Technical Architecture Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Technical Architecture
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Technical Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 52 65
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 +37
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 11 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.46% 0.21% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 0.23% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £736 - £425
25th Percentile £753 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £788 £567 £488
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% +16.31% -18.75%
75th Percentile £800 - £584
90th Percentile - - £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £788 £567 £488
% change year-on-year +38.89% +16.31% -18.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

Technical Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 663 435 819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.81% 89.32% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 265 537
10th Percentile £311 £266 £281
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 10
10th Percentile - £16.15 £11.11
25th Percentile £14.25 £19.37 £11.85
Median hourly rate £15.25 £37.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -59.33% +199.28% -78.49%
75th Percentile £40.06 £41.50 £15.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £100.39 £25.97
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £32.81 £15.12
% change year-on-year -42.49% +117.07% -55.25%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in Leeds

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Technical Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Technical Architecture

Technical Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) IaaS
2 4 (36.36%) PaaS
2 4 (36.36%) SaaS
2 4 (36.36%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) IPsec
1 4 (36.36%) Kerberos
1 4 (36.36%) SSL
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Architect
2 8 (72.73%) Senior
2 8 (72.73%) Senior Architect
2 8 (72.73%) Senior Technical Architect
2 8 (72.73%) Technical Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Business Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Web Services
2 4 (36.36%) OAuth
2 4 (36.36%) OAuth2
2 4 (36.36%) OpenID
2 4 (36.36%) SAML
2 4 (36.36%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Roadmaps
2 9 (81.82%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 8 (72.73%) Microservices
4 7 (63.64%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (63.64%) Decision-Making
5 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
5 6 (54.55%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (45.45%) ArchiMate
6 5 (45.45%) BPEL
6 5 (45.45%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (45.45%) DevOps
6 5 (45.45%) SOA
6 5 (45.45%) UML
7 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (36.36%) Data Architecture
7 4 (36.36%) Project Management
7 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
7 4 (36.36%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft