Architect Contracts in Sheffield

Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Architect daily rate in Sheffield is £535, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 15 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 66 42 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 15.83% 9.98% 8.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.93% 10.12% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 37 32
10th Percentile - £575 £500
25th Percentile £463 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £745 £595
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% +25.21% +8.18%
75th Percentile £656 - £641
90th Percentile £700 - £749
South Yorkshire median daily rate £528 £745 £590
% change year-on-year -29.19% +26.27% +7.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 368 415 380
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.25% 98.57% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 276 295
10th Percentile £375 £363 £300
25th Percentile £425 £484 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £581 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +16.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £575
90th Percentile £622 £744 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £489
% change year-on-year -13.64% +12.47% +15.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 9
10th Percentile - £13.60 £14.63
25th Percentile £10.90 £17.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.38 £20.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% +19.40% +4.69%
75th Percentile £22.44 £22.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £23.75 £33.10 £20.66
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.23 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -33.85% +5.26% -5.05%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 24 (36.36%) Banking
2 23 (34.85%) DevOps
3 22 (33.33%) Finance
4 18 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (25.76%) GCP
6 16 (24.24%) Change Management
6 16 (24.24%) Java
7 15 (22.73%) Google
7 15 (22.73%) ServiceNow
8 14 (21.21%) Azure
8 14 (21.21%) Python
9 13 (19.70%) AWS
10 12 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (18.18%) Data Governance
10 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
10 12 (18.18%) Data Modelling
11 11 (16.67%) ETL
11 11 (16.67%) SQL
11 11 (16.67%) Data Integration
11 11 (16.67%) Microservices
11 11 (16.67%) Apache Spark
11 11 (16.67%) Design Patterns
11 11 (16.67%) Cloud Security
12 10 (15.15%) Translating Business Requirements
12 10 (15.15%) Terraform
12 10 (15.15%) Big Data
12 10 (15.15%) Kafka
12 10 (15.15%) Git
12 10 (15.15%) Hadoop
12 10 (15.15%) Jenkins

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 11 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.76%) GCP
2 14 (21.21%) Azure
3 13 (19.70%) AWS
4 12 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 9 (13.64%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
5 9 (13.64%) Serverless
6 3 (4.55%) Vertex AI
7 2 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.52%) Kong
8 1 (1.52%) PaaS
8 1 (1.52%) SaaS
8 1 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.52%) LAN
3 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) Big Data
1 10 (15.15%) Hadoop
2 9 (13.64%) Amazon Athena
2 9 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (13.64%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (13.64%) BigQuery
2 9 (13.64%) Data Lake
3 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.55%) Bigtable
4 3 (4.55%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (3.03%) Metadata
6 1 (1.52%) DataStage
6 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (15.15%) Git
1 10 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 24 (36.36%) Banking
2 22 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.55%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.15%) Kafka
2 2 (3.03%) Spring
2 2 (3.03%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.52%) HTML
3 1 (1.52%) JSP
3 1 (1.52%) LDAP
3 1 (1.52%) OAuth
3 1 (1.52%) OpenID
3 1 (1.52%) PySpark
3 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.52%) SAML
3 1 (1.52%) Servlets
3 1 (1.52%) SOAP
3 1 (1.52%) SPML
3 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.06%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.52%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.52%) Mainframe
2 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.85%) DevOps
2 18 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (24.24%) Change Management
4 12 (18.18%) Data Governance
4 12 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 11 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 11 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 11 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 11 (16.67%) ETL
5 11 (16.67%) Microservices
6 10 (15.15%) Translating Business Requirements
7 9 (13.64%) Analytics
7 9 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 9 (13.64%) Containerisation
7 9 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (13.64%) High Availability
7 9 (13.64%) ITSM
7 9 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (13.64%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.12%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.24%) Java
2 14 (21.21%) Python
3 11 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.03%) Degree
3 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) ACF2
1 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.52%) IAG
1 1 (1.52%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (15.15%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.52%) Grafana
2 1 (1.52%) Istio
2 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (22.73%) Google
1 15 (22.73%) ServiceNow
2 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.55%) F5
3 3 (4.55%) Juniper
4 2 (3.03%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.52%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco
5 1 (1.52%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.52%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.52%) Dell
5 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto