Data Architecture Contracts in the North West

Data Architecture
England > North West

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 135 151
Rank change year-on-year +41 +16 -43
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 41 16 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.50% 0.53% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 0.59% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 12 22
10th Percentile £419 £426 £418
25th Percentile £459 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £523 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% -16.40% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £688
90th Percentile £628 £574 £738
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £29.83 £35.38 £89.56
% change year-on-year -15.69% -60.50% +241.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,330 2,732 3,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.07% 89.66% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,452 1,918 2,617
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 142 158
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.00 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.34%
75th Percentile £46.18 £45.90 £52.67
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.98 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the North West

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Manchester +33 25 £525 -2.33% 10
Cheshire +8 14 £500 +14.29%
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (14.63%) SAS
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 11 (26.83%) Power Platform
3 7 (17.07%) AWS
3 7 (17.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (14.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (14.63%) Azure Stack
4 6 (14.63%) Collibra
4 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (14.63%) Power Automate
4 6 (14.63%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.88%) IaaS
5 2 (4.88%) PaaS
5 2 (4.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (34.15%) Data Lake
2 13 (31.71%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (26.83%) Power BI
4 9 (21.95%) SQL Server
5 6 (14.63%) Ataccama
5 6 (14.63%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (14.63%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (12.20%) Data Mining
7 4 (9.76%) Big Data
7 4 (9.76%) Metadata
8 3 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
9 2 (4.88%) RDBMS
9 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
10 1 (2.44%) BigQuery
10 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
10 1 (2.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (2.44%) ERwin
General
1 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (12.20%) Finance
3 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) German Language
4 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Electronics
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Marketing
5 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Retail
5 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (60.98%) Architect
2 14 (34.15%) Data Architect
3 8 (19.51%) Analyst
3 8 (19.51%) Data Analyst
4 7 (17.07%) Senior
5 6 (14.63%) AWS Architect
5 6 (14.63%) Data Quality Analyst
5 6 (14.63%) QA Analyst
5 6 (14.63%) Quality Analyst
5 6 (14.63%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (12.20%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
6 5 (12.20%) Senior QA Analyst
6 5 (12.20%) Senior Quality Analyst
7 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Architect
8 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Data Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Integration Developer
9 2 (4.88%) SSIS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) JSON
1 6 (14.63%) REST
1 6 (14.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Data Structures
1 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
1 6 (14.63%) Reference Data
2 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.44%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.44%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) Data Management
2 19 (46.34%) Data Governance
3 18 (43.90%) Data Modelling
4 16 (39.02%) Analytics
5 15 (36.59%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (24.39%) Agile
7 10 (24.39%) Data Strategy
8 9 (21.95%) ETL
8 9 (21.95%) Visualisation
9 8 (19.51%) GAP Analysis
10 7 (17.07%) Data Analysis
10 7 (17.07%) Data Cleansing
10 7 (17.07%) Data Protection
11 6 (14.63%) Change Management
11 6 (14.63%) Data Integration
11 6 (14.63%) Data Mapping
11 6 (14.63%) Microservices
11 6 (14.63%) Project Delivery
11 6 (14.63%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) SQL
2 7 (17.07%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (39.02%) Data Quality
2 6 (14.63%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) SAP
2 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.63%) Alteryx
3 6 (14.63%) Dataiku
3 6 (14.63%) Trillium
4 3 (7.32%) Databricks
4 3 (7.32%) Sparx
5 1 (2.44%) Google