Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in Reading

Data Architecture
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 61 92
Rank change year-on-year -23 +31 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.56% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.38% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £338 - £513
25th Percentile £525 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.93%
75th Percentile £775 - £699
90th Percentile £798 - £707
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +25.00% +5.26% -29.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.25 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £83.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £82.50 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 904 523 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 83.63% 92.90% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 326 549
10th Percentile £318 £338 £259
25th Percentile £449 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 13 54
10th Percentile £40.85 - £15.40
25th Percentile £80.75 £14.75 £51.86
Median hourly rate £84.00 £28.50 £60.83
Median % change year-on-year +194.74% -53.15% -7.83%
75th Percentile £88.00 £55.00 £82.55
90th Percentile £107.00 £68.75 £87.52
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.58 £52.25 £59.47
% change year-on-year +59.95% -12.14% +1.23%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in Reading

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in Reading over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in Reading

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (33.33%) Big Data
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Application Rationalisation Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) LDAP
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
1 2 (33.33%) OpenID
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
1 2 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Data Security
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 2 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) OWASP
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Sparx