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 11 June 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 16 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 71 99 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 8.71% 8.25% 9.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.43% 8.38% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 66 92
10th Percentile £483 £543 £513
25th Percentile £540 £594 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £675 £745 £738
90th Percentile £750 £781 £763
West Yorkshire median daily rate £620 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -8.15% - +17.39%

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 753 1,182 1,479
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 98.50% 97.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 857 1,099
10th Percentile £300 £360 £262
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £579 £630 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 22
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.00 £15.16
25th Percentile £12.25 £15.75 £18.25
Median hourly rate £16.68 £21.50 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.42% +1.18% +1.19%
75th Percentile £48.75 £56.00 £26.50
90th Percentile - £63.75 £28.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.27 £20.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year -8.65% +9.59% -12.05%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 24 (33.80%) Azure
2 17 (23.94%) AWS
3 16 (22.54%) Migration
3 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
4 11 (15.49%) F5
5 10 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (11.27%) Data Modelling
6 8 (11.27%) NHS
6 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
7 7 (9.86%) Architectural Design
7 7 (9.86%) Cloudflare
7 7 (9.86%) Brio
7 7 (9.86%) Agile
7 7 (9.86%) Degree
7 7 (9.86%) Data Management
7 7 (9.86%) Computer Science
8 6 (8.45%) Data Governance
8 6 (8.45%) Akamai
8 6 (8.45%) SailPoint
8 6 (8.45%) Big Data
8 6 (8.45%) Firewall
8 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
8 6 (8.45%) RAD
8 6 (8.45%) Java
9 5 (7.04%) Project Delivery
9 5 (7.04%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (7.04%) Architecture Governance
9 5 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (7.04%) CheckPoint
9 5 (7.04%) Retail

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 3 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.82%) Apache
3 1 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 2 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (33.80%) Azure
2 17 (23.94%) AWS
3 7 (9.86%) Cloudflare
4 6 (8.45%) Akamai
5 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.63%) SaaS
6 3 (4.23%) GCP
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.82%) IaaS
7 2 (2.82%) PaaS
7 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.82%) Serverless
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) Firewall
2 4 (5.63%) Wireshark
3 3 (4.23%) DNS
4 2 (2.82%) LAN
4 2 (2.82%) WAN
5 1 (1.41%) DHCP
5 1 (1.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.45%) Big Data
2 5 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.82%) Flink
3 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.82%) Power BI
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.41%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.41%) Metadata
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
General
1 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.04%) Retail
4 4 (5.63%) Finance
5 3 (4.23%) Health Technology
5 3 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Games
7 1 (1.41%) Legal
7 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.45%) SailPoint
2 4 (5.63%) Kafka
3 2 (2.82%) XML
3 2 (2.82%) XSLT
4 1 (1.41%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.41%) Middleware
4 1 (1.41%) React
4 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) NHS
2 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.82%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Linux
1 3 (4.23%) Windows
1 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.82%) Unix
2 2 (2.82%) zOS
3 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.54%) Migration
2 10 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (11.27%) Data Modelling
4 7 (9.86%) Agile
4 7 (9.86%) Architectural Design
4 7 (9.86%) Computer Science
4 7 (9.86%) Data Management
5 6 (8.45%) Data Governance
5 6 (8.45%) RAD
6 5 (7.04%) Architecture Governance
6 5 (7.04%) Project Delivery
6 5 (7.04%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (5.63%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (5.63%) Data Architecture
7 4 (5.63%) Decision-Making
7 4 (5.63%) DevOps
7 4 (5.63%) Service Design
7 4 (5.63%) Storage Management
7 4 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (5.63%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.45%) Java
2 4 (5.63%) Python
3 3 (4.23%) SQL
4 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (9.86%) Degree
2 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.82%) CCNP
2 2 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) F5
2 7 (9.86%) Brio
3 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.04%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.63%) Oracle
6 3 (4.23%) VMware
7 2 (2.82%) OpenText
7 2 (2.82%) SAP
7 2 (2.82%) Splunk
8 1 (1.41%) Adobe
8 1 (1.41%) Confluent
8 1 (1.41%) Foundry
8 1 (1.41%) Google
8 1 (1.41%) Palantir
8 1 (1.41%) Sparx