Data Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 268 302
Rank change year-on-year +33 +34 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 107 126 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.84% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.67% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 73 92
10th Percentile £448 £450 £508
25th Percentile £471 £538 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £666 £725 £734
90th Percentile £730 £750 £836
UK median daily rate £596 £675 £679
% change year-on-year -11.67% -0.55% +0.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 5
10th Percentile £46.92 £52.50 £46.35
25th Percentile £58.86 - £61.50
Median hourly rate £80.50 £60.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.17% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £82.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -9.09% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,683 18,741 21,586
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.78% 92.50% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,462 11,456 15,029
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.82% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 812 2,282 1,102
10th Percentile £13.87 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.72 £18.04
Median hourly rate £26.42 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.96% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% -18.89% +88.21%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
North of England +19 38 £550 - 156
North West +7 22 £525 -4.55% 67
South East +54 18 £519 -25.89% 188
Scotland +14 18 £538 -22.10% 44
Midlands +4 18 £600 +3.90% 116
South West +23 14 £450 -33.33% 79
West Midlands 0 14 £600 +4.35% 65
Yorkshire +15 12 £663 +20.45% 61
East of England +27 8 £638 -25.00% 85
North East +1 4 £575 -32.35% 28
East Midlands +9 3 - - 43
Wales -2 1 £236 - 17
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 58 (54.21%) Data Modelling
2 38 (35.51%) Data Architecture
3 36 (33.64%) Data Governance
4 30 (28.04%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (27.10%) SQL
6 28 (26.17%) ETL
7 27 (25.23%) Analytics
8 26 (24.30%) Azure
8 26 (24.30%) Security Cleared
8 26 (24.30%) Social Skills
9 25 (23.36%) Data Quality
10 23 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (19.63%) Kafka
12 20 (18.69%) Finance
13 19 (17.76%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (17.76%) AWS
14 18 (16.82%) Migration
14 18 (16.82%) CI/CD
15 17 (15.89%) Metadata
15 17 (15.89%) Roadmaps
15 17 (15.89%) Data Security
15 17 (15.89%) Python
15 17 (15.89%) Agile
15 17 (15.89%) DevOps
16 16 (14.95%) Data Engineering
16 16 (14.95%) Databricks
16 16 (14.95%) Data Strategy
17 15 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
17 15 (14.02%) Visualisation
18 14 (13.08%) Data Management

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (4.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.74%) SAS
3 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Maximo
1 3 (2.80%) SAP PM
1 3 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.30%) Azure
2 19 (17.76%) AWS
3 12 (11.21%) GCP
3 12 (11.21%) Power Platform
4 10 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (7.48%) Collibra
6 8 (7.48%) GitHub
6 8 (7.48%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (5.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (3.74%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.80%) Serverless
11 2 (1.87%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 2 (1.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.87%) Firewall
1 2 (1.87%) Internet
2 1 (0.93%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (28.04%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (15.89%) Metadata
3 13 (12.15%) Big Data
4 12 (11.21%) Power BI
5 11 (10.28%) NoSQL
6 7 (6.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (6.54%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (4.67%) Delta Lake
7 5 (4.67%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.74%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.74%) Data Mining
8 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.74%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.80%) GIS
9 3 (2.80%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.74%) ERwin
1 4 (3.74%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) ER Studio
2 2 (1.87%) Git
3 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.69%) Finance
3 15 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.21%) Banking
5 9 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.61%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.80%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.87%) Billing
10 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Legal
10 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Publishing
11 1 (0.93%) Automotive
11 1 (0.93%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.93%) Law
11 1 (0.93%) Military
11 1 (0.93%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.63%) Kafka
2 4 (3.74%) OAuth
2 4 (3.74%) OAuth2
2 4 (3.74%) OpenID
2 4 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (3.74%) SAML
3 3 (2.80%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (1.87%) .NET
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.93%) JDBC
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.93%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (6.54%) Data Structures
2 7 (6.54%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.61%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.67%) CMDB
4 5 (4.67%) IoT
5 4 (3.74%) Data Fabric
5 4 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.74%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.80%) SCADA
7 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.87%) Replication
8 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.48%) Linux
2 5 (4.67%) Unix
2 5 (4.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (54.21%) Data Modelling
2 38 (35.51%) Data Architecture
3 36 (33.64%) Data Governance
4 28 (26.17%) ETL
5 27 (25.23%) Analytics
6 23 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (17.76%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (16.82%) CI/CD
8 18 (16.82%) Migration
9 17 (15.89%) Agile
9 17 (15.89%) Data Security
9 17 (15.89%) DevOps
9 17 (15.89%) Roadmaps
10 16 (14.95%) Data Engineering
10 16 (14.95%) Data Strategy
11 15 (14.02%) Visualisation
12 14 (13.08%) Data Management
13 13 (12.15%) Data Pipeline
14 12 (11.21%) Data Integration
15 11 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.10%) SQL
2 17 (15.89%) Python
3 6 (5.61%) Scala
4 5 (4.67%) Java
5 4 (3.74%) Bicep
5 4 (3.74%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.80%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.87%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.93%) Bash
Qualifications
1 26 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.28%) Degree
4 7 (6.54%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.74%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.87%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.93%) CITP
8 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (23.36%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.35%) GDPR
3 4 (3.74%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.87%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.93%) Docker
1 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (8.41%) Kubernetes
1 9 (8.41%) Terraform
2 5 (4.67%) Grafana
3 4 (3.74%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.80%) Kibana
5 2 (1.87%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Databricks
2 13 (12.15%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.41%) SAP
4 8 (7.48%) Google
4 8 (7.48%) ServiceNow
4 8 (7.48%) Splunk
5 6 (5.61%) Informatica
5 6 (5.61%) Oracle
6 4 (3.74%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.80%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.87%) Ariba
9 1 (0.93%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.93%) Talend
9 1 (0.93%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.93%) VMware
9 1 (0.93%) Workday