Data Architect Contracts in the South West

Data Architect
England > South West

The median Data Architect daily rate in the South West is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 124 121
Rank change year-on-year +27 -3 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 13 29 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.77% 0.92% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.99% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 31
10th Percentile - £525 £579
25th Percentile - £544 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £631 £694 £760
90th Percentile £724 £725 £1,075
England median daily rate £600 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
England median hourly rate £72.75 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +21.25% -9.09% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 1,557 2,934 3,207
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 93.08% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 992 1,860 2,398
10th Percentile £215 £213 £275
25th Percentile £379 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 412 254
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £25.15 £27.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £61.25 £55.00 £64.57
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -14.82% +35.94%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £72.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £83.40
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +93.72%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the South West

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the South West

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the South West

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the South West

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Bristol +9 9 £450 -18.18% 10
Wiltshire +25 2 £585 -13.33% 2
Gloucestershire +19 2 £700 +3.70% 4
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Data Modelling
2 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) Master Data Management
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Logical Data Model
4 2 (15.38%) Physical Data Model
4 2 (15.38%) Power BI
4 2 (15.38%) Data Flow Diagram
4 2 (15.38%) Databricks
4 2 (15.38%) Conceptual Models
4 2 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Data Collection
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
5 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.69%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.69%) Data Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Data Science
5 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
5 1 (7.69%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
2 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Data Modelling
2 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (15.38%) Conceptual Models
2 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
2 2 (15.38%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (15.38%) Data Collection
2 2 (15.38%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (15.38%) Logical Data Model
2 2 (15.38%) Master Data Management
2 2 (15.38%) Microservices
2 2 (15.38%) Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Physical Data Model
2 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
3 1 (7.69%) Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
3 1 (7.69%) Data Strategy
3 1 (7.69%) Data Virtualisation
3 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.69%) Project Governance
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce