Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Technical Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Sheffield is £723, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 49 32
Rank change year-on-year -30 -17 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 2 5 21
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.32% 1.16% 5.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 1.35% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 21
10th Percentile - - £575
25th Percentile £711 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £723 £580 £745
Median % change year-on-year +24.57% -22.15% +30.02%
75th Percentile £734 £588 -
90th Percentile - £592 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £723 £580 £745
% change year-on-year +24.57% -22.15% +30.02%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 570 371 354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.62% 86.08% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 202 234
10th Percentile £313 £255 £379
25th Percentile £400 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £534 £587
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% -9.10% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £650
90th Percentile £612 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £525 £551
% change year-on-year -8.81% -4.78% +10.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.14 £14.67
25th Percentile £16.68 £15.22 £18.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.33 £21.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £24.02 - £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.23% +6.58%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Technical Architect job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, Technical 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design

Technical 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 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus