Data Architecture Contracts in England

Data Architecture
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 245 246
Rank change year-on-year +22 +1 -37
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 393 534 847
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.06% 1.07% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.19% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 376 595
10th Percentile £433 £456 £479
25th Percentile £513 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +16.49%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £763
90th Percentile £925 £822 £825
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 2
10th Percentile - £29.75 £88.49
25th Percentile £22.33 £34.81 £88.89
Median hourly rate £29.83 £35.75 £89.56
Median % change year-on-year -16.57% -60.08% +244.46%
75th Percentile £35.00 £38.44 £90.23
90th Percentile - £55.05 £90.63
UK median hourly rate £29.83 £35.50 £89.56
% change year-on-year -15.99% -60.36% +241.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Architecture in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +14 240 £700 - 92
North of England +42 53 £550 +5.77% 11
Midlands +59 40 £600 +9.09% 15
North West +45 37 £530 +0.95% 8
West Midlands +45 32 £600 +9.09% 9
South East +7 27 £475 -26.92% 13
South West +20 26 £550 -15.38% 15
Yorkshire +17 16 £755 +57.29% 3
East Midlands +22 8 £675 +28.57% 6
East of England -3 4 £638 +142.86% 9
North East - 4 £750 -
Data Architecture
UK

Data Architecture
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 17 (4.33%) Apache
1 17 (4.33%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.05%) SAS
3 10 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.29%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (4.33%) MS Visio
2 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 33 (8.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.76%) Primavera
4 3 (0.76%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.76%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.76%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.51%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.25%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.25%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.25%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 110 (27.99%) Azure
2 57 (14.50%) Power Platform
3 47 (11.96%) AWS
4 27 (6.87%) GCP
5 25 (6.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (4.58%) Snowflake
8 15 (3.82%) SaaS
9 14 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (3.05%) dbt
11 11 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (2.80%) Power Automate
12 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (2.54%) PaaS
13 9 (2.29%) Azure Stack
13 9 (2.29%) Collibra
13 9 (2.29%) Serverless
14 8 (2.04%) IaaS
15 6 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 6 (1.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.27%) Firewall
2 1 (0.25%) IPsec
2 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (23.66%) Metadata
2 72 (18.32%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (16.28%) NoSQL
4 56 (14.25%) Power BI
5 46 (11.70%) Data Lake
6 43 (10.94%) Data Vault
7 38 (9.67%) Metadata Repository
8 36 (9.16%) Big Data
9 34 (8.65%) SQL Server
10 17 (4.33%) Relational Database
11 16 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (3.82%) Qlik Sense
13 13 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (2.80%) Tableau
15 10 (2.54%) RDBMS
16 9 (2.29%) Apache Ignite
16 9 (2.29%) Data Mining
16 9 (2.29%) MongoDB
16 9 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (4.07%) ERwin
2 7 (1.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.27%) JIRA
4 4 (1.02%) kappa
5 3 (0.76%) Git
5 3 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.25%) Toad
7 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 102 (25.95%) Social Skills
2 97 (24.68%) Finance
3 70 (17.81%) Public Sector
4 53 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (11.70%) Marketing
6 35 (8.91%) Manufacturing
6 35 (8.91%) Telecoms
7 33 (8.40%) Electronics
8 22 (5.60%) Banking
9 20 (5.09%) Retail
10 17 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (3.82%) Publishing
12 13 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (3.05%) German Language
13 12 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (2.54%) Investment Banking
15 9 (2.29%) Front Office
16 3 (0.76%) Automotive
16 3 (0.76%) Legal
17 2 (0.51%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 245 (62.34%) Architect
2 191 (48.60%) Data Architect
3 36 (9.16%) Enterprise Architect
4 35 (8.91%) Lead
5 34 (8.65%) Solutions Architect
6 28 (7.12%) Senior
7 26 (6.62%) Chief Architect
7 26 (6.62%) Chief Data Architect
7 26 (6.62%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 24 (6.11%) Analyst
9 23 (5.85%) Developer
10 21 (5.34%) Azure Architect
11 20 (5.09%) Data Analyst
12 14 (3.56%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.56%) Senior Architect
13 13 (3.31%) Azure Data Architect
13 13 (3.31%) Data Manager
13 13 (3.31%) Data Modeller
14 11 (2.80%) Head of Architecture
15 10 (2.54%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.83%) JSON
2 17 (4.33%) XML
3 12 (3.05%) REST
4 9 (2.29%) gRPC
4 9 (2.29%) NumPy
4 9 (2.29%) Pandas
4 9 (2.29%) Protocol Buffers
4 9 (2.29%) SciPy
5 7 (1.78%) AngularJS
5 7 (1.78%) CSS
5 7 (1.78%) HTML
5 7 (1.78%) Kafka
5 7 (1.78%) Node.js
6 6 (1.53%) JSON Schema
6 6 (1.53%) PySpark
6 6 (1.53%) SOAP
7 4 (1.02%) .NET
8 3 (0.76%) Apache Avro
8 3 (0.76%) YAML
9 2 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (13.49%) Reference Data
2 32 (8.14%) Data Structures
3 23 (5.85%) Management Information System
4 22 (5.60%) Product Ownership
5 16 (4.07%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.56%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (3.05%) Wiki
8 9 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.53%) Derivative
10 6 (1.53%) Equities
10 6 (1.53%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.53%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.53%) Industry 4.0
10 6 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.27%) IoT
12 4 (1.02%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.76%) Linux
1 3 (0.76%) Unix
1 3 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (54.45%) Data Modelling
2 146 (37.15%) Data Governance
3 116 (29.52%) Business Intelligence
4 110 (27.99%) Analytics
5 103 (26.21%) Data Strategy
6 98 (24.94%) Data Management
7 95 (24.17%) Data Integration
8 76 (19.34%) Agile
9 74 (18.83%) ETL
10 61 (15.52%) Migration
11 59 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (13.74%) Data Design
13 47 (11.96%) Data Analysis
13 47 (11.96%) Roadmaps
14 45 (11.45%) UML
15 41 (10.43%) Data Migration
16 40 (10.18%) Data Lineage
16 40 (10.18%) Project Delivery
17 38 (9.67%) Programme Management
18 36 (9.16%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 94 (23.92%) SQL
2 58 (14.76%) Python
3 17 (4.33%) JavaScript
4 16 (4.07%) Scala
5 11 (2.80%) Java
5 11 (2.80%) T-SQL
5 11 (2.80%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.04%) R
7 7 (1.78%) Ruby
8 6 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.76%) C#
11 2 (0.51%) XPath
12 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.25%) PHP
12 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 61 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.91%) Degree
4 9 (2.29%) Azure Certification
4 9 (2.29%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.02%) CIMA
7 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.25%) ACCA
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.25%) CISM
8 1 (0.25%) CISSP
8 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (24.94%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.62%) GDPR
3 13 (3.31%) QA
4 6 (1.53%) PMO
5 5 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.02%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.51%) Docker
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (0.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.51%) TIBCO Hawk
3 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 72 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 63 (16.03%) SAP
3 53 (13.49%) Sparx
4 37 (9.41%) Databricks
4 37 (9.41%) Informatica
5 27 (6.87%) Oracle
6 22 (5.60%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.80%) Google
8 10 (2.54%) IBM
9 7 (1.78%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.78%) Dataiku
9 7 (1.78%) Trillium
10 6 (1.53%) Remedy
11 5 (1.27%) Autodesk
11 5 (1.27%) IFS
11 5 (1.27%) Talend
12 4 (1.02%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.76%) Ab Initio
13 3 (0.76%) ESRI
13 3 (0.76%) Teradata