Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Technical Architect
England > Yorkshire

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Yorkshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 80 69
Rank change year-on-year -32 -11 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 21 9 41
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.15% 0.76% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 0.83% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 35
10th Percentile £500 £533 £525
25th Percentile £508 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £567 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -5.50% -
75th Percentile £623 £580 £710
90th Percentile £644 £586 £745
England median daily rate £575 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -

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 1,677 1,090 1,728
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.79% 91.60% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 655 1,111
10th Percentile £248 £220 £263
25th Percentile £384 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £655 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 42 28
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £14.79
25th Percentile £18.61 £18.53 £17.14
Median hourly rate £27.50 £23.34 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +17.82% +9.53% +1.48%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £24.51
90th Percentile - £42.50 £35.60
England median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Technical Architect job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in Yorkshire

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in Yorkshire

Technical 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 Technical Architect within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 0 19 £550 -2.05% 5
South Yorkshire -47 2 £500 -13.79% 6
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Technical 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 Yorkshire region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 10 (47.62%) AWS
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 6 (28.57%) Microservices
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) Django
4 5 (23.81%) Docker
4 5 (23.81%) FastAPI
4 5 (23.81%) Flask
4 5 (23.81%) GCP
4 5 (23.81%) Kafka
4 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
4 5 (23.81%) MongoDB
4 5 (23.81%) NoSQL
4 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) RESTful
4 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (19.05%) AI
5 4 (19.05%) Celery
5 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
5 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
5 4 (19.05%) Git
5 4 (19.05%) GraphQL
5 4 (19.05%) gRPC
5 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
5 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) OCI
4 2 (9.52%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
1 1 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) MongoDB
1 5 (23.81%) NoSQL
1 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
1 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Django
1 5 (23.81%) FastAPI
1 5 (23.81%) Flask
1 5 (23.81%) Kafka
1 5 (23.81%) RESTful
2 4 (19.05%) Celery
2 4 (19.05%) GraphQL
2 4 (19.05%) gRPC
2 4 (19.05%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (19.05%) WebSockets
3 2 (9.52%) .NET
4 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.76%) FHIR
4 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) NHS
1 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
1 6 (28.57%) Microservices
2 5 (23.81%) Agile
2 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
2 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (19.05%) AI
3 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
3 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
3 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
3 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning
3 4 (19.05%) OOP
3 4 (19.05%) TOGAF
4 3 (14.29%) Asynchronous Programming
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Bicep
2 1 (4.76%) C#
2 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (4.76%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (19.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco
2 1 (4.76%) Citrix
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) McAfee
2 1 (4.76%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) Zscaler