Data Architecture Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 223 223
Rank change year-on-year +32 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 161 278 548
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.05% 1.07% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.19% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 197 406
10th Percentile £451 £458 £475
25th Percentile £500 £531 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £764 £750 £750
90th Percentile £875 £805 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% - -
UK median hourly rate £29.83 £35.50 £89.56
% change year-on-year -15.99% -60.36% +241.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,302 40,603
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.87% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,958 16,466 29,448
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £714
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 535 543
10th Percentile £15.05 £19.00 £13.55
25th Percentile £24.19 £30.88 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.05% +57.14% +35.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Data Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Architecture trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Architecture.

Data Architecture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Data Architecture daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Architecture.

Data Architecture hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
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 12 (7.45%) Apache
1 12 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.62%) CMS
4 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.62%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.24%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.62%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.62%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.62%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.62%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (31.06%) Azure
2 22 (13.66%) AWS
3 18 (11.18%) GCP
4 17 (10.56%) dbt
5 16 (9.94%) Power Platform
6 10 (6.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (5.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (5.59%) SaaS
8 8 (4.97%) Snowflake
9 6 (3.73%) Azure Stack
9 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.11%) IaaS
10 5 (3.11%) PaaS
11 4 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.86%) GitHub
13 2 (1.24%) Serverless
14 1 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
14 1 (0.62%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (19.25%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (10.56%) Metadata
3 16 (9.94%) Power BI
4 12 (7.45%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (7.45%) Apache Arrow
4 12 (7.45%) Apache Ignite
4 12 (7.45%) Big Data
4 12 (7.45%) Data Lake
4 12 (7.45%) Dremio
5 11 (6.83%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.48%) Apache Hive
8 4 (2.48%) Impala
8 4 (2.48%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.48%) Tableau
9 3 (1.86%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.86%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 14 (8.70%) ERwin
2 4 (2.48%) Git
3 3 (1.86%) JIRA
4 1 (0.62%) kappa
4 1 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.62%) Toad
General
1 47 (29.19%) Social Skills
2 44 (27.33%) Finance
3 29 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (18.01%) Public Sector
4 20 (12.42%) Banking
5 15 (9.32%) Investment Banking
5 15 (9.32%) Marketing
6 14 (8.70%) Retail
7 13 (8.07%) Manufacturing
8 12 (7.45%) Front Office
9 11 (6.83%) Electronics
9 11 (6.83%) Telecoms
10 8 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (4.97%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (3.11%) German Language
12 4 (2.48%) French Language
13 3 (1.86%) Arabic Language
13 3 (1.86%) Japanese Language
13 3 (1.86%) Korean Language
13 3 (1.86%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 96 (59.63%) Architect
2 74 (45.96%) Data Architect
3 22 (13.66%) Enterprise Architect
4 20 (12.42%) Developer
5 17 (10.56%) Lead
6 16 (9.94%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 15 (9.32%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (6.83%) Senior
9 10 (6.21%) Azure Architect
9 10 (6.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 10 (6.21%) Software Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) Azure Data Architect
10 9 (5.59%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Python Developer
12 7 (4.35%) Analyst
13 6 (3.73%) AWS Developer
13 6 (3.73%) Consultant
13 6 (3.73%) Senior Architect
13 6 (3.73%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.07%) Pandas
2 12 (7.45%) gRPC
2 12 (7.45%) JSON
2 12 (7.45%) NumPy
2 12 (7.45%) Protocol Buffers
2 12 (7.45%) SciPy
3 9 (5.59%) REST
3 9 (5.59%) XML
4 5 (3.11%) SOAP
5 3 (1.86%) JSON Schema
5 3 (1.86%) Middleware
6 2 (1.24%) ADO
6 2 (1.24%) PySpark
6 2 (1.24%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (1.24%) XSD
6 2 (1.24%) XSLT
7 1 (0.62%) FHIR
7 1 (0.62%) Flutter
7 1 (0.62%) Shiny
7 1 (0.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.07%) Data Protection Act
1 13 (8.07%) Data Structures
2 12 (7.45%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.45%) Reference Data
3 11 (6.83%) Wiki
4 6 (3.73%) Derivative
4 6 (3.73%) Equities
4 6 (3.73%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.73%) Hedge funds
4 6 (3.73%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.86%) Data Fabric
6 3 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.24%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.24%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.97%) Unix
2 7 (4.35%) Linux
3 3 (1.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (47.20%) Data Modelling
2 58 (36.02%) Data Governance
3 47 (29.19%) Analytics
4 43 (26.71%) Agile
4 43 (26.71%) Data Management
5 39 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (19.88%) Data Strategy
7 31 (19.25%) Data Integration
8 30 (18.63%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (18.01%) ETL
10 24 (14.91%) Master Data Management
11 22 (13.66%) Asset Management
12 21 (13.04%) Migration
13 20 (12.42%) Data Protection
14 19 (11.80%) Physical Data Model
15 17 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
16 15 (9.32%) Microservices
16 15 (9.32%) Roadmaps
17 14 (8.70%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.74%) Python
2 29 (18.01%) SQL
3 14 (8.70%) Java
4 13 (8.07%) Scala
4 13 (8.07%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.45%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.97%) Ruby
7 5 (3.11%) R
8 2 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.24%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.24%) XPath
9 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (9.32%) Degree
2 14 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (26.71%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.07%) GDPR
3 4 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.62%) CDISC
4 1 (0.62%) GxP
4 1 (0.62%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.62%) HL7
4 1 (0.62%) PMO
4 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.62%) Docker
1 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.24%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.56%) Databricks
2 17 (10.56%) Sparx
3 16 (9.94%) Informatica
4 15 (9.32%) SAP
5 11 (6.83%) Oracle
6 6 (3.73%) IBM
7 5 (3.11%) Google
8 3 (1.86%) Workday
9 2 (1.24%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.24%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.62%) Ariba
10 1 (0.62%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.62%) Embarcadero
10 1 (0.62%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.62%) Mercator
10 1 (0.62%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.62%) Sybase