Data Architecture Contracts in the South East

Data Architecture
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 177 183
Rank change year-on-year +51 +6 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 33 28 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.10% 0.50% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.59% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 22
10th Percentile £370 - £525
25th Percentile £466 £255 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -26.92% +6.12%
75th Percentile £600 £744 £738
90th Percentile £786 £950 £786
England median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £36.75
25th Percentile - - £37.88
Median hourly rate - - £39.75
75th Percentile - - £41.63
90th Percentile - - £42.75
England median hourly rate £80.50 £29.83 £35.75
% change year-on-year +169.91% -16.57% -60.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the South East

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the South East

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the South East

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the South East

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +57 27 £513 +7.89% 78
Berkshire +35 15 £478 +0.53% 38
Buckinghamshire +26 11 £590 - 24
Hampshire +21 3 £800 +8.47% 41
Oxfordshire +5 1 £400 -23.81% 20
Sussex - 1 £500 - 6
East Sussex - 1 £500 - 13
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (21.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) AWS
1 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.06%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 2 (6.06%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (18.18%) Metadata
3 4 (12.12%) Big Data
3 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
4 3 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 3 (9.09%) Power BI
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) ERwin
1 12 (36.36%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 18 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Architect
2 10 (30.30%) Data Architect
2 10 (30.30%) Data Modeller
3 5 (15.15%) Project Manager
4 4 (12.12%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Architect
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Data Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Data Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Junior
6 2 (6.06%) Junior Project Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Lead Data Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Data Modeller
6 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Kafka
1 2 (6.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.06%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) Data Modelling
2 14 (42.42%) Analytics
3 12 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (33.33%) Data Management
4 11 (33.33%) Migration
5 9 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (27.27%) Data Governance
5 9 (27.27%) ETL
6 8 (24.24%) Data Migration
6 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
7 7 (21.21%) Analytical Thinking
7 7 (21.21%) Architecture Roadmap
7 7 (21.21%) BPMN
7 7 (21.21%) Data Science
8 6 (18.18%) Data Security
8 6 (18.18%) Data Transformation
8 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (15.15%) Data Cleansing
10 4 (12.12%) Data Integration
10 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) SQL
2 3 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.03%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) Sparx
3 4 (12.12%) SAP
4 2 (6.06%) Adobe
5 1 (3.03%) Foundry
5 1 (3.03%) Palantir
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow