Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Architecture
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 47 49
Rank change year-on-year -36 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.14% 0.85% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.93% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £725 £760
Median % change year-on-year - -4.61% -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £706 £705
% change year-on-year -36.28% +0.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Data Architecture 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 666 324 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 96.10% 92.05% 95.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 181 220
10th Percentile £316 £230 £386
25th Percentile £402 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £598 £650
90th Percentile £624 £665 £726
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -6.80% -6.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.14 £19.10
25th Percentile - £15.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +36.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £14.85 £22.50
% change year-on-year +1.04% -34.02% +60.71%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) DataStage
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Transpiler
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Talend