Data Architecture Contracts in the North of England

Data Architecture
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 177 197
Rank change year-on-year +47 +20 -83
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 53 35 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.13% 0.62% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.68% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 23 37
10th Percentile £425 £426 £308
25th Percentile £463 £469 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £725
90th Percentile £800 £680 £743
England median daily rate £650 £663 £650
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% +16.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £29.83 £35.75 £89.56
% change year-on-year -16.57% -60.08% +244.46%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West +36 39 £525 - 6
Yorkshire +15 14 £750 +45.63% 2
North East - 4 £750 -
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (11.32%) SAS
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.89%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.85%) Azure
2 15 (28.30%) Power Platform
3 7 (13.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 7 (13.21%) Snowflake
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Stack
4 6 (11.32%) Collibra
4 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (11.32%) Power Automate
5 4 (7.55%) SaaS
6 3 (5.66%) AWS
6 3 (5.66%) GCP
6 3 (5.66%) IaaS
6 3 (5.66%) PaaS
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.89%) Miro
8 1 (1.89%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.30%) Data Lake
1 15 (28.30%) Power BI
2 14 (26.42%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (22.64%) Metadata
4 8 (15.09%) SQL Server
5 6 (11.32%) Ataccama
5 6 (11.32%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (11.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (9.43%) Data Mining
7 4 (7.55%) Big Data
7 4 (7.55%) NoSQL
7 4 (7.55%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
8 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.89%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (7.55%) ERwin
3 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.53%) Finance
3 11 (20.75%) Public Sector
4 9 (16.98%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (13.21%) Marketing
6 5 (9.43%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (9.43%) Retail
7 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (7.55%) Electronics
7 4 (7.55%) Manufacturing
7 4 (7.55%) Telecoms
8 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.77%) German Language
10 1 (1.89%) Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (60.38%) Architect
2 24 (45.28%) Data Architect
3 10 (18.87%) Analyst
3 10 (18.87%) Data Analyst
3 10 (18.87%) Senior
4 6 (11.32%) Data Quality Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Enterprise Architect
4 6 (11.32%) QA Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Quality Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (9.43%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Senior QA Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Senior Quality Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.21%) JSON
1 7 (13.21%) REST
2 6 (11.32%) XML
3 1 (1.89%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.89%) Middleware
3 1 (1.89%) Shiny
3 1 (1.89%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.32%) Data Structures
2 6 (11.32%) Reference Data
3 4 (7.55%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.55%) Wiki
4 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.89%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.89%) NHS
6 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.89%) Solar Power
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) Data Governance
1 30 (56.60%) Data Modelling
2 23 (43.40%) Data Management
3 20 (37.74%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (35.85%) Analytics
4 19 (35.85%) Data Strategy
5 14 (26.42%) Agile
6 12 (22.64%) Data Analysis
6 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (20.75%) Data Protection
7 11 (20.75%) Visualisation
8 10 (18.87%) Data Lineage
9 9 (16.98%) ETL
10 8 (15.09%) GAP Analysis
10 8 (15.09%) Metadata Management
10 8 (15.09%) Physical Data Model
11 7 (13.21%) Data Cleansing
11 7 (13.21%) Event-Driven
11 7 (13.21%) Programme Management
11 7 (13.21%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.08%) SQL
2 9 (16.98%) Python
3 1 (1.89%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (35.85%) Data Quality
2 8 (15.09%) QA
3 4 (7.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) SAP
2 10 (18.87%) Sparx
3 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
4 6 (11.32%) Alteryx
4 6 (11.32%) Dataiku
4 6 (11.32%) Trillium
5 3 (5.66%) Databricks
6 2 (3.77%) Google
6 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Workday