Data Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 218 242 313
Rank change year-on-year +24 +71 -33
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 118 160 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.92% 0.77% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.91% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 107 97
10th Percentile £425 £413 £370
25th Percentile £482 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +3.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £725 £785 £763
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £78.71 - £35.00
25th Percentile £78.73 £22.33 £35.25
Median hourly rate £80.50 £24.65 £36.13
Median % change year-on-year +226.57% -31.76% -59.05%
75th Percentile £82.25 £26.98 £41.69
90th Percentile - - £62.74
UK median hourly rate £80.50 £29.83 £35.50
% change year-on-year +169.91% -15.99% -60.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK excluding London 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
South East +51 33 £535 +12.63% 106
North of England -10 23 £625 +4.17% 27
Midlands +4 22 £525 -12.50% 27
West Midlands +2 20 £550 -8.33% 16
Scotland +15 17 £599 +4.17% 15
South West +37 16 £625 +13.64% 24
North West -2 16 £625 +15.21% 14
East of England +37 11 £675 +5.88% 7
North East +1 5 £575 -23.33% 3
East Midlands +4 2 £465 -31.11% 7
Wales +2 2 £263 - 2
Yorkshire -7 2 £575 -23.33% 10
Northern Ireland -10 1 £620 +24.00% 9
Data Architecture
UK

Data Architecture
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 7 (5.93%) Apache
1 7 (5.93%) Confluence
2 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (12.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.24%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (7.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (5.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.54%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.73%) Azure
2 15 (12.71%) AWS
3 10 (8.47%) GCP
4 9 (7.63%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.54%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.54%) Google Data Studio
6 3 (2.54%) SaaS
7 2 (1.69%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 2 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.69%) IaaS
7 2 (1.69%) PaaS
7 2 (1.69%) Serverless
7 2 (1.69%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.85%) Collibra
8 1 (0.85%) dbt
8 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) Broadband
1 1 (0.85%) Internet
1 1 (0.85%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.34%) Metadata
2 21 (17.80%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (10.17%) Data Lake
4 10 (8.47%) Big Data
5 9 (7.63%) Power BI
6 8 (6.78%) Tableau
7 7 (5.93%) Data Mining
7 7 (5.93%) Relational Database
8 6 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (5.08%) NoSQL
9 5 (4.24%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.39%) MongoDB
10 4 (3.39%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.54%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.69%) Apache Hive
12 2 (1.69%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (14.41%) ERwin
2 12 (10.17%) PowerDesigner
3 3 (2.54%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.85%) Git
4 1 (0.85%) Hudson
4 1 (0.85%) JIRA
4 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (45.76%) Social Skills
2 33 (27.97%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (14.41%) Finance
4 11 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.63%) Banking
6 7 (5.93%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (5.93%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.08%) Automotive
8 5 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.39%) Legal
10 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.54%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.54%) Retail
11 2 (1.69%) Publishing
11 2 (1.69%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.85%) Law
12 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 59 (50.00%) Architect
2 43 (36.44%) Data Architect
3 15 (12.71%) Senior
4 14 (11.86%) Data Modeller
5 12 (10.17%) Lead
6 10 (8.47%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.78%) Analyst
8 6 (5.08%) Project Manager
8 6 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Associate Director
9 5 (4.24%) Senior Architect
9 5 (4.24%) Senior Data Architect
10 4 (3.39%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.39%) Technical Architect
11 3 (2.54%) Business Analyst
11 3 (2.54%) Consultant
11 3 (2.54%) Developer
11 3 (2.54%) Junior
11 3 (2.54%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.08%) Apache NiFi
1 6 (5.08%) Kafka
2 4 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.54%) D3.js
4 2 (1.69%) Keycloak
4 2 (1.69%) RESTful
5 1 (0.85%) FHIR
5 1 (0.85%) Node.js
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.85%) PySpark
5 1 (0.85%) React
5 1 (0.85%) Web Services
5 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.86%) Data Structures
2 13 (11.02%) Management Information System
3 10 (8.47%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.93%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (5.93%) Reference Data
5 6 (5.08%) IoT
6 5 (4.24%) CMDB
6 5 (4.24%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.39%) Replication
7 4 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.69%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.85%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.85%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.39%) Unix
2 3 (2.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (59.32%) Data Modelling
2 39 (33.05%) Analytics
3 36 (30.51%) Data Governance
4 31 (26.27%) Data Management
5 29 (24.58%) ETL
6 28 (23.73%) Migration
7 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.64%) Agile
8 22 (18.64%) Data Migration
9 21 (17.80%) Data Security
9 21 (17.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (15.25%) Computer Science
10 18 (15.25%) Data Strategy
11 17 (14.41%) Data Integration
11 17 (14.41%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (14.41%) Data Science
11 17 (14.41%) Enterprise Architecture
11 17 (14.41%) Roadmaps
12 15 (12.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.12%) SQL
2 14 (11.86%) Python
3 2 (1.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.85%) Bash
4 1 (0.85%) Java
4 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.85%) R
4 1 (0.85%) Scala
4 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.10%) Degree
3 12 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (8.47%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.78%) DV Cleared
6 6 (5.08%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.69%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.85%) CITP
9 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.64%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.24%) GDPR
3 4 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.54%) QA
5 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.85%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.39%) Kibana
1 4 (3.39%) logstash
2 3 (2.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.85%) Ansible
3 1 (0.85%) Grafana
3 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (18.64%) SAP
2 18 (15.25%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.47%) Google
4 9 (7.63%) Sparx
5 6 (5.08%) Databricks
5 6 (5.08%) Oracle
5 6 (5.08%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.69%) Adobe
6 2 (1.69%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.69%) Informatica
7 1 (0.85%) Ariba
7 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.85%) Foundry
7 1 (0.85%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.85%) IBM
7 1 (0.85%) Palantir
7 1 (0.85%) Pega
7 1 (0.85%) Reuters
7 1 (0.85%) Sybase
7 1 (0.85%) Talend