Data Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 298 286
Rank change year-on-year +20 -12 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 118 146 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.64% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.68% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 93 168
10th Percentile £450 £509 £517
25th Percentile £534 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £709
90th Percentile £752 £838 £779
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £676
% change year-on-year - -0.15% +10.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 0
10th Percentile £52.50 £46.35 -
25th Percentile - £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £64.50 -
% change year-on-year -6.98% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,181 21,601 29,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.27% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,558 15,029 20,712
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,082 1,404
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.76 £18.01 £14.78
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 of England +45 34 £550 -6.38% 21
Midlands +36 28 £590 -1.67% 10
South West -10 26 £663 -5.36% 5
West Midlands +29 23 £575 - 4
North West +26 23 £550 - 15
South East -12 14 £700 +5.66% 13
Yorkshire +18 12 £550 -8.33% 4
East of England +3 12 £850 +240.00% 3
Scotland +45 10 £683 -9.00% 7
East Midlands +9 5 £675 +8.00% 6
North East +14 3 £850 - 2
Wales +19 1 - - 5
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 59 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 55 (46.61%) Data Architecture
3 44 (37.29%) Data Management
4 43 (36.44%) Data Governance
5 41 (34.75%) Azure
6 40 (33.90%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (29.66%) Data Strategy
8 34 (28.81%) Migration
9 32 (27.12%) Analytics
10 28 (23.73%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (23.73%) Social Skills
11 24 (20.34%) SQL
11 24 (20.34%) Data Migration
12 23 (19.49%) Security Cleared
12 23 (19.49%) Data Quality
13 21 (17.80%) Agile
13 21 (17.80%) Finance
14 20 (16.95%) Data Analysis
14 20 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
15 19 (16.10%) Metadata
16 18 (15.25%) Microsoft
17 17 (14.41%) Data Design
17 17 (14.41%) Public Sector
18 16 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
18 16 (13.56%) Use Case
19 15 (12.71%) ETL
19 15 (12.71%) Data Structures
19 15 (12.71%) Power BI
19 15 (12.71%) Power Platform
19 15 (12.71%) Roadmaps

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (4.24%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.69%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 41 (34.75%) Azure
2 15 (12.71%) Power Platform
3 14 (11.86%) AWS
4 13 (11.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (5.08%) Azure Stack
6 6 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.24%) GCP
7 5 (4.24%) Serverless
7 5 (4.24%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.39%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.54%) Amazon Neptune
9 3 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (2.54%) SaaS
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.85%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (33.90%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (16.10%) Metadata
3 15 (12.71%) Power BI
4 14 (11.86%) Big Data
4 14 (11.86%) Data Lake
5 10 (8.47%) Data Mining
6 9 (7.63%) NoSQL
7 8 (6.78%) Metadata Repository
8 7 (5.93%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (5.08%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.24%) OLAP
10 5 (4.24%) OLTP
10 5 (4.24%) Tableau
11 4 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (2.54%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.69%) Cloudera CDH
13 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
13 2 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (7.63%) JIRA
2 4 (3.39%) Git
2 4 (3.39%) kappa
3 3 (2.54%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.69%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.85%) ERwin
5 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 28 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.80%) Finance
3 20 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.41%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.08%) Aerospace
6 5 (4.24%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.54%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.54%) Retail
8 2 (1.69%) Banking
8 2 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Electronics
9 1 (0.85%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Legal
9 1 (0.85%) Local Government
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.78%) XML
2 7 (5.93%) JSON
3 6 (5.08%) REST
4 4 (3.39%) Kafka
5 3 (2.54%) SOAP
6 2 (1.69%) Web Services
7 1 (0.85%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.85%) JSON Schema
7 1 (0.85%) JWT
7 1 (0.85%) Next.js
7 1 (0.85%) OAuth
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.71%) Data Structures
2 9 (7.63%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.93%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.08%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.08%) NHS
4 6 (5.08%) Reference Data
4 6 (5.08%) Taxonomies
5 5 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.24%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.69%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.85%) FMCG
7 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 55 (46.61%) Data Architecture
3 44 (37.29%) Data Management
4 43 (36.44%) Data Governance
5 35 (29.66%) Data Strategy
6 34 (28.81%) Migration
7 32 (27.12%) Analytics
8 28 (23.73%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (20.34%) Data Migration
10 21 (17.80%) Agile
11 20 (16.95%) Data Analysis
12 17 (14.41%) Data Design
13 16 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (13.56%) Use Case
14 15 (12.71%) ETL
14 15 (12.71%) Roadmaps
15 14 (11.86%) Data Integration
15 14 (11.86%) Metadata Management
16 13 (11.02%) Data Security
17 11 (9.32%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.34%) SQL
2 10 (8.47%) Java
3 5 (4.24%) Python
4 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (19.49%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.17%) DV Cleared
3 11 (9.32%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.08%) Degree
5 5 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.49%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.39%) GDPR
3 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.69%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (2.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (2.54%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.02%) Databricks
3 7 (5.93%) Remedy
4 5 (4.24%) Autodesk
4 5 (4.24%) Informatica
4 5 (4.24%) Sparx
5 4 (3.39%) SAP
6 3 (2.54%) Brio
6 3 (2.54%) Oracle
6 3 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.69%) Google
8 1 (0.85%) Infor
8 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.85%) Talend