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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 70 60
Rank change year-on-year -19 -10 -
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 10 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.97% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £505 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 - £725
75th Percentile £556 - £738
90th Percentile £579 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £531 £450 £725
% change year-on-year +18.06% -37.93% -

All Process & 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 871 531 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 84.65% 94.65% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 354 195
10th Percentile £363 £298 £383
25th Percentile £430 £371 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £469 £515
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -8.93% -14.17%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £465 £514
% change year-on-year +7.53% -9.53% -14.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £15.00 £15.88
25th Percentile - £17.33 £20.13
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.36 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.43% -12.58% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £18.87 £21.88
90th Percentile - - £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £18.36 £12.83
% change year-on-year +12.22% +43.08% -35.85%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in Sheffield over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in Sheffield

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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) Google Gemini
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
4 2 (20.00%) Vertex AI
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Collibra
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (10.00%) SQLite
2 1 (10.00%) Trino
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Private Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Implementation Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) A2A Protocol
1 2 (20.00%) LangChain
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (10.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) AI
2 4 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (30.00%) Data Security
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Use Case
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (20.00%) Information Governance
4 2 (20.00%) LLM
4 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (20.00%) Observability
4 2 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) FINRA
2 1 (10.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) IBM Guardium
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) IBM