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 during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 654 753
Rank change year-on-year +120 +99 -152
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Architect 16 11 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.022% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.023% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 26
10th Percentile £475 £500 £608
25th Percentile £513 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £705
Median % change year-on-year - -4.26% -6.00%
75th Percentile £838 £1,100 £824
90th Percentile £875 - £900
UK median daily rate £675 £688 £705
% change year-on-year -1.82% -2.48% -6.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,508 48,174 68,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.56% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,974 34,135 48,471
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,404 1,457 1,922
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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 +109 11 £650 -7.14% 3
Midlands - 2 £500 - 1
East of England +16 1 £850 +70.00%
South East +14 1 £825 -25.00%
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
Lead Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 8 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 6 (37.50%) Migration
2 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (31.25%) Data Migration
3 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 4 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Data Lake
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (18.75%) Flink
5 3 (18.75%) Kafka
5 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
5 3 (18.75%) Azure
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) ERP
5 3 (18.75%) Apache
5 3 (18.75%) Data Strategy
5 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Data Fabric
6 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (18.75%) Flink
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (12.50%) Big Data
4 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
5 1 (6.25%) Metadata
5 1 (6.25%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) ERwin
1 1 (6.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
2 1 (6.25%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Data Fabric
3 2 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (6.25%) FMCG
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 6 (37.50%) Migration
3 5 (31.25%) Data Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
5 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (18.75%) Data Strategy
5 3 (18.75%) ERP
6 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics
6 2 (12.50%) Data Management
6 2 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) ETL
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Python
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Databricks
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Infor
2 1 (6.25%) Informatica
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) SAP