Hybrid/Remote Senior Data Architect Contract Job Trends

Senior Data Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Data Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 312 412
Rank change year-on-year +6 +100 +172
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 5 11 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.051% 0.087% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.093% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile - £688 £575
25th Percentile - £698 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £719 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +6.48% -15.63%
75th Percentile £708 £736 £731
90th Percentile £713 £744 £775
UK median daily rate £700 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +0.93%

All DemandTrendContract 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 9,188 11,859 19,730
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 93.43% 94.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,037 7,749 13,924
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -2.75%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 308 464
10th Percentile £13.10 £19.06 £16.98
25th Percentile £19.07 £30.69 £24.31
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -8.16% +3.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £66.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £79.13
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

Senior Data Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Senior Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Senior Data Architect job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Senior Data Architect job vacancies

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 2025, Senior 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) SQL
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Data Development
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Attestation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Data Design
3 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) SAP

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (20.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) Attestation
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Design
3 1 (20.00%) Data Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) SAP