Data Architect Contracts in Manchester

Data Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Data Architect daily rate in Manchester is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 110 101
Rank change year-on-year +30 -9 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 21 6 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.37% 0.32% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 0.33% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 32
10th Percentile £525 £523 £551
25th Percentile £534 £538 £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £739 £613 £709
90th Percentile £750 £718 £738
North West median daily rate £700 £563 £625
% change year-on-year +24.44% -10.00% -4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £66.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,468 1,829 2,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.76% 96.62% 97.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,019 1,360 1,993
10th Percentile £313 £313 £214
25th Percentile £394 £410 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 55 62
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.82
Median hourly rate £25.10 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +100.00% +8.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.13 £23.69
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.40 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.59% +49.05% +11.72%

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 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in Manchester

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Bolton +3 1 £525 -
Data Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 14 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 13 (61.90%) Data Strategy
3 12 (57.14%) Data Governance
4 11 (52.38%) Data Quality
4 11 (52.38%) Data Modelling
5 10 (47.62%) Data Management
6 9 (42.86%) Azure
7 8 (38.10%) Data Protection
7 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
8 7 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
9 6 (28.57%) Metadata
9 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (28.57%) Sparx
9 6 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
9 6 (28.57%) Analytics
9 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (23.81%) Physical Data Model
10 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (23.81%) ServiceNow
10 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
10 5 (23.81%) Data Structures
10 5 (23.81%) Architectural Design
10 5 (23.81%) Design Patterns
10 5 (23.81%) SOA
10 5 (23.81%) SAP
10 5 (23.81%) CRM
10 5 (23.81%) RDBMS
10 5 (23.81%) GAP Analysis

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 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Azure Stack
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (28.57%) Metadata
2 5 (23.81%) RDBMS
2 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
3 4 (19.05%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (9.52%) Big Data
4 2 (9.52%) Power BI
5 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) ERwin
General
1 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Electronics
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Manufacturing
3 4 (19.05%) Marketing
3 4 (19.05%) Retail
3 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
4 3 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) JSON
1 4 (19.05%) REST
1 4 (19.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Structures
1 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (19.05%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 4 (19.05%) Reference Data
2 4 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (19.05%) Wiki
3 3 (14.29%) CMDB
4 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 13 (61.90%) Data Strategy
3 12 (57.14%) Data Governance
4 11 (52.38%) Data Modelling
5 10 (47.62%) Data Management
6 8 (38.10%) Data Protection
7 7 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (28.57%) Analytics
8 6 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (23.81%) Agile
9 5 (23.81%) Architectural Design
9 5 (23.81%) Content Management
9 5 (23.81%) CRM
9 5 (23.81%) Design Patterns
9 5 (23.81%) GAP Analysis
9 5 (23.81%) Open Source
9 5 (23.81%) Physical Data Model
9 5 (23.81%) SOA
10 4 (19.05%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (52.38%) Data Quality
2 4 (19.05%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Sparx
2 5 (23.81%) SAP
2 5 (23.81%) ServiceNow
3 3 (14.29%) Databricks
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Google