Senior Data Architect Contracts

Senior Data Architect
UK

The median Senior Data Architect daily rate in the UK is £625, 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 496 557 687
Rank change year-on-year +61 +130 +139
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 24 25 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.057% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.062% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 23
10th Percentile £477 £377 £585
25th Percentile £513 £536 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £663
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -10.17%
75th Percentile £774 £691 £738
90th Percentile £799 £742 £805
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £727 £725
% change year-on-year -14.08% +0.28% +31.82%

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%

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 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 +56 24 £625 - 19
London +35 18 £675 +12.50% 15
Work from Home +42 11 £750 +12.07% 11
UK excluding London +65 6 £625 -14.08% 11
North of England +21 4 £625 -14.03% 2
North West +19 3 £625 -16.67%
South West - 3 £625 -
South East +47 2 £496 - 6
North East - 1 £624 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 featuring Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 17 (70.83%) Data Modelling
2 15 (62.50%) Data Architecture
3 14 (58.33%) SQL
4 11 (45.83%) AWS
4 11 (45.83%) Data Governance
5 9 (37.50%) Migration
5 9 (37.50%) ETL
6 8 (33.33%) Data Strategy
6 8 (33.33%) Public Sector
7 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
7 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (29.17%) Python
7 7 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (25.00%) Azure
8 6 (25.00%) Visualisation
8 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
8 6 (25.00%) Analytics
9 5 (20.83%) GCP
9 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
9 5 (20.83%) Data Mining
9 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
9 5 (20.83%) Metadata
10 4 (16.67%) Data Science
10 4 (16.67%) Snowflake
10 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
10 4 (16.67%) Oracle
10 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (16.67%) Serverless
10 4 (16.67%) GDPR
10 4 (16.67%) Databricks

Senior 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 2 (8.33%) Apache
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (4.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) AWS
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) GCP
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (16.67%) Serverless
4 4 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 3 (12.50%) SaaS
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (4.17%) Collibra
7 1 (4.17%) dbt
7 1 (4.17%) GitHub
7 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (20.83%) Data Mining
2 5 (20.83%) Metadata
3 4 (16.67%) Tableau
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (12.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.33%) Big Data
5 2 (8.33%) BigQuery
5 2 (8.33%) Data Vault
5 2 (8.33%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (8.33%) Power BI
5 2 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.17%) OLAP
6 1 (4.17%) OLTP
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) ERwin
General
1 8 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
5 2 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (4.17%) Back Office
6 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) D3.js
2 2 (8.33%) Kafka
2 2 (8.33%) Shiny
3 1 (4.17%) Jinja
3 1 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.17%) Taxonomies
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Data Modelling
2 15 (62.50%) Data Architecture
3 11 (45.83%) Data Governance
4 9 (37.50%) ETL
4 9 (37.50%) Migration
5 8 (33.33%) Data Strategy
6 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (25.00%) Analytics
7 6 (25.00%) Visualisation
8 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
9 4 (16.67%) Conceptual Models
9 4 (16.67%) Data Science
9 4 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
10 3 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (12.50%) Database Optimisation
10 3 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
10 3 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
10 3 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
10 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) SQL
2 7 (29.17%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) R
4 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 4 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) IFRS
2 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Databricks
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Informatica
3 2 (8.33%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Sage
3 2 (8.33%) Talend
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Sparx