Architect Contracts in West Yorkshire

Architect
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Architect daily rate in West Yorkshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 20 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 57 71 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.40% 7.11% 8.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.84% 7.65% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 43 92
10th Percentile £500 £521 £539
25th Percentile £550 £545 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £746
90th Percentile £780 £770 £800
Yorkshire median daily rate £613 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -5.77% - +4.00%
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 - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 526 928 1,593
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 92.89% 97.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 561 1,105
10th Percentile £255 £275 £327
25th Percentile £357 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £641 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 15
10th Percentile £19.61 £11.75 £12.46
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.25 £14.46
Median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%
75th Percentile £55.29 £29.25 £66.88
90th Percentile £100.28 £53.75 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in West Yorkshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Architect in West Yorkshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in West Yorkshire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in West Yorkshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -2 51 £613 -2.00% 33
Halifax - 4 £525 -
Bradford +10 2 £670 +1.13% 10
Castleford - 1 £625 -
Architect
Yorkshire

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 13 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.05%) DevOps
3 11 (19.30%) GCP
3 11 (19.30%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (19.30%) Banking
3 11 (19.30%) Azure
3 11 (19.30%) Kafka
4 10 (17.54%) Grafana
5 9 (15.79%) Prometheus
5 9 (15.79%) Roadmaps
5 9 (15.79%) Data Governance
5 9 (15.79%) Agile
6 8 (14.04%) High Availability
6 8 (14.04%) Splunk
6 8 (14.04%) Migration
6 8 (14.04%) Windows
6 8 (14.04%) Microservices
6 8 (14.04%) Apache Spark
7 7 (12.28%) Kubernetes
7 7 (12.28%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (12.28%) Collibra
7 7 (12.28%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (12.28%) Observability
7 7 (12.28%) Databricks
7 7 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (12.28%) Decision-Making
7 7 (12.28%) Linux
7 7 (12.28%) Monte Carlo Method
8 6 (10.53%) Google

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (14.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (5.26%) AutoCAD
1 3 (5.26%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.75%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.30%) Azure
1 11 (19.30%) GCP
2 7 (12.28%) Collibra
3 4 (7.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.26%) AWS
4 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.26%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.75%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.75%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) SSL
2 2 (3.51%) NAS
2 2 (3.51%) SAN
3 1 (1.75%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) BigQuery
1 6 (10.53%) Flink
2 3 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.51%) Power BI
3 2 (3.51%) Power Query
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.75%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.75%) GitLab
General
1 13 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Banking
3 7 (12.28%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (10.53%) Finance
5 4 (7.02%) Retail
6 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.30%) Kafka
2 7 (12.28%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (10.53%) Apache Beam
3 6 (10.53%) Spark Streaming
4 5 (8.77%) LDAP
5 3 (5.26%) JDBC
5 3 (5.26%) REST
6 2 (3.51%) Middleware
6 2 (3.51%) OAuth
6 2 (3.51%) SAML
7 1 (1.75%) .NET
7 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.75%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.75%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.75%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) NHS
2 3 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.51%) Blockchain
3 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) Clustering
3 2 (3.51%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.51%) IoT
3 2 (3.51%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.51%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.51%) Replication
4 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Windows
2 7 (12.28%) Linux
3 2 (3.51%) HPUX
3 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.51%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.05%) DevOps
2 11 (19.30%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (15.79%) Agile
3 9 (15.79%) Data Governance
3 9 (15.79%) Roadmaps
4 8 (14.04%) High Availability
4 8 (14.04%) Microservices
4 8 (14.04%) Migration
5 7 (12.28%) Decision-Making
5 7 (12.28%) Monte Carlo Method
5 7 (12.28%) Observability
5 7 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (10.53%) Data Modelling
6 6 (10.53%) Event-Driven
7 5 (8.77%) Architectural Design
7 5 (8.77%) Data Engineering
7 5 (8.77%) DevSecOps
7 5 (8.77%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (8.77%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.02%) Python
1 4 (7.02%) Scala
2 2 (3.51%) C#
2 2 (3.51%) C++
2 2 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (3.51%) Java
3 1 (1.75%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (7.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (5.26%) CISSP
2 3 (5.26%) Degree
3 2 (3.51%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.51%) CCSP
3 2 (3.51%) CEH
3 2 (3.51%) CISM
3 2 (3.51%) OSCP
3 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) NIST
2 2 (3.51%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.51%) COBIT
2 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Grafana
2 9 (15.79%) Prometheus
3 7 (12.28%) Kubernetes
4 4 (7.02%) Terraform
5 2 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.75%) Ansible
6 1 (1.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) Splunk
2 7 (12.28%) Databricks
3 6 (10.53%) Google
4 4 (7.02%) IBM
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.26%) Adobe
5 3 (5.26%) Confluent
6 2 (3.51%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle
6 2 (3.51%) Sun
6 2 (3.51%) Unisys
7 1 (1.75%) Dell
7 1 (1.75%) ESRI
7 1 (1.75%) HP
7 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.75%) SAP
7 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.75%) VMware