Data Architect Contracts in the North of England

Data Architect
England > North of England

The median Data Architect daily rate in the North of England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 141 201
Rank change year-on-year +12 +60 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 37 44 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.12% 0.92% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 0.99% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 28 10
10th Percentile £450 £516 £535
25th Percentile £522 £534 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £588
Median % change year-on-year -14.34% +19.15% -4.08%
75th Percentile £703 £750 £620
90th Percentile £778 £783 £698
England median daily rate £600 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +34.17% -9.09% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the North of England

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the North of England

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the North of England

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the North of England

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +12 24 £525 -25.00% 7
Yorkshire 0 8 £740 +9.31% 5
North East +2 5 £600 -29.45% 1
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 17 (45.95%) Data Modelling
1 17 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 14 (37.84%) Data Architecture
3 10 (27.03%) Data Governance
3 10 (27.03%) Analytics
3 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
4 9 (24.32%) Kafka
4 9 (24.32%) Visualisation
4 9 (24.32%) AWS
4 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
5 8 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (21.62%) Migration
5 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes
5 8 (21.62%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (21.62%) Data Strategy
6 7 (18.92%) Databricks
6 7 (18.92%) Splunk
6 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (18.92%) ETL
6 7 (18.92%) Banking
7 6 (16.22%) SQL
7 6 (16.22%) Architectural Design
8 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
8 5 (13.51%) Metadata
8 5 (13.51%) Conceptual Models
8 5 (13.51%) Data Security
8 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
8 5 (13.51%) Big Data
8 5 (13.51%) GCP
8 5 (13.51%) Logical Data Model

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) SAS
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) AWS
2 5 (13.51%) GCP
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) Collibra
3 4 (10.81%) GitHub
3 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.70%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (13.51%) Big Data
2 5 (13.51%) Metadata
3 4 (10.81%) Hadoop
3 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.81%) Tableau
4 3 (8.11%) Data Lake
4 3 (8.11%) Data Mining
4 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.70%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.70%) Flink
6 1 (2.70%) HBase
6 1 (2.70%) Pentaho
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) ERwin
2 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Banking
3 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Finance
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Automotive
6 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) Kafka
2 4 (10.81%) OAuth
2 4 (10.81%) OAuth2
2 4 (10.81%) OpenID
2 4 (10.81%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (10.81%) SAML
3 3 (8.11%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (8.11%) D3.js
4 1 (2.70%) Apache Beam
4 1 (2.70%) JDBC
4 1 (2.70%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.81%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.11%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) IoT
4 1 (2.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Linux
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Data Modelling
2 14 (37.84%) Data Architecture
3 10 (27.03%) Analytics
3 10 (27.03%) Data Governance
4 9 (24.32%) Visualisation
5 8 (21.62%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (21.62%) Data Strategy
5 8 (21.62%) Migration
6 7 (18.92%) ETL
6 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (16.22%) Architectural Design
8 5 (13.51%) Conceptual Models
8 5 (13.51%) Data Security
8 5 (13.51%) Logical Data Model
8 5 (13.51%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (10.81%) Data Management
9 4 (10.81%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (10.81%) Microservices
9 4 (10.81%) Monte Carlo Method
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) Scala
3 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.51%) Terraform
3 4 (10.81%) Grafana
3 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Databricks
1 7 (18.92%) Splunk
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 3 (8.11%) Cloudera
4 2 (5.41%) Informatica
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.41%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) Ariba
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) Hitachi
5 1 (2.70%) Pega
5 1 (2.70%) Talend