Senior Architect Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Senior Architect
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Senior Architect daily rate in South Yorkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 53 55
Rank change year-on-year -42 +2 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.37% 0.27% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.29% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £505 - £608
25th Percentile £513 - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £652
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +3.53% +8.67%
75th Percentile £538 - £698
90th Percentile £545 - £718
Yorkshire median daily rate £750 £675 £652
% change year-on-year +11.11% +3.53% +7.77%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 961 343 416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.07% 90.98% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 234 260
10th Percentile £350 £185 £249
25th Percentile £411 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £472 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -0.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £582
90th Percentile £669 £638 £639
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £469 £475
% change year-on-year +2.35% -1.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 18
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £18.10 £12.63
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.35 £13.60
Median % change year-on-year +40.42% +34.99% -23.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £23.31
90th Percentile - £18.51 £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.75 £21.24 £14.50
% change year-on-year +30.65% +46.48% -34.09%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Senior Architect job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Senior 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 Senior Architect within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 2026. 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 -48 4 £525 -22.22% 2
Senior Architect
Yorkshire

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 29 April 2026, Senior Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) A2A Protocol
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Google Gemini
2 2 (50.00%) LangChain
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven

Senior Architect Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Google Gemini
1 2 (50.00%) Vertex AI
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) A2A Protocol
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI