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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 123 133
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 28 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.11% 0.34% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.42% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 16
10th Percentile £439 £594 £519
25th Percentile £450 £641 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £688 £588
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +17.02% -9.62%
75th Percentile £625 £772 £650
90th Percentile £775 £819 £688
England median daily rate £600 £625 £655
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.58% +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.96 - -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £35.00 £35.88
% change year-on-year +124.86% -2.44% -59.94%

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 2,208 2,160 2,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.72% 81.42% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 1,473 1,810
10th Percentile £231 £270 £250
25th Percentile £358 £373 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £642 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 95 84
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.13 £14.85 £18.13
Median hourly rate £21.35 £21.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -21.82% +47.85%
75th Percentile £26.69 £38.13 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £54.00 £68.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +7 22 £600 -15.79% 11
East Midlands +4 6 £442 -35.77% 9
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 2 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Maximo
1 3 (10.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (7.14%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (10.71%) Collibra
4 3 (10.71%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Internet
2 2 (7.14%) DMZ
3 1 (3.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Power BI
2 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (10.71%) Delta Lake
4 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 3 (10.71%) SAP BW
5 2 (7.14%) Big Data
5 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (7.14%) GIS
5 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.57%) Metadata
6 1 (3.57%) QlikView
6 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) Gradle
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.14%) Maven
2 1 (3.57%) ER Studio
2 1 (3.57%) ERwin
2 1 (3.57%) MLflow
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Police
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Architect
2 14 (50.00%) Data Architect
3 6 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) SAP Architect
5 2 (7.14%) SAP Data Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Data Migration Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Data Migration Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Data Modeller
6 1 (3.57%) HR Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Kafka
2 2 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.14%) RESTful
2 2 (7.14%) Web Services
3 1 (3.57%) Middleware
3 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (10.71%) IoT
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Replication
2 2 (7.14%) SCADA
3 1 (3.57%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Data Governance
2 18 (64.29%) Data Modelling
3 13 (46.43%) Analytics
4 9 (32.14%) Machine Learning
4 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 7 (25.00%) ETL
7 6 (21.43%) Data Management
7 6 (21.43%) Data Mapping
7 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
8 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
8 5 (17.86%) Migration
8 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
9 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 4 (14.29%) Data Analysis
9 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
9 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) Bicep
4 2 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (39.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.71%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kibana
1 2 (7.14%) logstash
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) SAP
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.29%) Databricks
4 3 (10.71%) Informatica
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle
6 1 (3.57%) Autodesk
6 1 (3.57%) Google
6 1 (3.57%) Workday