Technical Architecture Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Technical Architecture
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Technical Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 9 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.83% - 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% - 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £510 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - £622
75th Percentile £535 - -
90th Percentile £537 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £519 - £622

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Technical 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 969 380 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 89.23% 95.24% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 248 204
10th Percentile £363 £301 £375
25th Percentile £425 £389 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.31% -15.50%
75th Percentile £571 £553 £588
90th Percentile £688 £644 £634
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 9
10th Percentile £14.02 £16.86 -
25th Percentile £14.51 £18.10 £10.90
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.51 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% -11.86% +33.33%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.87 £22.00
90th Percentile £19.07 - £23.75
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £18.51 £12.83
% change year-on-year -9.94% +44.27% +20.70%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (33.33%) Stackdriver
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Stack
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Leader
3 3 (33.33%) Java Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (11.11%) GCP Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Migration Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Capacity Management
1 5 (55.56%) Community of Practice
1 5 (55.56%) Data Mapping
1 5 (55.56%) Incident Response
1 5 (55.56%) Observability
1 5 (55.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 5 (55.56%) Task Automation
1 5 (55.56%) Use Case
1 5 (55.56%) Wireframes
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (11.11%) Data Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) X++
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Grafana
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) AppDynamics
1 5 (55.56%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Google