Data Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 295 281
Rank change year-on-year +12 -14 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 119 135 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.59% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.63% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 83 162
10th Percentile £450 £502 £517
25th Percentile £521 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £725 £736 £700
90th Percentile £753 £908 £775
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £675
% change year-on-year - - +10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 1
10th Percentile £52.50 £46.35 -
25th Percentile - £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +32.00% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £64.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +29.00% +21.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +38 36 £550 -6.38% 24
Midlands +29 27 £600 -2.04% 6
North West +33 25 £543 -1.36% 16
South West -15 24 £638 -1.92% 6
West Midlands +31 22 £590 -1.67% 2
South East -7 17 £700 +6.67% 10
Yorkshire +18 12 £550 -8.33% 6
East of England +2 12 £850 +240.00% 3
Scotland +48 10 £683 -9.00% 6
East Midlands +6 5 £675 +8.00% 4
North East +11 3 £850 - 2
Wales - 1 - - 4
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 58 (48.74%) Data Modelling
2 54 (45.38%) Data Architecture
3 43 (36.13%) Data Governance
4 42 (35.29%) Data Management
5 41 (34.45%) Azure
6 38 (31.93%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (31.09%) Migration
8 34 (28.57%) Analytics
9 33 (27.73%) Data Strategy
10 27 (22.69%) Data Migration
10 27 (22.69%) Social Skills
11 26 (21.85%) SQL
12 24 (20.17%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (19.33%) Data Quality
14 22 (18.49%) Security Cleared
15 20 (16.81%) Agile
15 20 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
16 19 (15.97%) Data Analysis
16 19 (15.97%) Finance
17 18 (15.13%) ETL
17 18 (15.13%) Microsoft
17 18 (15.13%) Data Design
18 17 (14.29%) Metadata
18 17 (14.29%) Power Platform
18 17 (14.29%) Databricks
19 16 (13.45%) Data Lake
19 16 (13.45%) Power BI
19 16 (13.45%) Use Case
19 16 (13.45%) Public Sector
20 14 (11.76%) Roadmaps

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.84%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.68%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 41 (34.45%) Azure
2 17 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 14 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (10.92%) AWS
5 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (5.04%) Azure Stack
6 6 (5.04%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.20%) GCP
7 5 (4.20%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.36%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.52%) Amazon Neptune
9 3 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.52%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (2.52%) SaaS
9 3 (2.52%) Serverless
10 1 (0.84%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.84%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.84%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (31.93%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (14.29%) Metadata
3 16 (13.45%) Data Lake
3 16 (13.45%) Power BI
4 14 (11.76%) Big Data
5 10 (8.40%) Data Mining
6 9 (7.56%) Metadata Repository
6 9 (7.56%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (5.04%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.20%) Star Schema
9 5 (4.20%) Tableau
10 4 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.52%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.68%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.68%) OLAP
12 2 (1.68%) OLTP
12 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.40%) JIRA
2 4 (3.36%) Git
3 3 (2.52%) ERwin
3 3 (2.52%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.68%) kappa
4 2 (1.68%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.84%) Terragrunt
General
1 27 (22.69%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.97%) Finance
4 16 (13.45%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.04%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.36%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.52%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.68%) Banking
8 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.84%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Legal
9 1 (0.84%) Local Government
9 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.72%) XML
2 7 (5.88%) JSON
3 6 (5.04%) REST
4 4 (3.36%) Kafka
5 3 (2.52%) SOAP
6 2 (1.68%) Web Services
7 1 (0.84%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.84%) JSON Schema
7 1 (0.84%) JWT
7 1 (0.84%) Next.js
7 1 (0.84%) OAuth
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (5.88%) Reference Data
3 6 (5.04%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.04%) NHS
3 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.20%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.36%) Taxonomies
6 3 (2.52%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.52%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.84%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.84%) FMCG
8 1 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (48.74%) Data Modelling
2 54 (45.38%) Data Architecture
3 43 (36.13%) Data Governance
4 42 (35.29%) Data Management
5 37 (31.09%) Migration
6 34 (28.57%) Analytics
7 33 (27.73%) Data Strategy
8 27 (22.69%) Data Migration
9 24 (20.17%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (16.81%) Agile
11 19 (15.97%) Data Analysis
12 18 (15.13%) Data Design
12 18 (15.13%) ETL
13 16 (13.45%) Use Case
14 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (11.76%) Roadmaps
15 13 (10.92%) Data Integration
16 12 (10.08%) Data Security
16 12 (10.08%) Metadata Management
17 10 (8.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.85%) SQL
2 10 (8.40%) Java
3 5 (4.20%) Python
4 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.84%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.08%) DV Cleared
3 10 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.04%) Degree
5 5 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.52%) GDPR
3 2 (1.68%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (2.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (2.52%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.29%) Databricks
3 8 (6.72%) Sparx
4 7 (5.88%) Remedy
5 5 (4.20%) Autodesk
5 5 (4.20%) Informatica
6 3 (2.52%) Brio
6 3 (2.52%) Oracle
6 3 (2.52%) SAP
7 2 (1.68%) Google
7 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.84%) Infor
8 1 (0.84%) Talend