Software Architecture Contracts in West Yorkshire

Software Architecture
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Software Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 61 95
Rank change year-on-year 0 +34 +24
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 7 13 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.00% 1.39% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.64% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 1
10th Percentile - £295 -
25th Percentile £375 £325 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £444 £650
90th Percentile - £530 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £406 £400 £588
% change year-on-year +1.56% -31.91% +6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Software 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 635 795 1,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.10% 84.94% 91.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 487 868
10th Percentile £303 £300 £353
25th Percentile £400 £400 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £627
90th Percentile £625 £646 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 19
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.63% -27.00% -1.81%
75th Percentile £30.10 £19.50 £22.53
90th Percentile £81.25 £33.75 £30.02
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £19.94
% change year-on-year +59.63% -30.45% +6.64%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Software Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in West Yorkshire

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in West Yorkshire

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in West Yorkshire

Software 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 Software Architecture within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 July 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 -4 5 £400 - 11
Software Architecture
Yorkshire

Software Architecture
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) CircleCI
1 5 (71.43%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) iOS Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Android Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) SwiftUI
3 2 (28.57%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (28.57%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Mobile App
2 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Apple iOS
2 2 (28.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Customer Experience
2 5 (71.43%) Information Architecture
2 5 (71.43%) MVVM
2 5 (71.43%) Test Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Architectural Design
4 3 (42.86%) iOS Development
4 3 (42.86%) User Experience
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Android Development
5 2 (28.57%) SOA
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (28.57%) UX Design
6 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Swift
2 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google