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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 127 126
Rank change year-on-year +39 -1 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 17 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.16% 0.34% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.40% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 8
10th Percentile £425 - £624
25th Percentile £466 £463 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £669
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -28.97% +11.46%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £688
90th Percentile £638 £503 -
South East median daily rate £545 £475 £656
% change year-on-year +14.74% -27.62% +7.14%

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 1,368 2,274 2,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.06% 85.42% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 1,242 1,766
10th Percentile £300 £213 £313
25th Percentile £406 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +4.62%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £502
% change year-on-year -1.86% +1.60% +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 170 69
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.42 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.25 £24.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.25 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year -45.62% -11.23% +206.47%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.64 £73.59
90th Percentile £78.00 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +144.19%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +29 11 £482 +1.47% 91
Buckinghamshire +19 5 £600 - 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £400 - 7
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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) MS Visio
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
1 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (23.53%) Big Data
2 4 (23.53%) Metadata
2 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
3 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
3 3 (17.65%) Power BI
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) ERwin
1 6 (35.29%) PowerDesigner
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Local Government
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Data Modeller
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Architect
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Modeller
4 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Data Migration Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Excel Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
1 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Data Modelling
2 8 (47.06%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (41.18%) Data Migration
3 7 (41.18%) Migration
4 6 (35.29%) Analytics
5 5 (29.41%) Data Governance
5 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
6 4 (23.53%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (23.53%) Data Science
6 4 (23.53%) Data Security
6 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (23.53%) Physical Data Model
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (17.65%) Data Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Data Management
7 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (17.65%) Data Strategy
7 3 (17.65%) ETL
7 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) SAP
3 2 (11.76%) Sparx