Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Data Architecture
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - 58
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.28% - 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £211 - £850
Median % change year-on-year - - +107.32%
75th Percentile - - £875
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £575 £688 £638
% change year-on-year -16.36% +7.84% +73.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.00 - -
Median hourly rate £47.00 - -
75th Percentile £48.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £80.50 £80.50 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 316 222 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.61% 89.16% 84.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 124 157
10th Percentile £181 £296 £223
25th Percentile £335 £405 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £474 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% -0.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £535 £550 £563
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 44 187
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.89 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £35.91 £25.63 £48.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £52.75 £38.12
% change year-on-year -57.10% +38.38% +52.48%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Data Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architecture within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. 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
Cambridge - 4 £211 -
Huntingdon - 1 - - 1
Data Architecture
East of England

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) QlikView
2 1 (20.00%) Semantic Layer
General
1 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Ontologist
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL BI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) JSON-LD
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Linked Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Information Management
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (20.00%) DataOps
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) MLOps
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Product Vision
3 1 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP