Senior Data Architect Contracts

Senior Data Architect
UK

The median Senior Data Architect daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 691 799
Rank change year-on-year +131 +108 -150
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 26 31 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.052% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.055% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 24
10th Percentile £377 £585 £533
25th Percentile £536 £631 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £663 £738
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -10.17% +18.00%
75th Percentile £691 £738 £825
90th Percentile £742 £805 £924
UK excluding London median daily rate £727 £725 £550
% change year-on-year +0.28% +31.82% -12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Architect over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +118 26 £625 -5.66% 9
London +101 21 £600 -9.43% 5
Work from Home +128 10 £669 +2.88% 2
UK excluding London +72 5 £727 +0.28% 4
North of England - 2 £727 - 3
Midlands - 2 £704 -
South East - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 £750 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £704 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £704 -

Senior Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 16 (61.54%) Data Modelling
2 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 14 (53.85%) Analytics
3 13 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (42.31%) Data Architecture
5 10 (38.46%) Data Mapping
5 10 (38.46%) Data Quality
5 10 (38.46%) Azure
5 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
6 9 (34.62%) Migration
6 9 (34.62%) Agile
6 9 (34.62%) JSON
6 9 (34.62%) Public Sector
6 9 (34.62%) Master Data Management
6 9 (34.62%) JSON Schema
7 8 (30.77%) Logical Data Model
7 8 (30.77%) Physical Data Model
7 8 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (26.92%) ETL
8 7 (26.92%) NoSQL
8 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
8 7 (26.92%) Roadmaps
9 6 (23.08%) Data Structures
9 6 (23.08%) Data Lineage
9 6 (23.08%) Big Data
10 5 (19.23%) Kafka
10 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
10 5 (19.23%) Degree
10 5 (19.23%) Banking
10 5 (19.23%) Google

Senior Data Architect Skill Set
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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) dbt
3 1 (3.85%) Lucidchart
3 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (26.92%) NoSQL
3 6 (23.08%) Big Data
4 4 (15.38%) OLAP
4 4 (15.38%) OLTP
4 4 (15.38%) Parquet
4 4 (15.38%) Star Schema
5 3 (11.54%) Metadata
6 2 (7.69%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
7 1 (3.85%) DB2
7 1 (3.85%) NewSQL
7 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) ERwin
General
1 9 (34.62%) Public Sector
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Banking
4 4 (15.38%) Finance
5 3 (11.54%) Publishing
6 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) JSON
1 9 (34.62%) JSON Schema
2 5 (19.23%) Kafka
3 4 (15.38%) Apache Avro
3 4 (15.38%) YAML
4 3 (11.54%) XML
5 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Data Structures
2 5 (19.23%) Management Information System
3 4 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (15.38%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (15.38%) Freedom of Information Act
3 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
4 3 (11.54%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.85%) CMDB
5 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
5 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.85%) FMCG
5 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Data Modelling
2 14 (53.85%) Analytics
3 13 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (42.31%) Data Architecture
5 10 (38.46%) Data Mapping
6 9 (34.62%) Agile
6 9 (34.62%) Master Data Management
6 9 (34.62%) Migration
7 8 (30.77%) Logical Data Model
7 8 (30.77%) Physical Data Model
8 7 (26.92%) ETL
8 7 (26.92%) Roadmaps
9 6 (23.08%) Data Lineage
10 5 (19.23%) Architectural Design
10 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
10 5 (19.23%) Data Engineering
10 5 (19.23%) Data Flow Diagram
10 5 (19.23%) Data Strategy
11 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
11 4 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 5 (19.23%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) Informatica
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Sparx