Data Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London 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 268 311 290
Rank change year-on-year +43 -21 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 128 140 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.61% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.65% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 90 168
10th Percentile £450 £507 £513
25th Percentile £539 £543 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £719
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the UK excluding London

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +45 36 £625 +6.38% 18
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% 11
South East -10 15 £700 +7.69% 15
Yorkshire +17 12 £550 -6.38% 5
Scotland +34 11 £691 -7.83% 9
East of England +5 10 £850 +223.81% 2
East Midlands +14 5 £675 +17.39% 5
North East +13 3 £850 - 2
Wales +14 1 - - 8
Data Architect
UK

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 67 (52.34%) Data Modelling
2 61 (47.66%) Data Architecture
3 48 (37.50%) Data Governance
4 47 (36.72%) Data Management
5 40 (31.25%) Azure
6 39 (30.47%) Data Strategy
6 39 (30.47%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (28.13%) Migration
8 32 (25.00%) Analytics
9 31 (24.22%) Business Intelligence
10 30 (23.44%) Social Skills
11 27 (21.09%) Data Quality
12 26 (20.31%) SQL
12 26 (20.31%) Security Cleared
13 25 (19.53%) Data Migration
13 25 (19.53%) Metadata
14 23 (17.97%) Finance
15 21 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
15 21 (16.41%) Public Sector
16 20 (15.63%) Agile
16 20 (15.63%) Data Analysis
17 18 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
18 17 (13.28%) Data Design
18 17 (13.28%) Data Integration
18 17 (13.28%) Microsoft
19 16 (12.50%) ETL
19 16 (12.50%) Power BI
19 16 (12.50%) AWS
19 16 (12.50%) Power Platform
20 15 (11.72%) Roadmaps

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 40 (31.25%) Azure
2 16 (12.50%) AWS
2 16 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 12 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (5.47%) GCP
4 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (4.69%) Azure Stack
5 6 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (4.69%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.91%) Serverless
7 4 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.34%) Amazon Neptune
8 3 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.34%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (2.34%) SaaS
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.78%) Miro
9 1 (0.78%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (30.47%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (19.53%) Metadata
3 16 (12.50%) Power BI
4 14 (10.94%) Big Data
5 12 (9.38%) Data Lake
5 12 (9.38%) Data Mining
6 10 (7.81%) Metadata Repository
6 10 (7.81%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.47%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (4.69%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.69%) Tableau
9 5 (3.91%) OLAP
9 5 (3.91%) OLTP
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.13%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
12 2 (1.56%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (6.25%) JIRA
2 6 (4.69%) ERwin
3 4 (3.13%) kappa
4 3 (2.34%) Git
4 3 (2.34%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (1.56%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.97%) Finance
3 21 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (16.41%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.03%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.69%) Retail
6 4 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.13%) Electronics
6 4 (3.13%) Marketing
6 4 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.34%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.56%) Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Automotive
9 1 (0.78%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Local Government
9 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.03%) XML
2 7 (5.47%) JSON
3 6 (4.69%) REST
4 4 (3.13%) SOAP
5 2 (1.56%) Kafka
5 2 (1.56%) Web Services
6 1 (0.78%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.78%) JSON Schema
6 1 (0.78%) Next.js
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.72%) Data Structures
2 10 (7.81%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.47%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.69%) NHS
5 6 (4.69%) Reference Data
5 6 (4.69%) Taxonomies
6 5 (3.91%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (3.13%) Wiki
8 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.78%) Solar Power
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (52.34%) Data Modelling
2 61 (47.66%) Data Architecture
3 48 (37.50%) Data Governance
4 47 (36.72%) Data Management
5 39 (30.47%) Data Strategy
6 36 (28.13%) Migration
7 32 (25.00%) Analytics
8 31 (24.22%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (19.53%) Data Migration
10 20 (15.63%) Agile
10 20 (15.63%) Data Analysis
11 18 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (13.28%) Data Design
12 17 (13.28%) Data Integration
13 16 (12.50%) ETL
14 15 (11.72%) Data Protection
14 15 (11.72%) Roadmaps
14 15 (11.72%) Use Case
15 14 (10.94%) Metadata Management
16 12 (9.38%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.31%) SQL
2 9 (7.03%) Java
3 5 (3.91%) Python
4 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.16%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.38%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.47%) Degree
5 6 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.09%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.25%) GDPR
3 3 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (1.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (2.34%) Terraform
2 2 (1.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.38%) Databricks
3 9 (7.03%) SAP
4 8 (6.25%) Sparx
5 7 (5.47%) Informatica
5 7 (5.47%) Remedy
6 5 (3.91%) Autodesk
7 4 (3.13%) Oracle
8 3 (2.34%) Brio
8 3 (2.34%) Google
8 3 (2.34%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.78%) IBM
9 1 (0.78%) Infor
9 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.78%) Palantir
9 1 (0.78%) Talend