Lead Architect Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Lead Architect
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Lead Architect daily rate in South Yorkshire is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 56 52
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.16% 0.22% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.25% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - £1,200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £1,300
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -46.15% +73.33%
75th Percentile £675 - £1,400
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £650 £700 £1,025
% change year-on-year -7.14% -31.71% +35.94%

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 558 397 425
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 86.30% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 221 277
10th Percentile £280 £225 £275
25th Percentile £368 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £650
90th Percentile £613 £638 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile £14.98 £15.88 £15.27
25th Percentile £16.68 £20.13 £18.31
Median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +6.58%
75th Percentile £22.33 £21.88 £29.13
90th Percentile £24.02 £22.00 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.58 £22.00 £20.91
% change year-on-year +2.61% +5.24% +10.03%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in South Yorkshire

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Lead 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 Lead Architect within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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 -15 1 £650 -7.14% 2
Lead Architect
Yorkshire

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 27 September 2025, Lead 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 Lead Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP