Data Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Data Architect
England > Midlands

The median Data Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 102 144
Rank change year-on-year 0 +42 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 15 33 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.75% 1.23% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.33% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 24 10
10th Percentile £474 - £523
25th Percentile £539 £450 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £578 £613
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -5.71% +0.74%
75th Percentile £666 £700 £666
90th Percentile £739 £718 £688
England median daily rate £600 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.96 - -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +21.25% -9.09% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,804 2,482 3,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 92.23% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 1,687 2,180
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £350 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -2.63% +2.70%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 216 116
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.83 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £19.13 £20.41
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -6.30% +16.63%
75th Percentile £25.83 £35.00 £30.50
90th Percentile £40.77 £52.45 £61.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £44.77
% change year-on-year -18.73% -17.54% +94.63%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the Midlands

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the Midlands

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the Midlands

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the Midlands

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
West Midlands -10 13 £600 +4.35% 19
East Midlands +9 2 - - 13
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Midlands region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 12 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 10 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 9 (60.00%) Data Architecture
3 9 (60.00%) Azure
4 8 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (53.33%) SQL
5 7 (46.67%) SAP
5 7 (46.67%) Analytics
6 6 (40.00%) Power BI
6 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
6 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
6 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (40.00%) ETL
6 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
7 5 (33.33%) Machine Learning
7 5 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (33.33%) Data Integration
7 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (33.33%) DevOps
7 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (26.67%) Databricks
8 4 (26.67%) Terraform
8 4 (26.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (26.67%) Delta Lake
8 4 (26.67%) Bicep
8 4 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (26.67%) CI/CD

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Maximo
1 3 (20.00%) SAP PM
2 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (20.00%) Collibra
6 2 (13.33%) AWS
6 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (13.33%) Serverless
7 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Power BI
2 5 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (26.67%) Delta Lake
3 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
4 3 (20.00%) Big Data
4 3 (20.00%) GIS
5 2 (13.33%) Metadata
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (6.67%) SAP BW
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Military
3 1 (6.67%) Police
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (20.00%) IoT
1 3 (20.00%) SCADA
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 10 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 9 (60.00%) Data Architecture
4 8 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (46.67%) Analytics
6 6 (40.00%) ETL
7 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (33.33%) Data Integration
7 5 (33.33%) DevOps
7 5 (33.33%) Machine Learning
7 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
8 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (20.00%) Batch Processing
9 3 (20.00%) Data Mapping
9 3 (20.00%) Observability
9 3 (20.00%) RBAC
9 3 (20.00%) Zero Trust
10 2 (13.33%) High Availability
10 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Bicep
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CITP
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (20.00%) GDPR
3 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) SAP
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) Databricks
3 4 (26.67%) Informatica
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle
5 2 (13.33%) Google
6 1 (6.67%) Splunk
6 1 (6.67%) Workday