Architect Contracts in West Yorkshire

Architect
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Architect daily rate in West Yorkshire is £620 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 77 120 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 7.95% 7.92% 8.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.57% 8.09% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 81 112
10th Percentile £483 £536 £513
25th Percentile £540 £593 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £675 £653
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +3.45% +13.48%
75th Percentile £675 £745 £737
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 898 1,484 1,812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 97.95% 97.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 1,029 1,328
10th Percentile £289 £325 £241
25th Percentile £400 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 17 52
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.00 £10.64
25th Percentile £12.53 £13.16 £12.21
Median hourly rate £15.50 £20.00 £18.60
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +7.53% -13.49%
75th Percentile £48.75 £56.00 £22.01
90th Percentile £53.75 £66.25 £26.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £21.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -26.19% +13.51% -5.13%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in West Yorkshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in West Yorkshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in West Yorkshire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in West Yorkshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Leeds +3 71 £600 -12.73% 20
Huddersfield -1 2 £500 -18.37% 1
Bradford -4 1 £700 +7.69%
Architect
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 26 (33.77%) Azure
2 19 (24.68%) Migration
2 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
3 16 (20.78%) AWS
4 12 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (14.29%) F5
6 10 (12.99%) Microsoft
7 9 (11.69%) Data Modelling
7 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
8 8 (10.39%) NHS
9 7 (9.09%) Java
9 7 (9.09%) Brio
9 7 (9.09%) Data Management
9 7 (9.09%) Agile
9 7 (9.09%) Retail
9 7 (9.09%) Degree
9 7 (9.09%) SailPoint
9 7 (9.09%) Architectural Design
9 7 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (9.09%) Cloudflare
10 6 (7.79%) Architecture Governance
10 6 (7.79%) Data Governance
10 6 (7.79%) Akamai
10 6 (7.79%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.79%) SaaS
10 6 (7.79%) Firewall
10 6 (7.79%) RAD
11 5 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (6.49%) CheckPoint
11 5 (6.49%) Finance

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 2 (2.60%) Apache
1 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.60%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.30%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (33.77%) Azure
2 16 (20.78%) AWS
3 7 (9.09%) Cloudflare
4 6 (7.79%) Akamai
4 6 (7.79%) SaaS
5 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.60%) GCP
6 2 (2.60%) IaaS
6 2 (2.60%) PaaS
6 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.60%) Serverless
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) Firewall
2 4 (5.19%) Wireshark
3 3 (3.90%) DNS
3 3 (3.90%) VoIP
4 2 (2.60%) IP Telephony
4 2 (2.60%) LAN
4 2 (2.60%) PBX
4 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.60%) Unified Communications
4 2 (2.60%) WAN
5 1 (1.30%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.49%) Big Data
1 5 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (6.49%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.60%) Flink
2 2 (2.60%) Metadata
2 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.60%) Power BI
3 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.30%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.30%) GIS
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
General
1 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.09%) Retail
4 5 (6.49%) Finance
5 3 (3.90%) Health Technology
5 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.60%) Games
6 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Local Government
7 1 (1.30%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) SailPoint
2 3 (3.90%) Kafka
3 2 (2.60%) XML
3 2 (2.60%) XSLT
4 1 (1.30%) JSON
4 1 (1.30%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.30%) Middleware
4 1 (1.30%) React
4 1 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) NHS
2 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.90%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Linux
1 3 (3.90%) Windows
1 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.60%) Unix
2 2 (2.60%) zOS
3 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.68%) Migration
2 12 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (11.69%) Data Modelling
4 7 (9.09%) Agile
4 7 (9.09%) Architectural Design
4 7 (9.09%) Data Management
4 7 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
5 6 (7.79%) Architecture Governance
5 6 (7.79%) Computer Science
5 6 (7.79%) Data Governance
5 6 (7.79%) RAD
6 5 (6.49%) DevOps
6 5 (6.49%) Project Delivery
7 4 (5.19%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (5.19%) Data Architecture
7 4 (5.19%) Service Design
7 4 (5.19%) Storage Management
7 4 (5.19%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (5.19%) TOGAF
7 4 (5.19%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.09%) Java
2 3 (3.90%) Python
3 2 (2.60%) SQL
4 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.60%) CCNP
2 2 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Docker
1 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) F5
2 10 (12.99%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.09%) Brio
4 5 (6.49%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.19%) Oracle
6 3 (3.90%) SAP
6 3 (3.90%) VMware
7 2 (2.60%) Cisco
7 2 (2.60%) Mitel
7 2 (2.60%) OpenText
7 2 (2.60%) Sparx
7 2 (2.60%) Splunk
8 1 (1.30%) Adobe
8 1 (1.30%) Confluent
8 1 (1.30%) ESRI
8 1 (1.30%) Google