Architect Contracts in Yorkshire

Architect
England > Yorkshire

The median Architect daily rate in Yorkshire is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 16 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 80 136 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.87% 8.05% 7.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.34% 8.80% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 87 112
10th Percentile £500 £463 £536
25th Percentile £550 £540 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £719 £700 £745
90th Percentile £762 £750 £800
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - -
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Yorkshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Architect in Yorkshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Yorkshire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Yorkshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Yorkshire +4 57 £600 -4.00% 47
South Yorkshire -6 28 £675 +23.85% 14
North Yorkshire -4 2 £683 -2.43% 9
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 21 (26.25%) Banking
1 21 (26.25%) DevOps
2 20 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
4 16 (20.00%) GCP
5 15 (18.75%) Azure
6 13 (16.25%) Windows
7 12 (15.00%) Linux
7 12 (15.00%) Finance
7 12 (15.00%) Kafka
7 12 (15.00%) Microservices
7 12 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (15.00%) Observability
8 11 (13.75%) CI/CD
8 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
8 11 (13.75%) High Availability
8 11 (13.75%) Agile
9 10 (12.50%) Data Governance
9 10 (12.50%) Grafana
10 9 (11.25%) Apache Spark
10 9 (11.25%) Splunk
10 9 (11.25%) Prometheus
11 8 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
11 8 (10.00%) Databricks
11 8 (10.00%) Migration
11 8 (10.00%) Google
11 8 (10.00%) Data Protection
11 8 (10.00%) Python

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (11.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (3.75%) AutoCAD
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.75%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.25%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.00%) GCP
2 15 (18.75%) Azure
3 7 (8.75%) AWS
3 7 (8.75%) Collibra
4 4 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.00%) Google Compute Engine
5 3 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.25%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.25%) GitHub
7 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) NAS
1 3 (3.75%) SAN
1 3 (3.75%) SSL
2 2 (2.50%) Firewall
3 1 (1.25%) 4G
3 1 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.25%) DHCP
3 1 (1.25%) DNS
3 1 (1.25%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.25%) ISDN
3 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.25%) LAN
3 1 (1.25%) MPLS
3 1 (1.25%) Network Security
3 1 (1.25%) PSTN
3 1 (1.25%) SMTP
3 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.25%) VLAN
3 1 (1.25%) VPN
3 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) BigQuery
1 7 (8.75%) Flink
2 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.50%) Power BI
3 2 (2.50%) Power Query
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.25%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.25%) GitLab
General
1 21 (26.25%) Banking
2 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.00%) Finance
4 7 (8.75%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Retail
6 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.50%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.00%) Kafka
2 7 (8.75%) Apache Beam
2 7 (8.75%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (8.75%) Spark Streaming
3 6 (7.50%) LDAP
4 4 (5.00%) REST
5 3 (3.75%) JDBC
5 3 (3.75%) Middleware
6 2 (2.50%) OAuth
6 2 (2.50%) SAML
7 1 (1.25%) .NET
7 1 (1.25%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.25%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.25%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.25%) OpenID
7 1 (1.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (6.25%) NHS
3 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.50%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.50%) Clustering
4 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) IoT
4 2 (2.50%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.50%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.50%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Replication
4 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) SCADA
5 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.25%) Windows
2 12 (15.00%) Linux
3 5 (6.25%) Unix
4 2 (2.50%) HPUX
4 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.25%) DevOps
2 20 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (15.00%) Microservices
3 12 (15.00%) Observability
4 11 (13.75%) Agile
4 11 (13.75%) CI/CD
4 11 (13.75%) High Availability
4 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
5 10 (12.50%) Data Governance
6 8 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 8 (10.00%) Migration
6 8 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (8.75%) Cloud Security
7 7 (8.75%) Data Modelling
7 7 (8.75%) Decision-Making
7 7 (8.75%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (8.75%) Event-Driven
7 7 (8.75%) Monte Carlo Method
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.00%) Python
2 5 (6.25%) Scala
3 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.50%) C#
4 2 (2.50%) C++
4 2 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.50%) Java
5 1 (1.25%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.25%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.25%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.25%) Bash
5 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (6.25%) CISSP
2 5 (6.25%) Degree
3 4 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (3.75%) CISM
4 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.50%) CCSP
5 2 (2.50%) CEH
5 2 (2.50%) OSCP
6 1 (1.25%) CCNA
6 1 (1.25%) CCNP
6 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) HP ASE
6 1 (1.25%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) NIST
2 4 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.50%) COBIT
4 2 (2.50%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.25%) Docker
3 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (12.50%) Grafana
2 9 (11.25%) Prometheus
3 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.25%) Terraform
5 3 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.50%) Ansible
7 1 (1.25%) Control-M
7 1 (1.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (11.25%) Splunk
2 8 (10.00%) Databricks
2 8 (10.00%) Google
3 6 (7.50%) IBM
3 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.00%) Veritas
5 3 (3.75%) Adobe
5 3 (3.75%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.75%) Confluent
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco
6 2 (2.50%) Commvault
6 2 (2.50%) Dell
6 2 (2.50%) HP
6 2 (2.50%) Oracle
6 2 (2.50%) Sun
6 2 (2.50%) Unisys
7 1 (1.25%) EMC
7 1 (1.25%) NetApp
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.25%) SAP