Architect Contracts in Sheffield

Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Architect daily rate in Sheffield is £528 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 13 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 47 46 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 12.47% 10.34% 7.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.16% 10.50% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 40 30
10th Percentile - £575 £500
25th Percentile £463 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £745 £583
Median % change year-on-year -29.19% +27.90% +5.91%
75th Percentile £656 - £634
90th Percentile £698 £750 £655
South Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £745 £575
% change year-on-year -31.07% +29.57% +9.52%

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 332 438 375
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.06% 98.43% 95.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 304 304
10th Percentile £375 £366 £300
25th Percentile £425 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% +15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £570
90th Percentile £650 £743 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +15.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £10.90 £13.60 £9.49
25th Percentile £11.33 £17.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +19.40% +9.30%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.75 £18.57
90th Percentile - £33.10 £24.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.60 £20.00 £18.32
% change year-on-year -32.03% +9.17% -1.08%

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 14 May 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 14 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 Sheffield region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 17 (36.17%) DevOps
2 16 (34.04%) ServiceNow
3 13 (27.66%) GCP
4 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (25.53%) Java
5 11 (23.40%) Python
5 11 (23.40%) Finance
5 11 (23.40%) Google
6 10 (21.28%) Banking
6 10 (21.28%) Azure
6 10 (21.28%) ITSM
7 9 (19.15%) Data Modelling
7 9 (19.15%) AWS
7 9 (19.15%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (19.15%) Data Governance
7 9 (19.15%) Cloud Security
8 8 (17.02%) Apache Spark
8 8 (17.02%) Customer Requirements
8 8 (17.02%) Data Integration
8 8 (17.02%) ETL
8 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
8 8 (17.02%) ITIL
8 8 (17.02%) SQL
9 7 (14.89%) Git
9 7 (14.89%) Hadoop
9 7 (14.89%) Translating Business Requirements
9 7 (14.89%) Terraform
9 7 (14.89%) Jenkins
9 7 (14.89%) Big Data
9 7 (14.89%) Kafka

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 8 (17.02%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) GCP
2 10 (21.28%) Azure
3 9 (19.15%) AWS
3 9 (19.15%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (12.77%) Amazon S3
4 6 (12.77%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
4 6 (12.77%) Serverless
5 3 (6.38%) Vertex AI
6 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.13%) PaaS
7 1 (2.13%) SaaS
7 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%) Big Data
1 7 (14.89%) Hadoop
2 6 (12.77%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (12.77%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (12.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (12.77%) BigQuery
2 6 (12.77%) Data Lake
3 4 (8.51%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.38%) Bigtable
4 3 (6.38%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (4.26%) Metadata
6 1 (2.13%) DataStage
6 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Git
1 7 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 11 (23.40%) Finance
2 10 (21.28%) Banking
3 3 (6.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) Kafka
2 1 (2.13%) HTML
2 1 (2.13%) JSP
2 1 (2.13%) LDAP
2 1 (2.13%) OAuth
2 1 (2.13%) OpenID
2 1 (2.13%) PySpark
2 1 (2.13%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.13%) SAML
2 1 (2.13%) Servlets
2 1 (2.13%) SOAP
2 1 (2.13%) SPML
2 1 (2.13%) Spring
2 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) DevOps
2 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (21.28%) ITSM
4 9 (19.15%) Cloud Security
4 9 (19.15%) Data Governance
4 9 (19.15%) Data Modelling
5 8 (17.02%) Customer Requirements
5 8 (17.02%) Data Integration
5 8 (17.02%) ETL
5 8 (17.02%) ITIL
6 7 (14.89%) Design Patterns
6 7 (14.89%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
7 6 (12.77%) Containerisation
7 6 (12.77%) High Availability
7 6 (12.77%) Microservices
7 6 (12.77%) Observability
7 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (12.77%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.53%) Java
2 11 (23.40%) Python
3 8 (17.02%) SQL
4 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.26%) Degree
3 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) ACF2
1 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.13%) IAG
1 1 (2.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Terraform
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 16 (34.04%) ServiceNow
2 11 (23.40%) Google
3 8 (17.02%) 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