Architect Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Architect
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Architect daily rate in South Yorkshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -39 +5 +28
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 27 75 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 4.23% 16.74% 13.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.68% 19.43% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 52
10th Percentile £391 £473 £575
25th Percentile £541 £500 £587
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £675
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £628 £599 £745
90th Percentile £703 £700 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £580 £650
% change year-on-year +3.45% -10.77% -1.89%

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 577 386 434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 86.16% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 218 285
10th Percentile £279 £243 £287
25th Percentile £364 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £650
90th Percentile £610 £638 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.88 £11.77
25th Percentile £18.10 £20.13 £15.27
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +11.89%
75th Percentile £18.50 £21.88 £27.00
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £38.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £22.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +0.64% +7.32% +7.89%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies 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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in South Yorkshire

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies 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 19 September 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 -43 24 £600 +3.63% 8
Architect
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 10 (37.04%) Finance
2 9 (33.33%) Banking
3 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.93%) Roadmaps
4 7 (25.93%) AWS
5 6 (22.22%) GCP
5 6 (22.22%) DevOps
5 6 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (18.52%) Terraform
6 5 (18.52%) Privileged Access Management
6 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven
6 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
6 5 (18.52%) Microservices
6 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (18.52%) Azure
6 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (18.52%) Java
6 5 (18.52%) SAP
7 4 (14.81%) Migration
7 4 (14.81%) Firewall
7 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
7 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (14.81%) Kafka
7 4 (14.81%) GitHub
7 4 (14.81%) Strategic Roadmap
7 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.81%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (14.81%) Technology Strategy

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 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) CICS
2 2 (7.41%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.41%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.70%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) GCP
3 5 (18.52%) Azure
4 4 (14.81%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (3.70%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) LAN
2 2 (7.41%) SAN
2 2 (7.41%) VPN
2 2 (7.41%) WAN
3 1 (3.70%) 4G
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.70%) FCoE
3 1 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (3.70%) iSCSI
3 1 (3.70%) ISDN
3 1 (3.70%) MPLS
3 1 (3.70%) Multicast
3 1 (3.70%) NAS
3 1 (3.70%) PSTN
3 1 (3.70%) SSH
3 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Flink
1 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.70%) DataStage
3 1 (3.70%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.70%) Redis
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (37.04%) Finance
2 9 (33.33%) Banking
3 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Kafka
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Beam
2 3 (11.11%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (7.41%) LDAP
3 2 (7.41%) Middleware
4 1 (3.70%) .NET
4 1 (3.70%) JMS
4 1 (3.70%) PySpark
4 1 (3.70%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.41%) Clustering
1 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
1 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (7.41%) Mainframe
1 2 (7.41%) Replication
2 1 (3.70%) CCTV
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Solaris
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
1 2 (7.41%) zOS
2 1 (3.70%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
2 7 (25.93%) Roadmaps
3 6 (22.22%) DevOps
3 6 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven
4 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (18.52%) Microservices
4 5 (18.52%) Privileged Access Management
4 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.81%) Migration
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (14.81%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (14.81%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
6 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (11.11%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Java
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Kotlin
3 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
1 2 (7.41%) KVM
1 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) NFS
2 1 (3.70%) SRDF
2 1 (3.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (3.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Control-M
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) SAP
2 3 (11.11%) Cisco
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) EMC
3 2 (7.41%) F5
3 2 (7.41%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) NetApp
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) VMware
4 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) Informatica
4 1 (3.70%) Pure Storage
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) Talend