Data Architect Contract Job Trends in the North East

Data Architect
England > North East

The median Data Architect daily rate in the North East is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 37 34
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 3 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.60% 1.75% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.88% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £624 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% - -
75th Percentile £588 £688 -
90th Percentile - £740 -
England median daily rate £588 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -6.00% -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
England median hourly rate £76.22 £80.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year -5.32% +57.67% -27.06%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 482 319 295
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.02% 93.00% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 216 148
10th Percentile £163 £216 £163
25th Percentile £350 £349 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £452 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +0.44% -15.89%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £555
90th Percentile £600 £650 £641
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 11 58
10th Percentile £17.88 £11.60 £11.09
25th Percentile £44.50 £12.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.75 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +220.00% +11.94% -65.82%
75th Percentile £72.50 £36.34 £46.18
90th Percentile - £46.18 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.71 £36.00 £32.90
% change year-on-year -0.81% +9.44% -20.73%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Data Architect job vacancy trend in the North East

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the North East

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
Tyne and Wear -19 3 £575 -4.11% 4
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 7 March 2026, 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 North East region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Big Data
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) SysML
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubeflow
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Talend