Data Architect Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Architect
England > East Midlands

The median Data Architect daily rate in the East Midlands is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 September 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
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 65 63
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.52% 0.26% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.27% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £655 £623
25th Percentile £575 £658 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £703 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.59% +4.07% +17.39%
75th Percentile £625 £749 £688
90th Percentile - £754 -
England median daily rate £600 £645 £700
% change year-on-year -6.98% -7.86% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.96 - -
England median hourly rate £51.98 £60.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -13.37% +21.21% -1.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 705 729 799
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 93.22% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 449 583
10th Percentile £200 £250 £213
25th Percentile £331 £356 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £622 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 51 45
10th Percentile £16.17 £12.42 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £13.76 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £20.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -2.49% +13.94%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £26.23 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +7.95% +67.05%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the East Midlands

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the East Midlands

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 September 2025. 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
Lincolnshire +6 3 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £600 - 1
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 10 September 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 East Midlands region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Big Data
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) Police
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle