Data Architect Contracts in England

Data Architect
UK > England

The median Data Architect daily rate in England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 260 257
Rank change year-on-year +39 -3 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 393 487 773
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.08% 1.01% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.07% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 358 513
10th Percentile £496 £513 £530
25th Percentile £550 £600 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +14.75%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £775
90th Percentile £916 £875 £825
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £700
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £52.50 £46.35 -
25th Percentile £58.13 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in England

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +37 264 £700 - 55
North of England +45 36 £625 +6.38% 19
Midlands +48 33 £578 -1.70% 9
South West -3 29 £675 -3.57% 6
West Midlands +46 28 £575 -4.17% 4
North West +36 25 £625 +4.17% 12
South East -10 15 £700 +7.69% 15
Yorkshire +17 12 £550 -6.38% 5
East of England +5 10 £850 +223.81% 2
East Midlands +14 5 £675 +17.39% 5
North East +13 3 £850 - 2
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 233 (59.29%) Data Modelling
2 179 (45.55%) Data Architecture
3 145 (36.90%) Data Governance
4 139 (35.37%) Azure
5 120 (30.53%) Data Warehouse
6 112 (28.50%) Business Intelligence
7 109 (27.74%) Data Strategy
8 92 (23.41%) Analytics
9 90 (22.90%) Security Cleared
9 90 (22.90%) Data Integration
10 85 (21.63%) Finance
11 81 (20.61%) Data Quality
11 81 (20.61%) Metadata
12 79 (20.10%) Public Sector
12 79 (20.10%) Data Management
12 79 (20.10%) NoSQL
13 76 (19.34%) Microsoft
14 75 (19.08%) Migration
14 75 (19.08%) AWS
15 74 (18.83%) SQL
16 73 (18.58%) ETL
16 73 (18.58%) Social Skills
17 72 (18.32%) SC Cleared
18 67 (17.05%) Power Platform
18 67 (17.05%) Power BI
19 56 (14.25%) Sparx
20 54 (13.74%) Data Lake
21 52 (13.23%) Agile
22 51 (12.98%) Data Migration
23 50 (12.72%) Reference Data

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.04%) Apache
4 5 (1.27%) SAS
5 2 (0.51%) CMS
5 2 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (4.33%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 39 (9.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.76%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.51%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.25%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 139 (35.37%) Azure
2 75 (19.08%) AWS
3 67 (17.05%) Power Platform
4 28 (7.12%) GCP
5 25 (6.36%) Snowflake
6 20 (5.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 19 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (4.07%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (3.31%) Amazon Kinesis
9 13 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (3.31%) Serverless
10 12 (3.05%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.80%) Azure Stack
12 9 (2.29%) SaaS
13 8 (2.04%) dbt
13 8 (2.04%) OCI
14 7 (1.78%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (1.53%) PaaS
16 5 (1.27%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.51%) LAN
1 2 (0.51%) WAN
2 1 (0.25%) Firewall
2 1 (0.25%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (30.53%) Data Warehouse
2 81 (20.61%) Metadata
3 79 (20.10%) NoSQL
4 67 (17.05%) Power BI
5 54 (13.74%) Data Lake
6 45 (11.45%) Data Vault
7 43 (10.94%) Big Data
8 37 (9.41%) Metadata Repository
9 30 (7.63%) SQL Server
10 24 (6.11%) Tableau
11 17 (4.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (4.07%) OLAP
12 16 (4.07%) OLTP
13 13 (3.31%) Data Mining
13 13 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (3.31%) Relational Database
14 12 (3.05%) BigQuery
15 11 (2.80%) Snowflake Schema
16 10 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
16 10 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 37 (9.41%) ERwin
2 11 (2.80%) ER Studio
3 9 (2.29%) JIRA
4 7 (1.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.02%) Git
5 4 (1.02%) kappa
6 3 (0.76%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.51%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.51%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.51%) Postman
8 1 (0.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (21.63%) Finance
2 79 (20.10%) Public Sector
3 73 (18.58%) Social Skills
4 41 (10.43%) Manufacturing
5 39 (9.92%) Marketing
6 36 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
7 35 (8.91%) Telecoms
8 33 (8.40%) Electronics
9 29 (7.38%) Banking
10 18 (4.58%) Publishing
10 18 (4.58%) Retail
11 8 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.27%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.02%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.76%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.76%) Legal
14 3 (0.76%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.62%) JSON
2 21 (5.34%) Kafka
3 17 (4.33%) XML
4 13 (3.31%) JSON Schema
4 13 (3.31%) REST
5 7 (1.78%) PySpark
6 6 (1.53%) Apache Avro
7 5 (1.27%) Middleware
8 4 (1.02%) SOAP
8 4 (1.02%) YAML
9 3 (0.76%) Spring
9 3 (0.76%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.51%) ADO
10 2 (0.51%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.51%) DOM
10 2 (0.51%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.51%) HTML
10 2 (0.51%) jQuery
10 2 (0.51%) Swagger
10 2 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.72%) Reference Data
2 31 (7.89%) Data Structures
3 20 (5.09%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.83%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (4.58%) Product Ownership
6 16 (4.07%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (3.05%) Wiki
9 8 (2.04%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.78%) NHS
10 7 (1.78%) Taxonomies
11 5 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
11 5 (1.27%) Freedom of Information Act
11 5 (1.27%) Industry 4.0
12 4 (1.02%) Data Fabric
12 4 (1.02%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (59.29%) Data Modelling
2 179 (45.55%) Data Architecture
3 145 (36.90%) Data Governance
4 112 (28.50%) Business Intelligence
5 109 (27.74%) Data Strategy
6 92 (23.41%) Analytics
7 90 (22.90%) Data Integration
8 79 (20.10%) Data Management
9 75 (19.08%) Migration
10 73 (18.58%) ETL
11 52 (13.23%) Agile
12 51 (12.98%) Data Migration
13 47 (11.96%) Data Design
14 45 (11.45%) Roadmaps
15 41 (10.43%) Data Lineage
15 41 (10.43%) UML
16 38 (9.67%) Physical Data Model
17 37 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
18 35 (8.91%) Programme Management
19 33 (8.40%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 74 (18.83%) SQL
2 29 (7.38%) Python
3 15 (3.82%) Java
4 9 (2.29%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.76%) R
6 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.51%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.51%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.25%) C#
7 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.25%) Scala
7 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 90 (22.90%) Security Cleared
2 72 (18.32%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.07%) DV Cleared
4 15 (3.82%) Degree
5 9 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.51%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.25%) CITP
9 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (20.61%) Data Quality
2 37 (9.41%) GDPR
3 6 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.76%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.76%) QA
5 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (0.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (1.02%) Terraform
2 3 (0.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.51%) Ambari
3 2 (0.51%) Ansible
3 2 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.51%) Oozie
Vendors
1 76 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 56 (14.25%) Sparx
3 48 (12.21%) SAP
4 46 (11.70%) Databricks
5 41 (10.43%) Oracle
6 21 (5.34%) Google
7 20 (5.09%) Informatica
8 14 (3.56%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.04%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.78%) Remedy
10 7 (1.78%) Talend
11 5 (1.27%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.76%) Ab Initio
12 3 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.76%) Brio
12 3 (0.76%) IBM
12 3 (0.76%) Teradata
13 2 (0.51%) Optimizely
13 2 (0.51%) Snow
13 2 (0.51%) Tealium