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 4 July 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 230 243
Rank change year-on-year +32 +13 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 112 122 225
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.11% 0.83% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 0.89% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 74 160
10th Percentile £488 £500 £549
25th Percentile £545 £541 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -5.66% +1.92%
75th Percentile £713 £725 £788
90th Percentile £799 £809 £878
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £44.48
25th Percentile - - £58.31
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £51.98 £60.00 £64.50
% change year-on-year -13.37% -6.98% +29.00%

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 9,508 13,717 22,808
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.70% 95.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,388 9,246 16,111
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 542 543
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.25 £16.98
25th Percentile £17.51 £22.50 £24.74
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +25.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.90
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.80% -12.21% +68.63%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 (61.61%) Data Architecture
2 64 (57.14%) Azure
3 63 (56.25%) Data Modelling
4 38 (33.93%) Data Governance
5 37 (33.04%) AWS
6 35 (31.25%) SQL
7 30 (26.79%) Analytics
8 29 (25.89%) Data Warehouse
9 28 (25.00%) Power Platform
10 26 (23.21%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (23.21%) Security Cleared
11 25 (22.32%) ETL
11 25 (22.32%) Databricks
12 24 (21.43%) Finance
13 23 (20.54%) Power BI
13 23 (20.54%) Roadmaps
14 22 (19.64%) Data Lake
14 22 (19.64%) Social Skills
15 21 (18.75%) Data Strategy
15 21 (18.75%) SC Cleared
15 21 (18.75%) Data Integration
16 20 (17.86%) GCP
17 19 (16.96%) Microsoft
18 18 (16.07%) Migration
18 18 (16.07%) Snowflake
18 18 (16.07%) Metadata
19 17 (15.18%) Azure Data Factory
20 16 (14.29%) Data Management
21 15 (13.39%) Big Data
22 14 (12.50%) Machine Learning

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 6 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.68%) Apache
2 3 (2.68%) Confluence
3 2 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.79%) SAS
4 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.46%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.68%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.89%) Endur
3 1 (0.89%) Maximo
3 1 (0.89%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 64 (57.14%) Azure
2 37 (33.04%) AWS
3 28 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 20 (17.86%) GCP
5 18 (16.07%) Snowflake
6 17 (15.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (11.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (8.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (8.04%) dbt
9 8 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (7.14%) Entra ID
9 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (6.25%) GitHub
11 6 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (5.36%) SaaS
12 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.79%) Firewall
2 1 (0.89%) BGP
2 1 (0.89%) DHCP
2 1 (0.89%) DNS
2 1 (0.89%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.89%) HSRP
2 1 (0.89%) IPsec
2 1 (0.89%) Network Security
2 1 (0.89%) NGFW
2 1 (0.89%) OSPF
2 1 (0.89%) SSL
2 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.89%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.89%) VPN
2 1 (0.89%) VRRP
2 1 (0.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (25.89%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (20.54%) Power BI
3 22 (19.64%) Data Lake
4 18 (16.07%) Metadata
5 15 (13.39%) Big Data
6 12 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (10.71%) SQL Server
7 9 (8.04%) Hadoop
7 9 (8.04%) NoSQL
8 6 (5.36%) BigQuery
8 6 (5.36%) Data Vault
9 5 (4.46%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (3.57%) Neo4j
10 4 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.68%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.68%) Tableau
12 2 (1.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (4.46%) ERwin
2 4 (3.57%) JIRA
3 2 (1.79%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.89%) Git
4 1 (0.89%) MLflow
4 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (21.43%) Finance
2 22 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.61%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.93%) Banking
5 7 (6.25%) Retail
6 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.79%) Local Government
9 1 (0.89%) Automotive
9 1 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) French Language
9 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Law
9 1 (0.89%) Military
9 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.82%) Kafka
2 4 (3.57%) Jinja
2 4 (3.57%) Plotly
2 4 (3.57%) React
3 3 (2.68%) PySpark
4 2 (1.79%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.89%) ADO
5 1 (0.89%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.89%) Middleware
5 1 (0.89%) REST
5 1 (0.89%) SOAP
5 1 (0.89%) Spring
5 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.79%) CMDB
4 2 (1.79%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.79%) Equities
4 2 (1.79%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.79%) SCADA
4 2 (1.79%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.89%) IoT
5 1 (0.89%) NHS
5 1 (0.89%) PKI
5 1 (0.89%) Replication
5 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (61.61%) Data Architecture
2 63 (56.25%) Data Modelling
3 38 (33.93%) Data Governance
4 30 (26.79%) Analytics
5 26 (23.21%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (22.32%) ETL
7 23 (20.54%) Roadmaps
8 21 (18.75%) Data Integration
8 21 (18.75%) Data Strategy
9 18 (16.07%) Migration
10 16 (14.29%) Data Management
11 14 (12.50%) Machine Learning
12 13 (11.61%) Agile
13 12 (10.71%) Data Security
14 11 (9.82%) Master Data Management
15 10 (8.93%) CI/CD
15 10 (8.93%) Data Pipeline
15 10 (8.93%) DevOps
15 10 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
16 9 (8.04%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 35 (31.25%) SQL
2 13 (11.61%) Python
3 6 (5.36%) Bicep
4 5 (4.46%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.57%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.68%) Java
7 2 (1.79%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.79%) Scala
8 1 (0.89%) Bash
8 1 (0.89%) C#
8 1 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 26 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.14%) Degree
4 6 (5.36%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.89%) CITP
8 1 (0.89%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.89%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.82%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (2.68%) HL7
4 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.79%) QA
5 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (0.89%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.89%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 25 (22.32%) Databricks
2 19 (16.96%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.14%) Google
3 8 (7.14%) Informatica
4 5 (4.46%) Oracle
4 5 (4.46%) Sparx
5 4 (3.57%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.68%) SAP
6 3 (2.68%) Talend
7 2 (1.79%) Autodesk
7 2 (1.79%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.89%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.89%) Arista
8 1 (0.89%) Cisco
8 1 (0.89%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.89%) Palantir
8 1 (0.89%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.89%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.89%) Zscaler