Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Data Architecture
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 1 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 1.15% 3.80% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 4.41% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £491 -
25th Percentile - £516 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -12.50% +40.00%
75th Percentile - £691 £725
90th Percentile - £704 -
Leicestershire median daily rate £600 £613 £700
% change year-on-year -2.04% -12.50% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

Data Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 68 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 73.56% 86.08% 82.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 48 85
10th Percentile £197 £275 £175
25th Percentile £403 £344 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £449 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -10.20% +20.48%
75th Percentile £609 £526 £588
90th Percentile £630 £713 £719
Leicestershire median daily rate £450 £449 £455
% change year-on-year +0.22% -1.41% +12.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.80
25th Percentile - - £34.00
Median hourly rate £13.84 - £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.19%
75th Percentile - - £60.50
90th Percentile - - £63.20
Leicestershire median hourly rate £23.15 £24.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.54% +14.29% -36.36%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in Leicester

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Data Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks