Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Data Architecture
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 2.56% 0.83% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 1.05% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £418 £738 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £775 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.55% - -
75th Percentile £450 £813 -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £475 £788 £738
% change year-on-year -39.68% +6.78% +18.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 127 95 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 81.41% 79.17% 64.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 58 82
10th Percentile £170 £200 £250
25th Percentile £375 £420 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £637
90th Percentile £708 £695 £674
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £589
% change year-on-year - -6.65% +12.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 10
10th Percentile £12.21 - £13.13
25th Percentile £12.29 - £66.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +196.30%
75th Percentile £62.23 - -
90th Percentile £66.00 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £38.25 £50.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -23.50% -12.82% +4.27%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in Southampton

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (50.00%) Eloqua
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (75.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (75.00%) OLAP
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle OLAP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Business Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 4 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
1 4 (100.00%) User Stories
1 4 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Data Management
2 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Product Backlog
2 3 (75.00%) Quality Management
2 3 (75.00%) Requirements Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Adobe
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (50.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud