Data Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 310 292
Rank change year-on-year +43 -18 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 129 138 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.59% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.62% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 88 171
10th Percentile £450 £505 £513
25th Percentile £534 £539 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £738
90th Percentile £766 £838 £775
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £700
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £52.50 £46.35 -
25th Percentile £58.13 £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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 of England +48 36 £625 +6.38% 13
Midlands +57 33 £578 +0.43% 7
West Midlands +42 28 £575 -4.17% 3
South West +3 28 £663 -5.36% 5
North West +32 25 £625 +4.17% 8
South East +3 17 £700 +7.69% 12
Yorkshire +22 12 £650 +10.64% 4
Scotland +40 11 £691 -7.83% 4
East of England +3 10 £850 +223.81% 1
East Midlands +26 5 £675 +17.39% 4
North East +15 3 £850 - 1
Wales +15 1 - - 3
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 66 (51.16%) Data Modelling
2 62 (48.06%) Data Architecture
3 48 (37.21%) Data Governance
4 45 (34.88%) Data Management
5 41 (31.78%) Data Strategy
6 38 (29.46%) Azure
7 37 (28.68%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (27.91%) Migration
9 31 (24.03%) Analytics
10 30 (23.26%) Business Intelligence
10 30 (23.26%) Social Skills
11 28 (21.71%) Data Quality
12 26 (20.16%) SQL
12 26 (20.16%) Data Migration
13 25 (19.38%) Finance
13 25 (19.38%) Security Cleared
13 25 (19.38%) Metadata
14 21 (16.28%) Public Sector
14 21 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
15 20 (15.50%) Agile
15 20 (15.50%) Data Analysis
16 18 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (13.18%) Data Integration
17 17 (13.18%) Microsoft
17 17 (13.18%) AWS
18 16 (12.40%) Power BI
18 16 (12.40%) Power Platform
18 16 (12.40%) Data Design
19 15 (11.63%) Data Structures
19 15 (11.63%) ETL

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (3.10%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.55%) CMS
2 2 (1.55%) GemFire
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (29.46%) Azure
2 17 (13.18%) AWS
3 16 (12.40%) Power Platform
4 12 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (4.65%) Amazon S3
6 6 (4.65%) Azure Stack
6 6 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (4.65%) GCP
6 6 (4.65%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.88%) Serverless
8 4 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.33%) Amazon Neptune
9 3 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (2.33%) SaaS
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.78%) Miro
10 1 (0.78%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (28.68%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (19.38%) Metadata
3 16 (12.40%) Power BI
4 13 (10.08%) Big Data
5 12 (9.30%) Data Lake
5 12 (9.30%) Data Mining
6 10 (7.75%) NoSQL
7 9 (6.98%) Metadata Repository
8 7 (5.43%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.65%) Tableau
10 5 (3.88%) OLAP
10 5 (3.88%) OLTP
11 4 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (2.33%) Hadoop
12 3 (2.33%) SQL Server
13 2 (1.55%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (1.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (5.43%) JIRA
2 6 (4.65%) ERwin
3 4 (3.10%) kappa
4 3 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (1.55%) Git
5 2 (1.55%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.38%) Finance
3 21 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (16.28%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.98%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.65%) Retail
6 4 (3.10%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.10%) Electronics
6 4 (3.10%) Marketing
6 4 (3.10%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.33%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.55%) Automotive
8 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Banking
9 1 (0.78%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Local Government
9 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.98%) JSON
1 9 (6.98%) XML
2 6 (4.65%) REST
3 4 (3.10%) SOAP
4 2 (1.55%) Web Services
5 1 (0.78%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.78%) JSON Schema
5 1 (0.78%) Kafka
5 1 (0.78%) Next.js
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.63%) Data Structures
2 10 (7.75%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.20%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (6.20%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.43%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.65%) Reference Data
5 6 (4.65%) Taxonomies
6 5 (3.88%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (3.88%) NHS
7 4 (3.10%) Wiki
8 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.78%) Linked Data
9 1 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.78%) Solar Power
9 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (51.16%) Data Modelling
2 62 (48.06%) Data Architecture
3 48 (37.21%) Data Governance
4 45 (34.88%) Data Management
5 41 (31.78%) Data Strategy
6 36 (27.91%) Migration
7 31 (24.03%) Analytics
8 30 (23.26%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (20.16%) Data Migration
10 20 (15.50%) Agile
10 20 (15.50%) Data Analysis
11 18 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (13.18%) Data Integration
13 16 (12.40%) Data Design
14 15 (11.63%) Data Protection
14 15 (11.63%) ETL
14 15 (11.63%) Use Case
15 14 (10.85%) Metadata Management
15 14 (10.85%) Roadmaps
16 11 (8.53%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.16%) SQL
2 8 (6.20%) Java
3 4 (3.10%) Python
4 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.08%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.53%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.43%) Degree
5 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (21.71%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.20%) GDPR
3 3 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.55%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.30%) Databricks
3 10 (7.75%) Sparx
4 9 (6.98%) SAP
5 8 (6.20%) Informatica
6 6 (4.65%) Remedy
7 5 (3.88%) Autodesk
8 4 (3.10%) Oracle
9 3 (2.33%) Brio
9 3 (2.33%) Google
9 3 (2.33%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.78%) IBM
10 1 (0.78%) Infor
10 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.78%) Palantir
10 1 (0.78%) Talend