Data Architect Contracts in Manchester

Data Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Data Architect daily rate in Manchester is £525, 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 62 75 112
Rank change year-on-year +13 +37 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 17 21 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.84% 1.38% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 1.44% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 5
10th Percentile - £525 £523
25th Percentile £450 £534 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +27.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £700 £739 £613
90th Percentile £713 £750 £718
North West median daily rate £525 £700 £563
% change year-on-year -25.00% +24.44% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
North West median hourly rate - - £66.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in Manchester

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in Manchester

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Manchester region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Kafka
3 6 (35.29%) Analytics
3 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
4 5 (29.41%) ETL
4 5 (29.41%) Data Security
4 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
4 5 (29.41%) Big Data
4 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
5 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (23.53%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (23.53%) Architectural Design
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (23.53%) RBAC
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 4 (23.53%) Digital Twin
5 4 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub
5 4 (23.53%) OAuth2
5 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
5 4 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (23.53%) Terraform
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (23.53%) OpenID

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (5.88%) SAS
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (23.53%) GitHub
2 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (29.41%) Big Data
3 4 (23.53%) Hadoop
4 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (11.76%) Metadata
5 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
6 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
6 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
6 1 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (5.88%) HBase
6 1 (5.88%) Pentaho
6 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.88%) Power BI
6 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) ERwin
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Kafka
2 4 (23.53%) OAuth
2 4 (23.53%) OAuth2
2 4 (23.53%) OpenID
2 4 (23.53%) SAML
3 3 (17.65%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Analytics
1 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
2 5 (29.41%) Data Security
2 5 (29.41%) ETL
2 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
3 4 (23.53%) Architectural Design
3 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (23.53%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (23.53%) Digital Twin
3 4 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (23.53%) RBAC
4 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Cloudera
1 3 (17.65%) Splunk
2 2 (11.76%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Informatica
3 1 (5.88%) Hitachi
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Pega
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Talend