Data Architect Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Data Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 131 122
Rank change year-on-year +47 -9 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 29 9 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.51% 0.37% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 0.39% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 38
10th Percentile £450 £513 £536
25th Percentile £488 £541 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +5.73%
75th Percentile £613 £672 £700
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
England median daily rate £700 £700 £688
% change year-on-year - +1.82% +14.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,754 2,304 3,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 94.54% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,596 2,589
10th Percentile £258 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 69 83
10th Percentile £11.97 £12.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +9.95% +6.34%
75th Percentile £42.50 £26.38 £20.00
90th Percentile £56.00 £53.50 £23.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the West Midlands

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the West Midlands

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the West Midlands

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Warwickshire +13 14 £550 - 2
Coventry - 9 £575 -
Birmingham +14 4 £525 -16.00% 3
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 14 (48.28%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
3 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (41.38%) Migration
3 12 (41.38%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (37.93%) Analytics
5 9 (31.03%) Data Architecture
5 9 (31.03%) Data Mining
5 9 (31.03%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (27.59%) CAD
6 8 (27.59%) Data Management
6 8 (27.59%) Data Quality
6 8 (27.59%) Power Platform
6 8 (27.59%) Roadmaps
6 8 (27.59%) Power BI
6 8 (27.59%) Data Analytics
7 7 (24.14%) Data Structures
7 7 (24.14%) Metadata
7 7 (24.14%) Degree
7 7 (24.14%) Information Management
7 7 (24.14%) ETL
7 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
8 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
8 6 (20.69%) Management Information System
8 6 (20.69%) Computer Science
8 6 (20.69%) Tableau
8 6 (20.69%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (20.69%) Data Design
8 6 (20.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (17.24%) Scorecard

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Power Platform
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) Serverless
4 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.45%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) Data Mining
1 9 (31.03%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (27.59%) Power BI
3 7 (24.14%) Metadata
4 6 (20.69%) Tableau
5 3 (10.34%) Data Vault
5 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
6 2 (6.90%) BigQuery
6 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (6.90%) OLAP
6 2 (6.90%) OLTP
6 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (3.45%) Big Data
7 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
7 1 (3.45%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) kappa
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 14 (48.28%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Automotive
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Data Structures
2 6 (20.69%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (20.69%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.90%) Taxonomies
5 1 (3.45%) CMDB
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.45%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) Migration
1 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (37.93%) Analytics
3 9 (31.03%) Data Architecture
4 8 (27.59%) CAD
4 8 (27.59%) Data Analytics
4 8 (27.59%) Data Management
4 8 (27.59%) Roadmaps
5 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
5 7 (24.14%) ETL
5 7 (24.14%) Information Management
6 6 (20.69%) Computer Science
6 6 (20.69%) Data Design
7 5 (17.24%) Coaching
7 5 (17.24%) Data Migration
7 5 (17.24%) Dimensional Modelling
7 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
7 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (17.24%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 6 (20.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Autodesk
2 5 (17.24%) Informatica
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow