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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 128 136
Rank change year-on-year +26 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 10 26 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.59% 0.82% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.98% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 22
10th Percentile £518 £455 £418
25th Percentile £525 £500 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £657 £659 £734
90th Percentile £748 £688 £772
England median daily rate £592 £650 £669
% change year-on-year -8.96% -2.80% +2.88%
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 1,531 2,646 3,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.59% 83.13% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 955 1,688 2,322
10th Percentile £232 £219 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 342 325
10th Percentile £18.39 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.75 £15.40
Median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +23.10%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.31
England median hourly rate £29.02 £37.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.95% -0.85% +50.00%

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 12 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 12 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 +11 6 £560 +6.67% 13
Gloucestershire +20 3 £550 -15.38% 10
Wiltshire +29 1 £625 -7.41% 3
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 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) IaaS
2 2 (20.00%) PaaS
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Data Security
3 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kibana
1 2 (20.00%) logstash
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft