Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Technical Architect
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Technical Architect daily rate in South Yorkshire is £723, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 53 34
Rank change year-on-year -28 -19 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 3 5 22
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.44% 1.06% 5.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.24% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 22
10th Percentile - - £575
25th Percentile £711 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £723 £580 £745
Median % change year-on-year +24.57% -22.15% +30.02%
75th Percentile £734 £588 -
90th Percentile - £592 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £563 £567 £600
% change year-on-year -0.79% -5.50% -

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 615 404 402
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 85.41% 92.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 225 265
10th Percentile £300 £220 £299
25th Percentile £384 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £737
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £517
% change year-on-year -2.50% -3.19% +3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.14 £15.27
25th Percentile £16.68 £15.22 £18.31
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £22.33 £21.50 £29.13
90th Percentile £24.02 - £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.04 £23.34 £21.41
% change year-on-year +7.27% +9.04% +12.66%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Technical Architect job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Technical 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 Technical Architect within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 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 -29 2 £723 +24.57% 3
Technical Architect
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 2025, Technical 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration

Technical 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP