Data Architecture Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Architecture
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 75 132 133
Rank change year-on-year +57 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 27 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.79% 0.48% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 0.56% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 9
10th Percentile £310 - £559
25th Percentile £463 £463 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £663
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -28.30% +10.42%
75th Percentile £590 £744 £700
90th Percentile £600 £950 £745
South East median daily rate £535 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +12.63% -26.92% +6.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the Thames Valley

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the Thames Valley

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the Thames Valley

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the Thames Valley

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +35 15 £478 +0.53% 28
Buckinghamshire +26 11 £590 - 14
Oxfordshire +5 1 £400 -23.81% 15
Data Architecture
South East

Data Architecture
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 7 (25.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) MS Visio
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) AWS
1 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (14.81%) Big Data
2 4 (14.81%) Metadata
2 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 3 (11.11%) Power BI
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 12 (44.44%) ERwin
1 12 (44.44%) PowerDesigner
General
1 16 (59.26%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Architect
2 10 (37.04%) Data Architect
2 10 (37.04%) Data Modeller
3 3 (11.11%) Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Architect
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Data Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Junior
4 2 (7.41%) Junior Project Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Data Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Modeller
4 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Kafka
1 2 (7.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.41%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 11 (40.74%) Analytics
3 10 (37.04%) Data Management
3 10 (37.04%) Migration
4 9 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (29.63%) Roadmaps
6 7 (25.93%) Analytical Thinking
6 7 (25.93%) Architecture Roadmap
6 7 (25.93%) BPMN
6 7 (25.93%) Data Governance
6 7 (25.93%) Data Migration
6 7 (25.93%) Data Science
7 6 (22.22%) Data Security
8 5 (18.52%) ETL
9 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
9 4 (14.81%) Data Cleansing
9 4 (14.81%) Physical Data Model
10 3 (11.11%) Data Engineering
10 3 (11.11%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.70%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) Sparx
3 4 (14.81%) SAP