Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Data Architecture
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 11 24
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 1 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 0.61% 3.49% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 3.80% 2.13%
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 -
East Midlands median daily rate £455 £613 £700
% change year-on-year -25.71% -12.50% +20.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 79 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 75.76% 91.86% 82.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 58 100
10th Percentile £132 £204 £157
25th Percentile £360 £275 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £428 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -10.00% +18.01%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £575
90th Percentile £638 £713 £706
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -2.33% -9.47% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £18.33 £21.48 £12.80
25th Percentile £20.44 £21.81 £13.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £23.25 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +10.71% -65.00%
75th Percentile £27.44 £24.31 £23.75
90th Percentile £30.25 £24.43 £57.80
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.95 £22.50 £21.52
% change year-on-year -20.24% +4.58% +27.84%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architecture within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Leicester -7 1 £600 -2.04% 1
Data Architecture
East Midlands

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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