Lead Data Architect Contracts

Lead Data Architect
UK

The median Lead Data Architect daily rate in the UK is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 566 704
Rank change year-on-year +59 +138 +113
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Architect 13 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.037% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.040% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 10
10th Percentile £533 £475 £588
25th Percentile £600 £513 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £713
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -5.26% +1.06%
75th Percentile £775 £838 £1,056
90th Percentile £783 £875 £1,100
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £825 £700
% change year-on-year -9.09% +17.86% -15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Lead Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Architect in the UK

Lead Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Architect in the UK

Lead Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Data Architect in the UK

Lead Data Architect
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Data Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +53 12 £675 - 12
UK excluding London +63 5 £750 -9.09% 7
Work from Home +41 5 £700 +19.15% 5
London +30 3 £500 -23.08% 8
South East +47 2 - - 3
East of England +30 1 £600 -29.41%
Midlands +21 1 £775 +55.00% 1
West Midlands +14 1 £775 - 1
North East - 1 £750 -
North of England - 1 £750 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Data Architect in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) Data Governance
2 7 (53.85%) Data Architecture
3 6 (46.15%) Data Management
3 6 (46.15%) Finance
4 5 (38.46%) Migration
4 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
4 5 (38.46%) Data Strategy
5 4 (30.77%) Analytics
5 4 (30.77%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
5 4 (30.77%) AWS
5 4 (30.77%) SQL
5 4 (30.77%) SAP
5 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
6 3 (23.08%) ETL
6 3 (23.08%) Back Office
6 3 (23.08%) Azure
6 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
6 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
6 3 (23.08%) Master Data Management
6 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Data Development
7 2 (15.38%) Reference Data Management
7 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
7 2 (15.38%) Data Sharing
7 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
7 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (15.38%) Metadata

Lead 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (30.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (15.38%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) Maven
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Back Office
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Billing
5 1 (7.69%) Legal
5 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
1 2 (15.38%) JPA
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
1 2 (15.38%) Spring
1 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Reference Data
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) EPoS
2 1 (7.69%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Data Governance
2 7 (53.85%) Data Architecture
3 6 (46.15%) Data Management
4 5 (38.46%) Data Strategy
4 5 (38.46%) Migration
5 4 (30.77%) Analytics
5 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
6 3 (23.08%) Data Development
6 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
6 3 (23.08%) ETL
6 3 (23.08%) Master Data Management
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
7 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
7 2 (15.38%) Data Security
7 2 (15.38%) Data Sharing
7 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
7 2 (15.38%) Reference Data Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) IFRS
2 1 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) Ariba
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce