Senior Data Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 371 416
Rank change year-on-year +4 +45 +85
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 4 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.006% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.006% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £462 - £555
25th Percentile £551 - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.86%
75th Percentile £708 - £775
90th Percentile £713 - -
UK median daily rate £700 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +0.93%

All DemandTrendContract 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 13,760 16,487 20,409
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.95% 92.34% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,425 9,764 13,710
10th Percentile £213 £225 £228
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
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 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,238 1,522 1,154
10th Percentile £13.27 £14.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £19.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +12.50% +81.82%
75th Percentile £53.75 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Data Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 September 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 - 2 £708 - 1
South East +22 1 £402 - 11
North West - 1 £716 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £700 - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 4
Senior Data Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Data Security
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Collibra
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Data Security
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) SAP