Data Architect Contracts

Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 278 253
Rank change year-on-year +49 -25 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 443 570 975
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 0.99% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.04% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 408 652
10th Percentile £500 £513 £525
25th Percentile £550 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £763
90th Percentile £890 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £52.50 £46.35 -
25th Percentile £58.13 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Top 16 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 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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 +43 395 £688 -1.79% 111
London +32 264 £700 - 58
Work from Home +45 163 £650 -3.70% 58
UK excluding London +55 129 £675 +3.85% 69
North of England +45 37 £625 +6.38% 19
Midlands +47 34 £580 -1.28% 9
West Midlands +43 29 £575 -4.17% 4
South West -4 28 £663 -5.36% 6
North West +45 25 £625 +4.17% 11
South East -2 15 £700 +7.69% 14
Yorkshire +25 13 £600 +2.13% 5
Scotland +37 11 £691 -7.83% 9
East of England +9 10 £850 +223.81% 1
East Midlands +19 5 £675 +17.39% 5
North East +14 3 £850 - 3
Wales +16 1 - - 8

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 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 featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 256 (57.79%) Data Modelling
2 196 (44.24%) Data Architecture
3 157 (35.44%) Data Governance
4 156 (35.21%) Azure
5 131 (29.57%) Data Warehouse
6 121 (27.31%) Data Strategy
7 114 (25.73%) Business Intelligence
8 101 (22.80%) Finance
9 98 (22.12%) Analytics
10 95 (21.44%) Data Integration
11 94 (21.22%) Security Cleared
12 93 (20.99%) Data Management
13 88 (19.86%) Data Quality
14 85 (19.19%) Public Sector
15 84 (18.96%) Metadata
16 82 (18.51%) ETL
16 82 (18.51%) AWS
16 82 (18.51%) NoSQL
17 81 (18.28%) Microsoft
18 80 (18.06%) Social Skills
19 76 (17.16%) Migration
20 75 (16.93%) SQL
20 75 (16.93%) SC Cleared
21 70 (15.80%) Power Platform
21 70 (15.80%) Power BI
22 58 (13.09%) Sparx
23 57 (12.87%) Databricks
24 55 (12.42%) Data Lake
24 55 (12.42%) Agile
25 52 (11.74%) Reference Data

Data Architect Skill Set
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 14 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.03%) Apache
4 5 (1.13%) SAS
5 3 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.45%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (3.84%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 40 (9.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (2.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.68%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.68%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.23%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 156 (35.21%) Azure
2 82 (18.51%) AWS
3 70 (15.80%) Power Platform
4 29 (6.55%) GCP
4 29 (6.55%) Snowflake
5 23 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (4.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 19 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 16 (3.61%) Azure Stack
8 16 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (3.16%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.93%) Serverless
11 12 (2.71%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.48%) SaaS
13 10 (2.26%) dbt
14 8 (1.81%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (1.81%) OCI
15 6 (1.35%) PaaS
16 5 (1.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.45%) LAN
1 2 (0.45%) WAN
2 1 (0.23%) Firewall
2 1 (0.23%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (29.57%) Data Warehouse
2 84 (18.96%) Metadata
3 82 (18.51%) NoSQL
4 70 (15.80%) Power BI
5 55 (12.42%) Data Lake
6 47 (10.61%) Big Data
7 45 (10.16%) Data Vault
8 36 (8.13%) Metadata Repository
9 30 (6.77%) SQL Server
10 26 (5.87%) Tableau
11 17 (3.84%) Snowflake Schema
11 17 (3.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (3.61%) OLAP
12 16 (3.61%) OLTP
13 13 (2.93%) BigQuery
13 13 (2.93%) Data Mining
13 13 (2.93%) Relational Database
14 12 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
15 11 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 37 (8.35%) ERwin
2 11 (2.48%) ER Studio
3 9 (2.03%) JIRA
4 7 (1.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (1.13%) Git
6 4 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.90%) kappa
7 3 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.45%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.45%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.45%) Postman
9 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 101 (22.80%) Finance
2 85 (19.19%) Public Sector
3 80 (18.06%) Social Skills
4 42 (9.48%) Manufacturing
5 40 (9.03%) Marketing
6 38 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
7 36 (8.13%) Telecoms
8 34 (7.67%) Electronics
9 30 (6.77%) Banking
10 18 (4.06%) Publishing
10 18 (4.06%) Retail
11 8 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.13%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.90%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.68%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.68%) Legal
14 3 (0.68%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.00%) JSON
2 22 (4.97%) XML
3 21 (4.74%) Kafka
4 18 (4.06%) REST
5 13 (2.93%) JSON Schema
6 8 (1.81%) PySpark
7 6 (1.35%) Apache Avro
8 5 (1.13%) Middleware
9 4 (0.90%) SOAP
9 4 (0.90%) YAML
10 3 (0.68%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.45%) ADO
11 2 (0.45%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (0.45%) CSS
11 2 (0.45%) GraphQL
11 2 (0.45%) jQuery
11 2 (0.45%) Node.js
11 2 (0.45%) Spring
11 2 (0.45%) Swagger
11 2 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (11.74%) Reference Data
2 37 (8.35%) Data Structures
3 23 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (4.74%) Management Information System
5 20 (4.51%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.84%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.71%) Wiki
9 11 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.81%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.58%) NHS
11 7 (1.58%) Taxonomies
12 5 (1.13%) Data Fabric
12 5 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.13%) Freedom of Information
12 5 (1.13%) Freedom of Information Act
12 5 (1.13%) Industry 4.0
13 4 (0.90%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (57.79%) Data Modelling
2 196 (44.24%) Data Architecture
3 157 (35.44%) Data Governance
4 121 (27.31%) Data Strategy
5 114 (25.73%) Business Intelligence
6 98 (22.12%) Analytics
7 95 (21.44%) Data Integration
8 93 (20.99%) Data Management
9 82 (18.51%) ETL
10 76 (17.16%) Migration
11 55 (12.42%) Agile
12 51 (11.51%) Data Migration
13 47 (10.61%) Data Design
14 46 (10.38%) Roadmaps
15 45 (10.16%) Data Lineage
16 43 (9.71%) Data Protection
17 41 (9.26%) UML
18 40 (9.03%) Physical Data Model
19 37 (8.35%) Problem-Solving
19 37 (8.35%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (16.93%) SQL
2 38 (8.58%) Python
3 14 (3.16%) Java
4 9 (2.03%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.68%) R
6 2 (0.45%) C#
6 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.45%) Scala
6 2 (0.45%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.23%) Bicep
7 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 94 (21.22%) Security Cleared
2 75 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.39%) Degree
3 15 (3.39%) DV Cleared
4 9 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.23%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.23%) CITP
8 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (19.86%) Data Quality
2 38 (8.58%) GDPR
3 9 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.68%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.68%) QA
5 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (0.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (1.13%) Terraform
2 3 (0.68%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.45%) Ambari
3 2 (0.45%) Ansible
3 2 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.45%) Oozie
Vendors
1 81 (18.28%) Microsoft
2 58 (13.09%) Sparx
3 57 (12.87%) Databricks
4 49 (11.06%) SAP
5 41 (9.26%) Oracle
6 25 (5.64%) Informatica
7 22 (4.97%) Google
8 14 (3.16%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.81%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.58%) Talend
11 6 (1.35%) Remedy
12 5 (1.13%) Autodesk
13 4 (0.90%) Ab Initio
14 3 (0.68%) BiZZdesign
14 3 (0.68%) Brio
14 3 (0.68%) IBM
14 3 (0.68%) Teradata
15 2 (0.45%) Ensighten
15 2 (0.45%) Monetate
15 2 (0.45%) Snow