Data Architecture Contracts in England

Data Architecture
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 251 240
Rank change year-on-year +28 -11 -28
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 376 508 833
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.03% 1.05% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.16% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 360 576
10th Percentile £425 £462 £486
25th Percentile £513 £525 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +14.79%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £763
90th Percentile £925 £825 £825
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile - £34.55 £88.49
25th Percentile £22.33 £35.00 £88.89
Median hourly rate £29.83 £35.50 £89.56
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% -60.36% +241.18%
75th Percentile £35.00 £36.75 £90.23
90th Percentile - £63.89 £90.63
UK median hourly rate £29.83 £35.25 £89.56
% change year-on-year -15.39% -60.64% +241.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Architecture in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Architecture in England

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +21 231 £700 - 111
North of England +46 50 £525 +0.48% 14
North West +36 37 £500 -4.76% 10
Midlands +35 32 £663 +17.78% 16
South West +4 27 £550 -15.38% 18
West Midlands +40 26 £675 +22.73% 15
South East +4 26 £475 -28.30% 27
Yorkshire +14 13 £725 +40.73% 1
East Midlands +15 6 £588 +2.17% 1
East of England +1 6 £750 +185.71% 9
North East - 4 £750 - 3
Data Architecture
UK

Data Architecture
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 17 (4.52%) Apache
2 14 (3.72%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.93%) SAS
4 10 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.39%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.80%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.27%) CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Confluence
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (4.26%) MS Visio
2 10 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 29 (7.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.80%) Primavera
4 3 (0.80%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.53%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.53%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.53%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.27%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.27%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.27%) Shopify
6 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 113 (30.05%) Azure
2 59 (15.69%) Power Platform
3 49 (13.03%) AWS
4 26 (6.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (6.65%) GCP
6 22 (5.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (4.26%) SaaS
7 16 (4.26%) Snowflake
8 14 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (3.46%) dbt
10 10 (2.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (2.66%) Collibra
10 10 (2.66%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (2.66%) PaaS
10 10 (2.66%) Power Automate
11 9 (2.39%) Azure Stack
11 9 (2.39%) Serverless
12 8 (2.13%) IaaS
13 5 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.33%) Firewall
2 1 (0.27%) IPsec
2 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (23.14%) Metadata
2 73 (19.41%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (16.49%) NoSQL
4 58 (15.43%) Power BI
5 51 (13.56%) Data Lake
6 43 (11.44%) Data Vault
7 38 (10.11%) Metadata Repository
8 37 (9.84%) SQL Server
9 36 (9.57%) Big Data
10 16 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (3.99%) Qlik Sense
12 14 (3.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (3.46%) Relational Database
14 11 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (2.39%) Apache Arrow
15 9 (2.39%) Apache Ignite
15 9 (2.39%) Data Mining
15 9 (2.39%) Dremio
15 9 (2.39%) MongoDB
15 9 (2.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (3.99%) ERwin
2 7 (1.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.33%) JIRA
4 4 (1.06%) kappa
5 3 (0.80%) Git
5 3 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.53%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.27%) Ant
7 1 (0.27%) Toad
7 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 97 (25.80%) Social Skills
2 95 (25.27%) Finance
3 61 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 46 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (12.23%) Marketing
5 33 (8.78%) Manufacturing
5 33 (8.78%) Telecoms
6 31 (8.24%) Electronics
7 20 (5.32%) Retail
8 19 (5.05%) Banking
9 14 (3.72%) Publishing
10 13 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (3.46%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (3.19%) German Language
11 12 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.39%) Front Office
12 9 (2.39%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.80%) Legal
14 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.53%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 227 (60.37%) Architect
2 174 (46.28%) Data Architect
3 34 (9.04%) Enterprise Architect
4 33 (8.78%) Lead
5 32 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
6 26 (6.91%) Senior
7 25 (6.65%) Chief Architect
7 25 (6.65%) Chief Data Architect
7 25 (6.65%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 23 (6.12%) Analyst
9 22 (5.85%) Developer
10 20 (5.32%) Azure Architect
11 19 (5.05%) Data Analyst
12 16 (4.26%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.46%) Azure Data Architect
13 13 (3.46%) Data Manager
14 12 (3.19%) Data Modeller
14 12 (3.19%) Senior Architect
15 11 (2.93%) Head of Architecture
16 10 (2.66%) Head of Data Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.79%) JSON
2 17 (4.52%) XML
3 12 (3.19%) REST
4 9 (2.39%) gRPC
4 9 (2.39%) NumPy
4 9 (2.39%) Pandas
4 9 (2.39%) Protocol Buffers
4 9 (2.39%) SciPy
5 7 (1.86%) AngularJS
5 7 (1.86%) CSS
5 7 (1.86%) HTML
5 7 (1.86%) Kafka
5 7 (1.86%) Node.js
6 6 (1.60%) JSON Schema
6 6 (1.60%) PySpark
6 6 (1.60%) SOAP
7 4 (1.06%) .NET
8 3 (0.80%) Apache Avro
8 3 (0.80%) YAML
9 2 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (13.83%) Reference Data
2 31 (8.24%) Data Structures
3 23 (6.12%) Management Information System
4 22 (5.85%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.99%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.66%) Wiki
8 7 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.60%) Derivative
9 6 (1.60%) Equities
9 6 (1.60%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.60%) Hedge funds
9 6 (1.60%) Industry 4.0
10 5 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.33%) IoT
10 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.06%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.06%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.80%) Windows
2 2 (0.53%) Linux
2 2 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (54.79%) Data Modelling
2 141 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 114 (30.32%) Business Intelligence
4 106 (28.19%) Analytics
5 97 (25.80%) Data Strategy
6 94 (25.00%) Data Management
7 92 (24.47%) Data Integration
8 77 (20.48%) Agile
9 76 (20.21%) ETL
10 55 (14.63%) Migration
11 53 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (13.56%) Data Design
13 50 (13.30%) Roadmaps
14 44 (11.70%) UML
15 43 (11.44%) Data Analysis
16 40 (10.64%) Data Migration
17 39 (10.37%) Data Lineage
18 37 (9.84%) Project Delivery
19 36 (9.57%) Programme Management
20 35 (9.31%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 94 (25.00%) SQL
2 55 (14.63%) Python
3 17 (4.52%) JavaScript
4 15 (3.99%) Scala
5 11 (2.93%) Java
5 11 (2.93%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.66%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.86%) Ruby
8 6 (1.60%) R
9 4 (1.06%) C#
9 4 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.53%) XPath
12 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.27%) PHP
12 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 53 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.98%) Degree
4 10 (2.66%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.06%) CIMA
7 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.27%) ACCA
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.27%) CISM
8 1 (0.27%) CISSP
8 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (24.47%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.38%) GDPR
3 11 (2.93%) QA
4 6 (1.60%) PMO
5 5 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.06%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.53%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (0.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (0.53%) TIBCO Hawk
3 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 73 (19.41%) Microsoft
2 61 (16.22%) SAP
3 46 (12.23%) Sparx
4 38 (10.11%) Databricks
5 31 (8.24%) Informatica
6 27 (7.18%) Oracle
7 17 (4.52%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.93%) Google
9 10 (2.66%) IBM
10 7 (1.86%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.86%) Dataiku
10 7 (1.86%) Remedy
10 7 (1.86%) Trillium
11 6 (1.60%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.33%) Autodesk
12 5 (1.33%) IFS
12 5 (1.33%) Talend
13 3 (0.80%) Ab Initio
13 3 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
13 3 (0.80%) ESRI