Architect Contract Job Trends in York

Architect
North Yorkshire > York

The median Architect daily rate in York is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +10
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in York 1.49% 9.09% 6.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 9.52% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £683 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% - -
North Yorkshire median daily rate £700 £625 £700
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -6.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
York

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in York. 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 York with a recognized job title 60 21 42
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.55% 95.45% 97.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 12 26
10th Percentile £143 £334 £106
25th Percentile £200 £389 £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £173
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +175.36% -46.09%
75th Percentile £725 £591 £431
90th Percentile £850 £638 £500
North Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +13.24% -5.56% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile - - £11.18
25th Percentile £15.00 - £11.30
Median hourly rate £18.55 - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.26%
75th Percentile £23.02 - £18.75
90th Percentile £23.35 - £22.05
North Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.35 £18.51 £17.50
% change year-on-year +26.15% +5.77% -20.45%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in York

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in York.

Architect job vacancy trend in York

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in York

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in York.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in York

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in York

For the 6 months to 3 June 2026, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the York region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in York 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Google