Technical Architecture Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Technical Architecture
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Technical Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 9 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.76% - 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% - 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £510 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - £622
75th Percentile £535 - -
90th Percentile £537 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £622
% change year-on-year -4.55% -11.58% +13.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Technical 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 1,063 441 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 89.25% 95.25% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 287 233
10th Percentile £363 £293 £314
25th Percentile £425 £386 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.31%
75th Percentile £569 £554 £580
90th Percentile £688 £638 £622
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 22
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.86 £11.06
25th Percentile £13.69 £18.10 £12.55
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.51 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +44.27% +20.70%
75th Percentile £22.20 £18.87 £19.43
90th Percentile £23.87 - £23.58
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.69 £13.37
% change year-on-year +5.16% +62.29% +25.73%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Technical 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 Technical Architecture within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 June 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 - 9 £519 - 5
Technical Architecture
Yorkshire

Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (33.33%) Stackdriver
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Stack
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Leader
3 3 (33.33%) Java Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (11.11%) GCP Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Migration Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Capacity Management
1 5 (55.56%) Community of Practice
1 5 (55.56%) Data Mapping
1 5 (55.56%) Incident Response
1 5 (55.56%) Observability
1 5 (55.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 5 (55.56%) Task Automation
1 5 (55.56%) Use Case
1 5 (55.56%) Wireframes
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (11.11%) Data Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) X++
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Grafana
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) AppDynamics
1 5 (55.56%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Google