Architect Contracts in Sheffield

Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Architect daily rate in Sheffield is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 44 42 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 11.61% 9.35% 8.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.90% 9.55% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 37 32
10th Percentile - £565 £501
25th Percentile £463 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £590
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +18.64% +27.57%
75th Percentile £675 £745 £628
90th Percentile £743 £750 £649
South Yorkshire median daily rate £545 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -22.14% +21.74% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 341 440 371
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.97% 98.00% 96.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 305 299
10th Percentile £360 £363 £300
25th Percentile £413 £473 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 12
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.10 £9.74
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £16.38
Median % change year-on-year +24.15% +8.21% +20.83%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.50 £18.11
90th Percentile - £33.00 £23.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.60 £17.72 £17.64
% change year-on-year -23.28% +0.45% +10.25%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Sheffield

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Sheffield

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Sheffield over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 Sheffield region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 19 (43.18%) ServiceNow
2 12 (27.27%) ITSM
3 11 (25.00%) Finance
4 10 (22.73%) DevOps
4 10 (22.73%) Design Patterns
5 9 (20.45%) Cloud Security
6 8 (18.18%) ITIL
6 8 (18.18%) Banking
6 8 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (15.91%) Relational Database
7 7 (15.91%) GCP
7 7 (15.91%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 6 (13.64%) Microservices
8 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
8 6 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (13.64%) Observability
8 6 (13.64%) Change Management
8 6 (13.64%) Google
9 5 (11.36%) Java
9 5 (11.36%) CRM
9 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
9 5 (11.36%) Machine Learning
9 5 (11.36%) Architectural Patterns
10 4 (9.09%) Event-Driven
10 4 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) GCP
2 4 (9.09%) Azure
3 3 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (6.82%) Vertex AI
4 2 (4.55%) AWS
4 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.27%) PaaS
5 1 (2.27%) SaaS
5 1 (2.27%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (2.27%) LAN
2 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) Relational Database
2 4 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.82%) Bigtable
3 3 (6.82%) Cloud Spanner
3 3 (6.82%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.55%) Metadata
5 1 (2.27%) DataStage
5 1 (2.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 11 (25.00%) Finance
2 8 (18.18%) Banking
3 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) HTML
1 1 (2.27%) JSP
1 1 (2.27%) LDAP
1 1 (2.27%) Middleware
1 1 (2.27%) OAuth
1 1 (2.27%) OpenID
1 1 (2.27%) PySpark
1 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
1 1 (2.27%) SAML
1 1 (2.27%) Servlets
1 1 (2.27%) SOAP
1 1 (2.27%) SPML
1 1 (2.27%) Spring
1 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.27%) CMDB
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) ITSM
2 10 (22.73%) Design Patterns
2 10 (22.73%) DevOps
3 9 (20.45%) Cloud Security
4 8 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
4 8 (18.18%) ITIL
5 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.91%) Technology Strategy
6 6 (13.64%) Change Management
6 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (13.64%) Microservices
6 6 (13.64%) Observability
6 6 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.36%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (11.36%) CRM
7 5 (11.36%) Machine Learning
8 4 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (9.09%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) Java
2 4 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (4.55%) SQL
4 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) ACF2
1 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.27%) IAG
1 1 (2.27%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
1 1 (2.27%) Grafana
1 1 (2.27%) Istio
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (43.18%) ServiceNow
2 6 (13.64%) Google
3 3 (6.82%) F5
3 3 (6.82%) Juniper
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.27%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco
5 1 (2.27%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.27%) Dell
5 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto