Data Architecture Contracts in the North of England

Data Architecture
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 133 181
Rank change year-on-year -10 +48 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 23 52 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.70% 1.09% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.27% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 27
10th Percentile £460 £455 £420
25th Percentile £519 £488 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% -15.15%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £575
90th Percentile - £800 £665
England median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £29.83 £35.75
% change year-on-year +169.91% -16.57% -60.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
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 Architecture 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 -2 16 £625 +15.21% 95
North East +1 5 £575 -23.33% 25
Yorkshire -7 2 £575 -23.33% 87
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
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 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) GCP
3 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) SaaS
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.70%) IaaS
4 2 (8.70%) PaaS
4 2 (8.70%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Metadata
2 5 (21.74%) Data Lake
3 4 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (17.39%) Tableau
4 3 (13.04%) Big Data
4 3 (13.04%) Data Mining
4 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
5 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
5 2 (8.70%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
6 1 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
6 1 (4.35%) HBase
6 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.35%) Pentaho
6 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) ERwin
2 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Automotive
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Architect
2 14 (60.87%) Data Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Senior
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Data Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Associate Director
5 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Business Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Chief Technology Officer
7 1 (4.35%) Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead
7 1 (4.35%) Principal Architect
7 1 (4.35%) SAP Architect
7 1 (4.35%) SAP Data Architect
7 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) D3.js
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (17.39%) Data Structures
2 4 (17.39%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Taxonomies
4 1 (4.35%) Educational Technology
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.35%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Data Modelling
2 9 (39.13%) Data Strategy
2 9 (39.13%) Migration
3 8 (34.78%) Data Management
4 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
4 6 (26.09%) Data Migration
5 5 (21.74%) Analytics
5 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
5 5 (21.74%) Visualisation
6 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (17.39%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (17.39%) ERP
6 4 (17.39%) ETL
6 4 (17.39%) Logical Data Model
6 4 (17.39%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (13.04%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (13.04%) DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) CTC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
1 5 (21.74%) SAP
2 4 (17.39%) Databricks
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Informatica
4 1 (4.35%) Ariba
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) Hitachi
4 1 (4.35%) Pega
4 1 (4.35%) Talend