Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data Architecture
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 44 52
Rank change year-on-year -46 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.26% 1.17% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 1.27% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £585 £661
25th Percentile £425 £639 £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £706 £705
Median % change year-on-year -36.28% +0.18% -
75th Percentile £475 £738 £733
90th Percentile - - £749
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -32.14% +7.69% +20.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Data 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 725 315 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.77% 92.38% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 181 260
10th Percentile £316 £213 £375
25th Percentile £402 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -5.50% +3.81%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £635
90th Percentile £641 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -3.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.07 £19.25
25th Percentile - £12.55 £20.31
Median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £29.38
90th Percentile - £20.90 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
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 Data Architecture within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 -51 1 - - 1
Barnsley - 1 £450 -
Data Architecture
Yorkshire

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) DataStage
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Transpiler
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Talend