Data Architecture Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 195 227 221
Rank change year-on-year +32 -6 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 152 267 538
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.01% 1.06% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.19% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 188 404
10th Percentile £458 £461 £477
25th Percentile £500 £525 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £750 £766 £750
90th Percentile £875 £804 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £663 £650
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% - -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Data Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Architecture trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Architecture.

Data Architecture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Data Architecture daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Architecture.

Data Architecture hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (5.92%) Apache
1 9 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.66%) CMS
4 1 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 5 (3.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.32%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.66%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.66%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.66%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.66%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (32.89%) Azure
2 20 (13.16%) AWS
3 18 (11.84%) Power Platform
4 15 (9.87%) GCP
5 14 (9.21%) dbt
6 9 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (5.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (5.92%) SaaS
7 7 (4.61%) Snowflake
8 6 (3.95%) Azure Stack
8 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.29%) IaaS
9 5 (3.29%) PaaS
10 4 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.97%) GitHub
12 2 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.32%) Collibra
12 2 (1.32%) Serverless
13 1 (0.66%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (20.39%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (13.16%) Metadata
3 18 (11.84%) Power BI
4 13 (8.55%) Data Lake
5 12 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 11 (7.24%) Big Data
7 9 (5.92%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (5.92%) Apache Arrow
7 9 (5.92%) Apache Ignite
7 9 (5.92%) Dremio
8 7 (4.61%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
10 5 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.97%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.97%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.97%) Impala
11 3 (1.97%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.97%) Tableau
12 2 (1.32%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 16 (10.53%) ERwin
2 4 (2.63%) Git
3 3 (1.97%) JIRA
4 1 (0.66%) kappa
4 1 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.66%) Toad
General
1 43 (28.29%) Finance
2 41 (26.97%) Social Skills
3 28 (18.42%) Public Sector
4 24 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (11.84%) Marketing
6 16 (10.53%) Banking
7 15 (9.87%) Retail
8 14 (9.21%) Manufacturing
9 13 (8.55%) Telecoms
10 12 (7.89%) Electronics
11 11 (7.24%) Investment Banking
12 9 (5.92%) Front Office
13 7 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (2.63%) German Language
15 4 (2.63%) Legal
16 3 (1.97%) French Language
17 2 (1.32%) Japanese Language
17 2 (1.32%) Korean Language
17 2 (1.32%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 90 (59.21%) Architect
2 70 (46.05%) Data Architect
3 22 (14.47%) Enterprise Architect
4 17 (11.18%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 17 (11.18%) Lead
5 16 (10.53%) Developer
6 14 (9.21%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (7.24%) Senior
8 9 (5.92%) Azure Architect
8 9 (5.92%) Azure Data Architect
9 8 (5.26%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.61%) Analyst
10 7 (4.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 7 (4.61%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.95%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.95%) Senior Architect
12 5 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.29%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.29%) Data Modeller
12 5 (3.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.89%) JSON
2 10 (6.58%) Pandas
3 9 (5.92%) gRPC
3 9 (5.92%) NumPy
3 9 (5.92%) Protocol Buffers
3 9 (5.92%) REST
3 9 (5.92%) SciPy
3 9 (5.92%) XML
4 5 (3.29%) SOAP
5 3 (1.97%) JSON Schema
5 3 (1.97%) Middleware
6 2 (1.32%) ADO
6 2 (1.32%) PySpark
6 2 (1.32%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (1.32%) XSD
6 2 (1.32%) XSLT
7 1 (0.66%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.66%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.21%) Data Protection Act
2 13 (8.55%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 12 (7.89%) Reference Data
3 12 (7.89%) Wiki
4 6 (3.95%) Derivative
4 6 (3.95%) Equities
4 6 (3.95%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.95%) Hedge funds
4 6 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.97%) Data Fabric
6 3 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.32%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.95%) Unix
2 5 (3.29%) Linux
3 2 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (50.66%) Data Modelling
2 61 (40.13%) Data Governance
3 44 (28.95%) Analytics
4 43 (28.29%) Data Management
5 39 (25.66%) Agile
6 35 (23.03%) Data Strategy
7 34 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (21.71%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (19.74%) ETL
10 28 (18.42%) Data Integration
11 26 (17.11%) Master Data Management
12 21 (13.82%) Data Protection
12 21 (13.82%) Physical Data Model
13 19 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (11.84%) Asset Management
15 17 (11.18%) Migration
16 16 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
16 16 (10.53%) Roadmaps
17 15 (9.87%) Data Lineage
17 15 (9.87%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.76%) Python
2 24 (15.79%) SQL
3 11 (7.24%) Java
3 11 (7.24%) Scala
4 10 (6.58%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.92%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.61%) Ruby
7 3 (1.97%) R
8 2 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.32%) XPath
9 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (7.89%) Degree
1 12 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.58%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (28.29%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.21%) GDPR
3 4 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) CDISC
4 1 (0.66%) GxP
4 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.66%) HL7
4 1 (0.66%) PMO
4 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (1.32%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.84%) Databricks
2 18 (11.84%) Sparx
3 16 (10.53%) SAP
4 15 (9.87%) Informatica
5 10 (6.58%) Oracle
6 5 (3.29%) Google
6 5 (3.29%) IBM
7 3 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.97%) Workday
8 2 (1.32%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.32%) Snow
8 2 (1.32%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.66%) Adobe
9 1 (0.66%) Ariba
9 1 (0.66%) Embarcadero
9 1 (0.66%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.66%) Mercator
9 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud