Principal Data Architect Contracts in England

Principal Data Architect
UK > England

The median Principal Data Architect daily rate in England is £650, 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 481 540 652
Rank change year-on-year +59 +112 +123
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Data Architect 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.005% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.006% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £496 £783 -
25th Percentile £544 £819 £815
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £884 £830
Median % change year-on-year -26.45% +6.48% +34.96%
75th Percentile £688 £944 £845
90th Percentile £695 £978 -
UK median daily rate £650 £884 £830
% change year-on-year -26.45% +6.48% +33.87%

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%

Principal Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Data Architect in England

Principal Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Data Architect in England

Principal Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Principal Data Architect in England

Principal 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 Principal 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 +38 2 £558 -36.86% 1
North West - 1 £700 - 1
East of England - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £700 - 1
Principal Data Architect
UK

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

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

1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Data Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Metadata
3 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (25.00%) Hitachi
4 1 (25.00%) ERwin
4 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Google
4 1 (25.00%) Ontologies
4 1 (25.00%) SAP

Principal 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%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (25.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Data Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) Ontologies
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Hitachi
1 1 (25.00%) Pega
1 1 (25.00%) SAP