Senior Data Architect Contract Job Trends

Senior Data Architect
UK

The median Senior Data Architect daily rate in the UK is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 552 625
Rank change year-on-year +6 +73 +180
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 15 21 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.055% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.059% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 23
10th Percentile £444 £315 £611
25th Percentile £513 £525 £639
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +0.93%
75th Percentile £716 £669 £694
90th Percentile £740 £694 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 - £750
% change year-on-year - - +18.86%

All DemandTrendContract 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 29,809 35,645 47,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.14% 93.02% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,783 22,371 32,786
10th Percentile £281 £300 £303
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,547 1,785 1,475
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.50 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +12.50% +81.82%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Architect in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the UK

Senior Data Architect
Top 9 Contract Job 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 6 September 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 -4 14 £700 +16.67% 21
London +23 11 £613 +2.08% 15
Work from Home +6 5 £700 -2.61% 17
UK excluding London +4 4 £700 - 19
North of England - 2 £708 - 1
South East +22 1 £402 - 11
North West - 1 £716 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £700 - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 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 12 (80.00%) SQL
2 10 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 9 (60.00%) Python
3 9 (60.00%) Migration
4 8 (53.33%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (53.33%) Data Architecture
4 8 (53.33%) AWS
5 6 (40.00%) Azure
5 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (33.33%) ETL
6 5 (33.33%) Agile
6 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
6 5 (33.33%) Google
6 5 (33.33%) BigQuery
6 5 (33.33%) GCP
6 5 (33.33%) Data Strategy
7 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
7 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (26.67%) Kafka
7 4 (26.67%) Analytics
7 4 (26.67%) Degree
7 4 (26.67%) Dimensional Modelling
7 4 (26.67%) Star Schema
7 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
7 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
8 3 (20.00%) Snowflake
8 3 (20.00%) Collibra
8 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
8 3 (20.00%) Data Security
8 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services

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 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) Collibra
4 3 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (13.33%) dbt
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (33.33%) BigQuery
3 4 (26.67%) Star Schema
4 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (13.33%) Metadata
5 2 (13.33%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (6.67%) Data Mining
6 1 (6.67%) Data Vault
6 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (6.67%) Power BI
6 1 (6.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) ER Studio
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Back Office
4 1 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Reinsurance
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 9 (60.00%) Migration
3 8 (53.33%) Data Architecture
4 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 5 (33.33%) Data Strategy
5 5 (33.33%) ETL
6 4 (26.67%) Analytics
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
6 4 (26.67%) Dimensional Modelling
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Data Science
7 3 (20.00%) Data Security
7 3 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
7 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
7 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) SQL
2 9 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Databricks
2 2 (13.33%) Informatica
2 2 (13.33%) Talend
3 1 (6.67%) SAP