Solutions Architect Contracts in Sheffield

Solution Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Solution Architect daily rate in Sheffield is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 47 39
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 9 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.42% 1.12% 2.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.72% 1.14% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 10
10th Percentile £570 £608 £450
25th Percentile £612 £619 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +15.91% +29.41%
75th Percentile £675 £656 £605
90th Percentile £745 £668 £644
South Yorkshire median daily rate £650 £638 £550
% change year-on-year +1.96% +15.91% +29.41%

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 331 438 369
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.98% 98.43% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 305 297
10th Percentile £375 £363 £300
25th Percentile £414 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £728 £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 6 12
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.13 £9.74
25th Percentile £11.33 £12.81 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.86 £16.38
Median % change year-on-year +16.65% +15.18% +6.85%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.69 £18.11
90th Percentile - £31.38 £23.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.60 £18.86 £17.64
% change year-on-year -27.92% +6.92% +2.20%

Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect in Sheffield

Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect in Sheffield

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect in Sheffield over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (33.33%) PLM
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Release Management
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
3 2 (22.22%) Storage Management
3 2 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Big Data
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Jenkins

Solutions 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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) PLM
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Release Management
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Storage Management
4 1 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Metadata Management
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
1 1 (11.11%) Istio
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
1 1 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow