The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Architect
Rank 320 363 414
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 207 206 161
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.499% 0.386% 0.282%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.539% 0.417% 0.304%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 136 83
Average daily rate £513 £538 £570
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.64% -5.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £384 £413
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £625 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year
- -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £72.50 £41.07 £86.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+76.53% -52.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £72.50 - £86.25
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38380 49421 52947
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.44% 92.55% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22598 27956 29382
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1965 2419 2806
Average hourly rate £18.88 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.02% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.13 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Architect across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Data Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Architect across the England region.

England Data Architect Daily Rate Trend

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Architect across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Data Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Data Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Architect across the England region.

England Data Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Data Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +32 136 £513 -6.77%
South East +46 39 £525 +0.76%
South West +27 6 £475 -2.56%
East of England +15 5 £550 +9.94%
Yorkshire +1 4 £525 +26.50%
North West -1 3 £350 -41.66%
West Midlands -2 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
East Midlands -9 1 - -
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Data Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Data Architect in their job title.

1 240 (56.47%) Data Modelling
2 204 (48.00%) Data Architecture
3 115 (27.06%) Finance
4 95 (22.35%) Oracle
5 92 (21.65%) Banking
6 89 (20.94%) Data Analysis
7 88 (20.71%) ETL
8 76 (17.88%) Data Warehouse
9 66 (15.53%) Data Management
10 63 (14.82%) Migration
11 61 (14.35%) TOGAF
12 57 (13.41%) ERwin
13 53 (12.47%) Business Intelligence
13 53 (12.47%) SQL
13 53 (12.47%) Investment Banking
13 53 (12.47%) Data Migration
14 47 (11.06%) SQL Server
15 43 (10.12%) Data Mapping
16 41 (9.647%) Stakeholder Management
17 40 (9.412%) Enterprise Architecture
18 36 (8.471%) IBM
19 35 (8.235%) Big Data
20 34 (8.000%) XML
21 32 (7.529%) Business Analysis
22 31 (7.294%) Information Architecture
23 30 (7.059%) Data Governance
24 29 (6.824%) Master Data Management
25 28 (6.588%) Project Management
25 28 (6.588%) Microsoft
25 28 (6.588%) UML

Data Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Data Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Data Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 34 (8.000%) XML
2 19 (4.471%) HTML
2 19 (4.471%) CSS
3 16 (3.765%) XSD
4 14 (3.294%) XML Schema
5 13 (3.059%) XSLT
5 13 (3.059%) .NET
6 9 (2.118%) MapReduce
7 7 (1.647%) MDX
8 5 (1.176%) Middleware
8 5 (1.176%) Web Services
9 4 (0.941%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.706%) WSDL
11 2 (0.471%) Oracle Fusion
11 2 (0.471%) LINQ
11 2 (0.471%) WPF
11 2 (0.471%) J2EE
11 2 (0.471%) BPEL4WS
12 1 (0.235%) NHibernate
12 1 (0.235%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 9 (2.118%) ESB
2 6 (1.412%) BizTalk Server
3 5 (1.176%) Documentum
3 5 (1.176%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (0.941%) Apache Pig
4 4 (0.941%) Windows Azure
5 3 (0.706%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.706%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.471%) Amazon AWS
6 2 (0.471%) Apache
6 2 (0.471%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.471%) SAS
7 1 (0.235%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.235%) CMS
7 1 (0.235%) FileNet
7 1 (0.235%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.235%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.235%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.235%) Google App Engine
7 1 (0.235%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (2.353%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.647%) MS Office
2 7 (1.647%) MS Excel
3 6 (1.412%) MS Project
4 1 (0.235%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.941%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.706%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 3 (0.706%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.471%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.235%) Taleo
4 1 (0.235%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.235%) Maximo
4 1 (0.235%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.235%) Summit
4 1 (0.235%) Agresso
4 1 (0.235%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.941%) LAN
1 4 (0.941%) WAN
2 3 (0.706%) HTTP
3 2 (0.471%) Internet
4 1 (0.235%) SAN
4 1 (0.235%) LDAP
4 1 (0.235%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (17.88%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (11.06%) SQL Server
3 35 (8.235%) Big Data
4 20 (4.706%) NoSQL
5 19 (4.471%) Hadoop
6 15 (3.529%) Data Mining
7 13 (3.059%) DB2
8 12 (2.824%) Oracle 8/8i
9 11 (2.588%) SQL Server 2008
9 11 (2.588%) Oracle 11g
9 11 (2.588%) Apache Cassandra
9 11 (2.588%) OLAP
10 9 (2.118%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.882%) Oracle BI EE
11 8 (1.882%) OLTP
11 8 (1.882%) Star Schema
12 7 (1.647%) Data Mart
12 7 (1.647%) Oracle Exadata
12 7 (1.647%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.412%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 57 (13.41%) ERwin
2 4 (0.941%) Talend Open Studio
2 4 (0.941%) Rational Rose
3 1 (0.235%) Subversion
3 1 (0.235%) JIRA
3 1 (0.235%) NUnit
3 1 (0.235%) LSMW
3 1 (0.235%) MSTest
General
1 115 (27.06%) Finance
2 92 (21.65%) Banking
3 53 (12.47%) Investment Banking
4 28 (6.588%) Retail
5 10 (2.353%) Telecoms
6 8 (1.882%) Financial Institution
6 8 (1.882%) Marketing
7 7 (1.647%) Publishing
8 6 (1.412%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.176%) Legal
9 5 (1.176%) Front Office
10 3 (0.706%) Back Office
11 2 (0.471%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.471%) Games
11 2 (0.471%) International Banking
12 1 (0.235%) Local Government
12 1 (0.235%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.235%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.235%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.235%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.353%) Reference Data
2 26 (6.118%) Data Integration
3 17 (4.000%) Derivative
4 15 (3.529%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.118%) Data Conversion
6 8 (1.882%) W3C
7 7 (1.647%) Market Risk
8 6 (1.412%) FMCG
8 6 (1.412%) Computer Science
9 5 (1.176%) Equities
9 5 (1.176%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.176%) Smart Meter
9 5 (1.176%) Credit Risk
10 4 (0.941%) Open Source
10 4 (0.941%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.941%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.706%) Pharmacovigilance
11 3 (0.706%) NHS
12 2 (0.471%) SaaS
12 2 (0.471%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.471%) Windows
1 19 (4.471%) Linux
2 11 (2.588%) UNIX
3 2 (0.471%) MVS
4 1 (0.235%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (56.47%) Data Modelling
2 204 (48.00%) Data Architecture
3 89 (20.94%) Data Analysis
4 88 (20.71%) ETL
5 66 (15.53%) Data Management
6 63 (14.82%) Migration
7 61 (14.35%) TOGAF
8 53 (12.47%) Business Intelligence
8 53 (12.47%) Data Migration
9 43 (10.12%) Data Mapping
10 41 (9.647%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (9.412%) Enterprise Architecture
12 32 (7.529%) Business Analysis
13 31 (7.294%) Information Architecture
14 30 (7.059%) Data Governance
15 29 (6.824%) Master Data Management
16 28 (6.588%) Project Management
16 28 (6.588%) UML
17 23 (5.412%) CRM
18 21 (4.941%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 53 (12.47%) SQL
2 20 (4.706%) Python
2 20 (4.706%) Java
3 11 (2.588%) C
3 11 (2.588%) XQuery
4 9 (2.118%) C#
5 6 (1.412%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.941%) C++
7 3 (0.706%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.235%) Ruby
8 1 (0.235%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.235%) VBA
8 1 (0.235%) COBOL
8 1 (0.235%) RPG
8 1 (0.235%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.235%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (3.765%) Security Cleared
2 14 (3.294%) SC Cleared
3 12 (2.824%) Degree
4 10 (2.353%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.235%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.235%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.235%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.235%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.118%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.176%) PCI DSS
2 5 (1.176%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.235%) QA
System Software
1 2 (0.471%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.235%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.471%) Splunk
2 1 (0.235%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 95 (22.35%) Oracle
2 36 (8.471%) IBM
3 28 (6.588%) Microsoft
4 26 (6.118%) SAP
5 15 (3.529%) Informatica
6 12 (2.824%) Teradata
7 11 (2.588%) Business Objects
8 10 (2.353%) EMC
9 9 (2.118%) Sybase
10 8 (1.882%) Netezza
11 7 (1.647%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.647%) Siebel
12 6 (1.412%) Novell
12 6 (1.412%) DataFlux
13 5 (1.176%) Cognos
13 5 (1.176%) Hortonworks
13 5 (1.176%) Cloudera
14 4 (0.941%) Rackspace
14 4 (0.941%) Talend
14 4 (0.941%) Salesforce.com
Cambridge, East Anglia
They are now undertaking a multi-year programme of work and require a strong Data Architecture to work with a very important client.Key Accountabilities:Provide the overall...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £550.00 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join one of my established Public Sector clients on a initial 6 month contract a "Data Migration Architect GIS"... You should have...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £450.00 - £550.00 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013
London
My reputable client has come to me looking for a Hadoop Architect. They have a number of projects planned over the next few years and need an experience...
Real Staffing
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Skills/experiences:- - Extensive experience with either Oracle, SQL Sever or Netezza - Extensive experience in enterprise architecture - Excellent stakeholder management skills - Developing information/Data strategy/Frameworks - Extensive data experience...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Skills/experiences:- - Extensive experience with either Oracle, SQL Sever or Netezza - Extensive experience in enterprise architecture - Excellent stakeholder management skills - Developing information/Data strategy/Frameworks - Extensive data experience...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £550 - £570 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Sussex
Good understanding of data security technologies and techniques... * Variety of operating systems inclusive of Windows and Unix based... * Experience of database technologies - Oracle and MSQL, Novell, Microsoft and...
Clearwater People Solutions
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
Solution Data Architect with experience of business analysis and data modelling. Key Experience Required Global organisation project experience - Must have Data Modeling/Logical Data Models - Must have Data...
Aston Carter
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Keep abreast of the data management arena and technologies including but not limited to Big data, Open Source, SQL, BI, SaaS, Paas, Iaas, .DaaS, .Net, JQuery, SOAP and...
Integrity IT Solutions
Rate: Up to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Brighton, South East
This SQL Server Data warehouse developer would be responsible for the physical design of the data warehouse, the development of the existing data mart with a particular focus...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £45000 - £58000 per annum + Bonus, Beneifts, Pension, Car Allowance
Posted: 22 May 2013