Data Architect Contracts in England

Data Architect
UK > England

The median Data Architect daily rate in England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 265 266
Rank change year-on-year +36 +1 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 370 474 769
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.00% 0.99% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.05% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 339 501
10th Percentile £488 £513 £540
25th Percentile £550 £600 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £683 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £775
90th Percentile £925 £875 £825
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £676
% change year-on-year - -0.15% +11.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £52.50 £35.75 -
25th Percentile - £42.56 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £64.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% - -
75th Percentile - £66.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £64.50 -
% change year-on-year -6.98% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +36 252 £700 - 47
North of England +47 34 £550 -6.38% 21
Midlands +38 29 £580 -3.33% 10
South West -9 26 £663 -5.36% 5
West Midlands +29 24 £573 -0.43% 4
North West +32 23 £550 - 15
South East -16 14 £700 +5.66% 13
Yorkshire +24 12 £550 -8.33% 4
East of England +5 12 £850 +240.00% 2
East Midlands +9 5 £675 +8.00% 6
North East +14 3 £850 - 2
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Data 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 England region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 215 (58.11%) Data Modelling
2 163 (44.05%) Data Architecture
3 137 (37.03%) Azure
4 130 (35.14%) Data Governance
5 119 (32.16%) Data Warehouse
6 105 (28.38%) Business Intelligence
7 98 (26.49%) Data Strategy
8 93 (25.14%) Analytics
9 82 (22.16%) Finance
10 81 (21.89%) Data Integration
11 78 (21.08%) Security Cleared
12 77 (20.81%) NoSQL
13 75 (20.27%) Data Quality
14 74 (20.00%) Metadata
15 73 (19.73%) Migration
16 72 (19.46%) Data Management
16 72 (19.46%) Microsoft
16 72 (19.46%) Social Skills
17 70 (18.92%) ETL
18 69 (18.65%) SQL
19 68 (18.38%) AWS
19 68 (18.38%) Public Sector
20 63 (17.03%) Power Platform
20 63 (17.03%) Power BI
21 61 (16.49%) SC Cleared
22 58 (15.68%) Data Lake
23 52 (14.05%) Data Migration
24 51 (13.78%) Agile
25 49 (13.24%) Reference Data
26 47 (12.70%) Databricks

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.24%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.35%) SAS
4 4 (1.08%) Apache
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.54%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (4.59%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 36 (9.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.54%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.54%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.27%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 137 (37.03%) Azure
2 68 (18.38%) AWS
3 63 (17.03%) Power Platform
4 26 (7.03%) GCP
5 21 (5.68%) Snowflake
6 19 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (5.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 17 (4.59%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (3.78%) Amazon Kinesis
9 13 (3.51%) Serverless
10 12 (3.24%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.97%) Azure Stack
11 11 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (2.43%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (2.16%) dbt
13 8 (2.16%) SaaS
14 6 (1.62%) OCI
15 5 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 5 (1.35%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (32.16%) Data Warehouse
2 77 (20.81%) NoSQL
3 74 (20.00%) Metadata
4 63 (17.03%) Power BI
5 58 (15.68%) Data Lake
6 45 (12.16%) Big Data
7 43 (11.62%) Data Vault
8 35 (9.46%) Metadata Repository
9 26 (7.03%) SQL Server
10 24 (6.49%) Tableau
11 17 (4.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (4.32%) OLAP
12 16 (4.32%) OLTP
13 14 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
14 12 (3.24%) Relational Database
15 11 (2.97%) BigQuery
15 11 (2.97%) Data Mining
15 11 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
16 10 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (2.70%) DB2
Development Applications
1 27 (7.30%) ERwin
2 10 (2.70%) JIRA
3 9 (2.43%) ER Studio
4 7 (1.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (1.35%) Git
6 4 (1.08%) kappa
7 3 (0.81%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.81%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.54%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.54%) Postman
8 2 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 82 (22.16%) Finance
2 72 (19.46%) Social Skills
3 68 (18.38%) Public Sector
4 34 (9.19%) Manufacturing
5 33 (8.92%) Marketing
6 32 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (7.84%) Telecoms
8 27 (7.30%) Banking
8 27 (7.30%) Electronics
9 17 (4.59%) Publishing
10 12 (3.24%) Retail
11 7 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.62%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.35%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Legal
14 3 (0.81%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.03%) JSON
2 21 (5.68%) Kafka
3 16 (4.32%) XML
4 13 (3.51%) JSON Schema
4 13 (3.51%) REST
5 6 (1.62%) Apache Avro
5 6 (1.62%) PySpark
6 4 (1.08%) Middleware
6 4 (1.08%) YAML
7 3 (0.81%) SOAP
7 3 (0.81%) Spring
7 3 (0.81%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.54%) ADO
8 2 (0.54%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (0.54%) CSS
8 2 (0.54%) DOM
8 2 (0.54%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.54%) HTML
8 2 (0.54%) Swagger
8 2 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.24%) Reference Data
2 31 (8.38%) Data Structures
3 19 (5.14%) Management Information System
4 18 (4.86%) Product Ownership
5 16 (4.32%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.89%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.89%) NHS
9 7 (1.89%) Taxonomies
10 6 (1.62%) Wiki
11 5 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.35%) Freedom of Information
11 5 (1.35%) Freedom of Information Act
11 5 (1.35%) Industry 4.0
12 4 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.08%) Data Fabric
12 4 (1.08%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (58.11%) Data Modelling
2 163 (44.05%) Data Architecture
3 130 (35.14%) Data Governance
4 105 (28.38%) Business Intelligence
5 98 (26.49%) Data Strategy
6 93 (25.14%) Analytics
7 81 (21.89%) Data Integration
8 73 (19.73%) Migration
9 72 (19.46%) Data Management
10 70 (18.92%) ETL
11 52 (14.05%) Data Migration
12 51 (13.78%) Agile
13 46 (12.43%) Data Design
14 41 (11.08%) Roadmaps
15 40 (10.81%) UML
16 39 (10.54%) Data Lineage
17 35 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
18 32 (8.65%) Data Analysis
19 31 (8.38%) Physical Data Model
20 29 (7.84%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (18.65%) SQL
2 27 (7.30%) Python
3 17 (4.59%) Java
4 9 (2.43%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.81%) PL/SQL
5 3 (0.81%) R
6 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.54%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.27%) C#
7 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.27%) Scala
7 1 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 78 (21.08%) Security Cleared
2 61 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.32%) DV Cleared
4 14 (3.78%) Degree
5 8 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.27%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.27%) CITP
9 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (20.27%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.11%) GDPR
3 6 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.81%) QA
5 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.08%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (1.08%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.08%) Terraform
2 2 (0.54%) Ambari
2 2 (0.54%) Ansible
2 2 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (0.54%) Oozie
Vendors
1 72 (19.46%) Microsoft
2 47 (12.70%) Databricks
2 47 (12.70%) Sparx
3 40 (10.81%) SAP
4 36 (9.73%) Oracle
5 20 (5.41%) Google
6 18 (4.86%) Informatica
7 14 (3.78%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.16%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.89%) Remedy
9 7 (1.89%) Talend
10 5 (1.35%) Autodesk
11 4 (1.08%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.81%) Ab Initio
12 3 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.81%) Brio
12 3 (0.81%) Teradata
13 2 (0.54%) Adobe
13 2 (0.54%) IBM
13 2 (0.54%) Omniture