Data Architecture Contracts in the Midlands

Data Architecture
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 93 155
Rank change year-on-year +4 +62 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 22 40 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.15% 1.45% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.77% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 11
10th Percentile £455 £459 £475
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £606
90th Percentile £709 £754 £613
England median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £24.65 -
England median hourly rate £80.50 £29.83 £35.75
% change year-on-year +169.91% -16.57% -60.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the Midlands

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the Midlands

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the Midlands

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the Midlands

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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 +2 20 £550 -8.33% 16
East Midlands +4 2 £465 -31.11% 7
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.64%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Maximo
2 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.64%) Power BI
3 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.09%) Metadata
3 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) DataStage
4 1 (4.55%) DB2
4 1 (4.55%) Flink
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) QualityStage
4 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.55%) SAP BW
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) ERwin
2 1 (4.55%) ER Studio
2 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Automotive
3 5 (22.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (13.64%) Finance
5 2 (9.09%) Legal
6 1 (4.55%) Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Military
6 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Data Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Data Modeller
5 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Data Migration Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Data Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) FHIR
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Industry 4.0
1 5 (22.73%) IoT
1 5 (22.73%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.09%) Replication
4 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Data Modelling
2 11 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 9 (40.91%) Data Integration
4 8 (36.36%) Analytics
5 7 (31.82%) ETL
5 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (27.27%) Agile
6 6 (27.27%) Computer Science
7 5 (22.73%) Analytical Thinking
7 5 (22.73%) Business Transformation
7 5 (22.73%) CAFM
7 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (22.73%) Energy Management
7 5 (22.73%) Facilities Management
7 5 (22.73%) Informatics
7 5 (22.73%) Process Management
8 4 (18.18%) Data Management
8 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
8 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
8 4 (18.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
2 6 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
4 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
6 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.55%) CITP
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kibana
1 2 (9.09%) logstash
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft