Data Architecture Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 237 235
Rank change year-on-year +27 -2 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 134 250 510
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.92% 1.03% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.15% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 177 383
10th Percentile £441 £463 £496
25th Percentile £513 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +1.92% +13.04%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £750
90th Percentile £875 £825 £810
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.63 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% - -
UK median hourly rate £29.83 £35.38 £89.56
% change year-on-year -15.69% -60.50% +241.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,743 21,731 40,495
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.55% 89.66% 91.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,582 15,423 29,469
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 503 524
10th Percentile £14.79 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.47
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

Data Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Architecture trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
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 Architecture.

Data Architecture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Data Architecture daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
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 Architecture.

Data Architecture hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
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 7 (5.22%) Apache
1 7 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.75%) CMS
3 1 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Gliffy
1 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (2.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.49%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.75%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.75%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.75%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.75%) Shopify
3 1 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (37.31%) Azure
2 19 (14.18%) AWS
3 16 (11.94%) Power Platform
4 13 (9.70%) dbt
4 13 (9.70%) GCP
5 10 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (6.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (6.72%) SaaS
7 7 (5.22%) Snowflake
8 6 (4.48%) Azure Stack
8 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.73%) IaaS
9 5 (3.73%) PaaS
10 4 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.24%) GitHub
12 2 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.49%) Collibra
12 2 (1.49%) Serverless
13 1 (0.75%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (22.39%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (11.94%) Power BI
3 14 (10.45%) Data Lake
4 13 (9.70%) Metadata
5 11 (8.21%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.72%) Big Data
7 7 (5.22%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (4.48%) Apache Arrow
8 6 (4.48%) Apache Ignite
8 6 (4.48%) Dremio
8 6 (4.48%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.73%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.24%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.24%) Data Vault
10 3 (2.24%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.24%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (7.46%) ERwin
2 4 (2.99%) Git
2 4 (2.99%) JIRA
3 2 (1.49%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.75%) Ant
4 1 (0.75%) kappa
4 1 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.75%) Toad
General
1 37 (27.61%) Social Skills
2 33 (24.63%) Finance
3 19 (14.18%) Public Sector
4 16 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.45%) Marketing
6 13 (9.70%) Banking
7 10 (7.46%) Retail
8 7 (5.22%) Investment Banking
8 7 (5.22%) Manufacturing
8 7 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (5.22%) Telecoms
9 6 (4.48%) Electronics
9 6 (4.48%) Front Office
9 6 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.24%) French Language
10 3 (2.24%) German Language
10 3 (2.24%) Legal
11 2 (1.49%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.49%) Korean Language
11 2 (1.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 78 (58.21%) Architect
2 57 (42.54%) Data Architect
3 15 (11.19%) Enterprise Architect
3 15 (11.19%) Lead
4 12 (8.96%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (8.21%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 11 (8.21%) Senior
6 10 (7.46%) Developer
7 9 (6.72%) Azure Architect
7 9 (6.72%) Azure Data Architect
7 9 (6.72%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Analyst
8 6 (4.48%) Senior Architect
9 5 (3.73%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Data Modeller
10 4 (2.99%) Business Architect
10 4 (2.99%) Data Analyst
10 4 (2.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 4 (2.99%) Informatica Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.96%) JSON
2 9 (6.72%) REST
2 9 (6.72%) XML
3 8 (5.97%) Pandas
4 7 (5.22%) NumPy
5 6 (4.48%) gRPC
5 6 (4.48%) Protocol Buffers
5 6 (4.48%) SciPy
6 5 (3.73%) SOAP
7 3 (2.24%) JSON Schema
8 2 (1.49%) ADO
8 2 (1.49%) Middleware
8 2 (1.49%) PySpark
8 2 (1.49%) TIBCO EMS
8 2 (1.49%) XSD
8 2 (1.49%) XSLT
9 1 (0.75%) Flutter
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.75%) VML
9 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.70%) Data Structures
2 12 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.21%) Reference Data
4 8 (5.97%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.48%) Derivative
5 6 (4.48%) Equities
5 6 (4.48%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (4.48%) Hedge funds
5 6 (4.48%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.48%) Wiki
6 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.24%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.49%) Grid Computing
8 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.49%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.49%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.75%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.24%) Unix
2 2 (1.49%) Linux
2 2 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 50 (37.31%) Data Governance
3 38 (28.36%) Agile
3 38 (28.36%) Analytics
4 33 (24.63%) Data Management
5 31 (23.13%) ETL
6 30 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (19.40%) Data Strategy
8 25 (18.66%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (16.42%) Master Data Management
10 19 (14.18%) Data Integration
11 18 (13.43%) Migration
12 17 (12.69%) Roadmaps
13 16 (11.94%) Microservices
14 15 (11.19%) Asset Management
14 15 (11.19%) Data Engineering
14 15 (11.19%) Data Lineage
14 15 (11.19%) DevOps
15 14 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
15 14 (10.45%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 22 (16.42%) SQL
2 21 (15.67%) Python
3 8 (5.97%) Java
4 7 (5.22%) Scala
4 7 (5.22%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.48%) Ruby
6 2 (1.49%) R
6 2 (1.49%) XPath
7 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (7.46%) Degree
2 8 (5.97%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (26.87%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.97%) GDPR
3 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) CDISC
4 1 (0.75%) GxP
4 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.75%) HL7
4 1 (0.75%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (1.49%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.49%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.18%) Databricks
3 13 (9.70%) Informatica
4 12 (8.96%) SAP
5 11 (8.21%) Sparx
6 9 (6.72%) Oracle
7 7 (5.22%) Salesforce
8 6 (4.48%) Google
9 4 (2.99%) IBM
10 3 (2.24%) Ariba
10 3 (2.24%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.49%) Adobe
11 2 (1.49%) Nexthink
11 2 (1.49%) Snow
11 2 (1.49%) TIBCO
11 2 (1.49%) Workday
12 1 (0.75%) Embarcadero
12 1 (0.75%) Hyperion
12 1 (0.75%) Mercator
12 1 (0.75%) Sitecore