Data Architect Contracts in England

Data Architect
UK > England

The median Data Architect daily rate in England is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 262 254
Rank change year-on-year +51 -8 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 416 503 797
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.13% 1.01% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 1.06% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 365 533
10th Percentile £500 £513 £525
25th Percentile £556 £600 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £776 £775 £771
90th Percentile £918 £870 £825
UK median daily rate £691 £675 £676
% change year-on-year +2.41% -0.15% +12.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 0
10th Percentile £56.25 £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 £66.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +41 277 £700 - 54
North of England +57 44 £700 +16.67% 16
Midlands +55 37 £600 +4.35% 9
North West +49 30 £663 +10.42% 11
West Midlands +44 29 £575 -4.17% 4
South West +11 28 £663 -6.85% 5
South East 0 18 £700 +7.69% 15
Yorkshire +24 15 £704 +17.33% 4
East Midlands +24 8 £700 +21.74% 5
East of England +10 8 £850 +223.81% 3
North East +19 3 £850 - 1
Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 243 (58.41%) Data Modelling
2 191 (45.91%) Data Architecture
3 152 (36.54%) Data Governance
4 135 (32.45%) Azure
5 121 (29.09%) Data Warehouse
6 120 (28.85%) Data Strategy
7 115 (27.64%) Business Intelligence
8 96 (23.08%) Data Integration
9 94 (22.60%) Analytics
10 93 (22.36%) Security Cleared
11 90 (21.63%) Finance
12 87 (20.91%) Public Sector
12 87 (20.91%) Metadata
13 85 (20.43%) Social Skills
13 85 (20.43%) Data Quality
14 81 (19.47%) NoSQL
15 78 (18.75%) Data Management
15 78 (18.75%) Microsoft
16 77 (18.51%) Migration
17 75 (18.03%) SC Cleared
18 74 (17.79%) AWS
18 74 (17.79%) SQL
19 72 (17.31%) ETL
20 69 (16.59%) Power Platform
20 69 (16.59%) Power BI
21 62 (14.90%) Sparx
22 55 (13.22%) Data Design
23 53 (12.74%) Data Lake
24 52 (12.50%) Agile
25 51 (12.26%) Data Migration

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 15 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.16%) Apache
4 5 (1.20%) SAS
5 2 (0.48%) CMS
5 2 (0.48%) Confluence
5 2 (0.48%) GemFire
Applications
1 17 (4.09%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 44 (10.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.72%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.48%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.24%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 135 (32.45%) Azure
2 74 (17.79%) AWS
3 69 (16.59%) Power Platform
4 29 (6.97%) Snowflake
5 27 (6.49%) GCP
6 20 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (4.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (3.37%) Amazon S3
9 13 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (2.88%) Serverless
11 11 (2.64%) Azure Stack
12 10 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.40%) OCI
13 9 (2.16%) SaaS
14 8 (1.92%) dbt
15 7 (1.68%) PaaS
16 5 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
16 5 (1.20%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) LAN
1 2 (0.48%) WAN
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (29.09%) Data Warehouse
2 87 (20.91%) Metadata
3 81 (19.47%) NoSQL
4 69 (16.59%) Power BI
5 53 (12.74%) Data Lake
6 46 (11.06%) Data Vault
7 43 (10.34%) Big Data
8 37 (8.89%) Metadata Repository
9 30 (7.21%) SQL Server
10 26 (6.25%) Tableau
11 22 (5.29%) Relational Database
12 17 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (3.61%) OLAP
13 15 (3.61%) OLTP
13 15 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
14 14 (3.37%) Data Mining
15 13 (3.13%) BigQuery
15 13 (3.13%) RDBMS
16 11 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (2.64%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (9.38%) ERwin
2 13 (3.13%) ER Studio
3 7 (1.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (1.44%) JIRA
5 4 (0.96%) Git
5 4 (0.96%) kappa
6 3 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.48%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.48%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.48%) Postman
8 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 90 (21.63%) Finance
2 87 (20.91%) Public Sector
3 85 (20.43%) Social Skills
4 45 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (10.10%) Manufacturing
6 40 (9.62%) Marketing
7 36 (8.65%) Telecoms
8 34 (8.17%) Electronics
9 29 (6.97%) Banking
10 18 (4.33%) Publishing
10 18 (4.33%) Retail
11 10 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.72%) Automotive
15 3 (0.72%) Law
15 3 (0.72%) Legal
15 3 (0.72%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.73%) JSON
2 19 (4.57%) Kafka
3 17 (4.09%) XML
4 14 (3.37%) REST
5 13 (3.13%) JSON Schema
6 7 (1.68%) PySpark
7 6 (1.44%) Apache Avro
8 5 (1.20%) Middleware
8 5 (1.20%) YAML
9 4 (0.96%) SOAP
10 3 (0.72%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.72%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.48%) ADO
11 2 (0.48%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (0.48%) CSS
11 2 (0.48%) DOM
11 2 (0.48%) HTML
11 2 (0.48%) Spring
11 2 (0.48%) Swagger
11 2 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.02%) Reference Data
2 33 (7.93%) Data Structures
3 20 (4.81%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.57%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (4.33%) Product Ownership
6 17 (4.09%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (3.13%) Wiki
8 8 (1.92%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.68%) Taxonomies
10 6 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.44%) NHS
11 5 (1.20%) CMDB
11 5 (1.20%) Freedom of Information
11 5 (1.20%) Freedom of Information Act
11 5 (1.20%) Industry 4.0
12 4 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (58.41%) Data Modelling
2 191 (45.91%) Data Architecture
3 152 (36.54%) Data Governance
4 120 (28.85%) Data Strategy
5 115 (27.64%) Business Intelligence
6 96 (23.08%) Data Integration
7 94 (22.60%) Analytics
8 78 (18.75%) Data Management
9 77 (18.51%) Migration
10 72 (17.31%) ETL
11 55 (13.22%) Data Design
12 52 (12.50%) Agile
13 51 (12.26%) Data Migration
14 46 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
14 46 (11.06%) Roadmaps
15 42 (10.10%) Data Lineage
16 41 (9.86%) UML
17 39 (9.38%) Physical Data Model
18 38 (9.13%) Programme Management
19 37 (8.89%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (17.79%) SQL
2 30 (7.21%) Python
3 12 (2.88%) Java
4 9 (2.16%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.72%) Scala
6 2 (0.48%) C#
6 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.48%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.48%) R
6 2 (0.48%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.24%) Bicep
7 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (22.36%) Security Cleared
2 75 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.05%) Degree
4 15 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.24%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.24%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.24%) CITP
9 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (20.43%) Data Quality
2 37 (8.89%) GDPR
3 6 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.96%) QA
5 3 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (0.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (0.96%) Terraform
2 3 (0.72%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.48%) Ambari
3 2 (0.48%) Ansible
3 2 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.48%) Oozie
Vendors
1 78 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 62 (14.90%) Sparx
3 48 (11.54%) SAP
4 46 (11.06%) Databricks
5 42 (10.10%) Oracle
6 26 (6.25%) Informatica
7 21 (5.05%) Google
8 19 (4.57%) ServiceNow
9 14 (3.37%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.44%) Remedy
10 6 (1.44%) Talend
11 5 (1.20%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.72%) Ab Initio
12 3 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.72%) Brio
12 3 (0.72%) IBM
12 3 (0.72%) Teradata
13 2 (0.48%) Monetate
13 2 (0.48%) Snow
13 2 (0.48%) Tealium