Data Architecture Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Architecture
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 100 111
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 24 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.45% 0.43% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 0.52% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 11
10th Percentile £505 £600 £500
25th Percentile £538 £672 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £763 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.34% +38.68% -15.38%
75th Percentile £675 £806 £644
90th Percentile £775 £831 £650
England median daily rate £600 £646 £650
% change year-on-year -7.12% -0.62% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,460 1,525 1,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.32% 81.81% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,034 1,283
10th Percentile £223 £287 £263
25th Percentile £368 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £663 £738 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 61 38
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.25 £20.12
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -32.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £32.44 £37.50 £30.78
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £46.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%

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 4 August 2025.

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 4 August 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 +3 8 £750 +15.38% 3
Birmingham +2 4 £575 -25.81% 6
Coventry +1 4 £525 -30.05%
Solihull - 2 £600 -
Worcestershire - 2 £575 -
Walsall - 1 - -
Shropshire - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Maximo
1 3 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (8.33%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (12.50%) Collibra
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.17%) Alation
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.17%) AWS
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.17%) dbt
6 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Power BI
2 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 3 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (12.50%) Delta Lake
3 3 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (12.50%) SAP BW
4 2 (8.33%) GIS
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.17%) Big Data
5 1 (4.17%) DataStage
5 1 (4.17%) DB2
5 1 (4.17%) Flink
5 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.17%) QlikView
5 1 (4.17%) QualityStage
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) ER Studio
1 1 (4.17%) ERwin
1 1 (4.17%) MLflow
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Architect
2 12 (50.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Data Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.33%) SAP Architect
5 2 (8.33%) SAP Data Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Lead
6 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Data Modeller
6 1 (4.17%) HR Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Kafka
2 3 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.17%) Keycloak
4 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (12.50%) IoT
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Replication
2 2 (8.33%) SCADA
3 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 16 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 14 (58.33%) Analytics
4 9 (37.50%) Data Integration
4 9 (37.50%) Machine Learning
5 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (29.17%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (25.00%) Data Management
7 6 (25.00%) Data Mapping
7 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
8 5 (20.83%) Data Migration
8 5 (20.83%) ETL
8 5 (20.83%) Migration
9 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
10 3 (12.50%) High Availability
10 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
10 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Bicep
3 2 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
1 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (45.83%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kibana
1 2 (8.33%) logstash
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Kubeflow
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) SAP
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.67%) Databricks
4 3 (12.50%) Informatica
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle
6 1 (4.17%) Autodesk
6 1 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) IBM
6 1 (4.17%) Workday