Data Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Data Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 126 135
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 9 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.54% 0.31% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile £464 £665 £623
25th Percentile £509 £669 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +3.70% +10.20%
75th Percentile £591 £718 £688
90th Percentile £596 £722 £880
South East median daily rate £550 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,537 2,396 2,812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 92.26% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 1,318 1,916
10th Percentile £284 £235 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 177 92
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.85 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £19.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.30 £48.40 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.73% +10.63% +150.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £69.69 £66.21
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.48 £75.23
South East median hourly rate £27.88 £54.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.25% +9.88% +138.10%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the Thames Valley

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the Thames Valley

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the Thames Valley

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the Thames Valley

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Berkshire +26 6 £581 -16.96% 3
Buckinghamshire +8 3 £513 - 1
Data Architect
South East

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 18 July 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 Thames Valley region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Telecoms
1 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
1 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Data Strategy
2 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
3 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
4 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 1 (11.11%) Source to Pay
5 1 (11.11%) DocuSign
5 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
5 1 (11.11%) Big Data
5 1 (11.11%) Kafka
5 1 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
5 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (11.11%) Power BI
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) ERwin
General
1 5 (55.56%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) AI Agents
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
1 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
2 4 (44.44%) Data Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Data Management
5 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
5 1 (11.11%) ETL
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 1 (11.11%) LLM
5 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Source to Pay
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) DocuSign
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
1 1 (11.11%) VMware