Data Architecture Contracts

Data Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 236 264
Rank change year-on-year +26 +28 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 381 447 604
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.30% 1.03% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.19% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 316 427
10th Percentile £443 £444 £460
25th Percentile £511 £513 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £788 £750
90th Percentile £800 £925 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £586 £560 £550
% change year-on-year +4.69% +1.82% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 9
10th Percentile £70.60 - £31.25
25th Percentile £78.71 £22.33 £35.00
Median hourly rate £80.50 £29.83 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +169.91% -15.99% -60.36%
75th Percentile £90.88 £35.00 £36.75
90th Percentile £96.88 - £51.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.50 £24.65 £36.13
% change year-on-year +226.57% -31.76% -59.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture.

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Architecture in the UK

Data Architecture
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +19 330 £600 -7.69% 332
London +15 208 £600 -14.29% 209
Work from Home +33 147 £575 -7.07% 190
UK excluding London +18 119 £586 +4.69% 142
South East +48 33 £535 +12.63% 50
Midlands +7 23 £550 -8.33% 23
North of England -1 23 £625 +4.17% 26
West Midlands +5 21 £575 -4.17% 16
Scotland +11 17 £599 +4.17% 14
South West +35 16 £625 +13.64% 17
North West -8 16 £625 +15.21% 13
East of England +40 11 £675 +5.88% 6
North East +1 5 £575 -23.33% 3
Wales +6 2 £263 - 1
East Midlands +4 2 £465 -31.11% 6
Yorkshire 0 2 £575 -23.33% 10
Northern Ireland -10 1 £620 +24.00% 7

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (7.09%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.94%) Apache
3 13 (3.41%) Confluence
4 12 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.52%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Drupal
6 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.26%) SAS
6 1 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 16 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.41%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (4.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 15 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.57%) Aladdin
4 5 (1.31%) SAP MDG
4 5 (1.31%) SAP MDG-S
5 3 (0.79%) Maximo
6 2 (0.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.26%) Magento
7 1 (0.26%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 143 (37.53%) Azure
2 109 (28.61%) AWS
3 55 (14.44%) GCP
4 53 (13.91%) Power Platform
5 42 (11.02%) Snowflake
6 23 (6.04%) dbt
6 23 (6.04%) SaaS
7 20 (5.25%) Serverless
8 16 (4.20%) Amazon S3
8 16 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (3.94%) IaaS
10 14 (3.67%) PaaS
11 13 (3.41%) GitHub
12 12 (3.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (3.15%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (2.62%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (1.84%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.31%) DNS
1 5 (1.31%) Firewall
1 5 (1.31%) TCP/IP
1 5 (1.31%) VPN
2 4 (1.05%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.79%) IPsec
3 3 (0.79%) SSL
4 1 (0.26%) Broadband
4 1 (0.26%) Internet
4 1 (0.26%) Intranet
4 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (25.98%) Data Warehouse
2 65 (17.06%) Metadata
3 62 (16.27%) Data Lake
4 47 (12.34%) Power BI
5 45 (11.81%) Big Data
6 27 (7.09%) NoSQL
7 26 (6.82%) Hadoop
8 25 (6.56%) Relational Database
9 23 (6.04%) Tableau
10 21 (5.51%) SQL Server
11 19 (4.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (3.41%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.89%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (2.62%) Oracle Database
14 10 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (2.36%) Data Vault
16 8 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (2.10%) MongoDB
17 7 (1.84%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 36 (9.45%) ERwin
2 12 (3.15%) PowerDesigner
3 9 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.10%) JIRA
5 7 (1.84%) ER Studio
5 7 (1.84%) GitLab
6 6 (1.57%) Maven
7 4 (1.05%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.52%) Git
9 1 (0.26%) Hudson
9 1 (0.26%) MLflow
9 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 135 (35.43%) Social Skills
2 82 (21.52%) Finance
3 73 (19.16%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.14%) Banking
6 17 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (3.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (2.62%) Retail
10 7 (1.84%) Automotive
10 7 (1.84%) Back Office
10 7 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.84%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.57%) Marketing
11 6 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.31%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.31%) Legal
12 5 (1.31%) Local Government
12 5 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 223 (58.53%) Architect
2 161 (42.26%) Data Architect
3 40 (10.50%) Data Engineer
4 37 (9.71%) Lead
4 37 (9.71%) Solutions Architect
5 35 (9.19%) Senior
6 26 (6.82%) Data Modeller
7 24 (6.30%) Analyst
8 16 (4.20%) Senior Architect
9 15 (3.94%) Senior Data Architect
10 14 (3.67%) Azure Architect
10 14 (3.67%) Data Analyst
10 14 (3.67%) Enterprise Architect
11 12 (3.15%) Technical Architect
12 11 (2.89%) Business Analyst
13 10 (2.62%) Azure Data Architect
14 9 (2.36%) Developer
15 8 (2.10%) Cloud Architect
15 8 (2.10%) Consultant
15 8 (2.10%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.56%) Kafka
2 14 (3.67%) React
3 12 (3.15%) Node.js
4 8 (2.10%) Jinja
5 6 (1.57%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (1.57%) GraphQL
5 6 (1.57%) PySpark
5 6 (1.57%) Spring
5 6 (1.57%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.31%) Plotly
6 5 (1.31%) Web Services
7 4 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.05%) Middleware
7 4 (1.05%) REST
8 3 (0.79%) D3.js
8 3 (0.79%) OAuth
8 3 (0.79%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.79%) OpenID
8 3 (0.79%) SAML
8 3 (0.79%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.14%) Data Structures
2 25 (6.56%) Reference Data
3 21 (5.51%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.94%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.36%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.10%) IoT
9 7 (1.84%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.84%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.57%) Data Fabric
10 6 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.57%) Replication
10 6 (1.57%) Taxonomies
11 5 (1.31%) CMDB
11 5 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.31%) Industry 4.0
12 4 (1.05%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.89%) Linux
2 6 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.57%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) Windows
3 2 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (52.76%) Data Modelling
2 138 (36.22%) Data Governance
3 120 (31.50%) Analytics
4 108 (28.35%) ETL
5 80 (21.00%) Business Intelligence
5 80 (21.00%) Data Management
6 75 (19.69%) Migration
7 68 (17.85%) Data Integration
8 67 (17.59%) Data Strategy
9 66 (17.32%) Data Pipeline
10 64 (16.80%) Agile
11 60 (15.75%) Roadmaps
12 56 (14.70%) Data Security
12 56 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
13 55 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
14 49 (12.86%) Data Engineering
15 46 (12.07%) Data Migration
15 46 (12.07%) Visualisation
16 43 (11.29%) DevOps
17 39 (10.24%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 126 (33.07%) SQL
2 74 (19.42%) Python
3 13 (3.41%) Java
4 12 (3.15%) JavaScript
4 12 (3.15%) Scala
5 7 (1.84%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.57%) R
7 5 (1.31%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.79%) Bicep
9 3 (0.79%) C#
9 3 (0.79%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.79%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.52%) Bash
10 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 68 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 53 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 49 (12.86%) Degree
4 25 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.67%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.89%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.89%) TOGAF Certification
7 9 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.84%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.05%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.52%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.26%) CITP
13 1 (0.26%) ISEB
13 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.26%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (21.00%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.30%) GDPR
3 21 (5.51%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.41%) QA
5 3 (0.79%) HL7
6 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (4.46%) Docker
2 3 (0.79%) RACF
2 3 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (6.56%) Terraform
2 20 (5.25%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.36%) Ansible
4 4 (1.05%) Kibana
4 4 (1.05%) logstash
5 3 (0.79%) Packer
5 3 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.26%) Grafana
6 1 (0.26%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.50%) Databricks
3 38 (9.97%) SAP
4 31 (8.14%) Google
5 25 (6.56%) Sparx
6 21 (5.51%) Informatica
6 21 (5.51%) Oracle
7 13 (3.41%) BiZZdesign
8 10 (2.62%) Talend
9 8 (2.10%) IBM
10 7 (1.84%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.84%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.57%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.31%) VMware
13 3 (0.79%) Adobe
13 3 (0.79%) Dell
13 3 (0.79%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.52%) Ariba
14 2 (0.52%) Hitachi
14 2 (0.52%) Sage