Senior Data Architect Contracts

Senior Data Architect
UK

The median Senior Data Architect daily rate in the UK is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 682 822
Rank change year-on-year +127 +140 -174
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 27 30 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.050% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.053% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 25
10th Percentile £392 £608 £535
25th Percentile £537 £638 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £669 £750
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% -10.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £689 £738 £825
90th Percentile £741 £809 £914
UK excluding London median daily rate £704 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -2.90% +31.82% -12.00%

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 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

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 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior 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 Senior Data Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +123 27 £613 -7.55% 9
London +98 21 £600 -9.43% 5
Work from Home +126 10 £669 -3.08% 2
UK excluding London +60 6 £704 -2.90% 4
Midlands - 3 £652 -
North of England - 2 £727 - 3
South East - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 £600 -
North West - 1 £750 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £704 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £704 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 (62.96%) Data Modelling
2 15 (55.56%) Analytics
3 14 (51.85%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (51.85%) SQL
4 12 (44.44%) Data Architecture
5 11 (40.74%) Azure
5 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
6 10 (37.04%) Data Mapping
6 10 (37.04%) Data Quality
7 9 (33.33%) Master Data Management
7 9 (33.33%) JSON Schema
7 9 (33.33%) Public Sector
7 9 (33.33%) JSON
7 9 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (33.33%) Migration
7 9 (33.33%) Agile
8 8 (29.63%) Logical Data Model
8 8 (29.63%) Physical Data Model
9 7 (25.93%) Roadmaps
9 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
9 7 (25.93%) ETL
9 7 (25.93%) NoSQL
10 6 (22.22%) Degree
10 6 (22.22%) Management Information System
10 6 (22.22%) Data Lineage
10 6 (22.22%) Data Structures
10 6 (22.22%) Data Engineering
10 6 (22.22%) Big Data
11 5 (18.52%) Kafka
11 5 (18.52%) GCP

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 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
3 1 (3.70%) dbt
3 1 (3.70%) Lucidchart
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (25.93%) NoSQL
3 6 (22.22%) Big Data
4 4 (14.81%) Metadata
4 4 (14.81%) OLAP
4 4 (14.81%) OLTP
4 4 (14.81%) Parquet
4 4 (14.81%) Star Schema
5 2 (7.41%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (7.41%) Tableau
6 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.70%) DB2
6 1 (3.70%) NewSQL
6 1 (3.70%) Power BI
6 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) ERwin
General
1 9 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Banking
4 4 (14.81%) Finance
5 3 (11.11%) Publishing
6 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) JSON
1 9 (33.33%) JSON Schema
2 5 (18.52%) Kafka
3 4 (14.81%) Apache Avro
3 4 (14.81%) YAML
4 3 (11.11%) XML
5 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Data Structures
1 6 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 4 (14.81%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (14.81%) Freedom of Information
2 4 (14.81%) Freedom of Information Act
2 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
3 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.70%) CMDB
4 1 (3.70%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.70%) FMCG
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.70%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Data Modelling
2 15 (55.56%) Analytics
3 14 (51.85%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (44.44%) Data Architecture
5 10 (37.04%) Data Mapping
6 9 (33.33%) Agile
6 9 (33.33%) Master Data Management
6 9 (33.33%) Migration
7 8 (29.63%) Logical Data Model
7 8 (29.63%) Physical Data Model
8 7 (25.93%) ETL
8 7 (25.93%) Roadmaps
9 6 (22.22%) Data Engineering
9 6 (22.22%) Data Lineage
10 5 (18.52%) Architectural Design
10 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
10 5 (18.52%) Data Flow Diagram
10 5 (18.52%) Data Strategy
10 5 (18.52%) Visualisation
11 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (37.04%) Data Quality
2 5 (18.52%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Informatica
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Sparx