Data Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Data Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 128 152
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 6 17 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.23% 0.59% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.63% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 12
10th Percentile £515 £643 £429
25th Percentile £575 £655 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £781 £688 £638
90th Percentile £815 £699 £694
South East median daily rate £700 £663 £625
% change year-on-year +5.66% +6.00% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,443 2,704 3,416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 94.48% 95.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,369 1,840 2,338
10th Percentile £213 £300 £205
25th Percentile £375 £404 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 81 100
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +180.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £57.86
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the Thames Valley

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the Thames Valley

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the Thames Valley

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the Thames Valley

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Berkshire -20 4 £600 -11.11% 2
Buckinghamshire +30 1 - - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £825 -
Data Architect
South East

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 31 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 Thames Valley region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Next.js
3 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Terragrunt
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) Data Design
3 1 (16.67%) HDInsight
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) JSON Schema
3 1 (16.67%) Fintech
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lineage

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) HDInsight
1 1 (16.67%) Impala
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) JSON Schema
2 1 (16.67%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lineage
2 1 (16.67%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Fintech
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce