Data Architect Contracts in Birmingham

Data Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Data Architect daily rate in Birmingham is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 59 74
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 8 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.41% 0.53% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 0.56% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £484 £436 -
25th Percentile £547 £460 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% - -
75th Percentile £775 £575 -
90th Percentile £781 £620 -
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 499 710 859
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.16% 94.29% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 501 592
10th Percentile £163 £250 £263
25th Percentile £323 £350 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £486
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -2.26% +2.32%
75th Percentile £539 £575 £600
90th Percentile £649 £688 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 26 32
10th Percentile - £13.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £15.63 £15.44
Median hourly rate £14.00 £26.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +38.16% +7.34%
75th Percentile £22.49 £47.94 £25.22
90th Percentile £27.64 £56.25 £63.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +28.11% -5.00% +12.04%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in Birmingham

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in Birmingham

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Data Modelling
2 4 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Power BI
3 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
3 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Big Data
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Autodesk
4 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) PLM
4 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (25.00%) Metadata
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Data Design
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (12.50%) Analytical Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Big Data
2 2 (25.00%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Modelling
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) PLM
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Conceptual Models
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (12.50%) Master Data Management
5 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CITP
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Autodesk
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Informatica
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Workday