Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Architectural Design
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 12 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.31% - 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% - 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £390 - £533
25th Percentile £481 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.71%
75th Percentile £700 - £656
90th Percentile £728 - £668
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - £650
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Architectural Design 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 788 608 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.75% 86.86% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 379 651
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £381 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £503
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £600
90th Percentile £650 £682 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £13.60
25th Percentile £14.63 £17.08 £16.92
Median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +71.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £27.63 £38.75 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £96.64 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.08 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.29% +2.06% +0.28%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in West Yorkshire

Architectural Design
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 Architectural Design within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 December 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 - 7 £488 - 4
Bradford - 1 - - 3
Halifax - 1 £725 -
Architectural Design
Yorkshire

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) IDMS
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) iOS Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Pega Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Power Apps Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) EDI
2 1 (8.33%) EDIFACT
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (41.67%) SDLC
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Software Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (16.67%) Application Security
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 2 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Secrets Management
5 2 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) ActionScript
1 1 (8.33%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
1 1 (8.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) CCSP
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (16.67%) PSD2
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Pega
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Snow