Data Architecture Contracts in Northern Ireland

Data Architecture
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £552 - -
25th Percentile £620 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £744 - -
75th Percentile £870 - -
90th Percentile £941 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 217 112 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 90.04% 75.17% 81.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 57 70
10th Percentile £263 £153 £200
25th Percentile £325 £185 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £524
90th Percentile £625 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 18 7
10th Percentile £12.66 £12.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £14.78 £21.19 £13.23
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +73.83% +26.74%
75th Percentile £25.15 £29.95 -
90th Percentile - £40.25 £15.55
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.27
% change year-on-year -38.57% -0.80% +55.74%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in Northern Ireland

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in Northern Ireland

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in Northern Ireland

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 17 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
County Antrim - 3 £744 - 6
Data Architecture
UK

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) GIS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Conflict Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Fujitsu
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft