Senior Data Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Data Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Data Architect daily rate in England is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 503 590
Rank change year-on-year -4 +87 +167
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 14 15 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.051% 0.046% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.049% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 17
10th Percentile £444 £315 £618
25th Percentile £513 £519 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £716 £678 £688
90th Percentile £740 £699 £790
UK median daily rate £700 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +0.93%

All DemandTrendContract 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 25,177 30,475 40,612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.40% 93.05% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,233 19,423 28,498
10th Percentile £281 £305 £304
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,340 1,571 1,325
10th Percentile £13.55 £14.41 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.23 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +5.40% +66.34%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Architect in England

Senior Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Senior Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Architect in England over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Architect in England

Senior 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 Senior Data Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +23 11 £613 +2.08% 15
North of England - 2 £708 - 1
South East +22 1 £402 - 11
North West - 1 £716 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £700 - 1
Senior Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 9 (64.29%) Data Modelling
3 8 (57.14%) Python
3 8 (57.14%) Migration
3 8 (57.14%) Data Architecture
3 8 (57.14%) AWS
4 7 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (42.86%) Azure
6 5 (35.71%) Data Governance
6 5 (35.71%) ETL
6 5 (35.71%) Data Strategy
7 4 (28.57%) BigQuery
7 4 (28.57%) GCP
7 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
7 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (28.57%) Analytics
7 4 (28.57%) Google
7 4 (28.57%) Degree
7 4 (28.57%) Dimensional Modelling
7 4 (28.57%) Agile
7 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
7 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
8 3 (21.43%) Snowflake
8 3 (21.43%) Data Security
8 3 (21.43%) Star Schema
8 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
8 3 (21.43%) Kafka
8 3 (21.43%) Data Quality

Senior 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 2 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) Snowflake
5 2 (14.29%) Collibra
5 2 (14.29%) dbt
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.14%) SaaS
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (28.57%) BigQuery
3 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
3 3 (21.43%) Star Schema
4 2 (14.29%) Metadata
4 2 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
5 1 (7.14%) Data Vault
5 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (7.14%) Power BI
5 1 (7.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) ER Studio
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Military
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Cyberattack
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Reinsurance
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Data Modelling
2 8 (57.14%) Data Architecture
2 8 (57.14%) Migration
3 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (35.71%) Data Governance
4 5 (35.71%) Data Strategy
4 5 (35.71%) ETL
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Analytics
5 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 4 (28.57%) Dimensional Modelling
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (21.43%) Data Science
6 3 (21.43%) Data Security
6 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
7 2 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) Informatica
2 2 (14.29%) Talend
3 1 (7.14%) SAP