Data Architect Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Data Architect daily rate in Sheffield is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 39 50
Rank change year-on-year -51 +11 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.35% 0.42% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.49% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £510 - £685
25th Percentile £525 - £698
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £732
75th Percentile £575 - £753
90th Percentile £590 - £757
South Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - £732

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 775 203 346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.49% 86.02% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 131 215
10th Percentile £350 £209 £330
25th Percentile £413 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £541 £583 £593
90th Percentile £675 £650 £709
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.68% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £14.98 - -
25th Percentile £16.68 £15.22 £10.90
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.19 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year +20.44% -8.14% -11.88%
75th Percentile £22.33 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £16.19 £13.23
% change year-on-year +20.44% +22.37% -29.85%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Data Architect job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in Sheffield

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 22 February 2026, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Argo
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
1 2 (66.67%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Pure Storage
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX

Data Architect Skill Set
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 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Argo
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Pure Storage
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
1 2 (66.67%) VMware