Lead Data Architect Contracts in England

Lead Data Architect
UK > England

The median Lead Data Architect daily rate in England is £675, 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 473 526 641
Rank change year-on-year +53 +115 +109
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Architect 12 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.043% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.046% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 9
10th Percentile £521 £475 £575
25th Percentile £572 £513 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -6.90% +2.84%
75th Percentile £778 £838 £1,100
90th Percentile £784 £875 -
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £713
% change year-on-year +3.70% -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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%

Lead Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Architect in England

Lead Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Architect in England

Lead Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead Data Architect in England

Lead 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 Lead Data 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 +30 3 £500 -23.08% 8
South East +47 2 - - 3
East of England +30 1 £600 -29.41%
Midlands +21 1 £775 +55.00% 1
West Midlands +14 1 £775 - 1
North East - 1 £750 -
North of England - 1 £750 - 1
Lead Data Architect
UK

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

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

1 9 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 7 (58.33%) Data Architecture
3 6 (50.00%) Data Management
3 6 (50.00%) Finance
4 5 (41.67%) Migration
4 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
4 5 (41.67%) Data Strategy
5 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 4 (33.33%) Analytics
5 4 (33.33%) AWS
5 4 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (33.33%) SQL
5 4 (33.33%) SAP
5 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 3 (25.00%) ETL
6 3 (25.00%) Back Office
6 3 (25.00%) Master Data Management
6 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Data Development
6 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 2 (16.67%) Metadata
7 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 2 (16.67%) Data Sharing
7 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
7 2 (16.67%) Reference Data
7 2 (16.67%) Reference Data Management
7 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven

Lead 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Big Data
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Back Office
4 2 (16.67%) Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Billing
5 1 (8.33%) Legal
5 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (16.67%) JPA
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
1 2 (16.67%) RESTful
1 2 (16.67%) Spring
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Reference Data
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) EPoS
2 1 (8.33%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 7 (58.33%) Data Architecture
3 6 (50.00%) Data Management
4 5 (41.67%) Data Strategy
4 5 (41.67%) Migration
5 4 (33.33%) Analytics
5 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 3 (25.00%) Data Development
6 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (25.00%) ETL
6 3 (25.00%) Master Data Management
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
7 2 (16.67%) Data Security
7 2 (16.67%) Data Sharing
7 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
7 2 (16.67%) Reference Data Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) IFRS
2 1 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Ariba
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce