Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Technical Architect
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Leeds is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 63 33
Rank change year-on-year +1 -30 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 6 4 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.00% 0.56% 5.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.61% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 48
10th Percentile £509 £517 £525
25th Percentile £513 £542 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £562 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -10.16% +5.93%
75th Percentile £588 £567 £745
90th Percentile £655 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £562 £625
% change year-on-year -2.05% -10.16% +5.93%

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 586 660 1,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.50% 91.79% 97.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 425 739
10th Percentile £304 £350 £340
25th Percentile £400 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £625
90th Percentile £649 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 31 13
10th Percentile £25.05 £18.13 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.13 £19.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.46% +27.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £26.13 £43.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £26.35 £48.75 £23.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £19.00
% change year-on-year +106.78% +27.26% -9.52%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in Leeds

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in Leeds

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Technical 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) NHS
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) McAfee
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (16.67%) Docker
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Legal
4 1 (16.67%) Local Government
4 1 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture

Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (16.67%) FHIR
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) API Management
2 1 (16.67%) Application Security
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) SOAR
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) McAfee
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Zscaler