Senior Architect Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Senior Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Senior Architect daily rate in Sheffield is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 47 52
Rank change year-on-year -48 +5 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.41% 0.31% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.34% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £505 - £608
25th Percentile £513 - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £652
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +3.53% +8.67%
75th Percentile £538 - £698
90th Percentile £545 - £718
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £675 £652
% change year-on-year -22.22% +3.53% +8.67%

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 886 295 341
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 91.33% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 199 210
10th Percentile £358 £220 £360
25th Percentile £413 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £470 £481
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -2.34% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £588
90th Percentile £675 £644 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £477 £472 £475
% change year-on-year +1.06% -0.63% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £18.10 £11.33
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.35 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.42% -16.58% +24.15%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - £18.51 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £18.35 £13.60
% change year-on-year +40.42% +34.99% -23.28%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Senior Architect job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2026, Senior 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 Senior Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) A2A Protocol
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Google Gemini
2 2 (50.00%) LangChain
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven

Senior 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 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Google Gemini
1 2 (50.00%) Vertex AI
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) A2A Protocol
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI