Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Architecture
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 32 24
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 1 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.32% 2.07% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 2.21% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £545 £402
25th Percentile - £556 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.28% +41.09% -34.62%
75th Percentile - £648 £525
90th Percentile - £691 £534
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £550 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -8.28% +41.09% -34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 283 181 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 90.13% 93.78% 84.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 92 98
10th Percentile £174 £278 £243
25th Percentile £364 £353 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £600
90th Percentile £585 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £442 £452 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% -4.84% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.59 £14.97 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% - -28.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.75 £16.50
90th Percentile £54.50 £37.25 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.63 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +72.66% -8.57% -22.22%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Data Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks