Data Architecture Contracts in the North of England

Data Architecture
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 180 207
Rank change year-on-year +56 +27 -90
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 54 27 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.14% 0.49% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.54% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 20 29
10th Percentile £419 £424 £313
25th Percentile £463 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -18.40% +8.70%
75th Percentile £623 £566 £725
90th Percentile £793 £688 £740
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £29.83 £35.38 £89.56
% change year-on-year -15.69% -60.50% +241.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,018 4,995 6,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.66% 90.08% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 3,429 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +3.09% +10.23%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 206 255
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.73 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.74 £26.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +41.32% +6.92%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architecture within the North of England region 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
North West +41 41 £506 -3.25% 17
Yorkshire +22 13 £725 +50.99% 6
North East - 4 £750 - 4
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (11.11%) SAS
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.85%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) Azure
2 15 (27.78%) Power Platform
3 9 (16.67%) AWS
4 8 (14.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (12.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (12.96%) Snowflake
6 6 (11.11%) Azure Stack
6 6 (11.11%) Collibra
6 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (11.11%) Power Automate
7 4 (7.41%) SaaS
8 3 (5.56%) GCP
8 3 (5.56%) IaaS
8 3 (5.56%) PaaS
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.85%) Miro
10 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.63%) Data Lake
2 15 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (27.78%) Power BI
3 9 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 8 (14.81%) Metadata
5 6 (11.11%) Ataccama
5 6 (11.11%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (9.26%) Data Mining
7 4 (7.41%) Big Data
7 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
7 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
8 3 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.85%) ERwin
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Finance
3 9 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.26%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (7.41%) Marketing
6 4 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.70%) German Language
8 2 (3.70%) Retail
9 1 (1.85%) Banking
9 1 (1.85%) Electronics
9 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (61.11%) Architect
2 19 (35.19%) Data Architect
3 9 (16.67%) Analyst
3 9 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 9 (16.67%) Senior
4 6 (11.11%) AWS Architect
4 6 (11.11%) Data Quality Analyst
4 6 (11.11%) QA Analyst
4 6 (11.11%) Quality Analyst
4 6 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) Senior QA Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Quality Analyst
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.96%) JSON
1 7 (12.96%) REST
2 6 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (1.85%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.85%) Middleware
3 1 (1.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 6 (11.11%) Reference Data
3 3 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.85%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.85%) Solar Power
5 1 (1.85%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) Data Modelling
2 25 (46.30%) Data Governance
3 20 (37.04%) Data Management
4 19 (35.19%) Analytics
5 17 (31.48%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (25.93%) Agile
6 14 (25.93%) Data Strategy
7 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (20.37%) Data Analysis
9 10 (18.52%) Data Lineage
9 10 (18.52%) ETL
9 10 (18.52%) Visualisation
10 8 (14.81%) GAP Analysis
11 7 (12.96%) Data Cleansing
11 7 (12.96%) Data Protection
11 7 (12.96%) Event-Driven
11 7 (12.96%) Metadata Management
11 7 (12.96%) Project Delivery
12 6 (11.11%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.33%) SQL
2 8 (14.81%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (29.63%) Data Quality
2 6 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) SAP
2 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.11%) Alteryx
3 6 (11.11%) Dataiku
3 6 (11.11%) Trillium
4 5 (9.26%) Sparx
5 3 (5.56%) Databricks
6 2 (3.70%) Google
6 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud