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

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 259 299
Rank change year-on-year +19 +40 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 113 144 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.83% 0.68% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.82% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 95 102
10th Percentile £421 £370 £433
25th Percentile £457 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £765 £786
UK median daily rate £585 £650 £655
% change year-on-year -10.00% -0.76% +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £46.91 - -
25th Percentile £58.83 £22.33 £35.00
Median hourly rate £78.70 £24.65 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year +219.27% -30.81% -59.62%
75th Percentile £79.35 £26.98 £47.68
90th Percentile £79.74 - £68.27
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £29.83 £35.38
% change year-on-year +163.87% -15.69% -60.50%

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 12,292 17,554 20,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 82.63% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,533 10,298 13,898
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £367 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 998 2,191 1,271
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.50 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.83 £38.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% +17.29% +54.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 25 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 25 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
Midlands +22 32 £550 -18.52% 69
West Midlands +15 26 £600 -14.29% 35
South East +43 23 £600 +26.32% 115
Scotland +12 22 £488 -17.06% 28
North of England -26 15 £575 +13.75% 92
South West +39 12 £550 - 43
Yorkshire 0 7 £675 -6.86% 36
East Midlands +7 6 £442 -34.58% 32
North West -37 6 £525 +5.00% 48
East of England +23 5 £510 -32.00% 38
Wales +7 3 £263 - 10
North East -2 2 £600 -20.00% 8
Northern Ireland - 2 £620 - 7
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -
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 (6.19%) Apache
2 5 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.42%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) SAS
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.42%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Maximo
2 2 (1.77%) SAP PM
2 2 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (30.09%) Azure
2 21 (18.58%) AWS
3 13 (11.50%) GCP
3 13 (11.50%) Power Platform
4 7 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (4.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (4.42%) Serverless
6 4 (3.54%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.54%) GitHub
6 4 (3.54%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.65%) Collibra
8 2 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.77%) dbt
8 2 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) Internet
2 2 (1.77%) DMZ
3 1 (0.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.78%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (15.93%) Metadata
3 13 (11.50%) Power BI
4 12 (10.62%) Relational Database
5 11 (9.73%) Big Data
6 10 (8.85%) Data Lake
6 10 (8.85%) NoSQL
7 7 (6.19%) Delta Lake
7 7 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (5.31%) MongoDB
8 6 (5.31%) SQL Server
9 5 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.54%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.65%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.65%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.65%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (2.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (9.73%) ERwin
2 6 (5.31%) PowerDesigner
3 5 (4.42%) Git
4 4 (3.54%) ER Studio
4 4 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.77%) Gradle
5 2 (1.77%) JIRA
5 2 (1.77%) Maven
6 1 (0.88%) GitLab
6 1 (0.88%) Hudson
6 1 (0.88%) MLflow
6 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (45.13%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.12%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (21.24%) Finance
4 15 (13.27%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.96%) Banking
6 7 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.31%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.54%) Automotive
8 4 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.54%) Retail
9 3 (2.65%) Legal
9 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.77%) Local Government
10 2 (1.77%) Military
10 2 (1.77%) Publishing
10 2 (1.77%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 53 (46.90%) Architect
2 37 (32.74%) Data Architect
3 15 (13.27%) Analyst
4 13 (11.50%) Data Analyst
5 12 (10.62%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (9.73%) Data Engineer
6 11 (9.73%) Senior
7 9 (7.96%) Data Modeller
7 9 (7.96%) Lead
8 7 (6.19%) Business Analyst
8 7 (6.19%) Data Business Analyst
9 6 (5.31%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (2.65%) Data Manager
10 3 (2.65%) Developer
10 3 (2.65%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.65%) ServiceNow Architect
10 3 (2.65%) Technical Architect
11 2 (1.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Architect
11 2 (1.77%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.08%) Kafka
2 7 (6.19%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.65%) PySpark
4 3 (2.65%) Web Services
5 2 (1.77%) Keycloak
5 2 (1.77%) Middleware
5 2 (1.77%) RESTful
6 1 (0.88%) .NET
6 1 (0.88%) FHIR
6 1 (0.88%) Node.js
6 1 (0.88%) OAuth
6 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.88%) OpenID
6 1 (0.88%) React
6 1 (0.88%) SAML
6 1 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.73%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.08%) Data Structures
3 7 (6.19%) CMDB
4 6 (5.31%) IoT
4 6 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.42%) Replication
6 4 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.77%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.77%) Derivative
8 2 (1.77%) Equities
8 2 (1.77%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Industry 4.0
8 2 (1.77%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.77%) Unix
2 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (53.98%) Data Modelling
2 44 (38.94%) Analytics
3 41 (36.28%) Data Governance
4 32 (28.32%) ETL
5 27 (23.89%) Agile
6 25 (22.12%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (20.35%) Migration
7 23 (20.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (19.47%) Data Integration
9 20 (17.70%) Data Engineering
9 20 (17.70%) Data Management
10 19 (16.81%) Data Security
11 18 (15.93%) Data Migration
12 17 (15.04%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (14.16%) Artificial Intelligence
13 16 (14.16%) Visualisation
14 15 (13.27%) Roadmaps
15 14 (12.39%) Data Strategy
15 14 (12.39%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.97%) SQL
2 17 (15.04%) Python
3 6 (5.31%) Java
4 3 (2.65%) Scala
4 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.77%) Bicep
5 2 (1.77%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.88%) Bash
6 1 (0.88%) C#
6 1 (0.88%) Korn
6 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.88%) R
6 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.62%) Degree
3 10 (8.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (7.96%) DV Cleared
5 7 (6.19%) AWS Certification
5 7 (6.19%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.42%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.65%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.88%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (27.43%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.73%) GDPR
3 3 (2.65%) QA
4 2 (1.77%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.77%) NCSC
5 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (6.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.42%) Kibana
1 5 (4.42%) logstash
2 4 (3.54%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.54%) Terraform
3 2 (1.77%) Grafana
3 2 (1.77%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.88%) Ansible
4 1 (0.88%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 19 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.16%) SAP
3 12 (10.62%) Databricks
4 8 (7.08%) Google
4 8 (7.08%) ServiceNow
5 7 (6.19%) Informatica
6 6 (5.31%) Oracle
7 3 (2.65%) Talend
8 2 (1.77%) Adobe
8 2 (1.77%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.77%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.77%) Reuters
8 2 (1.77%) Sparx
8 2 (1.77%) Workday
9 1 (0.88%) Brio
9 1 (0.88%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.88%) IBM
9 1 (0.88%) IFS
9 1 (0.88%) Okta
9 1 (0.88%) Sybase