Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Architectural Design
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 8 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.74% 2.01% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 2.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 0
10th Percentile - £389 -
25th Percentile £400 £397 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.70% - -
75th Percentile £546 £491 -
90th Percentile £550 £510 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £464 -
% change year-on-year +7.70% - -

All Process & 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 959 422 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 89.21% 94.20% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 277 205
10th Percentile £366 £285 £375
25th Percentile £426 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -6.31% -15.50%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £580
90th Percentile £688 £639 £622
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.00 £10.90
25th Percentile £14.51 £17.33 £15.70
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.36 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% -12.58% +33.33%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.87 £22.00
90th Percentile £19.07 - £22.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £18.36 £12.83
% change year-on-year -9.19% +43.08% +20.70%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Sheffield over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in Sheffield

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
1 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Db2
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
General
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) DB2 Specialist
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) DB2 Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) DB2 Systems Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Blog
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) MVS
1 2 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Analytics
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) Log Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) JCL
3 1 (12.50%) CLIST
3 1 (12.50%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) ACF2
1 2 (25.00%) RACF
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Broadcom
1 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow