Data Architect Contracts in England

Data Architect
UK > England

The median Data Architect daily rate in England 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 234 265 262
Rank change year-on-year +31 -3 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 377 467 766
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.01% 0.99% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.05% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 329 492
10th Percentile £475 £513 £529
25th Percentile £550 £600 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £775
90th Percentile £925 £875 £825
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £675
% change year-on-year - - +10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £52.50 £35.75 -
25th Percentile - £42.56 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £64.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +29.00% -
75th Percentile - £66.00 -
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
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £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% +16.28%

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 12 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 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
London +35 258 £700 - 36
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
East Midlands +6 5 £675 +8.00% 4
North East +11 3 £850 - 2
Data Architect
UK

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

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 England region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 214 (56.76%) Data Modelling
2 168 (44.56%) Data Architecture
3 136 (36.07%) Azure
4 132 (35.01%) Data Governance
5 118 (31.30%) Data Warehouse
6 101 (26.79%) Business Intelligence
7 98 (25.99%) Analytics
8 95 (25.20%) Data Strategy
9 82 (21.75%) Finance
9 82 (21.75%) Migration
10 79 (20.95%) Data Integration
11 78 (20.69%) Security Cleared
11 78 (20.69%) NoSQL
11 78 (20.69%) Social Skills
12 76 (20.16%) Data Quality
13 74 (19.63%) SQL
14 73 (19.36%) ETL
14 73 (19.36%) Metadata
15 71 (18.83%) Data Management
16 70 (18.57%) Microsoft
17 68 (18.04%) AWS
18 67 (17.77%) Public Sector
19 64 (16.98%) Power Platform
20 62 (16.45%) Power BI
21 61 (16.18%) Data Lake
22 59 (15.65%) Data Migration
23 58 (15.38%) SC Cleared
24 52 (13.79%) Agile
25 51 (13.53%) Reference Data
25 51 (13.53%) Sparx

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 14 (3.71%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.33%) SAS
4 4 (1.06%) Apache
5 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.53%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (4.51%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 42 (11.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.53%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.53%) 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
1 136 (36.07%) Azure
2 68 (18.04%) AWS
3 64 (16.98%) Power Platform
4 20 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (5.31%) GCP
4 20 (5.31%) Snowflake
5 18 (4.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 17 (4.51%) Microsoft Purview
7 13 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
8 12 (3.18%) Serverless
9 11 (2.92%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (2.92%) Azure Stack
9 11 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.12%) Amazon EMR
10 8 (2.12%) SaaS
11 5 (1.33%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (1.33%) OCI
11 5 (1.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (31.30%) Data Warehouse
2 78 (20.69%) NoSQL
3 73 (19.36%) Metadata
4 62 (16.45%) Power BI
5 61 (16.18%) Data Lake
6 45 (11.94%) Big Data
7 44 (11.67%) Data Vault
8 37 (9.81%) Metadata Repository
9 27 (7.16%) SQL Server
10 24 (6.37%) Tableau
11 19 (5.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (3.71%) Relational Database
14 12 (3.18%) Data Mining
14 12 (3.18%) OLAP
14 12 (3.18%) OLTP
15 11 (2.92%) DB2
15 11 (2.92%) Snowflake Schema
16 10 (2.65%) Star Schema
17 9 (2.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 29 (7.69%) ERwin
2 11 (2.92%) JIRA
3 8 (2.12%) ER Studio
4 7 (1.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (1.59%) Git
6 3 (0.80%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.53%) kappa
7 2 (0.53%) Postman
7 2 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.27%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 82 (21.75%) Finance
2 78 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 67 (17.77%) Public Sector
4 33 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.49%) Manufacturing
6 31 (8.22%) Marketing
7 27 (7.16%) Banking
8 26 (6.90%) Telecoms
9 25 (6.63%) Electronics
10 17 (4.51%) Publishing
11 10 (2.65%) Retail
12 7 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.59%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.33%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.80%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.80%) Legal
16 3 (0.80%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.16%) JSON
2 21 (5.57%) Kafka
3 16 (4.24%) XML
4 13 (3.45%) JSON Schema
4 13 (3.45%) REST
5 6 (1.59%) PySpark
6 5 (1.33%) Apache Avro
7 4 (1.06%) Middleware
7 4 (1.06%) YAML
8 3 (0.80%) SOAP
8 3 (0.80%) Spring
8 3 (0.80%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.53%) ADO
9 2 (0.53%) CSS
9 2 (0.53%) DOM
9 2 (0.53%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.53%) HTML
9 2 (0.53%) Node.js
9 2 (0.53%) Swagger
9 2 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (13.53%) Reference Data
2 30 (7.96%) Data Structures
3 19 (5.04%) Management Information System
4 18 (4.77%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.71%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.86%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.86%) NHS
10 5 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.33%) Freedom of Information
10 5 (1.33%) Freedom of Information Act
10 5 (1.33%) Industry 4.0
11 4 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.06%) Data Fabric
11 4 (1.06%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.06%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.06%) Wiki
12 3 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.27%) Linux
1 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (56.76%) Data Modelling
2 168 (44.56%) Data Architecture
3 132 (35.01%) Data Governance
4 101 (26.79%) Business Intelligence
5 98 (25.99%) Analytics
6 95 (25.20%) Data Strategy
7 82 (21.75%) Migration
8 79 (20.95%) Data Integration
9 73 (19.36%) ETL
10 71 (18.83%) Data Management
11 59 (15.65%) Data Migration
12 52 (13.79%) Agile
13 49 (13.00%) Data Design
14 42 (11.14%) Roadmaps
15 41 (10.88%) UML
16 37 (9.81%) Data Lineage
17 35 (9.28%) Data Analysis
18 34 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
19 32 (8.49%) Stakeholder Management
20 28 (7.43%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 74 (19.63%) SQL
2 28 (7.43%) Python
3 18 (4.77%) Java
4 10 (2.65%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.80%) R
7 2 (0.53%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.27%) Bash
8 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.27%) Scala
8 1 (0.27%) U-SQL
8 1 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 78 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 58 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.04%) DV Cleared
4 14 (3.71%) Degree
5 8 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.80%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.27%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.27%) CITP
8 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (20.16%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.16%) GDPR
3 6 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.80%) QA
5 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (1.06%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.06%) Terraform
2 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.27%) Ambari
3 1 (0.27%) Ansible
3 1 (0.27%) Oozie
Vendors
1 70 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 51 (13.53%) Sparx
3 50 (13.26%) Databricks
4 40 (10.61%) SAP
5 38 (10.08%) Oracle
6 18 (4.77%) Informatica
7 14 (3.71%) Google
7 14 (3.71%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.12%) Remedy
8 8 (2.12%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.86%) Talend
10 5 (1.33%) Autodesk
11 4 (1.06%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.80%) Ab Initio
12 3 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.80%) Brio
12 3 (0.80%) Teradata
13 2 (0.53%) Adobe
13 2 (0.53%) IBM
13 2 (0.53%) Omniture