Data Architect Contracts

The median contractor rate for a Data Architect was £550 per day in advertised job vacancies during the 3 months to 29 June 2017.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Data Architect UK
Location	3 months to 29 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	337	273	354
Rank change year-on-year	-64	+81
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect	300	486	327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.64%	0.90%	0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.67%	0.95%	0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted	193	328	208
UK median daily rate	£550	£525	£538
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.76%	-2.32%
10th Percentile	£425	£425	£413
90th Percentile	£700	£741	£688
UK excluding London median daily rate	£525	£475	£510
% change year-on-year	+10.52%	-6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	1	1
UK median hourly rate	£65.00	£100.00	£37.80
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-35.00%	+164.55%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£65.00	-	£37.80

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles UK
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	44648	50928	53153
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	94.78%	94.82%	94.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	98440	117183	122955
UK median daily rate	£438	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.94%	+6.25%
10th Percentile	£263	£250	£225
90th Percentile	£625	£600	£588
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£396	£365
% change year-on-year	+1.01%	+8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4470	5127	7601
UK median hourly rate	£18.00	£17.50	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
10th Percentile	£11.00	£10.50	£10.50
90th Percentile	£48.75	£45.00	£41.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.50	£16.00
% change year-on-year	-	+9.37%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Data Architect.

Contractor daily rate trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Data Architect over the 3 months to 29 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 29 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-58	284	£550	+2.32%	42
London	-47	166	£575	-	19
UK excluding London	-35	131	£525	+10.52%	23
North of England	+43	40	£550	+15.78%	7
South East	+1	38	£500	+6.66%	5
Midlands	-14	16	£525	+5.00%	5
South West	-12	13	£550	-13.89%	5
East of England	-13	13	£588	+17.60%	1
Scotland	-19	9	£493	+3.68%
Wales	-3	3	£525	+20.05%
Northern Ireland	-	1	-	-

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 June 2017, Data Architect contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1	288 (47.21%)	Data Modelling
2	245 (40.16%)	Data Architecture
3	187 (30.66%)	Big Data
4	167 (27.38%)	Data Warehouse
5	161 (26.39%)	Business Intelligence
6	157 (25.74%)	ETL
7	148 (24.26%)	Finance
8	142 (23.28%)	Data Management
9	141 (23.11%)	Hadoop
10	132 (21.64%)	Migration
11	123 (20.16%)	Analytics
12	110 (18.03%)	Data Quality
13	108 (17.70%)	SQL
14	106 (17.38%)	Agile Software Development
15	101 (16.56%)	Oracle

16	97 (15.90%)	Data Migration
17	85 (13.93%)	Data Integration
18	77 (12.62%)	SQL Server
19	71 (11.64%)	TOGAF
20	70 (11.48%)	Logical Data Model
21	69 (11.31%)	Data Governance
22	67 (10.98%)	Banking
23	63 (10.33%)	Microsoft
24	62 (10.16%)	Stakeholder Management
25	56 (9.18%)	Physical Data Model
26	54 (8.85%)	Analytical Skills
27	52 (8.52%)	Data Structures
27	52 (8.52%)	NoSQL
28	50 (8.20%)	MongoDB
28	50 (8.20%)	Enterprise Architecture

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	49 (8.03%)	Apache Spark
2	30 (4.92%)	SAS
3	10 (1.64%)	Apache
4	6 (0.98%)	Apache Pig
4	6 (0.98%)	Apache Solr
5	5 (0.82%)	Elasticsearch
5	5 (0.82%)	Oracle SOA Suite
6	4 (0.66%)	Confluence
7	3 (0.49%)	CMS
7	3 (0.49%)	FileNet
7	3 (0.49%)	JBoss
7	3 (0.49%)	Oracle Coherence
7	3 (0.49%)	WebLogic
8	2 (0.33%)	Adobe Experience Manager
8	2 (0.33%)	Apache Airflow
8	2 (0.33%)	Oracle Workflow
8	2 (0.33%)	SharePoint
8	2 (0.33%)	WebSphere
9	1 (0.16%)	Anypoint
9	1 (0.16%)	Predix

Applications
1	11 (1.80%)	Microsoft Office
2	8 (1.31%)	MS Visio
3	7 (1.15%)	Microsoft Excel
4	6 (0.98%)	SPSS
5	4 (0.66%)	GNU Octave
5	4 (0.66%)	Microsoft Project
6	2 (0.33%)	Spreadsheet
7	1 (0.16%)	Microsoft PowerPoint

Business Applications
1	4 (0.66%)	NetSuite
1	4 (0.66%)	SAP MDG
1	4 (0.66%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	3 (0.49%)	Dynamics CRM
2	3 (0.49%)	Oracle Applications
3	2 (0.33%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
3	2 (0.33%)	Dynamics NAV
3	2 (0.33%)	Maximo
3	2 (0.33%)	Oracle BPM
3	2 (0.33%)	Oracle ERP
3	2 (0.33%)	Oracle Payables
3	2 (0.33%)	SAP HR
3	2 (0.33%)	SAP Retail
3	2 (0.33%)	Temenos Globus
3	2 (0.33%)	Workday HCM
4	1 (0.16%)	Dynamics AX
4	1 (0.16%)	Oracle Receivables
4	1 (0.16%)	Salesforce.com CRM
4	1 (0.16%)	Siebel CRM

Cloud Services
1	48 (7.87%)	Microsoft Azure
2	46 (7.54%)	Amazon AWS
3	12 (1.97%)	Google Cloud Platform
4	10 (1.64%)	SaaS
5	9 (1.48%)	PaaS
6	8 (1.31%)	Google Analytics
7	6 (0.98%)	Azure Data Factory
8	5 (0.82%)	Amazon S3
8	5 (0.82%)	Azure Machine Learning
8	5 (0.82%)	IaaS
9	4 (0.66%)	Cloud Computing
9	4 (0.66%)	Data Lake Analytics
10	3 (0.49%)	Amazon EMR
10	3 (0.49%)	IBM Cloud
10	3 (0.49%)	Office 365
10	3 (0.49%)	SoftLayer
11	2 (0.33%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	2 (0.33%)	iPaaS
12	1 (0.16%)	Amazon EC2
12	1 (0.16%)	Azure Active Directory

Communications & Networking
1	5 (0.82%)	Firewall
1	5 (0.82%)	LAN
1	5 (0.82%)	MPLS
1	5 (0.82%)	WAN
2	3 (0.49%)	DNS
2	3 (0.49%)	Internet
2	3 (0.49%)	Network Security
2	3 (0.49%)	SAN
2	3 (0.49%)	VPN
3	2 (0.33%)	BGP
3	2 (0.33%)	Cisco ASA
3	2 (0.33%)	Cisco Nexus
3	2 (0.33%)	DHCP
3	2 (0.33%)	F5 BIG-IP GTM
3	2 (0.33%)	F5 BIG-IP LTM
3	2 (0.33%)	Unified Communications
4	1 (0.16%)	FabricPath
4	1 (0.16%)	Skype
4	1 (0.16%)	Telepresence
4	1 (0.16%)	WebEx

Database & Business Intelligence
1	187 (30.66%)	Big Data
2	167 (27.38%)	Data Warehouse
3	141 (23.11%)	Hadoop
4	77 (12.62%)	SQL Server
5	52 (8.52%)	NoSQL
6	50 (8.20%)	MongoDB
7	48 (7.87%)	HBase
8	46 (7.54%)	Relational Database
9	44 (7.21%)	Apache Hive
10	34 (5.57%)	RDBMS
10	34 (5.57%)	SQL Server Integration Services
11	31 (5.08%)	Apache Cassandra
12	23 (3.77%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
13	22 (3.61%)	BusinessObjects
14	21 (3.44%)	Neo4j
15	19 (3.11%)	Enterprise Data Warehouse
15	19 (3.11%)	Power BI
15	19 (3.11%)	QlikView
16	18 (2.95%)	DB2
16	18 (2.95%)	SQL Server Analysis Services

Development Applications
1	34 (5.57%)	ERwin
2	33 (5.41%)	Talend Open Studio
3	15 (2.46%)	PowerDesigner
4	6 (0.98%)	JIRA
5	4 (0.66%)	Appcelerator Titanium
5	4 (0.66%)	Git (software)
5	4 (0.66%)	Jenkins
6	3 (0.49%)	CA Gen
6	3 (0.49%)	ClearCase
6	3 (0.49%)	ClearQuest
6	3 (0.49%)	Team Foundation Server
7	2 (0.33%)	MagicDraw
7	2 (0.33%)	Rational Rhapsody
8	1 (0.16%)	Hudson
8	1 (0.16%)	Visual Studio
8	1 (0.16%)	Visual Studio Team System
8	1 (0.16%)	XMLSpy

General
1	148 (24.26%)	Finance
2	67 (10.98%)	Banking
3	35 (5.74%)	Retail
4	28 (4.59%)	Legal
5	14 (2.30%)	Investment Banking
5	14 (2.30%)	Telecoms
6	13 (2.13%)	Marketing
7	9 (1.48%)	Back Office
7	9 (1.48%)	Billing
8	7 (1.15%)	Retail Banking
9	6 (0.98%)	Manufacturing
9	6 (0.98%)	Pharmaceutical
9	6 (0.98%)	Publishing
10	5 (0.82%)	Front Office
10	5 (0.82%)	German Language
11	4 (0.66%)	Law
12	3 (0.49%)	Electronics
13	2 (0.33%)	Advertising
14	1 (0.16%)	Aerospace
14	1 (0.16%)	Financial Institution

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	25 (4.10%)	XML
2	19 (3.11%)	Web Services
3	14 (2.30%)	Kafka
3	14 (2.30%)	Middleware
4	12 (1.97%)	XSD
5	10 (1.64%)	.NET
5	10 (1.64%)	J2EE
5	10 (1.64%)	REST
6	8 (1.31%)	XML Messaging
6	8 (1.31%)	XML Schema
7	7 (1.15%)	WSDL
8	6 (0.98%)	Node.js
9	5 (0.82%)	PostGIS
9	5 (0.82%)	SOAP
10	4 (0.66%)	Apache Drill
10	4 (0.66%)	Java EE
10	4 (0.66%)	JSON
11	3 (0.49%)	Django
11	3 (0.49%)	NumPy
11	3 (0.49%)	SciPy

Miscellaneous
1	54 (8.85%)	Analytical Skills
2	52 (8.52%)	Data Structures
3	41 (6.72%)	Data Centre
4	38 (6.23%)	Management Information System
5	36 (5.90%)	Reference Data
6	14 (2.30%)	Taxonomies
7	12 (1.97%)	Enterprise Software
7	12 (1.97%)	Greenfield Project
8	10 (1.64%)	Computer Science
9	8 (1.31%)	Replication
10	7 (1.15%)	Algorithms
11	6 (0.98%)	Equities
11	6 (0.98%)	User Experience
12	5 (0.82%)	Derivative
12	5 (0.82%)	Fixed Income
12	5 (0.82%)	Hybrid Cloud
12	5 (0.82%)	Life Science
12	5 (0.82%)	SWIFT
13	4 (0.66%)	Market Risk
13	4 (0.66%)	Private Cloud

Operating Systems
1	23 (3.77%)	Linux
2	17 (2.79%)	Unix
3	15 (2.46%)	Windows
4	2 (0.33%)	Apple iOS
4	2 (0.33%)	Windows Server
5	1 (0.16%)	Android
5	1 (0.16%)	HPUX
5	1 (0.16%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	1 (0.16%)	Windows 10
5	1 (0.16%)	Windows 8
5	1 (0.16%)	Windows Server 2003

Processes & Methodologies
1	288 (47.21%)	Data Modelling
2	245 (40.16%)	Data Architecture
3	161 (26.39%)	Business Intelligence
4	157 (25.74%)	ETL
5	142 (23.28%)	Data Management
6	132 (21.64%)	Migration
7	123 (20.16%)	Analytics
8	106 (17.38%)	Agile Software Development
9	97 (15.90%)	Data Migration
10	85 (13.93%)	Data Integration
11	71 (11.64%)	TOGAF
12	70 (11.48%)	Logical Data Model
13	69 (11.31%)	Data Governance
14	62 (10.16%)	Stakeholder Management
15	56 (9.18%)	Physical Data Model
16	50 (8.20%)	Enterprise Architecture
17	48 (7.87%)	Data Analytics
18	47 (7.70%)	IT Strategy
19	46 (7.54%)	Data Analysis
19	46 (7.54%)	Data Strategy

Programming Languages
1	108 (17.70%)	SQL
2	49 (8.03%)	Java
3	29 (4.75%)	Python
4	24 (3.93%)	R
5	22 (3.61%)	Scala
6	15 (2.46%)	PL/SQL
7	9 (1.48%)	T-SQL
8	7 (1.15%)	C
9	6 (0.98%)	Shell Script
10	5 (0.82%)	JavaScript
10	5 (0.82%)	MATLAB
11	4 (0.66%)	C++
11	4 (0.66%)	Perl
12	3 (0.49%)	C#
13	2 (0.33%)	AWK
13	2 (0.33%)	Korn
13	2 (0.33%)	PHP
13	2 (0.33%)	sed
13	2 (0.33%)	SPARQL
14	1 (0.16%)	Ruby

Qualifications
1	46 (7.54%)	Security Cleared
2	39 (6.39%)	SC Cleared
3	35 (5.74%)	Degree
4	3 (0.49%)	DV Cleared
4	3 (0.49%)	Numerate Degree
5	2 (0.33%)	BC Cleared
5	2 (0.33%)	BPSS Clearance
5	2 (0.33%)	CCNA
5	2 (0.33%)	CCNP
5	2 (0.33%)	Cisco Certification
5	2 (0.33%)	CISSP
5	2 (0.33%)	Computer Science Degree
6	1 (0.16%)	CESG Certified Professional
6	1 (0.16%)	CISA
6	1 (0.16%)	CISM
6	1 (0.16%)	CITP
6	1 (0.16%)	IISP
6	1 (0.16%)	ISACA
6	1 (0.16%)	MBCS
6	1 (0.16%)	SANS

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	110 (18.03%)	Data Quality
2	23 (3.77%)	GDPR
3	11 (1.80%)	ISO 20022
3	11 (1.80%)	MiFID
4	5 (0.82%)	QA
5	4 (0.66%)	Disclosure Scotland
5	4 (0.66%)	IFRS
6	3 (0.49%)	PCI DSS
6	3 (0.49%)	Solvency II
7	2 (0.33%)	IFRS 9
7	2 (0.33%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	2 (0.33%)	PMO
8	1 (0.16%)	COBIT
8	1 (0.16%)	Dodd-Frank
8	1 (0.16%)	EMIR
8	1 (0.16%)	FATCA
8	1 (0.16%)	FedRAMP
8	1 (0.16%)	Government Security Classifications
8	1 (0.16%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
8	1 (0.16%)	PA-DSS

System Software
1	10 (1.64%)	Apache Flume
1	10 (1.64%)	HDFS
2	6 (0.98%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	4 (0.66%)	vCloud
4	3 (0.49%)	Active Directory
5	2 (0.33%)	Apache ZooKeeper
5	2 (0.33%)	Docker
6	1 (0.16%)	EMC RecoverPoint
6	1 (0.16%)	Hyper-V
6	1 (0.16%)	Virtual Machines
6	1 (0.16%)	VMware ESXi
6	1 (0.16%)	vSphere

Systems Management
1	7 (1.15%)	Oozie
2	5 (0.82%)	Hadoop YARN
3	2 (0.33%)	Forum Sentry
3	2 (0.33%)	SCOM
4	1 (0.16%)	BladeLogic
4	1 (0.16%)	Kibana
4	1 (0.16%)	logstash
4	1 (0.16%)	Nagios
4	1 (0.16%)	Opscode Chef
4	1 (0.16%)	Oracle EDQ
4	1 (0.16%)	Packer
4	1 (0.16%)	Puppet
4	1 (0.16%)	SCCM
4	1 (0.16%)	vCenter Server
4	1 (0.16%)	vRealize

Vendors
1	101 (16.56%)	Oracle
2	63 (10.33%)	Microsoft
3	47 (7.70%)	Informatica
4	46 (7.54%)	Cloudera
5	40 (6.56%)	Tableau
6	37 (6.07%)	SAP
7	36 (5.90%)	MapR
8	35 (5.74%)	IBM
9	33 (5.41%)	Talend
10	29 (4.75%)	Teradata
11	23 (3.77%)	Splunk
12	21 (3.44%)	Nuix
13	13 (2.13%)	Google
13	13 (2.13%)	Netezza
13	13 (2.13%)	Salesforce.com
14	12 (1.97%)	Ab Initio
14	12 (1.97%)	Cisco
14	12 (1.97%)	Cognos
14	12 (1.97%)	MicroStrategy
14	12 (1.97%)	VMware