Data Architecture Contracts in the North West

Data Architecture
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 138 150
Rank change year-on-year +38 +12 -44
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 36 18 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.30% 0.56% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 0.62% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 27
10th Percentile £444 £427 £391
25th Percentile £472 £456 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -16.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £636 £563 £731
90th Percentile £738 £628 £738
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £46.18 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.94% - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.75 £89.56
% change year-on-year -2.10% -60.08% +244.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,393 2,921 3,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.30% 90.71% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 2,076 2,595
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 147 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.61 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.30 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +13.51%
75th Percentile £45.88 £48.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £59.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +26 21 £600 +11.63% 9
Cheshire +10 12 £475 +8.57% 2
Lancashire - 1 - -
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
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 6 (16.67%) SAS
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (16.67%) Azure Stack
3 6 (16.67%) Collibra
3 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 6 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 6 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (5.56%) IaaS
6 2 (5.56%) PaaS
6 2 (5.56%) SaaS
7 1 (2.78%) AWS
7 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) Data Lake
1 10 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (25.00%) Metadata
2 9 (25.00%) Power BI
3 6 (16.67%) Ataccama
3 6 (16.67%) Qlik Sense
3 6 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 5 (13.89%) Big Data
4 5 (13.89%) Data Mining
5 3 (8.33%) RDBMS
5 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.78%) SAP HANA
7 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (11.11%) ERwin
General
1 9 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
2 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Finance
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Electronics
4 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 4 (11.11%) Marketing
4 4 (11.11%) Retail
4 4 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.56%) German Language
7 1 (2.78%) Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (63.89%) Architect
2 18 (50.00%) Data Architect
3 8 (22.22%) Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) Data Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) Senior
4 6 (16.67%) Data Quality Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
4 6 (16.67%) QA Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) Quality Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) Senior QA Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Quality Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Azure Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Data Modeller
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) JSON
1 6 (16.67%) REST
1 6 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (2.78%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 7 (19.44%) Product Ownership
3 6 (16.67%) Reference Data
4 4 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (11.11%) Wiki
5 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.78%) CMDB
6 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.78%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) Data Management
2 20 (55.56%) Data Governance
3 19 (52.78%) Data Modelling
4 17 (47.22%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (38.89%) Analytics
5 14 (38.89%) Data Strategy
6 11 (30.56%) Data Protection
7 10 (27.78%) Agile
7 10 (27.78%) Visualisation
8 7 (19.44%) Data Analysis
8 7 (19.44%) GAP Analysis
8 7 (19.44%) Physical Data Model
9 6 (16.67%) Change Management
9 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
9 6 (16.67%) Data Lineage
9 6 (16.67%) Event-Driven
9 6 (16.67%) Microservices
9 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
9 6 (16.67%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (22.22%) QA
3 4 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) SAP
2 6 (16.67%) Alteryx
2 6 (16.67%) Dataiku
2 6 (16.67%) Sparx
2 6 (16.67%) Trillium
3 3 (8.33%) Databricks
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) Google
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) Workday