Lead Data Architect Contracts in Birmingham

Lead Data Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Lead Data Architect daily rate in Birmingham is £775, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - -
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £775 - -

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 468 715 870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.50% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 502 583
10th Percentile £160 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 35
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.10 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +42.50% +14.35%
75th Percentile £22.91 £48.75 £24.94
90th Percentile £30.68 £57.91 £60.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

Lead Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Architect in Birmingham

Lead Data Architect Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Data Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata

Lead 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google