Lead Architect Contract Job Trends in York

Lead Architect
North Yorkshire > York

The median Lead Architect daily rate in York is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in York 1.12% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
North Yorkshire median daily rate £400 - -

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 85 29 70
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.51% 100.00% 97.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 17 29
10th Percentile £143 - £137
25th Percentile £331 £120 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £338 £275
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% +22.73% -11.29%
75th Percentile £588 £475 £413
90th Percentile £738 £544 £505
North Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £201 £450
% change year-on-year +136.61% -55.39% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £19.99 - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - -
Median hourly rate £23.33 - -
75th Percentile £24.28 - -
90th Percentile £27.86 - -
North Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £18.67 £17.50
% change year-on-year -16.99% +6.70% -20.45%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in York

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

Lead Architect job vacancy trend in York

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Trend in York

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2026, Lead 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 Lead Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Applitools
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) GCP

Lead 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Applitools
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OutSystems