Data Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 293 276
Rank change year-on-year +38 -17 -35
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 144 147 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.64% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.72% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 102 180
10th Percentile £381 £414 £436
25th Percentile £463 £511 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.81% +13.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £721
90th Percentile £781 £774 £788
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.33 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £24.65 £35.63 £88.22
Median % change year-on-year -30.81% -59.62% +232.91%
75th Percentile £26.98 £47.68 -
90th Percentile - £68.27 -
UK median hourly rate £29.83 £35.38 £89.56
% change year-on-year -15.69% -60.50% +241.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +51 54 £525 +0.96% 24
North West +44 41 £506 -3.25% 14
Midlands +35 27 £675 +17.39% 14
South East -7 25 £475 -28.30% 16
South West 0 24 £550 -15.38% 9
West Midlands +30 21 £700 +27.27% 12
Scotland +44 14 £588 -9.58% 11
Yorkshire +15 13 £725 +31.18% 5
East of England -1 7 £675 +157.14% 2
East Midlands +13 6 £588 -2.08% 2
North East - 4 £750 - 5
Wales +18 1 - - 5
Data Architecture
UK

Data Architecture
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 7 (4.86%) SAS
2 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.69%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.39%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.69%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.69%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.92%) Azure
2 28 (19.44%) Power Platform
3 18 (12.50%) AWS
4 11 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (7.64%) Snowflake
5 10 (6.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (6.94%) SaaS
6 7 (4.86%) Collibra
6 7 (4.86%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.17%) Azure Stack
7 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (4.17%) Serverless
8 5 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.78%) IaaS
9 4 (2.78%) iPaaS
9 4 (2.78%) PaaS
10 3 (2.08%) GCP
11 2 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.78%) Firewall
2 1 (0.69%) IPsec
2 1 (0.69%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (27.08%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (19.44%) Power BI
3 22 (15.28%) Data Lake
4 21 (14.58%) Metadata
5 11 (7.64%) SQL Server
6 10 (6.94%) Big Data
7 8 (5.56%) Data Mining
8 7 (4.86%) Ataccama
8 7 (4.86%) Metadata Repository
8 7 (4.86%) Qlik Sense
9 6 (4.17%) NoSQL
9 6 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.47%) Tableau
11 4 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.78%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 3 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (1.39%) OLTP
13 2 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (2.78%) kappa
3 2 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.69%) ERwin
4 1 (0.69%) JIRA
General
1 36 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.44%) Finance
3 22 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.64%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (6.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.56%) German Language
7 8 (5.56%) Retail
8 5 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.47%) Marketing
9 4 (2.78%) Back Office
10 3 (2.08%) Banking
11 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.69%) Automotive
12 1 (0.69%) Electronics
12 1 (0.69%) Legal
12 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (55.56%) Architect
2 55 (38.19%) Data Architect
3 20 (13.89%) Analyst
4 18 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 15 (10.42%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (7.64%) Developer
6 11 (7.64%) Senior
7 10 (6.94%) AWS Architect
8 9 (6.25%) Lead
9 8 (5.56%) Azure Architect
10 7 (4.86%) Data Quality Analyst
10 7 (4.86%) QA Analyst
10 7 (4.86%) Quality Analyst
10 7 (4.86%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (4.17%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
11 6 (4.17%) Senior QA Analyst
11 6 (4.17%) Senior Quality Analyst
12 5 (3.47%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Enterprise Architect
13 4 (2.78%) Informatica Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.64%) REST
2 8 (5.56%) XML
3 7 (4.86%) AngularJS
3 7 (4.86%) CSS
3 7 (4.86%) HTML
3 7 (4.86%) JSON
3 7 (4.86%) Node.js
3 7 (4.86%) SOAP
4 1 (0.69%) .NET
4 1 (0.69%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.69%) Kafka
4 1 (0.69%) Middleware
4 1 (0.69%) RESTful
4 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.42%) Data Structures
1 15 (10.42%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.17%) Reference Data
4 5 (3.47%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (2.78%) IoT
5 4 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.39%) FMCG
7 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.39%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.39%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.69%) Solar Power
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.69%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (43.06%) Data Governance
2 60 (41.67%) Data Modelling
3 41 (28.47%) Analytics
3 41 (28.47%) Business Intelligence
3 41 (28.47%) Data Management
4 38 (26.39%) Migration
5 33 (22.92%) Data Strategy
6 29 (20.14%) Data Integration
7 27 (18.75%) Agile
7 27 (18.75%) Data Analysis
8 26 (18.06%) Data Migration
9 25 (17.36%) ETL
10 24 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (15.28%) Roadmaps
12 19 (13.19%) Information Management
13 18 (12.50%) Metadata Management
14 17 (11.81%) Data Lineage
15 16 (11.11%) Data Design
16 12 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.83%) SQL
2 12 (8.33%) Python
3 7 (4.86%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.78%) Java
5 1 (0.69%) C#
5 1 (0.69%) PHP
5 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (10.42%) Degree
1 15 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 7 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.69%) ACCA
6 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.69%) CIMA
6 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (27.78%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.25%) GDPR
3 7 (4.86%) QA
4 2 (1.39%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.69%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.39%) Terraform
2 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (14.58%) SAP
2 20 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.64%) Informatica
4 9 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.56%) Databricks
6 7 (4.86%) Alteryx
6 7 (4.86%) Dataiku
6 7 (4.86%) Remedy
6 7 (4.86%) Trillium
7 5 (3.47%) Autodesk
7 5 (3.47%) Sparx
8 4 (2.78%) IFS
9 3 (2.08%) Oracle
9 3 (2.08%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.39%) Google
10 2 (1.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.69%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.69%) Progress
11 1 (0.69%) Sage
11 1 (0.69%) Workday