Data Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 245 297 280
Rank change year-on-year +52 -17 -34
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 153 151 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.75% 0.64% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.72% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 97 183
10th Percentile £406 £370 £416
25th Percentile £463 £480 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £650 £663 £650
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile - £35.00 -
25th Percentile £22.33 £35.25 -
Median hourly rate £24.65 £36.13 £88.22
Median % change year-on-year -31.76% -59.05% +236.08%
75th Percentile £26.98 £41.69 -
90th Percentile - £62.74 -
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
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 Architecture 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 +47 53 £550 +4.76% 8
North West +36 39 £525 - 6
Midlands +57 34 £600 +9.09% 14
West Midlands +43 28 £600 +9.09% 9
South East +10 27 £475 -26.92% 7
South West +11 26 £550 -15.38% 14
Scotland +44 14 £588 +20.56% 11
Yorkshire +15 14 £750 +45.63% 2
East Midlands +25 6 £588 +11.90% 5
East of England -3 5 £638 +142.86% 8
North East - 4 £750 -
Wales +14 1 - - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 6
Data Architecture
UK

Data Architecture
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 7 (4.58%) SAS
2 4 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.65%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.65%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.96%) SAP CO
2 3 (1.96%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.96%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (1.96%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.65%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (22.22%) Azure
2 28 (18.30%) Power Platform
3 12 (7.84%) AWS
3 12 (7.84%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (7.84%) Snowflake
4 11 (7.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (6.54%) SaaS
6 7 (4.58%) Collibra
6 7 (4.58%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.92%) Azure Stack
7 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (3.92%) Serverless
8 5 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.61%) GCP
9 4 (2.61%) IaaS
9 4 (2.61%) iPaaS
9 4 (2.61%) PaaS
10 2 (1.31%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) IPsec
2 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (24.18%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (18.30%) Power BI
3 26 (16.99%) Metadata
4 23 (15.03%) Data Lake
5 13 (8.50%) Big Data
6 11 (7.19%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.23%) Data Mining
7 8 (5.23%) Metadata Repository
8 7 (4.58%) Ataccama
8 7 (4.58%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.58%) Qlik Sense
9 6 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (3.92%) Tableau
10 4 (2.61%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.31%) Apache Hive
12 2 (1.31%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.31%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.31%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (4.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 5 (3.27%) ERwin
3 4 (2.61%) kappa
4 3 (1.96%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 40 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.92%) Finance
3 24 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.38%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (7.19%) Retail
7 10 (6.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (5.88%) German Language
9 8 (5.23%) Marketing
10 6 (3.92%) Manufacturing
11 5 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.61%) Back Office
12 4 (2.61%) Electronics
12 4 (2.61%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.96%) Banking
14 2 (1.31%) Automotive
14 2 (1.31%) Legal
15 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (52.94%) Architect
2 62 (40.52%) Data Architect
3 21 (13.73%) Analyst
4 19 (12.42%) Data Analyst
5 16 (10.46%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (8.50%) Lead
7 12 (7.84%) Developer
8 11 (7.19%) Senior
9 8 (5.23%) Azure Architect
9 8 (5.23%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (4.58%) Data Quality Analyst
10 7 (4.58%) QA Analyst
10 7 (4.58%) Quality Analyst
10 7 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (3.92%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 6 (3.92%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
11 6 (3.92%) Senior QA Analyst
11 6 (3.92%) Senior Quality Analyst
12 5 (3.27%) Data Manager
13 4 (2.61%) Informatica Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.19%) REST
2 9 (5.88%) XML
3 8 (5.23%) SOAP
4 7 (4.58%) AngularJS
4 7 (4.58%) CSS
4 7 (4.58%) HTML
4 7 (4.58%) JSON
4 7 (4.58%) Node.js
5 2 (1.31%) PySpark
6 1 (0.65%) .NET
6 1 (0.65%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.65%) Kafka
6 1 (0.65%) Middleware
6 1 (0.65%) RESTful
6 1 (0.65%) Shiny
6 1 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.46%) Management Information System
2 13 (8.50%) Data Structures
3 11 (7.19%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.92%) Industry 4.0
4 6 (3.92%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.27%) IoT
5 5 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.61%) Wiki
7 3 (1.96%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.31%) FMCG
8 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.31%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.31%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.65%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.65%) Linked Data
9 1 (0.65%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) Linux
1 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (46.41%) Data Governance
2 67 (43.79%) Data Modelling
3 45 (29.41%) Data Management
4 43 (28.10%) Business Intelligence
5 42 (27.45%) Data Strategy
6 41 (26.80%) Analytics
7 40 (26.14%) Migration
8 33 (21.57%) Data Integration
9 29 (18.95%) Data Analysis
10 28 (18.30%) Data Migration
11 27 (17.65%) Agile
12 25 (16.34%) ETL
13 22 (14.38%) Roadmaps
14 21 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (13.07%) Information Management
16 18 (11.76%) Metadata Management
17 17 (11.11%) Data Lineage
17 17 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
18 16 (10.46%) Data Protection
19 15 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 33 (21.57%) SQL
2 16 (10.46%) Python
3 7 (4.58%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.61%) Java
5 1 (0.65%) C#
5 1 (0.65%) PHP
5 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.65%) R
5 1 (0.65%) Scala
5 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (11.11%) Degree
1 17 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.23%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.61%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.65%) ACCA
7 1 (0.65%) CIMA
7 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (32.03%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.50%) GDPR
3 9 (5.88%) QA
4 3 (1.96%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.31%) Terraform
2 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (18.30%) SAP
2 18 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 16 (10.46%) Informatica
4 10 (6.54%) Databricks
4 10 (6.54%) Sparx
5 9 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.58%) Alteryx
6 7 (4.58%) Dataiku
6 7 (4.58%) Trillium
7 6 (3.92%) Remedy
8 5 (3.27%) Autodesk
9 4 (2.61%) IFS
9 4 (2.61%) Oracle
10 3 (1.96%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.31%) Google
11 2 (1.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (1.31%) Workday
12 1 (0.65%) Anaplan
12 1 (0.65%) Infor
12 1 (0.65%) Sage