Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Architecture
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 52 55
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 8 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.92% 0.65% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.76% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile £412 £491 £580
25th Percentile £439 £516 £658
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £613 £700
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -12.50% +20.69%
75th Percentile £600 £691 £725
90th Percentile £608 £704 £739
England median daily rate £582 £604 £650
% change year-on-year -3.72% -7.04% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 727 528 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.85% 86.13% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 323 435
10th Percentile £188 £261 £213
25th Percentile £355 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -9.47% -
75th Percentile £525 £548 £588
90th Percentile £625 £634 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 25 47
10th Percentile £15.95 £15.86 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £17.95 £22.50 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +4.58% +27.84%
75th Percentile £24.49 £31.76 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £53.00 £59.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the East Midlands

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Northamptonshire - 5 £447 - 2
Leicestershire -14 1 £600 -2.04% 1
Lincolnshire - 1 £600 - 3
Nottinghamshire - 1 £600 - 2
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (25.00%) Metadata
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
4 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Sqoop
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 6 (75.00%) Data Governance
1 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) Data Science
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) ETL Development
5 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Data Security
5 2 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Metadata Management
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Informatica
2 2 (25.00%) Talend
3 1 (12.50%) Ab Initio
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Teradata