Data Architecture Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Architecture
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Data Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Architecture over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 134 136
Rank change year-on-year +58 +2 -33
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 33 7 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.71% 0.29% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 0.33% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 7 32
10th Percentile - £500 £514
25th Percentile £500 £513 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +11.83%
75th Percentile £700 £606 £713
90th Percentile £746 £693 £750
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +16.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.33 - -
Median hourly rate £24.65 - -
75th Percentile £26.98 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.75 £89.56
% change year-on-year -2.10% -60.08% +244.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,620 2,133 3,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.94% 88.43% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 1,463 2,393
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £401 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.66%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 46 72
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%
75th Percentile £40.81 £23.62 £19.59
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.63 £21.85
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the West Midlands

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the West Midlands

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the West Midlands

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the West Midlands

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the West Midlands region 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
Coventry +24 12 £500 -
Birmingham +20 11 £600 +9.09% 4
Warwickshire - 8 £700 - 3
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
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:

Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (9.09%) Serverless
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) SaaS
5 2 (6.06%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.03%) AWS
6 1 (3.03%) IaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) IPsec
2 1 (3.03%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (18.18%) Power BI
2 6 (18.18%) Tableau
3 4 (12.12%) Metadata
4 3 (9.09%) Big Data
5 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
5 2 (6.06%) Data Lake
5 2 (6.06%) Delta Lake
5 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.06%) OLAP
5 2 (6.06%) OLTP
6 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) kappa
General
1 12 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.21%) German Language
4 4 (12.12%) Finance
5 3 (9.09%) Automotive
6 2 (6.06%) Legal
7 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Architect
2 10 (30.30%) Lead
3 9 (27.27%) Data Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Technical Leader
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Data Modeller
5 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Head of Architecture
6 1 (3.03%) Senior
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) PySpark
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 7 (21.21%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (18.18%) Data Structures
4 5 (15.15%) Industry 4.0
4 5 (15.15%) IoT
5 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
5 2 (6.06%) Taxonomies
6 1 (3.03%) CMDB
6 1 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Analytics
1 11 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 10 (30.30%) Agile
3 9 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (27.27%) Data Integration
3 9 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 8 (24.24%) Data Analytics
4 8 (24.24%) Data Management
4 8 (24.24%) Data Modelling
4 8 (24.24%) Migration
5 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (21.21%) Data Migration
5 7 (21.21%) Information Management
6 6 (18.18%) Data Design
7 5 (15.15%) Coaching
7 5 (15.15%) Data Strategy
7 5 (15.15%) Digital Enablement
7 5 (15.15%) Energy Management
7 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
7 5 (15.15%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
2 2 (6.06%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) C#
3 1 (3.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) ACCA
3 1 (3.03%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (39.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Informatica
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.15%) Autodesk
3 5 (15.15%) SAP
4 2 (6.06%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) Anaplan
5 1 (3.03%) Progress
5 1 (3.03%) Sage
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow