Data Architect Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Data Architect
England > East of England

The median Data Architect daily rate in the East of England is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 82 115
Rank change year-on-year -6 +33 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 8 14 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.62% 0.93% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.06% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £516 £825 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £850 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.88% - -
75th Percentile £638 £875 -
90th Percentile £706 - -
England median daily rate £600 £648 £700
% change year-on-year -7.34% -7.50% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £51.98 £60.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -13.37% +21.21% -1.00%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 1,087 1,327 1,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.72% 87.71% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 541 999
10th Percentile £185 £205 £200
25th Percentile £351 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £600
90th Percentile £686 £625 £704
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 378 251
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.42 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.37 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +43.94% +66.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £84.36
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.23 £43.86
% change year-on-year -45.60% +5.40% +66.34%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the East of England

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the East of England

Data Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the East of England

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
Bedfordshire - 5 £588 - 1
Hertfordshire -1 2 £750 - 1
Cambridgeshire -2 1 £450 -47.06%
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 6 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 of England region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
3 3 (37.50%) Databricks
3 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (37.50%) CRM
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
4 2 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
4 2 (25.00%) Big Data
4 2 (25.00%) Personalization
4 2 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (12.50%) Conversational AI
5 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (37.50%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (12.50%) AWS
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data
4 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
4 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ER Studio
1 1 (12.50%) ERwin
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (37.50%) CRM
3 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
4 2 (25.00%) Personalization
4 2 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Conversational UI
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 1 (12.50%) Data Science
5 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 1 (12.50%) Intelligent Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft