Data Architecture Contracts in the North West

Data Architecture
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 91 119
Rank change year-on-year -25 +28 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 9 31 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 1.29% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.53% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 24 25
10th Percentile £443 £414 £428
25th Percentile £488 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -15.75% -4.00%
75th Percentile £563 £561 £650
90th Percentile £608 £636 £728
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £78.70 £35.00 £35.38
% change year-on-year +124.86% -1.06% -60.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,934 2,021 2,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.07% 84.42% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,236 1,852
10th Percentile £278 £301 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £593
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 184 169
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.90 £33.61 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.97% +1.83% +43.48%
75th Percentile £57.57 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.38 £70.90 £63.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the North West over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -10 6 £475 -2.56% 33
Cheshire -21 2 £625 +13.64% 7
Merseyside +3 1 £525 +31.25% 2
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) BigQuery
2 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Metadata
2 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) ERwin
General
1 4 (44.44%) Automotive
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Architect
1 8 (88.89%) Data Architect
2 4 (44.44%) GCP Architect
2 4 (44.44%) GCP Data Architect
3 3 (33.33%) BigQuery Architect
3 3 (33.33%) ETL Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Information Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Data Fabric
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ETL
2 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) Data Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Digital Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Data Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Coaching
5 1 (11.11%) Conceptual Models
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Information Governance
5 1 (11.11%) Inmon Methodology
5 1 (11.11%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) GMP
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
1 4 (44.44%) Hitachi
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Talend