Database Architect Contracts in England

Database Architect
UK > England

The median Database Architect daily rate in England is £900, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 535 645
Rank change year-on-year +54 +110 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Database Architect 4 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.019% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.020% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 8
10th Percentile £570 £530 £455
25th Percentile £675 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +13.04% -13.92%
75th Percentile £950 £675 £813
90th Percentile - £710 £850
UK median daily rate £900 £650 £575
% change year-on-year +38.46% +13.04% -13.92%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Database Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Architect in England

Database Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Database Architect in England

Database Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Database Architect in England

Database Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Architect in England

Database 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 Database Architect 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 +40 4 £900 +56.52% 3
Database Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Database 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 Database Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Database Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) DB2
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing

Database 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Database Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Biometrics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Genesys