Data Architecture Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 187 230
Rank change year-on-year +25 +43 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 147 164 277
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.48% 1.07% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.22% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 116 196
10th Percentile £400 £456 £456
25th Percentile £475 £500 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -9.26% +3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £753 £753
90th Percentile £799 £875 £806
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £36.75
25th Percentile £91.25 - £37.88
Median hourly rate £92.50 £35.00 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year +164.29% -11.95% -
75th Percentile £93.75 - £41.63
90th Percentile - - £42.75
UK median hourly rate £80.50 £29.83 £35.50
% change year-on-year +169.91% -15.99% -60.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Data Architecture
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 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 remote working options citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 10 (6.80%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.40%) Confluence
3 2 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Drupal
4 1 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.76%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (6.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (4.08%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.68%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 63 (42.86%) Azure
2 52 (35.37%) AWS
3 26 (17.69%) Power Platform
4 18 (12.24%) GCP
4 18 (12.24%) Snowflake
5 12 (8.16%) dbt
5 12 (8.16%) SaaS
5 12 (8.16%) Serverless
6 10 (6.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (6.12%) GitHub
8 7 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 7 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.08%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (4.08%) IaaS
9 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (4.08%) PaaS
10 5 (3.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.40%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) DNS
1 4 (2.72%) Firewall
1 4 (2.72%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.72%) VPN
2 3 (2.04%) IPsec
2 3 (2.04%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (25.17%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (22.45%) Data Lake
3 29 (19.73%) Metadata
4 22 (14.97%) Power BI
5 18 (12.24%) Big Data
6 15 (10.20%) NoSQL
7 14 (9.52%) Hadoop
8 10 (6.80%) SQL Server
9 8 (5.44%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (4.08%) Tableau
11 5 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.40%) MongoDB
11 5 (3.40%) Neo4j
11 5 (3.40%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.72%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (2.72%) Metadata Repository
13 3 (2.04%) BigQuery
13 3 (2.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (8.16%) ERwin
2 5 (3.40%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.72%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.72%) JIRA
4 3 (2.04%) GitLab
4 3 (2.04%) Maven
5 2 (1.36%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.68%) Hudson
6 1 (0.68%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.77%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.88%) Finance
5 8 (5.44%) Banking
6 7 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.08%) Automotive
8 5 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.40%) Retail
9 4 (2.72%) Back Office
9 4 (2.72%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.04%) Military
11 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.36%) Law
11 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 87 (59.18%) Architect
2 69 (46.94%) Data Architect
3 15 (10.20%) Data Engineer
3 15 (10.20%) Lead
4 10 (6.80%) Data Modeller
4 10 (6.80%) Senior
5 8 (5.44%) Analyst
6 7 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (4.76%) Technical Architect
7 6 (4.08%) Azure Architect
7 6 (4.08%) Data Analyst
8 5 (3.40%) Azure Data Architect
8 5 (3.40%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (2.72%) Lead Architect
9 4 (2.72%) Lead Data Architect
9 4 (2.72%) Platform Architect
9 4 (2.72%) Senior Architect
9 4 (2.72%) Senior Data Architect
10 3 (2.04%) Consultant
10 3 (2.04%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.80%) Kafka
2 8 (5.44%) React
3 7 (4.76%) Jinja
4 6 (4.08%) Node.js
5 5 (3.40%) Plotly
5 5 (3.40%) Web Services
6 4 (2.72%) REST
7 3 (2.04%) OAuth
7 3 (2.04%) OAuth2
7 3 (2.04%) OpenID
7 3 (2.04%) SAML
7 3 (2.04%) Spring
7 3 (2.04%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.04%) XACML
8 2 (1.36%) PySpark
8 2 (1.36%) RESTful
8 2 (1.36%) Shiny
8 2 (1.36%) XML
9 1 (0.68%) JSON
9 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.12%) Data Structures
2 7 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.40%) Data Fabric
4 5 (3.40%) Industry 4.0
4 5 (3.40%) IoT
4 5 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.40%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.72%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.04%) Educational Technology
6 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.36%) Equities
7 2 (1.36%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.36%) Life Science
7 2 (1.36%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.68%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.04%) Linux
1 3 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (50.34%) Data Modelling
2 51 (34.69%) Data Governance
3 46 (31.29%) Analytics
4 38 (25.85%) ETL
5 35 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (17.69%) Data Management
7 25 (17.01%) Data Integration
8 24 (16.33%) Data Strategy
9 23 (15.65%) Data Pipeline
9 23 (15.65%) Migration
10 22 (14.97%) Agile
10 22 (14.97%) Data Security
11 21 (14.29%) CI/CD
12 20 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (13.61%) Roadmaps
13 19 (12.93%) DevOps
14 18 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (10.20%) Computer Science
15 15 (10.20%) Data Engineering
15 15 (10.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 53 (36.05%) SQL
2 28 (19.05%) Python
3 12 (8.16%) JavaScript
4 7 (4.76%) Java
5 5 (3.40%) R
6 4 (2.72%) Scala
7 3 (2.04%) Bicep
7 3 (2.04%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.36%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) C#
9 1 (0.68%) Ruby
9 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 34 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.88%) Degree
4 13 (8.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.44%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.68%) CITP
9 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.68%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.37%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.08%) GDPR
3 4 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.04%) HL7
5 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.76%) Docker
2 3 (2.04%) RACF
3 2 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (9.52%) Terraform
2 6 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.40%) Ansible
4 3 (2.04%) Packer
4 3 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (15.65%) Databricks
2 19 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.80%) Sparx
4 8 (5.44%) Google
4 8 (5.44%) Informatica
4 8 (5.44%) SAP
5 5 (3.40%) Oracle
6 4 (2.72%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (2.04%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.36%) IBM
8 2 (1.36%) Sage
8 2 (1.36%) VMware
9 1 (0.68%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.68%) IFS
9 1 (0.68%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.68%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.68%) Sybase
9 1 (0.68%) Talend