Senior Architect Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Senior Architect
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior Architect daily rate in Yorkshire is £711, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 4 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.26% - 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £701 - £568
25th Percentile £703 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £711 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.21%
75th Percentile £725 - £625
90th Percentile £730 - £706
England median daily rate £688 £688 £675
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -3.57%

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 1,426 1,340 2,009
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 89.81% 96.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 932 813 1,316
10th Percentile £235 £288 £253
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £609
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 58 37
10th Percentile £17.27 £14.97 £12.17
25th Percentile £18.10 £16.72 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £22.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £44.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £44.75
% change year-on-year -46.77% +5.58% +69.89%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in Yorkshire

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in Yorkshire

Senior 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 Senior Architect within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
South Yorkshire - 2 £723 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £700 - 2
Senior Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Senior 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 Senior Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) SAP