Lead Architect Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Lead Architect
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The median Lead Architect daily rate in North Yorkshire is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 0.78% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 - £590
% change year-on-year - - -30.59%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in North Yorkshire. 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 North Yorkshire with a recognized job title 117 53 132
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.70% 96.36% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 30 91
10th Percentile £187 £292 £150
25th Percentile £325 £336 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +21.88% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £516
90th Percentile £725 £638 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £460 £463
% change year-on-year +4.78% -0.54% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 14
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.25 £11.30
25th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £12.31
Median hourly rate £39.18 £17.75 £13.95
Median % change year-on-year +120.73% +27.22% -28.02%
75th Percentile £53.06 £19.31 £18.75
90th Percentile £57.25 £20.25 £20.14
Yorkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £21.24 £14.45
% change year-on-year +100.09% +46.96% -46.96%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

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

Lead Architect job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in North Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in North Yorkshire

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 30 March 2026, Lead 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 North Yorkshire region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared