Architect Contracts in South Yorkshire

Architect
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Architect daily rate in South Yorkshire is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 28 47 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 7.51% 10.28% 8.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.26% 11.30% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 30 39
10th Percentile £485 - £570
25th Percentile £594 £463 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £545 £700
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% -22.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £740 £675 £745
90th Percentile £780 £734 £750
Yorkshire median daily rate £613 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -5.77% - +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 339 416 484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 91.03% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 261 343
10th Percentile £185 £235 £263
25th Percentile £375 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £658
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.63 £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.60 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +34.99% -23.28% +0.45%
75th Percentile £18.50 £23.31 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 £23.75 £33.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in South Yorkshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Architect in South Yorkshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in South Yorkshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -9 28 £675 +22.73% 30
Architect
Yorkshire

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 16 (57.14%) Banking
2 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (32.14%) Observability
3 9 (32.14%) DevOps
3 9 (32.14%) Windows
3 9 (32.14%) Linux
4 8 (28.57%) Microservices
4 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 7 (25.00%) GCP
6 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
6 6 (21.43%) Finance
7 5 (17.86%) Unix
7 5 (17.86%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (17.86%) Data Protection
7 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
7 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
7 5 (17.86%) Splunk
7 5 (17.86%) Data Governance
8 4 (14.29%) Azure
8 4 (14.29%) AWS
8 4 (14.29%) Kafka
8 4 (14.29%) Apache Spark
8 4 (14.29%) Spark Streaming
8 4 (14.29%) Flink
8 4 (14.29%) Grafana
8 4 (14.29%) Prometheus

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) GCP
2 4 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) Collibra
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub
3 1 (3.57%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) 4G
2 1 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (3.57%) DHCP
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.57%) ISDN
2 1 (3.57%) LAN
2 1 (3.57%) MPLS
2 1 (3.57%) NAS
2 1 (3.57%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) PSTN
2 1 (3.57%) SAN
2 1 (3.57%) SMTP
2 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.57%) VLAN
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
2 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Flink
2 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
General
1 16 (57.14%) Banking
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Apache Beam
1 4 (14.29%) Kafka
1 4 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
1 4 (14.29%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (3.57%) LDAP
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
2 1 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) SCADA
3 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Linux
1 9 (32.14%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (32.14%) DevOps
2 9 (32.14%) Observability
3 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 8 (28.57%) Microservices
4 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (17.86%) Data Governance
4 5 (17.86%) Data Protection
4 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
5 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (14.29%) Chaos Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 4 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 4 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 4 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 4 (14.29%) Monte Carlo Method
5 4 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.57%) ActionScript
3 1 (3.57%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (7.14%) CISSP
1 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) CCNA
2 1 (3.57%) CCNP
2 1 (3.57%) CISM
2 1 (3.57%) HP ASE
2 1 (3.57%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.14%) NIST
1 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Grafana
2 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Control-M
3 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Splunk
2 4 (14.29%) Veritas
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco
3 2 (7.14%) Commvault
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) IBM
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.57%) Aruba
4 1 (3.57%) Brocade
4 1 (3.57%) Centrify
4 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Dell
4 1 (3.57%) EMC
4 1 (3.57%) HP
4 1 (3.57%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (3.57%) NetApp
4 1 (3.57%) Pure Storage
4 1 (3.57%) Thycotic