Lead Data Architect Contracts

Lead Data Architect
UK

The median Lead Data Architect daily rate in the UK 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 568 669 800
Rank change year-on-year +101 +131 -94
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Architect 11 15 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.027% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.028% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 27
10th Percentile £475 £554 £605
25th Percentile £494 £641 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £713 £710
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +0.35% -5.33%
75th Percentile £856 £1,056 £869
90th Percentile £875 £1,100 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £825 £900 £825
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +43.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Lead Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Architect in the UK

Lead Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Architect in the UK

Lead Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead Data Architect in the UK

Lead Data Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Data Architect within the UK 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
England +94 11 £675 -6.90% 4
London +101 8 £675 -3.57% 4
Work from Home +105 4 £588 -34.72%
UK excluding London +44 3 £825 -8.33%
East of England +8 1 £850 +70.00%
South East +5 1 £825 -25.00%
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Midlands - 1 £500 -

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

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

1 6 (54.55%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Data Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Data Lake
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
4 3 (27.27%) Azure
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) ERP
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) Data Management
5 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (18.18%) Dimensional Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Big Data
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (18.18%) Databricks
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift

Lead Data Architect Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (36.36%) Data Lake
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (18.18%) Big Data
3 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (18.18%) Data Fabric
2 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (9.09%) FMCG
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 4 (36.36%) Data Architecture
2 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
3 3 (27.27%) ERP
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Data Management
4 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (18.18%) Data Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Confluent
2 1 (9.09%) Infor