Software Architecture Contracts in Yorkshire

Software Architecture
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 90 115
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 +36
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 12 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.85% 0.62% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.74% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 2
10th Percentile £347 £288 £553
25th Percentile £375 £325 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 £588
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -29.79% +6.82%
75th Percentile £675 £567 £631
90th Percentile £687 £647 £643
England median daily rate £478 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -20.38% -7.69% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,297 1,355 1,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 91.99% 83.59% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 826 1,222
10th Percentile £264 £300 £281
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 54 31
10th Percentile £16.25 - £12.00
25th Percentile £18.35 £12.15 £17.11
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +6.81%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £30.29 £44.25 £44.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +65.38%

Software Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Architecture in Yorkshire

Software Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Architecture in Yorkshire

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Architecture in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Architecture in Yorkshire

Software Architecture
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 Software Architecture within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 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
West Yorkshire +3 8 £406 +16.07% 5
South Yorkshire -5 4 £358 -48.86% 4
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
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 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Google Play
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 5 (41.67%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) iOS Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Android Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) RESTful
2 3 (25.00%) SwiftUI
3 2 (16.67%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (16.67%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) Customer Experience
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Information Architecture
3 5 (41.67%) MVVM
3 5 (41.67%) Test Strategy
4 4 (33.33%) iOS Development
4 4 (33.33%) Microservices
4 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 4 (33.33%) User Experience
5 3 (25.00%) Architectural Design
5 3 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Kotlin
1 4 (33.33%) Swift
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google