Lead Data Architect Contract Job Trends in Essex

Lead Data Architect
East of England > Essex

The median Lead Data Architect daily rate in Essex is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.27% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £463 - £850

All Contract IT Job Roles
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 337 96 122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.84% 82.76% 96.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 49 62
10th Percentile £268 £171 £180
25th Percentile £363 £200 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £335
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +19.40% -33.00%
75th Percentile £575 £508 £450
90th Percentile £613 £563 £550
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 15 15
10th Percentile £15.99 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.34 £13.25 £27.71
Median hourly rate £18.25 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.33% -6.25% -27.93%
75th Percentile £30.39 £73.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £73.00 £75.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £48.84 £30.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +62.80% -30.23% +16.29%

Lead Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. 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
Basildon - 1 £463 -
Lead Data Architect
East of England

Lead Data Architect Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex

For the 6 months to 9 October 2026, Lead Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Essex region featuring Lead Data Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Lakehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories

Lead Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Lakehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality