Architectural Design Contracts in Sheffield

Architectural Design
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 52 54
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 6 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.88% 0.79% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 0.85% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £460 £685 £541
25th Percentile £466 £698 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £732 £575
Median % change year-on-year -33.06% +27.30% +11.65%
75th Percentile £493 £753 £609
90th Percentile £527 £757 £619
South Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £732 £575
% change year-on-year -33.06% +27.30% +11.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in Sheffield

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in Sheffield

Architectural Design
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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) CloudBees
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Flink
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Beam
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (83.33%) Design Patterns
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (66.67%) Software Delivery
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Change Management
5 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (33.33%) OO
5 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
5 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
5 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) SDLC
5 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 5 (83.33%) Kotlin
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google