Data Architecture Contracts in the North of England

Data Architecture
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 133 179 205
Rank change year-on-year +46 +26 -96
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 50 34 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.08% 0.60% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.67% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 22 30
10th Percentile £419 £426 £311
25th Percentile £463 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -16.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £572 £725
90th Percentile £800 £683 £739
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +14.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £29.83 £35.50 £89.56
% change year-on-year -15.99% -60.36% +241.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,937 5,092 6,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.36% 90.48% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,416 3,501 4,644
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 203 265
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.70 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% +45.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the North of England

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +36 37 £500 -4.76% 12
Yorkshire +14 13 £725 +40.73% 1
North East - 4 £750 - 3
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (12.00%) SAS
2 2 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Azure
2 15 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 8 (16.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (14.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (14.00%) Snowflake
5 6 (12.00%) Azure Stack
5 6 (12.00%) Collibra
5 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (12.00%) Power Automate
6 4 (8.00%) SaaS
7 3 (6.00%) AWS
7 3 (6.00%) GCP
7 3 (6.00%) IaaS
7 3 (6.00%) PaaS
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.00%) Miro
9 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.00%) Data Lake
2 15 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (30.00%) Power BI
3 10 (20.00%) Metadata
4 9 (18.00%) SQL Server
5 6 (12.00%) Ataccama
5 6 (12.00%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (12.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (10.00%) Data Mining
7 4 (8.00%) Big Data
7 4 (8.00%) NoSQL
7 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
8 3 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 3 (6.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (6.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
10 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
10 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
10 1 (2.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (6.00%) ERwin
3 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 9 (18.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 9 (18.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.00%) Marketing
5 5 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (8.00%) Retail
7 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (6.00%) Electronics
7 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
7 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (4.00%) German Language
9 1 (2.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (58.00%) Architect
2 21 (42.00%) Data Architect
3 9 (18.00%) Analyst
3 9 (18.00%) Data Analyst
3 9 (18.00%) Senior
4 6 (12.00%) Data Quality Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) QA Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Quality Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) Senior QA Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Quality Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) JSON
1 7 (14.00%) REST
2 6 (12.00%) XML
3 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.00%) Middleware
3 1 (2.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (12.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (12.00%) Reference Data
3 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.00%) Wiki
4 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.00%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) NHS
5 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.00%) Solar Power
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) Data Modelling
2 27 (54.00%) Data Governance
3 22 (44.00%) Data Management
4 19 (38.00%) Analytics
4 19 (38.00%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (32.00%) Data Strategy
6 14 (28.00%) Agile
7 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (22.00%) Data Analysis
9 10 (20.00%) Data Lineage
9 10 (20.00%) ETL
9 10 (20.00%) Visualisation
10 9 (18.00%) Data Protection
11 8 (16.00%) GAP Analysis
12 7 (14.00%) Data Cleansing
12 7 (14.00%) Event-Driven
12 7 (14.00%) Metadata Management
12 7 (14.00%) Physical Data Model
12 7 (14.00%) Project Delivery
13 6 (12.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) SQL
2 8 (16.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (36.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.00%) QA
3 3 (6.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) SAP
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.00%) Sparx
4 6 (12.00%) Alteryx
4 6 (12.00%) Dataiku
4 6 (12.00%) Trillium
5 3 (6.00%) Databricks
6 2 (4.00%) Google
6 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud