Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Architecture
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 56 75
Rank change year-on-year -13 +19 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 11 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.19% 0.72% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.80% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 9
10th Percentile £406 £500 £455
25th Percentile £434 £613 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £678 £725 £775
90th Percentile £763 - £800
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -28.57% +7.69% +30.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Data 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 802 499 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.52% 89.91% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 302 631
10th Percentile £292 £263 £281
25th Percentile £413 £358 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £600
90th Percentile £661 £638 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 26
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.08 £11.43
25th Percentile £14.25 £21.92 £12.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £27.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.38% +83.33% -70.00%
75th Percentile £23.71 £41.50 £22.55
90th Percentile £74.00 £99.32 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.54 £22.14 £15.00
% change year-on-year +1.80% +47.60% +41.11%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in West Yorkshire

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
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 Data Architecture within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 February 2026. 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 -19 11 £500 -28.57% 5
Data Architecture
Yorkshire

Data Architecture
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 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 6 (54.55%) Serverless
4 5 (45.45%) IaaS
4 5 (45.45%) PaaS
4 5 (45.45%) SaaS
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) IPsec
1 5 (45.45%) Kerberos
1 5 (45.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Health Technology
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 5 (45.45%) Senior Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Senior Technical Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Technical Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Data Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) SIAM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) OAuth
1 5 (45.45%) OAuth2
1 5 (45.45%) OpenID
1 5 (45.45%) SAML
1 5 (45.45%) Web Services
1 5 (45.45%) XACML
2 2 (18.18%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
3 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
3 2 (18.18%) NHS
4 1 (9.09%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
1 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) ArchiMate
4 5 (45.45%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (45.45%) BPEL
4 5 (45.45%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
4 5 (45.45%) Design Patterns
4 5 (45.45%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (45.45%) ETL
4 5 (45.45%) Microservices
4 5 (45.45%) Project Management
4 5 (45.45%) Security Architecture
4 5 (45.45%) SOA
4 5 (45.45%) Software Architecture
4 5 (45.45%) UML
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) RACF
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Brio
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) BMC