Data Architect Contracts 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 17 May 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 221 260
Rank change year-on-year -2 +39 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 278 393 487
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.14% 1.08% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.16% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 278 358
10th Percentile £466 £496 £513
25th Percentile £519 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £713 £775 £775
90th Percentile £780 £916 £875
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile £46.02 £52.50 £46.35
25th Percentile £56.62 £58.13 £61.50
Median hourly rate £72.75 £60.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £82.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -9.09% -

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 22,607 33,747 45,591
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.75% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,047 22,371 32,416
10th Percentile £296 £283 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 913 2,431 1,343
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +93.72%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £28.15 £36.58 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.03% -18.72% +87.50%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Architect in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Architect 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 17 May 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 -30 167 £600 -14.29% 83
North of England +21 38 £550 -12.00% 38
North West +15 23 £525 -16.00% 17
South East +51 21 £563 -19.64% 58
Midlands 0 15 £600 +3.90% 32
South West +27 13 £450 -33.33% 21
West Midlands -8 13 £600 +4.35% 18
Yorkshire +13 11 £663 +20.45% 15
East of England +25 8 £638 -25.00% 13
North East -2 4 £575 -32.35% 6
East Midlands +8 2 - - 13
Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 England region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 159 (57.19%) Data Modelling
2 139 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 103 (37.05%) Data Governance
4 96 (34.53%) Azure
5 84 (30.22%) SQL
6 82 (29.50%) AWS
7 79 (28.42%) Security Cleared
7 79 (28.42%) ETL
8 75 (26.98%) Data Warehouse
9 73 (26.26%) Analytics
10 65 (23.38%) Social Skills
11 62 (22.30%) Business Intelligence
12 60 (21.58%) SC Cleared
13 57 (20.50%) Migration
14 54 (19.42%) Finance
15 49 (17.63%) Data Quality
16 46 (16.55%) Data Integration
16 46 (16.55%) Metadata
17 45 (16.19%) Python
17 45 (16.19%) Data Strategy
18 44 (15.83%) GCP
19 43 (15.47%) Databricks
20 40 (14.39%) Roadmaps
21 39 (14.03%) Data Lake
22 38 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
23 36 (12.95%) Data Management
24 35 (12.59%) Data Security
24 35 (12.59%) Public Sector
24 35 (12.59%) Snowflake
24 35 (12.59%) Data Pipeline

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.32%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.08%) Apache
4 3 (1.08%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (1.44%) Maximo
4 3 (1.08%) Aladdin
4 3 (1.08%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.36%) Endur
5 1 (0.36%) Magento
5 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 96 (34.53%) Azure
2 82 (29.50%) AWS
3 44 (15.83%) GCP
4 35 (12.59%) Snowflake
5 34 (12.23%) Power Platform
6 18 (6.47%) GitHub
7 17 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (6.12%) dbt
7 17 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (5.40%) Collibra
9 13 (4.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (4.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.24%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (2.88%) SaaS
14 7 (2.52%) Serverless
15 5 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (1.80%) Azure Machine Learning
16 4 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.44%) Firewall
2 2 (0.72%) DNS
2 2 (0.72%) Network Security
2 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.72%) VPN
3 1 (0.36%) BGP
3 1 (0.36%) DHCP
3 1 (0.36%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.36%) HSRP
3 1 (0.36%) IPsec
3 1 (0.36%) NGFW
3 1 (0.36%) OSPF
3 1 (0.36%) SSL
3 1 (0.36%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.36%) VRRP
3 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (26.98%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (16.55%) Metadata
3 39 (14.03%) Data Lake
4 32 (11.51%) Power BI
5 27 (9.71%) Big Data
6 19 (6.83%) NoSQL
7 17 (6.12%) BigQuery
8 16 (5.76%) SQL Server
9 13 (4.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (3.60%) Data Vault
10 10 (3.60%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (3.24%) Hadoop
11 9 (3.24%) Tableau
12 7 (2.52%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (2.16%) Data Mining
13 6 (2.16%) MongoDB
13 6 (2.16%) Neo4j
14 5 (1.80%) Delta Lake
14 5 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (5.40%) ERwin
2 4 (1.44%) GitLab
2 4 (1.44%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.44%) Liquibase
3 3 (1.08%) ER Studio
3 3 (1.08%) Git
3 3 (1.08%) JIRA
3 3 (1.08%) Maven
3 3 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.42%) Finance
3 38 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.59%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.99%) Banking
6 9 (3.24%) Retail
7 8 (2.88%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.80%) Legal
8 5 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.44%) Back Office
9 4 (1.44%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Billing
10 3 (1.08%) Military
11 2 (0.72%) Automotive
11 2 (0.72%) Front Office
11 2 (0.72%) Law
11 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.15%) Kafka
2 9 (3.24%) Jinja
3 6 (2.16%) Middleware
4 5 (1.80%) Plotly
4 5 (1.80%) React
4 5 (1.80%) Spring
4 5 (1.80%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.44%) OAuth
5 4 (1.44%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.44%) OpenID
5 4 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.44%) SAML
6 3 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.08%) Hibernate
6 3 (1.08%) JPA
7 2 (0.72%) Shiny
8 1 (0.36%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.36%) pytest
8 1 (0.36%) REST
8 1 (0.36%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.27%) Data Structures
2 20 (7.19%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (4.32%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.32%) Reference Data
4 11 (3.96%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.80%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.44%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.44%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.44%) IoT
8 4 (1.44%) SCADA
9 3 (1.08%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.08%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.72%) Equities
10 2 (0.72%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.88%) Linux
2 5 (1.80%) Unix
2 5 (1.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (57.19%) Data Modelling
2 139 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 103 (37.05%) Data Governance
4 79 (28.42%) ETL
5 73 (26.26%) Analytics
6 62 (22.30%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (20.50%) Migration
8 46 (16.55%) Data Integration
9 45 (16.19%) Data Strategy
10 40 (14.39%) Roadmaps
11 36 (12.95%) Data Management
12 35 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
12 35 (12.59%) Data Security
13 31 (11.15%) CI/CD
13 31 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (10.43%) Agile
14 29 (10.43%) Visualisation
15 28 (10.07%) Data Transformation
16 27 (9.71%) Machine Learning
17 26 (9.35%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 84 (30.22%) SQL
2 45 (16.19%) Python
3 9 (3.24%) Java
4 7 (2.52%) Bicep
4 7 (2.52%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.44%) Scala
5 4 (1.44%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.08%) C#
6 3 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.72%) R
7 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.36%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.36%) Bash
8 1 (0.36%) C
8 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (28.42%) Security Cleared
2 60 (21.58%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.40%) Degree
4 10 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.36%) CITP
9 1 (0.36%) ISEB
9 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (17.63%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.91%) GDPR
3 10 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.80%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.44%) QA
6 3 (1.08%) HL7
7 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.36%) IFRS
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (2.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (5.40%) Kubernetes
1 15 (5.40%) Terraform
2 7 (2.52%) Grafana
3 5 (1.80%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.44%) Kibana
5 1 (0.36%) Control-M
5 1 (0.36%) MOM
5 1 (0.36%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 43 (15.47%) Databricks
2 31 (11.15%) Microsoft
3 24 (8.63%) SAP
4 22 (7.91%) Google
5 20 (7.19%) Informatica
6 19 (6.83%) Oracle
7 11 (3.96%) Talend
8 10 (3.60%) Splunk
9 9 (3.24%) Salesforce
9 9 (3.24%) Sparx
10 7 (2.52%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.44%) IBM
11 4 (1.44%) Workday
12 3 (1.08%) Ariba
12 3 (1.08%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.72%) Sage
14 1 (0.36%) CheckPoint
14 1 (0.36%) Hitachi
14 1 (0.36%) VMware