Data Architecture Contracts

Data Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Architecture over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 271 251
Rank change year-on-year +27 -20 -22
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 411 540 996
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 0.96% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.07% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 380 679
10th Percentile £433 £462 £497
25th Percentile £514 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £788 £750 £750
90th Percentile £925 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 2
10th Percentile - £34.78 £88.49
25th Percentile £22.33 £35.00 £88.89
Median hourly rate £29.83 £35.38 £89.56
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% -60.50% +241.18%
75th Percentile £35.00 £40.06 £90.23
90th Percentile - £59.60 £90.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.65 £35.63 £88.22
% change year-on-year -30.81% -59.62% +232.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture.

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
England +13 366 £650 -3.70% 199
London +18 227 £700 - 117
UK excluding London +40 144 £550 -12.00% 92
Work from Home +22 134 £638 -3.77% 101
North of England +50 54 £525 +2.94% 26
North West +46 41 £506 -3.25% 17
Midlands +36 27 £675 +17.39% 16
South East -7 25 £475 -28.30% 13
South West -3 24 £550 -15.38% 13
West Midlands +28 21 £700 +27.27% 14
Scotland +44 14 £588 -9.58% 12
Yorkshire +19 13 £725 +50.99% 5
East of England -4 7 £675 +157.14% 2
East Midlands +11 6 £588 -2.08% 2
North East - 4 £750 - 4
Wales +14 1 - - 4

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.41%) Apache
3 12 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.68%) SAS
5 8 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.73%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Confluence
8 1 (0.24%) IIS
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (3.89%) MS Visio
2 10 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.49%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 29 (7.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.73%) Primavera
5 2 (0.49%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.49%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.24%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.24%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.24%) Shopify
6 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 127 (30.90%) Azure
2 64 (15.57%) Power Platform
3 59 (14.36%) AWS
4 25 (6.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 23 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (5.60%) GCP
6 19 (4.62%) SaaS
6 19 (4.62%) Snowflake
7 16 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (3.16%) dbt
8 13 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (2.68%) Azure Stack
10 10 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (2.43%) PaaS
10 10 (2.43%) Power Automate
10 10 (2.43%) Serverless
11 9 (2.19%) Collibra
12 8 (1.95%) IaaS
13 7 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.22%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) IPsec
2 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (20.44%) Data Warehouse
2 83 (20.19%) Metadata
3 65 (15.82%) NoSQL
4 62 (15.09%) Power BI
5 53 (12.90%) Data Lake
6 44 (10.71%) Data Vault
7 41 (9.98%) SQL Server
8 36 (8.76%) Metadata Repository
9 35 (8.52%) Big Data
10 18 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (3.65%) Qlik Sense
11 15 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (2.92%) Relational Database
12 12 (2.92%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (2.68%) Data Mining
13 11 (2.68%) Tableau
14 9 (2.19%) MongoDB
15 8 (1.95%) Pentaho
15 8 (1.95%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 12 (2.92%) ERwin
2 7 (1.70%) JIRA
2 7 (1.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.22%) Git
4 4 (0.97%) kappa
5 2 (0.49%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.24%) Ant
6 1 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.24%) Toad
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 97 (23.60%) Finance
3 62 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 56 (13.63%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (10.71%) Marketing
6 29 (7.06%) Manufacturing
6 29 (7.06%) Telecoms
7 27 (6.57%) Electronics
8 20 (4.87%) Banking
9 18 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (3.89%) Retail
11 15 (3.65%) Publishing
12 14 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (2.68%) German Language
15 8 (1.95%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.46%) Front Office
17 4 (0.97%) Back Office
17 4 (0.97%) Legal
17 4 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 251 (61.07%) Architect
2 179 (43.55%) Data Architect
3 34 (8.27%) Solutions Architect
4 31 (7.54%) Enterprise Architect
5 30 (7.30%) Senior
6 28 (6.81%) Analyst
6 28 (6.81%) Lead
7 25 (6.08%) Chief Architect
7 25 (6.08%) Chief Data Architect
8 24 (5.84%) Azure Architect
9 23 (5.60%) Data Analyst
10 22 (5.35%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 21 (5.11%) Data Engineer
12 20 (4.87%) Developer
13 17 (4.14%) Azure Data Architect
14 15 (3.65%) Data Modeller
15 14 (3.41%) AWS Architect
16 13 (3.16%) Senior Architect
17 11 (2.68%) Data Manager
17 11 (2.68%) Head of Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.87%) JSON
2 18 (4.38%) REST
2 18 (4.38%) XML
3 9 (2.19%) SOAP
4 8 (1.95%) Pandas
5 7 (1.70%) AngularJS
5 7 (1.70%) CSS
5 7 (1.70%) HTML
5 7 (1.70%) Node.js
5 7 (1.70%) NumPy
6 6 (1.46%) gRPC
6 6 (1.46%) JSON Schema
6 6 (1.46%) Protocol Buffers
6 6 (1.46%) SciPy
7 5 (1.22%) .NET
7 5 (1.22%) Kafka
8 4 (0.97%) PySpark
9 3 (0.73%) Apache Avro
9 3 (0.73%) YAML
10 2 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 57 (13.87%) Reference Data
2 35 (8.52%) Data Structures
3 27 (6.57%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.84%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.89%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.46%) Derivative
8 6 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.46%) Equities
8 6 (1.46%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.46%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.46%) Wiki
9 5 (1.22%) Industry 4.0
10 4 (0.97%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.97%) FMCG
10 4 (0.97%) IoT
10 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.73%) Unix
1 3 (0.73%) Windows
2 2 (0.49%) Linux
2 2 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (53.53%) Data Modelling
2 144 (35.04%) Data Governance
3 116 (28.22%) Business Intelligence
4 114 (27.74%) Analytics
5 97 (23.60%) Data Management
6 94 (22.87%) Data Strategy
7 90 (21.90%) Data Integration
8 86 (20.92%) ETL
9 77 (18.73%) Agile
10 65 (15.82%) Migration
10 65 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (13.14%) Roadmaps
12 51 (12.41%) Data Design
13 45 (10.95%) Data Analysis
13 45 (10.95%) UML
14 44 (10.71%) Data Lineage
14 44 (10.71%) Data Migration
15 39 (9.49%) Data Engineering
15 39 (9.49%) Stakeholder Management
16 38 (9.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 97 (23.60%) SQL
2 53 (12.90%) Python
3 15 (3.65%) Scala
4 14 (3.41%) JavaScript
5 13 (3.16%) Java
6 11 (2.68%) T-SQL
7 8 (1.95%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.46%) R
8 6 (1.46%) Ruby
9 5 (1.22%) C#
9 5 (1.22%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.49%) XPath
12 1 (0.24%) Go
12 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.24%) PHP
12 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 52 (12.65%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.03%) Degree
4 9 (2.19%) Azure Certification
4 9 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.19%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.97%) CIMA
7 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.24%) ACCA
9 1 (0.24%) CISM
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (22.63%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.62%) GDPR
3 11 (2.68%) QA
4 8 (1.95%) PMO
5 6 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.73%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.24%) CDISC
7 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) GxP
7 1 (0.24%) HL7
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (0.97%) Docker
3 3 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (1.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.73%) Terraform
3 2 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.49%) TIBCO Hawk
4 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 79 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 60 (14.60%) SAP
3 43 (10.46%) Sparx
4 41 (9.98%) Databricks
5 31 (7.54%) Informatica
5 31 (7.54%) Oracle
6 17 (4.14%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.92%) Google
8 10 (2.43%) IBM
9 9 (2.19%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.95%) Alteryx
11 7 (1.70%) Dataiku
11 7 (1.70%) Remedy
11 7 (1.70%) Trillium
12 5 (1.22%) Autodesk
12 5 (1.22%) IFS
12 5 (1.22%) Talend
13 4 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.73%) Ariba
14 3 (0.73%) ESRI