Data Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £625, 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 206 240 231
Rank change year-on-year +34 -9 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 140 231 529
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.95% 0.97% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.02% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 164 371
10th Percentile £475 £538 £525
25th Percentile £538 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £669 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +2.88% +8.33%
75th Percentile £725 £795 £750
90th Percentile £825 £893 £813
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £675
% change year-on-year - - +10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
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
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Data Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Architect.

Data Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Data Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Architect.

Data Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 81 (57.86%) Data Modelling
2 61 (43.57%) Azure
3 52 (37.14%) Data Architecture
4 48 (34.29%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (27.14%) Data Governance
6 36 (25.71%) Analytics
7 34 (24.29%) Data Quality
8 33 (23.57%) Data Management
9 30 (21.43%) Finance
9 30 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (21.43%) Social Skills
10 29 (20.71%) ETL
11 26 (18.57%) Microsoft
11 26 (18.57%) Data Strategy
12 25 (17.86%) Databricks
12 25 (17.86%) Agile
12 25 (17.86%) Migration
13 24 (17.14%) SQL
14 23 (16.43%) AWS
15 21 (15.00%) Power Platform
15 21 (15.00%) Public Sector
16 20 (14.29%) NoSQL
16 20 (14.29%) JSON
17 19 (13.57%) Data Structures
17 19 (13.57%) Power BI
18 18 (12.86%) Microservices
18 18 (12.86%) Data Migration
19 17 (12.14%) Data Lineage
19 17 (12.14%) Data Lake
20 16 (11.43%) Data Protection

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (1.43%) SAS
2 1 (0.71%) Apache
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (2.14%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.71%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.71%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 61 (43.57%) Azure
2 23 (16.43%) AWS
3 21 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 12 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (7.86%) Azure Stack
6 9 (6.43%) GCP
7 8 (5.71%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (5.00%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.86%) dbt
9 4 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.86%) Serverless
10 3 (2.14%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.43%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.43%) Collibra
11 2 (1.43%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (34.29%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 19 (13.57%) Power BI
4 17 (12.14%) Data Lake
5 14 (10.00%) Big Data
6 12 (8.57%) Snowflake Schema
7 10 (7.14%) Metadata
8 9 (6.43%) SQL Server
9 8 (5.71%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (3.57%) Tableau
12 4 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (2.86%) OLAP
12 4 (2.86%) OLTP
12 4 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (2.14%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (2.14%) BigQuery
13 3 (2.14%) Delta Lake
13 3 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (2.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (5.00%) ERwin
2 3 (2.14%) Git
3 2 (1.43%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.43%) Postman
3 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.71%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.71%) JIRA
General
1 30 (21.43%) Finance
1 30 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.29%) Banking
4 8 (5.71%) Marketing
5 6 (4.29%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.29%) Retail
6 5 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.86%) Electronics
7 4 (2.86%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.14%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.43%) Advertising
9 2 (1.43%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Games
10 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
10 1 (0.71%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.29%) JSON
2 12 (8.57%) XML
3 11 (7.86%) REST
4 7 (5.00%) JSON Schema
5 4 (2.86%) PySpark
6 3 (2.14%) Kafka
7 2 (1.43%) ADO
7 2 (1.43%) CSS
7 2 (1.43%) DOM
7 2 (1.43%) HTML
7 2 (1.43%) jQuery
7 2 (1.43%) Node.js
7 2 (1.43%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.43%) Swagger
8 1 (0.71%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.71%) FHIR
8 1 (0.71%) Middleware
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.71%) Spring
8 1 (0.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.57%) Data Structures
2 10 (7.14%) Reference Data
3 8 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.86%) NHS
6 4 (2.86%) Wiki
7 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.14%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.43%) Grid Computing
8 2 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.71%) Clustering
9 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (57.86%) Data Modelling
2 52 (37.14%) Data Architecture
3 38 (27.14%) Data Governance
4 36 (25.71%) Analytics
5 33 (23.57%) Data Management
6 30 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (20.71%) ETL
8 26 (18.57%) Data Strategy
9 25 (17.86%) Agile
9 25 (17.86%) Migration
10 18 (12.86%) Data Migration
10 18 (12.86%) Microservices
11 17 (12.14%) Data Lineage
12 16 (11.43%) Data Integration
12 16 (11.43%) Data Mapping
12 16 (11.43%) Data Protection
13 14 (10.00%) Event-Driven
13 14 (10.00%) Physical Data Model
13 14 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (8.57%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.14%) SQL
2 14 (10.00%) Python
3 3 (2.14%) Java
4 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.43%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.71%) Bash
5 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.71%) R
5 1 (0.71%) Scala
5 1 (0.71%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.14%) Degree
6 2 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.43%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (24.29%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.86%) GDPR
3 4 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.14%) QA
5 1 (0.71%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.14%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.14%) Terraform
2 2 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 26 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 25 (17.86%) Databricks
3 11 (7.86%) SAP
4 9 (6.43%) Sparx
5 8 (5.71%) Google
6 7 (5.00%) Oracle
7 6 (4.29%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.57%) Informatica
9 3 (2.14%) Brio
10 2 (1.43%) Adobe
10 2 (1.43%) Ariba
10 2 (1.43%) Ensighten
10 2 (1.43%) Monetate
10 2 (1.43%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.43%) Nexthink
10 2 (1.43%) Omniture
10 2 (1.43%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.43%) Snow
10 2 (1.43%) Tealium
11 1 (0.71%) Workday