Architect Contracts in Sheffield

Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Architect daily rate in Sheffield is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 6 13
Rank change year-on-year -27 +7 +26
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 37 76 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 6.50% 18.27% 11.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.13% 20.88% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 37 42
10th Percentile £450 £463 £575
25th Percentile £538 £485 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £710
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -19.01% +23.48%
75th Percentile £734 £600 £745
90th Percentile £780 £700 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £543 £710
% change year-on-year +10.60% -23.59% +23.48%

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 519 364 377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 87.50% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 209 253
10th Percentile £299 £381 £388
25th Percentile £375 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% -13.33% +16.50%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £688
90th Percentile £615 £630 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -9.27% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile - £15.88 £11.51
25th Percentile £18.10 £20.13 £12.28
Median hourly rate £18.35 £21.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +10.53% +6.29%
75th Percentile £18.50 £21.88 £20.00
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £21.65
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.35 £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.61% +7.69% +9.09%

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 10 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 10 August 2025, 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 (51.35%) Banking
2 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.03%) Microservices
3 10 (27.03%) Finance
3 10 (27.03%) Linux
4 9 (24.32%) Windows
4 9 (24.32%) Kubernetes
4 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (24.32%) Observability
5 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (21.62%) GCP
5 8 (21.62%) DevOps
5 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
5 8 (21.62%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (18.92%) AWS
7 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
7 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
7 6 (16.22%) Technology Strategy
7 6 (16.22%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (16.22%) Terraform
8 5 (13.51%) Grafana
8 5 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (13.51%) Prometheus
8 5 (13.51%) Privileged Access Management
8 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
8 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
8 5 (13.51%) Event-Driven
8 5 (13.51%) Data Protection
8 5 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (13.51%) Data Protection Act

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 4 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.41%) CICS
2 2 (5.41%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.41%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) MS Visio
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) GCP
2 7 (18.92%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) Collibra
3 4 (10.81%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (2.70%) AWS KMS
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.70%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) LAN
2 2 (5.41%) NAS
2 2 (5.41%) SAN
2 2 (5.41%) WAN
3 1 (2.70%) 4G
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.70%) FCoE
3 1 (2.70%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.70%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.70%) iSCSI
3 1 (2.70%) ISDN
3 1 (2.70%) MPLS
3 1 (2.70%) Multicast
3 1 (2.70%) PSTN
3 1 (2.70%) SSH
3 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Flink
2 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.70%) DataStage
3 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.70%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (51.35%) Banking
2 10 (27.03%) Finance
3 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Apache Beam
1 4 (10.81%) Kafka
1 4 (10.81%) OpenTelemetry
1 4 (10.81%) Spark Streaming
2 3 (8.11%) Middleware
3 2 (5.41%) LDAP
4 1 (2.70%) PySpark
4 1 (2.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Clustering
2 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.41%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.41%) Replication
3 1 (2.70%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Linux
2 9 (24.32%) Windows
3 5 (13.51%) Unix
4 2 (5.41%) Solaris
4 2 (5.41%) zOS
5 1 (2.70%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
2 10 (27.03%) Microservices
3 9 (24.32%) Observability
3 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (21.62%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (21.62%) DevOps
4 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (16.22%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (16.22%) Technology Strategy
5 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
6 5 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
6 5 (13.51%) Data Governance
6 5 (13.51%) Data Protection
6 5 (13.51%) Event-Driven
6 5 (13.51%) Privileged Access Management
6 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.81%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) Java
2 2 (5.41%) Kotlin
2 2 (5.41%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) Scala
2 2 (5.41%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.70%) ActionScript
3 1 (2.70%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) CCNP
1 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (2.70%) HP ASE
1 1 (2.70%) IBM Certification
1 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.41%) KVM
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) Docker
3 1 (2.70%) NFS
3 1 (2.70%) SRDF
3 1 (2.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 6 (16.22%) Terraform
3 5 (13.51%) Grafana
3 5 (13.51%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.41%) Ansible
5 1 (2.70%) Control-M
5 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Splunk
2 4 (10.81%) Veritas
3 3 (8.11%) Cisco
3 3 (8.11%) EMC
3 3 (8.11%) Google
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) NetApp
4 2 (5.41%) Commvault
4 2 (5.41%) Databricks
4 2 (5.41%) F5
4 2 (5.41%) IBM
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) Pure Storage
4 2 (5.41%) SAP
4 2 (5.41%) VMware
5 1 (2.70%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.70%) Dell
5 1 (2.70%) HP
5 1 (2.70%) Informatica
5 1 (2.70%) Talend