Data Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Data Architect
UK > England

The median Data Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 254 249
Rank change year-on-year -50 -5 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 262 284 353
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.97% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 1.04% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 187 270
10th Percentile £454 £487 £525
25th Percentile £513 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +1.89%
75th Percentile £698 £750 £738
90th Percentile £775 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £670
% change year-on-year -4.00% -6.72% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £44.59
25th Percentile £81.50 - £46.94
Median hourly rate £83.00 £118.86 £50.28
Median % change year-on-year -30.17% +136.41% -28.18%
75th Percentile £84.50 - £56.69
90th Percentile - - £65.87
UK median hourly rate £83.00 £99.43 £61.53
% change year-on-year -16.52% +61.60% -12.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 28,356 27,251 35,230
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.91% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,121 16,963 24,204
10th Percentile £290 £300 £292
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,744 892 1,356
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.64 £15.29
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £19.87
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.35 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Architect job vacancy trend in England

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in 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 England 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
London -28 149 £600 -4.00% 22
North of England -42 32 £575 -7.89% 16
North West -12 26 £550 -12.00% 7
Midlands -20 26 £581 -3.51% 22
West Midlands -15 24 £581 -5.08% 15
South East -3 17 £581 -7.00% 34
South West -4 17 £606 -3.00% 14
East of England -17 8 £625 - 24
Yorkshire -51 6 £675 -3.57% 7
East Midlands -21 2 £501 +10.60% 6
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 158 (60.31%) Data Modelling
2 151 (57.63%) Data Architecture
3 104 (39.69%) Data Governance
4 94 (35.88%) Azure
5 75 (28.63%) Analytics
6 59 (22.52%) Data Warehouse
7 55 (20.99%) AWS
8 53 (20.23%) Data Quality
8 53 (20.23%) Metadata
9 51 (19.47%) Business Intelligence
10 49 (18.70%) SQL
11 48 (18.32%) Power Platform
12 46 (17.56%) ETL
13 45 (17.18%) Python
14 44 (16.79%) Data Strategy
15 41 (15.65%) AI
15 41 (15.65%) Power BI
16 40 (15.27%) Databricks
16 40 (15.27%) Metadata Management
17 39 (14.89%) Microsoft
17 39 (14.89%) Roadmaps
18 38 (14.50%) Data Integration
18 38 (14.50%) Security Cleared
19 36 (13.74%) Migration
20 34 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
21 32 (12.21%) SC Cleared
22 31 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
23 30 (11.45%) Machine Learning
24 29 (11.07%) Data Engineering
24 29 (11.07%) Data Lake

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 9 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (3.44%) SAS
2 8 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.53%) Apache
4 2 (0.76%) Luigi
5 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.91%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.76%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.38%) iTrent
5 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.38%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 94 (35.88%) Azure
2 55 (20.99%) AWS
3 48 (18.32%) Power Platform
4 26 (9.92%) GCP
5 25 (9.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 24 (9.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 24 (9.16%) Snowflake
7 20 (7.63%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (4.96%) Serverless
9 12 (4.58%) dbt
10 11 (4.20%) Collibra
11 8 (3.05%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.67%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.29%) SaaS
14 5 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (1.53%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (1.53%) Amazon Kinesis
15 4 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.76%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.38%) DWDM
2 1 (0.38%) LAN
2 1 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (22.52%) Data Warehouse
2 53 (20.23%) Metadata
3 41 (15.65%) Power BI
4 29 (11.07%) Data Lake
5 18 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (6.49%) Data Vault
7 13 (4.96%) Relational Database
8 12 (4.58%) Big Data
9 11 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (4.20%) NoSQL
10 10 (3.82%) Oracle Database
10 10 (3.82%) SQL Server
11 9 (3.44%) BigQuery
12 8 (3.05%) Metadata Repository
12 8 (3.05%) RDBMS
13 7 (2.67%) Spark SQL
13 7 (2.67%) Tableau
14 6 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (2.29%) Data Hub
14 6 (2.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (3.05%) ERwin
2 3 (1.15%) Git
3 2 (0.76%) GCC
3 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) JIRA
4 1 (0.38%) Postman
4 1 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (30.92%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.76%) Finance
3 38 (14.50%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.58%) Banking
6 8 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.05%) Local Government
6 8 (3.05%) Retail
7 5 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.91%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.53%) Legal
8 4 (1.53%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.15%) Back Office
9 3 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.15%) Marketing
9 3 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Automotive
10 2 (0.76%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.73%) PySpark
2 8 (3.05%) Kafka
3 3 (1.15%) JSON
3 3 (1.15%) XML
4 2 (0.76%) .NET
4 2 (0.76%) SOAP
5 1 (0.38%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.38%) ADO
5 1 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.38%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.38%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.38%) REST
5 1 (0.38%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.40%) Data Structures
2 20 (7.63%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.05%) NHS
4 7 (2.67%) Data Fabric
4 7 (2.67%) Low-Code
4 7 (2.67%) Reference Data
5 6 (2.29%) FMCG
6 5 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.91%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.53%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.53%) Pricing Data
7 4 (1.53%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.53%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.15%) IoT
8 3 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.38%) Unix
1 1 (0.38%) Windows
1 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (60.31%) Data Modelling
2 151 (57.63%) Data Architecture
3 104 (39.69%) Data Governance
4 75 (28.63%) Analytics
5 51 (19.47%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (17.56%) ETL
7 44 (16.79%) Data Strategy
8 41 (15.65%) AI
9 40 (15.27%) Metadata Management
10 39 (14.89%) Roadmaps
11 38 (14.50%) Data Integration
12 36 (13.74%) Migration
13 34 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (11.45%) Machine Learning
16 29 (11.07%) Data Engineering
16 29 (11.07%) Physical Data Model
17 28 (10.69%) Data Management
18 26 (9.92%) Agile
18 26 (9.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 49 (18.70%) SQL
2 45 (17.18%) Python
3 13 (4.96%) Java
4 3 (1.15%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
4 3 (1.15%) Scala
5 2 (0.76%) Korn
5 2 (0.76%) SPARQL
6 1 (0.38%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (0.38%) C
6 1 (0.38%) C#
6 1 (0.38%) C++
6 1 (0.38%) Perl
6 1 (0.38%) R
6 1 (0.38%) SOQL
6 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.73%) Degree
4 9 (3.44%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.91%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.91%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.38%) MCP
9 1 (0.38%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.38%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.38%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (20.23%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.25%) GDPR
3 6 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (1.91%) QA
5 3 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.76%) CRD IV
6 2 (0.76%) FINREP
6 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.76%) IFRS
7 1 (0.38%) GMP
7 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.38%) Docker
1 1 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (2.29%) Terraform
2 2 (0.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 40 (15.27%) Databricks
2 39 (14.89%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.40%) Oracle
4 15 (5.73%) Informatica
5 13 (4.96%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.96%) SAP
6 10 (3.82%) Google
7 4 (1.53%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.53%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (1.53%) Pega
7 4 (1.53%) Remedy
8 3 (1.15%) Hitachi
8 3 (1.15%) Palantir
8 3 (1.15%) Talend
8 3 (1.15%) Workday
9 2 (0.76%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.76%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.76%) Charles River
9 2 (0.76%) Cognos
9 2 (0.76%) SimCorp