Data Architect Contracts in the North West

Data Architect
England > North West

The median Data Architect daily rate in the North West is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 148 132
Rank change year-on-year +42 -16 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 30 7 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.11% 0.22% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 0.23% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 33
10th Percentile £516 £523 £551
25th Percentile £525 £538 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% -12.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £738 £688 £676
90th Percentile £750 £748 £738
England median daily rate £700 £700 £700
% change year-on-year - - +14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 2,546 2,993 3,902
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 94.84% 96.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 2,145 2,849
10th Percentile £281 £300 £208
25th Percentile £390 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £568
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 130 171
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.64 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +70.73% +14.53%
75th Percentile £46.18 £50.04 £42.63
90th Percentile £67.63 £66.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the North West

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the North West

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the North West

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the North West

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Manchester +35 22 £700 +27.27% 10
Cheshire +10 8 £535 -20.74%
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 4 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 North West region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 19 (63.33%) Data Architecture
1 19 (63.33%) Data Governance
1 19 (63.33%) Data Strategy
2 15 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 13 (43.33%) Data Management
3 13 (43.33%) Data Quality
3 13 (43.33%) Analytics
4 11 (36.67%) Azure
5 10 (33.33%) Data Protection
6 8 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (26.67%) GAP Analysis
6 8 (26.67%) Manufacturing
6 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
7 7 (23.33%) Sparx
7 7 (23.33%) Value Proposition
7 7 (23.33%) Data Structures
7 7 (23.33%) Agile
7 7 (23.33%) SAP
8 6 (20.00%) XML
8 6 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (20.00%) Finance
8 6 (20.00%) Change Management
8 6 (20.00%) Reference Data
8 6 (20.00%) Data Mapping
8 6 (20.00%) JSON
8 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (20.00%) Microservices
8 6 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
8 6 (20.00%) REST

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) Azure Stack
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (20.00%) Metadata
2 6 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 5 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.67%) Big Data
4 2 (6.67%) Power BI
5 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) ERwin
General
1 8 (26.67%) Manufacturing
1 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Electronics
3 4 (13.33%) Marketing
3 4 (13.33%) Retail
3 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) JSON
1 6 (20.00%) REST
1 6 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Data Structures
2 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (20.00%) Reference Data
3 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (16.67%) Industry 4.0
4 4 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (13.33%) Taxonomies
4 4 (13.33%) Wiki
5 3 (10.00%) CMDB
6 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Data Architecture
1 19 (63.33%) Data Governance
1 19 (63.33%) Data Strategy
2 15 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 13 (43.33%) Analytics
3 13 (43.33%) Data Management
4 10 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (26.67%) GAP Analysis
6 7 (23.33%) Agile
6 7 (23.33%) Value Proposition
7 6 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (20.00%) Change Management
7 6 (20.00%) Data Lineage
7 6 (20.00%) Data Mapping
7 6 (20.00%) Event-Driven
7 6 (20.00%) Microservices
7 6 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
7 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (16.67%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) BC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (43.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) SAP
1 7 (23.33%) Sparx
2 5 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.00%) Databricks
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Google