Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Data Architecture
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 21 28
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 6 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 2.12% 2.61% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 2.88% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £495 - -
25th Percentile £543 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £587 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% - -
75th Percentile £612 £638 -
90th Percentile £623 - -
South West median daily rate £608 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -2.68% +8.70% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 197 104 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.61% 90.43% 78.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 72 95
10th Percentile £263 £250 £184
25th Percentile £350 £368 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £594
90th Percentile £627 £724 £625
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 5 31
10th Percentile £40.37 £12.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £12.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -53.73% -
75th Percentile £58.75 - £42.50
90th Percentile - £20.01 £55.46
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in Somerset

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 16 March 2026. 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
Bath - 4 £604 - 2
Taunton - 1 - - 1
Data Architecture
South West

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Military
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (33.33%) Practice Management
1 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
2 1 (16.67%) AI
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) DICOM
1 2 (33.33%) HL7
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) InterSystems
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) SAP