Data Architect Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Data Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 86 117
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 16 25 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.14% 1.28% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.41% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 5
10th Percentile £416 - £510
25th Percentile £467 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £573 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -4.58% -4.61%
75th Percentile £738 £688 £638
90th Percentile £781 £700 £660
England median daily rate £600 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,266 1,778 2,108
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 91.37% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 1,208 1,438
10th Percentile £200 £255 £257
25th Percentile £363 £363 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £642 £700 £700
England median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 142 60
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.14 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.88 £14.47
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.98 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +4.88% +17.65%
75th Percentile £31.00 £40.38 £27.22
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £58.25
England median hourly rate £29.30 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.87% -16.67% +91.49%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
Warwickshire -10 6 £750 +36.36% 2
Birmingham +9 5 £600 +20.00% 7
Coventry +4 4 £600 +4.35% 7
Shropshire -1 1 £400 -31.03% 18
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, 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 (87.50%) Data Modelling
2 11 (68.75%) Data Governance
3 10 (62.50%) Azure
3 10 (62.50%) Data Architecture
3 10 (62.50%) SQL
4 8 (50.00%) SAP
4 8 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (50.00%) Data Quality
4 8 (50.00%) Analytics
4 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 7 (43.75%) Power Platform
5 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (43.75%) Power BI
5 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
5 7 (43.75%) Data Integration
5 7 (43.75%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
6 6 (37.50%) ETL
6 6 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (31.25%) Kafka
7 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (31.25%) DevOps
7 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (31.25%) NoSQL
7 5 (31.25%) Databricks
7 5 (31.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (25.00%) Delta Lake
8 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (25.00%) Bicep

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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Maximo
1 3 (18.75%) SAP PM
2 2 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Power Platform
3 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (25.00%) GitHub
4 4 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (18.75%) AWS
5 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (18.75%) Collibra
5 3 (18.75%) Serverless
6 2 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Power BI
2 6 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (31.25%) NoSQL
4 4 (25.00%) Delta Lake
5 3 (18.75%) Big Data
5 3 (18.75%) GIS
6 2 (12.50%) Metadata
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
6 2 (12.50%) SAP BW
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
7 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
7 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
7 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
7 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Military
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) IoT
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (18.75%) SCADA
3 1 (6.25%) Data Fabric
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Data Modelling
2 11 (68.75%) Data Governance
3 10 (62.50%) Data Architecture
4 8 (50.00%) Analytics
4 8 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (43.75%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (43.75%) Data Integration
5 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
5 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (37.50%) ETL
7 5 (31.25%) DevOps
8 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 4 (25.00%) Data Mapping
8 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (18.75%) Batch Processing
9 3 (18.75%) Data Management
9 3 (18.75%) Observability
9 3 (18.75%) RBAC
9 3 (18.75%) Zero Trust
10 2 (12.50%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Bicep
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) CITP
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (18.75%) GDPR
3 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) SAP
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) Databricks
4 4 (25.00%) Informatica
5 2 (12.50%) Google
5 2 (12.50%) Oracle
6 1 (6.25%) Splunk
6 1 (6.25%) Workday