Data Architecture Contracts in the South West

Data Architecture
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 95 132 141
Rank change year-on-year +37 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 16 25 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.95% 0.78% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.94% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 19
10th Percentile - £500 £403
25th Percentile £525 £513 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £700 £669 £737
90th Percentile £723 £688 £778
England median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.42
Median hourly rate £78.70 - £76.71
75th Percentile - - £81.99
90th Percentile - - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the South West

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the South West

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the South West

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the South West

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the South West 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
Bristol +13 6 £560 +4.19% 12
Gloucestershire +21 5 £550 -15.38% 9
Somerset +5 3 £625 - 1
Wiltshire +24 1 £625 -7.41% 6
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
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 2 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) IaaS
3 2 (12.50%) PaaS
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Data Mining
1 3 (18.75%) Tableau
2 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Data Architect
3 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 5 (31.25%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Business Architect
6 1 (6.25%) ERP Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) D3.js
2 2 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Data Modelling
2 6 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (31.25%) Data Governance
3 5 (31.25%) Visualisation
4 4 (25.00%) Data Science
4 4 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 4 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) Conceptual Models
5 3 (18.75%) Data Security
5 3 (18.75%) Database Optimisation
5 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
5 3 (18.75%) ETL
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (18.75%) TOGAF
5 3 (18.75%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kibana
1 2 (12.50%) logstash
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Google