Data Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 183 237
Rank change year-on-year -10 +54 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 111 168 263
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.12% 1.09% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.17% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 105 190
10th Percentile £488 £505 £538
25th Percentile £550 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £788
90th Percentile £799 £820 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £691 £675
% change year-on-year -13.20% +2.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
UK median hourly rate £80.25 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +33.75% -9.09% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Architect.

Data Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Architect.

Data Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 69 (62.16%) Data Architecture
2 63 (56.76%) Data Modelling
3 57 (51.35%) Azure
4 41 (36.94%) AWS
5 33 (29.73%) Security Cleared
5 33 (29.73%) Data Governance
5 33 (29.73%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (29.73%) SQL
6 28 (25.23%) SC Cleared
7 27 (24.32%) Analytics
8 26 (23.42%) ETL
8 26 (23.42%) Public Sector
9 23 (20.72%) Social Skills
9 23 (20.72%) Data Lake
9 23 (20.72%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (19.82%) Databricks
11 21 (18.92%) Data Strategy
11 21 (18.92%) Power Platform
12 20 (18.02%) Data Integration
13 19 (17.12%) Data Security
13 19 (17.12%) Metadata
14 18 (16.22%) Roadmaps
15 17 (15.32%) Snowflake
15 17 (15.32%) Migration
15 17 (15.32%) Data Management
15 17 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
16 16 (14.41%) Power BI
17 14 (12.61%) GCP
17 14 (12.61%) Python
18 13 (11.71%) Microsoft

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.60%) Confluence
3 2 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.90%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) SAS
4 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.70%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.90%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.90%) Endur
3 1 (0.90%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 57 (51.35%) Azure
2 41 (36.94%) AWS
3 21 (18.92%) Power Platform
4 17 (15.32%) Snowflake
5 14 (12.61%) GCP
6 11 (9.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (9.01%) dbt
8 8 (7.21%) Entra ID
8 8 (7.21%) GitHub
9 7 (6.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (5.41%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (4.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (4.50%) SaaS
11 5 (4.50%) Serverless
12 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) DNS
1 5 (4.50%) Firewall
1 5 (4.50%) TCP/IP
1 5 (4.50%) VPN
2 1 (0.90%) BGP
2 1 (0.90%) DHCP
2 1 (0.90%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.90%) HSRP
2 1 (0.90%) IPsec
2 1 (0.90%) Network Security
2 1 (0.90%) NGFW
2 1 (0.90%) OSPF
2 1 (0.90%) SSL
2 1 (0.90%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.90%) VRRP
2 1 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (29.73%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (20.72%) Data Lake
3 19 (17.12%) Metadata
4 16 (14.41%) Power BI
5 13 (11.71%) Big Data
6 12 (10.81%) Hadoop
7 8 (7.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (6.31%) NoSQL
9 6 (5.41%) Neo4j
9 6 (5.41%) SQL Server
10 5 (4.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (4.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (3.60%) Data Vault
12 3 (2.70%) Data Mining
13 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.80%) Tableau
14 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.50%) ERwin
2 4 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.80%) Git
3 2 (1.80%) JIRA
3 2 (1.80%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.90%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (23.42%) Public Sector
2 23 (20.72%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.71%) Finance
5 6 (5.41%) Banking
6 5 (4.50%) Retail
7 4 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Law
8 2 (1.80%) Military
8 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.90%) Automotive
9 1 (0.90%) Back Office
9 1 (0.90%) French Language
9 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.01%) Kafka
2 7 (6.31%) Jinja
3 6 (5.41%) Plotly
3 6 (5.41%) React
4 2 (1.80%) RESTful
4 2 (1.80%) Shiny
5 1 (0.90%) ADO
5 1 (0.90%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.90%) Middleware
5 1 (0.90%) PySpark
5 1 (0.90%) REST
5 1 (0.90%) SOAP
5 1 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.31%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.60%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.80%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.80%) Equities
5 2 (1.80%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.90%) CMDB
6 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.90%) FMCG
6 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.90%) PKI
6 1 (0.90%) Replication
6 1 (0.90%) SCADA
6 1 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (62.16%) Data Architecture
2 63 (56.76%) Data Modelling
3 33 (29.73%) Data Governance
4 27 (24.32%) Analytics
5 26 (23.42%) ETL
6 23 (20.72%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (18.92%) Data Strategy
8 20 (18.02%) Data Integration
9 19 (17.12%) Data Security
10 18 (16.22%) Roadmaps
11 17 (15.32%) Data Management
11 17 (15.32%) Migration
12 13 (11.71%) CI/CD
13 12 (10.81%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (9.91%) Agile
14 11 (9.91%) Machine Learning
15 10 (9.01%) Data Migration
15 10 (9.01%) DevOps
15 10 (9.01%) Visualisation
16 9 (8.11%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (29.73%) SQL
2 14 (12.61%) Python
3 6 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.60%) Bicep
5 2 (1.80%) R
6 1 (0.90%) C#
6 1 (0.90%) Java
6 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.90%) Scala
6 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 28 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.31%) Degree
4 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.90%) CITP
6 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.90%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.41%) GDPR
3 3 (2.70%) HL7
3 3 (2.70%) QA
4 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (4.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (8.11%) Terraform
2 4 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.90%) Grafana
3 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.90%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 22 (19.82%) Databricks
2 13 (11.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.21%) Sparx
4 5 (4.50%) Informatica
5 4 (3.60%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (3.60%) Google
6 3 (2.70%) Oracle
6 3 (2.70%) SAP
7 2 (1.80%) Sage
7 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.90%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.90%) Aruba
8 1 (0.90%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.90%) Cisco
8 1 (0.90%) F5
8 1 (0.90%) Juniper
8 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.90%) Symantec
8 1 (0.90%) Talend