Data Architecture Contracts in the North West

Data Architecture
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 134 158
Rank change year-on-year +40 +24 -44
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 41 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.47% 0.53% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 0.59% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 12 20
10th Percentile £419 £426 £403
25th Percentile £456 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -16.40% -7.41%
75th Percentile £569 £563 £688
90th Percentile £600 £574 £739
England median daily rate £650 £675 £653
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.37% +13.57%
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 West

Data Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +27 24 £518 -3.63% 10
Cheshire +5 14 £500 +14.29%
Merseyside +12 1 - - 4
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (14.63%) SAS
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 12 (29.27%) Power Platform
3 7 (17.07%) AWS
3 7 (17.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (14.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (14.63%) Azure Stack
4 6 (14.63%) Collibra
4 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (14.63%) Power Automate
4 6 (14.63%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.88%) IaaS
5 2 (4.88%) PaaS
5 2 (4.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (34.15%) Data Lake
1 14 (34.15%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (29.27%) Power BI
3 10 (24.39%) SQL Server
4 6 (14.63%) Ataccama
4 6 (14.63%) Qlik Sense
4 6 (14.63%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (12.20%) Data Mining
6 4 (9.76%) Big Data
7 3 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (7.32%) Metadata
7 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
8 2 (4.88%) RDBMS
8 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.44%) BigQuery
9 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (9.76%) Finance
3 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) German Language
4 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Local Government
5 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (58.54%) Architect
2 13 (31.71%) Data Architect
3 8 (19.51%) Analyst
3 8 (19.51%) Data Analyst
4 7 (17.07%) Senior
5 6 (14.63%) AWS Architect
5 6 (14.63%) Data Quality Analyst
5 6 (14.63%) QA Analyst
5 6 (14.63%) Quality Analyst
5 6 (14.63%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (12.20%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
6 5 (12.20%) Senior QA Analyst
6 5 (12.20%) Senior Quality Analyst
7 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Architect
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 2 (4.88%) Data Integration Developer
9 2 (4.88%) Integration Developer
9 2 (4.88%) SSIS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) JSON
1 6 (14.63%) REST
1 6 (14.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Data Structures
1 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
1 6 (14.63%) Reference Data
2 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.44%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) Data Management
2 18 (43.90%) Data Governance
3 17 (41.46%) Analytics
3 17 (41.46%) Data Modelling
4 15 (36.59%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (24.39%) Agile
7 9 (21.95%) Data Strategy
7 9 (21.95%) ETL
7 9 (21.95%) Visualisation
8 8 (19.51%) GAP Analysis
9 7 (17.07%) Data Analysis
9 7 (17.07%) Data Cleansing
10 6 (14.63%) Change Management
10 6 (14.63%) Data Integration
10 6 (14.63%) Data Lineage
10 6 (14.63%) Data Mapping
10 6 (14.63%) Data Protection
10 6 (14.63%) Microservices
10 6 (14.63%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 18 (43.90%) SQL
2 7 (17.07%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (36.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (14.63%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) SAP
2 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.63%) Alteryx
3 6 (14.63%) Dataiku
3 6 (14.63%) Trillium
4 3 (7.32%) Databricks
5 2 (4.88%) Sparx
6 1 (2.44%) Google
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle