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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 137 160
Rank change year-on-year -30 +23 +49
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Architecture 23 35 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.57% 0.84% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.00% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 32
10th Percentile £416 £416 £429
25th Percentile £456 £438 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £630
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -15.08% +0.80%
75th Percentile £634 £669 £719
90th Percentile £696 £727 £749
England median daily rate £600 £625 £666
% change year-on-year -4.00% -6.19% +2.50%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,588 3,503 4,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.10% 83.66% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 2,089 3,033
10th Percentile £268 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - -
75th Percentile £561 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 231 201
10th Percentile £12.88 £11.07 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.47 £13.87 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £27.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.71% - +41.95%
75th Percentile £44.26 £49.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.40 £69.75 £57.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -40.82% +0.73% +56.26%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Architecture

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 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -19 12 £525 +2.74% 49
Yorkshire -4 10 £638 -12.07% 18
North East -6 1 £450 -30.77% 7
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 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) GCP
2 9 (39.13%) Azure
3 7 (30.43%) AWS
4 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub
6 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.35%) dbt
7 1 (4.35%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.35%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (26.09%) Metadata
3 4 (17.39%) BigQuery
3 4 (17.39%) Data Lake
3 4 (17.39%) Delta Lake
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
5 2 (8.70%) Big Data
5 2 (8.70%) DataStage
5 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.70%) Power BI
5 2 (8.70%) SAP HANA
5 2 (8.70%) Star Schema
5 2 (8.70%) Tableau
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.35%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) ERwin
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 4 (17.39%) Automotive
4 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Architect
2 13 (56.52%) Data Architect
3 4 (17.39%) GCP Architect
3 4 (17.39%) GCP Data Architect
4 3 (13.04%) BigQuery Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) ETL Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Information Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Integration Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Risk Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) PySpark
2 2 (8.70%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Data Structures
3 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (8.70%) NHS
5 1 (4.35%) Data Fabric
5 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Data Modelling
2 10 (43.48%) Data Engineering
2 10 (43.48%) ETL
3 7 (30.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (30.43%) Data Integration
4 6 (26.09%) Analytics
4 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
5 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 5 (21.74%) DevOps
5 5 (21.74%) Migration
5 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (17.39%) Agile
6 4 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (17.39%) Data Strategy
6 4 (17.39%) Digital Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (13.04%) Data Transformation
7 3 (13.04%) Metadata Management
7 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.04%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) Scala
3 2 (8.70%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.04%) NCSC
3 2 (8.70%) GDPR
4 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (4.35%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Databricks
2 4 (17.39%) Google
2 4 (17.39%) Hitachi
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Informatica
3 3 (13.04%) Talend
4 2 (8.70%) Brio
4 2 (8.70%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) Okta
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) Workday