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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 232 256
Rank change year-on-year +36 +24 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 322 391 513
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.31% 1.06% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.23% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 286 362
10th Percentile £449 £429 £457
25th Percentile £500 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £650 £669
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% -2.80% +2.88%
75th Percentile £700 £800 £750
90th Percentile £803 £925 £825
UK median daily rate £590 £650 £663
% change year-on-year -9.23% -1.89% +1.92%
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 22,342 31,794 44,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.49% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,619 20,826 30,977
10th Percentile £308 £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 £766
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 945 2,249 1,562
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.91 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.18 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -0.85% +50.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -22.16% +0.69% +41.16%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +16 208 £600 -14.29% 349
South East +47 29 £500 +5.26% 170
Midlands +12 26 £525 -12.50% 47
West Midlands +14 23 £575 -4.17% 27
North of England -16 20 £600 +9.09% 60
North West -11 14 £625 +19.05% 27
South West +27 12 £593 +7.73% 31
East of England +31 11 £675 +5.88% 20
North East -6 4 £575 -23.33% 7
East Midlands +5 3 £451 -23.32% 17
Yorkshire +1 2 £575 -23.33% 26
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 23 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.35%) Apache
3 13 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Drupal
5 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
5 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (4.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (1.55%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.55%) SAP MDG
3 5 (1.55%) SAP MDG-S
4 4 (1.24%) Maximo
5 2 (0.62%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.62%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.31%) Magento
6 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (37.27%) Azure
2 85 (26.40%) AWS
3 44 (13.66%) Power Platform
4 40 (12.42%) GCP
5 36 (11.18%) Snowflake
6 25 (7.76%) dbt
7 19 (5.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (5.59%) SaaS
9 16 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (4.66%) Serverless
11 14 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (4.35%) GitHub
12 13 (4.04%) Amazon S3
12 13 (4.04%) IaaS
12 13 (4.04%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (3.73%) PaaS
14 10 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 8 (2.48%) Amazon EMR
16 8 (2.48%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.93%) Firewall
1 3 (0.93%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.62%) DNS
2 2 (0.62%) IPsec
2 2 (0.62%) SSL
2 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.62%) VPN
3 1 (0.31%) Broadband
3 1 (0.31%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (26.40%) Data Warehouse
2 57 (17.70%) Data Lake
3 55 (17.08%) Metadata
4 42 (13.04%) Power BI
5 35 (10.87%) Big Data
6 23 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 21 (6.52%) Relational Database
8 18 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (5.59%) Hadoop
9 15 (4.66%) SQL Server
10 13 (4.04%) Tableau
11 12 (3.73%) BigQuery
12 11 (3.42%) Oracle Database
13 10 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (3.11%) Delta Lake
13 10 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (2.48%) Data Vault
14 8 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 28 (8.70%) ERwin
2 9 (2.80%) PowerDesigner
3 7 (2.17%) JIRA
4 6 (1.86%) GitLab
4 6 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.55%) Maven
6 4 (1.24%) ER Studio
6 4 (1.24%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.62%) Git
8 1 (0.31%) Hudson
8 1 (0.31%) MLflow
8 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 115 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 73 (22.67%) Finance
3 58 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (11.49%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.14%) Banking
6 15 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (4.04%) Retail
9 12 (3.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.17%) Marketing
11 6 (1.86%) Automotive
11 6 (1.86%) Back Office
11 6 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.55%) Legal
12 5 (1.55%) Local Government
13 4 (1.24%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.93%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 190 (59.01%) Architect
2 135 (41.93%) Data Architect
3 37 (11.49%) Data Engineer
4 34 (10.56%) Solutions Architect
5 30 (9.32%) Lead
6 28 (8.70%) Senior
7 18 (5.59%) Analyst
7 18 (5.59%) Data Modeller
8 14 (4.35%) Azure Architect
8 14 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
9 12 (3.73%) Data Analyst
9 12 (3.73%) Senior Architect
10 11 (3.42%) Senior Data Architect
11 10 (3.11%) Azure Data Architect
11 10 (3.11%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.48%) Consultant
12 8 (2.48%) Project Manager
12 8 (2.48%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (2.48%) Technical Architect
13 7 (2.17%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.90%) Kafka
2 12 (3.73%) React
3 9 (2.80%) Node.js
4 8 (2.48%) Jinja
5 6 (1.86%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (1.86%) GraphQL
6 5 (1.55%) Middleware
6 5 (1.55%) Plotly
6 5 (1.55%) PySpark
6 5 (1.55%) Spring
6 5 (1.55%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.24%) Web Services
8 3 (0.93%) Hibernate
8 3 (0.93%) JPA
9 2 (0.62%) .NET
9 2 (0.62%) MDX
9 2 (0.62%) OAuth
9 2 (0.62%) SAML
9 2 (0.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.76%) Data Structures
2 22 (6.83%) Reference Data
3 18 (5.59%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.04%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.73%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.11%) IoT
7 9 (2.80%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.48%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.86%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.86%) Replication
9 6 (1.86%) Taxonomies
10 5 (1.55%) Industry 4.0
11 4 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.93%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.93%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.80%) Linux
2 5 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.55%) Unix
3 2 (0.62%) Windows
3 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (54.04%) Data Modelling
2 116 (36.02%) Data Governance
3 98 (30.43%) ETL
4 96 (29.81%) Analytics
5 76 (23.60%) Migration
6 71 (22.05%) Business Intelligence
7 63 (19.57%) Data Integration
7 63 (19.57%) Data Management
8 56 (17.39%) Data Strategy
9 54 (16.77%) Data Pipeline
10 53 (16.46%) Agile
11 50 (15.53%) Data Migration
12 48 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (14.60%) Roadmaps
14 46 (14.29%) Data Engineering
15 43 (13.35%) Stakeholder Management
16 41 (12.73%) Data Security
17 39 (12.11%) Visualisation
18 37 (11.49%) DevOps
19 35 (10.87%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 112 (34.78%) SQL
2 67 (20.81%) Python
3 11 (3.42%) Scala
4 9 (2.80%) Java
4 9 (2.80%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.86%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.55%) R
7 4 (1.24%) Bicep
7 4 (1.24%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.93%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.62%) Bash
9 2 (0.62%) C#
9 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.31%) Ruby
10 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 46 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 43 (13.35%) Degree
4 20 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.73%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (3.42%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.42%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.24%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.62%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.31%) CITP
13 1 (0.31%) ISEB
13 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.31%) PMP
13 1 (0.31%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (20.50%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.21%) GDPR
3 17 (5.28%) Accessibility
4 13 (4.04%) QA
5 3 (0.93%) HL7
6 2 (0.62%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (4.04%) Docker
2 3 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.62%) RACF
3 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (6.52%) Terraform
2 17 (5.28%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.48%) Ansible
4 4 (1.24%) Kibana
4 4 (1.24%) logstash
5 2 (0.62%) Packer
5 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.31%) Grafana
6 1 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (15.53%) Microsoft
2 40 (12.42%) SAP
3 37 (11.49%) Databricks
4 23 (7.14%) Google
5 19 (5.90%) Informatica
5 19 (5.90%) Oracle
6 16 (4.97%) Sparx
7 10 (3.11%) Talend
8 9 (2.80%) BiZZdesign
9 8 (2.48%) IBM
10 6 (1.86%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.24%) Adobe
11 4 (1.24%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.24%) VMware
12 3 (0.93%) Dell
12 3 (0.93%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.62%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.62%) Sage
13 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud