Data Architect Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Data Architect
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Data Architect daily rate in Oxford is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 3.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £458 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £681 - -
90th Percentile £723 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £600 - £650

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Oxford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxford. 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 Oxford with a recognized job title 61 50 91
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.83% 94.34% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 37 72
10th Percentile £200 £228 £151
25th Percentile £222 £375 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +33.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £488
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
Oxfordshire median daily rate £438 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -9.79% +7.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.15 £19.25 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% +52.94%
75th Percentile £86.32 £26.50 -
90th Percentile £89.63 £39.10 -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +52.94%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Data Architect job vacancy trend in Oxford

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in Oxford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in Oxford

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in Oxford over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in Oxford

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Oxford region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Semantic Layer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks