Data Architecture Contracts in England

Data Architecture
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 220 244
Rank change year-on-year +19 +24 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 330 396 548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.36% 1.06% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.23% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 288 392
10th Percentile £450 £433 £463
25th Percentile £513 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £800 £746
90th Percentile £813 £925 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 8
10th Percentile £70.60 - £29.75
25th Percentile £78.71 £22.33 £34.81
Median hourly rate £80.50 £29.83 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +169.91% -16.57% -60.08%
75th Percentile £90.88 £35.00 £38.44
90th Percentile £96.88 - £55.05
UK median hourly rate £80.50 £29.83 £35.50
% change year-on-year +169.91% -15.99% -60.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Architecture in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +10 209 £600 -14.29% 302
South East +51 33 £535 +12.63% 293
North of England -10 23 £625 +4.17% 207
Midlands +4 22 £525 -12.50% 193
West Midlands +2 20 £550 -8.33% 104
South West +37 16 £625 +13.64% 124
North West -2 16 £625 +15.21% 95
East of England +37 11 £675 +5.88% 139
North East +1 5 £575 -23.33% 25
East Midlands +4 2 £465 -31.11% 74
Yorkshire -7 2 £575 -23.33% 87
Data Architecture
UK

Data Architecture
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 24 (7.27%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.55%) Apache
3 12 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Drupal
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
5 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (3.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (1.82%) Aladdin
4 5 (1.52%) SAP MDG
4 5 (1.52%) SAP MDG-S
5 3 (0.91%) Maximo
6 2 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 121 (36.67%) Azure
2 89 (26.97%) AWS
3 44 (13.33%) GCP
4 43 (13.03%) Power Platform
5 38 (11.52%) Snowflake
6 23 (6.97%) dbt
7 18 (5.45%) SaaS
8 17 (5.15%) Serverless
9 16 (4.85%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.94%) IaaS
12 12 (3.64%) GitHub
12 12 (3.64%) PaaS
13 10 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.91%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.61%) DNS
2 2 (0.61%) Firewall
2 2 (0.61%) IPsec
2 2 (0.61%) SSL
2 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.61%) VPN
3 1 (0.30%) Broadband
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 57 (17.27%) Metadata
3 55 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 41 (12.42%) Power BI
5 35 (10.61%) Big Data
6 22 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 22 (6.67%) Relational Database
7 18 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (5.45%) Hadoop
8 17 (5.15%) Tableau
9 15 (4.55%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.64%) BigQuery
11 10 (3.03%) Oracle Database
11 10 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (2.73%) Data Vault
13 8 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (2.12%) BusinessObjects
14 7 (2.12%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 32 (9.70%) ERwin
2 12 (3.64%) PowerDesigner
3 6 (1.82%) GitLab
3 6 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.82%) JIRA
4 5 (1.52%) Maven
5 4 (1.21%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.21%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.61%) Git
7 1 (0.30%) Hudson
7 1 (0.30%) MLflow
7 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 118 (35.76%) Social Skills
2 73 (22.12%) Finance
3 63 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (11.52%) Public Sector
5 24 (7.27%) Banking
6 15 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (3.03%) Retail
10 7 (2.12%) Back Office
10 7 (2.12%) Marketing
11 6 (1.82%) Automotive
11 6 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.52%) Legal
12 5 (1.52%) Local Government
13 4 (1.21%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.21%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 197 (59.70%) Architect
2 142 (43.03%) Data Architect
3 36 (10.91%) Data Engineer
4 35 (10.61%) Solutions Architect
5 34 (10.30%) Senior
6 31 (9.39%) Lead
7 21 (6.36%) Data Modeller
8 19 (5.76%) Analyst
9 16 (4.85%) Senior Architect
10 15 (4.55%) Senior Data Architect
11 14 (4.24%) Azure Architect
11 14 (4.24%) Enterprise Architect
12 13 (3.94%) Data Analyst
13 10 (3.03%) Azure Data Architect
13 10 (3.03%) Business Analyst
14 9 (2.73%) Technical Architect
15 8 (2.42%) Consultant
15 8 (2.42%) Lead Architect
16 7 (2.12%) Data Consultant
16 7 (2.12%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.36%) Kafka
2 12 (3.64%) React
3 9 (2.73%) Node.js
4 8 (2.42%) Jinja
5 6 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (1.82%) GraphQL
6 5 (1.52%) Plotly
6 5 (1.52%) PySpark
6 5 (1.52%) Spring
6 5 (1.52%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.21%) Middleware
7 4 (1.21%) Web Services
8 3 (0.91%) D3.js
8 3 (0.91%) Hibernate
8 3 (0.91%) JPA
9 2 (0.61%) MDX
9 2 (0.61%) OAuth
9 2 (0.61%) SAML
9 2 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.18%) Data Structures
2 24 (7.27%) Reference Data
3 21 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.42%) IoT
7 8 (2.42%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.82%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.82%) Replication
8 6 (1.82%) Taxonomies
9 5 (1.52%) Industry 4.0
9 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.91%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.91%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.73%) Linux
2 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.52%) Unix
3 2 (0.61%) Windows
3 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (54.55%) Data Modelling
2 122 (36.97%) Data Governance
3 101 (30.61%) Analytics
4 100 (30.30%) ETL
5 74 (22.42%) Migration
6 73 (22.12%) Business Intelligence
7 67 (20.30%) Data Management
8 60 (18.18%) Data Integration
9 58 (17.58%) Data Strategy
10 56 (16.97%) Data Pipeline
11 53 (16.06%) Roadmaps
12 52 (15.76%) Agile
13 47 (14.24%) Data Migration
13 47 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
14 45 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
15 43 (13.03%) Data Engineering
16 42 (12.73%) Data Security
16 42 (12.73%) Visualisation
17 36 (10.91%) DevOps
18 35 (10.61%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 110 (33.33%) SQL
2 66 (20.00%) Python
3 10 (3.03%) Java
3 10 (3.03%) Scala
4 9 (2.73%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.82%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.52%) R
7 4 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.91%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.61%) Bash
9 2 (0.61%) Bicep
9 2 (0.61%) C#
9 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.30%) Ruby
10 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 50 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 43 (13.03%) Degree
4 20 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.21%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.30%) CITP
12 1 (0.30%) ISEB
12 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (19.39%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.76%) GDPR
3 17 (5.15%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.94%) QA
5 3 (0.91%) HL7
6 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (3.94%) Docker
2 3 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.61%) RACF
3 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (5.76%) Terraform
2 17 (5.15%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.42%) Ansible
4 4 (1.21%) Kibana
4 4 (1.21%) logstash
5 2 (0.61%) Packer
5 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.30%) Grafana
6 1 (0.30%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.21%) SAP
3 31 (9.39%) Databricks
4 24 (7.27%) Google
5 20 (6.06%) Oracle
5 20 (6.06%) Sparx
6 16 (4.85%) Informatica
7 10 (3.03%) Talend
8 9 (2.73%) BiZZdesign
9 8 (2.42%) IBM
10 7 (2.12%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.21%) Adobe
11 4 (1.21%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.21%) VMware
12 3 (0.91%) Dell
12 3 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.61%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.61%) Sage
13 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud