Data Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 215 286
Rank change year-on-year -64 +71 -13
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 90 211 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 1.01% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.14% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 171 179
10th Percentile £419 £425 £500
25th Percentile £506 £525 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +7.39%
75th Percentile £694 £694 £709
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £613 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -5.77% - +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 0
10th Percentile £25.59 £20.50 -
25th Percentile £25.93 £26.92 -
Median hourly rate £26.50 £46.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.62% - -
75th Percentile £26.75 - -
90th Percentile £26.90 £53.62 -
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £46.18 -
% change year-on-year -41.53% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

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 October 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 October 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 +8 34 £549 -12.11% 40
North West +7 22 £463 -28.02% 28
South East +12 15 £613 -2.00% 17
Scotland +4 11 £688 +37.50% 6
Midlands -8 10 £623 -4.23% 24
South West -15 8 £675 +8.00% 8
Yorkshire +15 7 £700 +7.69% 9
West Midlands -4 7 £623 -2.35% 21
Wales +12 6 £540 - 5
North East -8 5 £625 +47.06% 4
East of England +15 3 £675 +65.04% 11
East Midlands 0 3 £613 -9.26% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £525 - 4
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 3 (3.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.11%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.44%) Azure
2 20 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 17 (18.89%) AWS
4 7 (7.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (7.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (7.78%) GCP
5 6 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.33%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.22%) dbt
7 2 (2.22%) GitHub
7 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.22%) SaaS
7 2 (2.22%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Service Fabric
8 1 (1.11%) Serverless
8 1 (1.11%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) Network Security
2 1 (1.11%) Broadband
2 1 (1.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (20.00%) Power BI
3 15 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 14 (15.56%) SQL Server
5 8 (8.89%) Metadata
6 7 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (5.56%) Big Data
8 5 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (4.44%) BigQuery
9 4 (4.44%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.44%) Tableau
10 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (2.22%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (2.22%) Star Schema
12 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (1.11%) Impala
12 1 (1.11%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) ERwin
1 3 (3.33%) JIRA
2 2 (2.22%) Git
3 1 (1.11%) ER Studio
General
1 24 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.78%) Finance
3 15 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.22%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.44%) Banking
6 2 (2.22%) Automotive
6 2 (2.22%) Billing
6 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Legal
6 2 (2.22%) Local Government
6 2 (2.22%) Marketing
6 2 (2.22%) Military
6 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Retail
6 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.11%) Law
7 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Police
7 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (43.33%) Architect
2 20 (22.22%) Data Architect
3 13 (14.44%) Analyst
4 9 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 8 (8.89%) Lead
6 7 (7.78%) AWS Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Consultant
9 4 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Senior
9 4 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.33%) Data Consultant
10 3 (3.33%) Data Manager
10 3 (3.33%) Data Scientist
10 3 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
11 2 (2.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 2 (2.22%) OBIEE Architect
11 2 (2.22%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) Kafka
2 2 (2.22%) .NET
2 2 (2.22%) PySpark
3 1 (1.11%) JWT
3 1 (1.11%) REST
3 1 (1.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.11%) FMCG
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.11%) IoT
6 1 (1.11%) Life Science
6 1 (1.11%) NHS
6 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.11%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) Unix
2 1 (1.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 34 (37.78%) Data Governance
3 26 (28.89%) Analytics
4 24 (26.67%) Data Integration
5 21 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (23.33%) Data Engineering
5 21 (23.33%) ETL
6 19 (21.11%) Data Management
7 16 (17.78%) Migration
7 16 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (15.56%) Data Strategy
10 13 (14.44%) Data Science
11 12 (13.33%) Agile
11 12 (13.33%) Data Analysis
12 11 (12.22%) Data Migration
12 11 (12.22%) Roadmaps
13 10 (11.11%) Decision-Making
13 10 (11.11%) Machine Learning
13 10 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (28.89%) SQL
2 10 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (1.11%) C++
3 1 (1.11%) Java
3 1 (1.11%) R
3 1 (1.11%) RPG
3 1 (1.11%) RPG IV
3 1 (1.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) Degree
4 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.78%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.33%) QA
4 2 (2.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) Databricks
3 6 (6.67%) Oracle
4 4 (4.44%) Informatica
5 2 (2.22%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.22%) Google
5 2 (2.22%) Palantir
5 2 (2.22%) Sparx
5 2 (2.22%) Talend
6 1 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.11%) Foundry
6 1 (1.11%) Pega
6 1 (1.11%) Remedy
6 1 (1.11%) SAP