Data Architecture Contracts in Birmingham

Data Architecture
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 57 72
Rank change year-on-year +12 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 5 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.96% 1.29% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.55% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £472 £408 -
25th Percentile £483 £531 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -18.52%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £575
90th Percentile £730 £775 -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.65 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £24.65 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Data Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in Birmingham

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in Birmingham

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in Birmingham

Data Architecture
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 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) ERwin
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) FHIR
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Logical Data Model
4 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
4 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CITP
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft