Architect Contracts in South Yorkshire

Architect
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Architect daily rate in South Yorkshire is £545 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 14 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 47 47 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 10.31% 8.85% 7.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.30% 9.71% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 39 36
10th Percentile - £570 £500
25th Percentile £463 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.14% +21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £745 £620
90th Percentile £734 £750 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 416 484 492
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 91.15% 96.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 343 388
10th Percentile £249 £263 £263
25th Percentile £407 £450 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £582 £658 £550
90th Percentile £639 £700 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 29
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.10 £10.94
25th Percentile £12.63 £11.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.60 £17.72 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -23.28% +0.45% +10.25%
75th Percentile £23.31 £22.50 £22.67
90th Percentile £23.75 £33.00 £24.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.50 £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -34.09% +25.71% -7.89%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in South Yorkshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in South Yorkshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in South Yorkshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Sheffield +3 44 £550 -21.43% 4
Doncaster - 3 £500 -
Architect
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 19 (40.43%) ServiceNow
2 12 (25.53%) ITSM
3 11 (23.40%) Finance
4 10 (21.28%) DevOps
4 10 (21.28%) Design Patterns
5 9 (19.15%) Cloud Security
6 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
6 8 (17.02%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (17.02%) ITIL
6 8 (17.02%) Banking
7 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (14.89%) Relational Database
7 7 (14.89%) GCP
7 7 (14.89%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (12.77%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (12.77%) Observability
8 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
8 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (12.77%) Microservices
8 6 (12.77%) Change Management
8 6 (12.77%) Google
8 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
8 6 (12.77%) Azure
9 5 (10.64%) Java
9 5 (10.64%) CRM
9 5 (10.64%) Machine Learning
10 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (8.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 4 (8.51%) NoSQL

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.89%) GCP
2 6 (12.77%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.38%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (6.38%) Vertex AI
5 2 (4.26%) AWS
5 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.13%) PaaS
6 1 (2.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (2.13%) LAN
2 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.51%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.38%) Bigtable
3 3 (6.38%) Cloud Spanner
3 3 (6.38%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.26%) Metadata
5 1 (2.13%) DataStage
5 1 (2.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 11 (23.40%) Finance
2 8 (17.02%) Banking
2 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) HTML
1 1 (2.13%) JSP
1 1 (2.13%) LDAP
1 1 (2.13%) Middleware
1 1 (2.13%) OAuth
1 1 (2.13%) OpenID
1 1 (2.13%) PySpark
1 1 (2.13%) SailPoint
1 1 (2.13%) SAML
1 1 (2.13%) Servlets
1 1 (2.13%) SOAP
1 1 (2.13%) SPML
1 1 (2.13%) Spring
1 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.13%) CMDB
3 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
1 2 (4.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.53%) ITSM
2 10 (21.28%) Design Patterns
2 10 (21.28%) DevOps
3 9 (19.15%) Cloud Security
4 8 (17.02%) Customer Requirements
4 8 (17.02%) ITIL
5 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (14.89%) Technology Strategy
6 6 (12.77%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (12.77%) Change Management
6 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
6 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (12.77%) Microservices
6 6 (12.77%) Observability
6 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
7 5 (10.64%) CRM
7 5 (10.64%) Machine Learning
8 4 (8.51%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (8.51%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.64%) Java
2 4 (8.51%) Python
3 2 (4.26%) SQL
4 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) ACF2
2 1 (2.13%) IAG
2 1 (2.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.13%) Grafana
2 1 (2.13%) Istio
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (40.43%) ServiceNow
2 6 (12.77%) Google
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.38%) F5
4 3 (6.38%) Juniper
5 1 (2.13%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco
5 1 (2.13%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.13%) Dell
5 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto