Data Architecture Contracts

Data Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 265 240
Rank change year-on-year +25 -25 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 409 556 1,007
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 0.98% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.10% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 389 689
10th Percentile £432 £463 £491
25th Percentile £514 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £750
90th Percentile £925 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -8.80% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 2
10th Percentile - £34.70 £88.49
25th Percentile £22.33 £35.00 £88.89
Median hourly rate £29.83 £35.50 £89.56
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% -60.36% +241.18%
75th Percentile £35.00 £43.38 £90.23
90th Percentile - £62.80 £90.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.65 £35.63 £88.22
% change year-on-year -30.81% -59.62% +232.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,577 50,687 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.85% 89.72% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,572 35,094 55,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,481 1,678 1,891
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 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
England +20 367 £650 -3.70% 211
London +11 229 £700 - 142
UK excluding London +39 142 £570 -8.80% 136
Work from Home +16 135 £650 -3.70% 95
North of England +49 48 £525 +0.48% 19
North West +50 35 £500 -4.31% 12
Midlands +46 29 £675 +17.39% 13
South West +14 27 £550 -15.38% 9
South East -3 25 £475 -28.97% 65
West Midlands +32 23 £700 +27.27% 10
Scotland +37 14 £588 -9.58% 11
Yorkshire +9 13 £725 +31.77% 3
East Midlands +21 6 £588 -2.08% 2
East of England 0 6 £750 +185.71% 5
North East - 4 £750 - 4
Wales +14 1 - - 9

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (4.16%) Apache
2 15 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.69%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.69%) SAS
4 10 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.73%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (3.91%) MS Visio
2 10 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.49%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 29 (7.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 13 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.73%) Primavera
4 3 (0.73%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.49%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.24%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.24%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.24%) Shopify
6 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 127 (31.05%) Azure
2 63 (15.40%) Power Platform
3 57 (13.94%) AWS
4 25 (6.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 25 (6.11%) GCP
5 24 (5.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (4.65%) SaaS
7 18 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (4.40%) Snowflake
8 15 (3.67%) dbt
9 12 (2.93%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (2.69%) Azure Stack
11 10 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (2.44%) Collibra
11 10 (2.44%) PaaS
11 10 (2.44%) Power Automate
12 9 (2.20%) Serverless
13 8 (1.96%) IaaS
14 7 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.22%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) IPsec
2 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (20.54%) Metadata
2 83 (20.29%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (15.40%) NoSQL
4 61 (14.91%) Power BI
5 52 (12.71%) Data Lake
6 44 (10.76%) Data Vault
7 40 (9.78%) SQL Server
8 37 (9.05%) Metadata Repository
9 35 (8.56%) Big Data
10 18 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (3.67%) Qlik Sense
12 13 (3.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (2.93%) Relational Database
13 12 (2.93%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (2.44%) Tableau
16 9 (2.20%) Apache Ignite
16 9 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (2.20%) Data Mining
16 9 (2.20%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (2.93%) ERwin
2 7 (1.71%) JIRA
2 7 (1.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.22%) Git
4 4 (0.98%) kappa
5 3 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.24%) Ant
7 1 (0.24%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.24%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.24%) Toad
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (26.65%) Social Skills
2 98 (23.96%) Finance
3 63 (15.40%) Public Sector
4 55 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (10.76%) Marketing
6 30 (7.33%) Manufacturing
7 29 (7.09%) Telecoms
8 27 (6.60%) Electronics
9 22 (5.38%) Banking
10 17 (4.16%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (3.91%) Retail
12 15 (3.67%) Publishing
13 14 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (2.93%) German Language
16 10 (2.44%) Investment Banking
17 9 (2.20%) Front Office
18 5 (1.22%) Legal
19 4 (0.98%) Back Office
19 4 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 248 (60.64%) Architect
2 182 (44.50%) Data Architect
3 36 (8.80%) Solutions Architect
4 31 (7.58%) Enterprise Architect
4 31 (7.58%) Lead
5 29 (7.09%) Senior
6 28 (6.85%) Analyst
7 25 (6.11%) Chief Architect
7 25 (6.11%) Chief Data Architect
8 24 (5.87%) Azure Architect
9 23 (5.62%) Data Analyst
9 23 (5.62%) Developer
10 22 (5.38%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 19 (4.65%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.16%) Azure Data Architect
13 14 (3.42%) Data Modeller
14 13 (3.18%) Senior Architect
15 12 (2.93%) Data Manager
16 11 (2.69%) Head of Architecture
16 11 (2.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.89%) JSON
2 19 (4.65%) XML
3 18 (4.40%) REST
4 10 (2.44%) Pandas
4 10 (2.44%) SOAP
5 9 (2.20%) gRPC
5 9 (2.20%) NumPy
5 9 (2.20%) Protocol Buffers
5 9 (2.20%) SciPy
6 7 (1.71%) AngularJS
6 7 (1.71%) CSS
6 7 (1.71%) HTML
6 7 (1.71%) Kafka
6 7 (1.71%) Node.js
7 6 (1.47%) JSON Schema
8 5 (1.22%) .NET
8 5 (1.22%) PySpark
9 3 (0.73%) Apache Avro
9 3 (0.73%) Middleware
9 3 (0.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (13.94%) Reference Data
2 34 (8.31%) Data Structures
3 26 (6.36%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.87%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.91%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.47%) Derivative
8 6 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.47%) Equities
8 6 (1.47%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.47%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.47%) Industry 4.0
8 6 (1.47%) Wiki
9 5 (1.22%) IoT
9 5 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.98%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.98%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.73%) Unix
1 3 (0.73%) Windows
2 2 (0.49%) Linux
3 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (53.79%) Data Modelling
2 147 (35.94%) Data Governance
3 115 (28.12%) Analytics
4 113 (27.63%) Business Intelligence
5 97 (23.72%) Data Management
6 95 (23.23%) Data Strategy
7 92 (22.49%) Data Integration
8 83 (20.29%) Agile
8 83 (20.29%) ETL
9 63 (15.40%) Migration
9 63 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (13.45%) Roadmaps
11 52 (12.71%) Data Design
12 46 (11.25%) Data Analysis
12 46 (11.25%) Data Lineage
13 45 (11.00%) UML
14 43 (10.51%) Data Migration
15 38 (9.29%) Project Delivery
16 37 (9.05%) Data Engineering
16 37 (9.05%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 97 (23.72%) SQL
2 58 (14.18%) Python
3 17 (4.16%) Java
3 17 (4.16%) JavaScript
4 16 (3.91%) Scala
5 11 (2.69%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.44%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.71%) Ruby
8 6 (1.47%) R
9 4 (0.98%) C#
9 4 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.98%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.49%) XPath
11 1 (0.24%) Go
11 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.24%) PHP
11 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 54 (13.20%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.31%) Degree
4 10 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.22%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.98%) CIMA
8 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) ACCA
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.24%) CISM
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (22.00%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.89%) GDPR
3 11 (2.69%) QA
4 8 (1.96%) PMO
5 6 (1.47%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.98%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.24%) CDISC
7 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) GxP
7 1 (0.24%) HL7
7 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.73%) Docker
3 2 (0.49%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (0.98%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.73%) Terraform
3 2 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.49%) TIBCO Hawk
4 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 79 (19.32%) Microsoft
2 59 (14.43%) SAP
3 44 (10.76%) Databricks
4 43 (10.51%) Sparx
5 31 (7.58%) Informatica
5 31 (7.58%) Oracle
6 17 (4.16%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.69%) Google
7 11 (2.69%) IBM
8 8 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.71%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.71%) Dataiku
9 7 (1.71%) Remedy
9 7 (1.71%) Trillium
10 5 (1.22%) Autodesk
10 5 (1.22%) IFS
10 5 (1.22%) Talend
11 3 (0.73%) Ab Initio
11 3 (0.73%) Adobe
11 3 (0.73%) ESRI