Lead Data Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Lead Data Architect
UK > England

The median Lead Data Architect daily rate in England is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 524 577
Rank change year-on-year +7 +53 +172
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Architect 4 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.030% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.033% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 13
10th Percentile £524 £506 £640
25th Percentile £578 £525 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £588 £750
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% -21.67% -
75th Percentile £841 £769 £925
90th Percentile £906 £850 £950
UK median daily rate £650 £588 £738
% change year-on-year +10.64% -20.34% -1.67%
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 25,374 30,624 40,138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 92.98% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,359 19,070 28,007
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £401 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,370 1,470 1,375
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.69 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £53.99 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Data Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Data Architect job vacancies 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +13 4 £700 +19.15% 1
Lead Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 4 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Data Development
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Back Office
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Maven
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) JPA
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Power BI
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Legal
4 1 (25.00%) Migration

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (75.00%) Back Office
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) JPA
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Data Development
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Design
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree