Data Architect Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data Architect
England > North of England

The median Data Architect daily rate in the North of England is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 132 172
Rank change year-on-year -21 +40 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 31 36 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.79% 0.88% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.95% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 17
10th Percentile £428 £450 £564
25th Percentile £450 £473 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% -21.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £641 £689 £738
90th Percentile £700 £725 £843
England median daily rate £600 £645 £681
% change year-on-year -6.98% -5.32% +1.68%

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 3,622 3,783 4,820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.16% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,366 2,195 3,236
10th Percentile £250 £275 £263
25th Percentile £366 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% - -
75th Percentile £550 £586 £600
90th Percentile £644 £675 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 243 205
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.22 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.45 £32.50 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -30.94% +21.36% +27.52%
75th Percentile £47.12 £49.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.79 £70.00 £63.04
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies 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 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the North of England

Data Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies 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 15 September 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 -13 18 £525 -0.94% 10
Yorkshire -13 13 £550 -1.79% 11
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 15 (48.39%) GCP
2 13 (41.94%) Data Architecture
3 12 (38.71%) Data Modelling
4 9 (29.03%) Data Governance
4 9 (29.03%) Data Engineering
4 9 (29.03%) Cloud Native
5 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
5 8 (25.81%) ETL
5 8 (25.81%) Finance
5 8 (25.81%) Google
6 7 (22.58%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (22.58%) DevOps
6 7 (22.58%) Data Integration
6 7 (22.58%) Azure
6 7 (22.58%) AWS
6 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
6 7 (22.58%) Metadata
6 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
7 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (19.35%) Analytics
7 6 (19.35%) BigQuery
7 6 (19.35%) Agile
8 5 (16.13%) Migration
8 5 (16.13%) SQL
8 5 (16.13%) Python
8 5 (16.13%) Kafka
8 5 (16.13%) Information Architecture
8 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
8 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
8 5 (16.13%) Databricks

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 3 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (9.68%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.23%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 15 (48.39%) GCP
2 7 (22.58%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
3 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (6.45%) dbt
4 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) PaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Metadata
2 6 (19.35%) BigQuery
3 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (6.45%) Bigtable
5 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
5 2 (6.45%) Delta Lake
5 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.45%) Power BI
5 2 (6.45%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.45%) Redis
5 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.23%) Flink
6 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
1 3 (9.68%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) ERwin
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (25.81%) Finance
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Automotive
3 3 (9.68%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Military
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Kafka
2 2 (6.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Beam
3 1 (3.23%) JDBC
3 1 (3.23%) PySpark
3 1 (3.23%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.90%) Data Structures
2 4 (12.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (12.90%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (9.68%) Data Fabric
4 2 (6.45%) NHS
5 1 (3.23%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Data Architecture
2 12 (38.71%) Data Modelling
3 9 (29.03%) Data Engineering
3 9 (29.03%) Data Governance
4 8 (25.81%) ETL
5 7 (22.58%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
5 7 (22.58%) Data Integration
5 7 (22.58%) DevOps
5 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
6 6 (19.35%) Agile
6 6 (19.35%) Analytics
6 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (16.13%) Information Architecture
7 5 (16.13%) Migration
8 4 (12.90%) Data Management
8 4 (12.90%) Digital Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Logical Data Model
9 3 (9.68%) Containerisation
9 3 (9.68%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) Python
1 5 (16.13%) SQL
2 3 (9.68%) Scala
3 2 (6.45%) ANSI SQL
3 2 (6.45%) Java
3 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) Degree
4 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) GMP
3 1 (3.23%) NCSC
3 1 (3.23%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Control-M
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Google
2 5 (16.13%) Databricks
3 4 (12.90%) Hitachi
3 4 (12.90%) Informatica
3 4 (12.90%) SAP
4 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle
4 2 (6.45%) Pega
4 2 (6.45%) Talend
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft