%) Adobe
5 3 (5.77%) Confluent
5 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.77%) Oracle
6 2 (3.85%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.85%) Sun
6 2 (3.85%) Unisys
7 1 (1.92%) HP
7 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow