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 29 August 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
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 63 82 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 8.33% 9.53% 9.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.64% 10.28% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 36 88
10th Percentile £504 £490 £533
25th Percentile £538 £568 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £745
90th Percentile £780 £788 £750
Yorkshire median daily rate £613 £590 £650
% change year-on-year +3.81% -9.23% -
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 DemandTrendContract 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 729 798 1,327
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.43% 92.79% 97.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 508 888
10th Percentile £300 £347 £319
25th Percentile £400 £408 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 18
10th Percentile - £15.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £19.00 £13.71
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.00 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +36.46% -8.40%
75th Percentile £81.25 £45.63 £21.31
90th Percentile - £48.75 £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £21.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year +5.43% +3.70% +6.58%

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
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies 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 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in West Yorkshire

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies 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 29 August 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 -12 46 £600 -5.88% 17
Bradford +5 12 £600 -19.46% 5
Halifax - 3 £413 - 1
Castleford - 1 £625 -
Architect
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 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 21 (33.33%) GCP
1 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 20 (31.75%) AWS
3 17 (26.98%) Azure
4 16 (25.40%) Kafka
5 14 (22.22%) DevOps
6 13 (20.63%) CI/CD
6 13 (20.63%) Python
6 13 (20.63%) NoSQL
7 12 (19.05%) Agile
7 12 (19.05%) Microservices
7 12 (19.05%) MongoDB
8 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (17.46%) Finance
9 10 (15.87%) Event-Driven
9 10 (15.87%) Public Sector
9 10 (15.87%) Apache Spark
9 10 (15.87%) Roadmaps
10 9 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 9 (14.29%) Kubernetes
10 9 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (14.29%) Banking
11 8 (12.70%) High Availability
11 8 (12.70%) Apache Beam
11 8 (12.70%) Spark Streaming
11 8 (12.70%) Flink
11 8 (12.70%) Terraform
11 8 (12.70%) Cloud Native
12 7 (11.11%) Decision-Making
12 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3

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 10 (15.87%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.59%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.33%) GCP
2 20 (31.75%) AWS
3 17 (26.98%) Azure
4 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.76%) Collibra
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (3.17%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (3.17%) dbt
7 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.17%) Serverless
8 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.59%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.59%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Firewall
1 2 (3.17%) Network Security
2 1 (1.59%) BGP
2 1 (1.59%) IPsec
2 1 (1.59%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.59%) SSL
2 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.63%) NoSQL
2 12 (19.05%) MongoDB
3 8 (12.70%) Flink
4 7 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.17%) Bigtable
5 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.17%) Riak
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.59%) Big Data
6 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.59%) GIS
6 1 (1.59%) IDMS
6 1 (1.59%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.59%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.35%) JIRA
General
1 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.46%) Finance
3 10 (15.87%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.29%) Banking
5 6 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.59%) Local Government
8 1 (1.59%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.40%) Kafka
2 8 (12.70%) Apache Beam
2 8 (12.70%) Spark Streaming
3 6 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (7.94%) .NET
4 5 (7.94%) Django
4 5 (7.94%) FastAPI
4 5 (7.94%) Flask
4 5 (7.94%) JDBC
4 5 (7.94%) RESTful
5 4 (6.35%) Celery
5 4 (6.35%) GraphQL
5 4 (6.35%) gRPC
5 4 (6.35%) WebSockets
6 3 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (3.17%) FHIR
8 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.59%) EDI
8 1 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (1.59%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.11%) NHS
3 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.35%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.17%) Mainframe
6 2 (3.17%) Replication
7 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.59%) PKI
7 1 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Linux
1 6 (9.52%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (4.76%) Unix
3 2 (3.17%) HPUX
3 2 (3.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.22%) DevOps
2 13 (20.63%) CI/CD
3 12 (19.05%) Agile
3 12 (19.05%) Microservices
4 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (15.87%) Event-Driven
5 10 (15.87%) Roadmaps
6 9 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 9 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (12.70%) High Availability
8 7 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (9.52%) Architectural Design
9 6 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
9 6 (9.52%) Data Ingestion
9 6 (9.52%) Design Patterns
9 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (9.52%) Machine Learning
9 6 (9.52%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.63%) Python
2 4 (6.35%) Java
2 4 (6.35%) SQL
3 3 (4.76%) C#
4 2 (3.17%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (3.17%) Scala
4 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.59%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.59%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.17%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.59%) CISSP
4 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) NCSC
2 1 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
2 1 (1.59%) HL7
2 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.59%) NIST
2 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.70%) Terraform
3 3 (4.76%) Grafana
4 2 (3.17%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) Control-M
4 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.52%) Google
3 3 (4.76%) Databricks
3 3 (4.76%) Splunk
4 2 (3.17%) Brio
4 2 (3.17%) IBM
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle
4 2 (3.17%) SAP
4 2 (3.17%) Sun
4 2 (3.17%) Unisys
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco
5 1 (1.59%) Citrix
5 1 (1.59%) Dell
5 1 (1.59%) ESRI
5 1 (1.59%) HP
5 1 (1.59%) McAfee
5 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.59%) VMware
5 1 (1.59%) Workday