Senior Data Architect Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Senior Data Architect
England > Midlands

The median Senior Data Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 - 136
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.027% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £608
25th Percentile - - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - £652
75th Percentile - - £698
90th Percentile - - £718
England median daily rate £660 £750 £675
% change year-on-year -11.94% +11.04% -0.92%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 3,319 1,895 2,526
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.26% 91.33% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,091 1,210 1,695
10th Percentile £250 £200 £200
25th Percentile £400 £351 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 78 199
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.91 £11.87
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.71
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +17.11% +7.34%
75th Percentile £27.00 £30.51 £29.25
90th Percentile £39.50 £44.38 £58.75
England median hourly rate £33.09 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.47% - -12.50%

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Senior Data Architect job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Senior Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the Midlands

Senior 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 Senior Data Architect within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 February 2026. 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
East Midlands - 1 £402 -
Senior Data Architect
England

Senior Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 20 February 2026, Senior Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Sqoop
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Teradata

Senior Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Sqoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Teradata