Data Architect Contracts

Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect daily rate in the UK is £691 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 273 253
Rank change year-on-year +48 -20 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 464 580 986
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 0.97% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.03% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 420 680
10th Percentile £500 £522 £525
25th Percentile £555 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £691 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £775 £763 £753
90th Percentile £888 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile £55.50 £46.35 -
25th Percentile - £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +54 415 £700 - 115
London +32 277 £700 - 62
Work from Home +41 168 £650 -3.70% 71
UK excluding London +65 137 £675 +3.85% 56
North of England +54 44 £700 +19.15% 17
Midlands +54 37 £600 +4.35% 10
West Midlands +49 29 £575 -4.17% 5
North West +45 29 £700 +24.44% 12
South West +2 27 £675 -6.57% 5
South East -4 18 £700 +7.69% 13
Yorkshire +28 16 £677 +12.83% 4
Scotland +35 12 £683 -9.00% 3
East Midlands +27 8 £700 +21.74% 5
East of England +4 7 £850 +209.09% 3
North East +22 3 £850 - 1
Wales +10 1 - - 6

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 265 (57.11%) Data Modelling
2 208 (44.83%) Data Architecture
3 161 (34.70%) Data Governance
4 153 (32.97%) Azure
5 133 (28.66%) Data Warehouse
6 130 (28.02%) Data Strategy
7 118 (25.43%) Business Intelligence
8 102 (21.98%) Finance
9 100 (21.55%) Analytics
10 98 (21.12%) Security Cleared
10 98 (21.12%) Data Integration
11 95 (20.47%) Social Skills
12 93 (20.04%) Data Management
13 92 (19.83%) Public Sector
14 90 (19.40%) Data Quality
15 88 (18.97%) Metadata
16 83 (17.89%) Microsoft
17 82 (17.67%) ETL
17 82 (17.67%) NoSQL
18 80 (17.24%) Migration
19 79 (17.03%) SC Cleared
19 79 (17.03%) AWS
20 74 (15.95%) Power Platform
20 74 (15.95%) Power BI
21 72 (15.52%) SQL
22 62 (13.36%) Sparx
23 58 (12.50%) Databricks
24 57 (12.28%) Data Design
25 55 (11.85%) Data Lake
26 54 (11.64%) Data Migration

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.16%) Apache
4 5 (1.08%) SAS
5 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.43%) CMS
5 2 (0.43%) Confluence
5 2 (0.43%) GemFire
Applications
1 16 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 45 (9.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.65%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.65%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.22%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 153 (32.97%) Azure
2 79 (17.03%) AWS
3 74 (15.95%) Power Platform
4 33 (7.11%) Snowflake
5 29 (6.25%) GCP
6 25 (5.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (4.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 19 (4.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (3.45%) Azure Stack
9 16 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (3.23%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.59%) Serverless
12 11 (2.37%) OCI
12 11 (2.37%) SaaS
13 10 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (1.94%) dbt
15 6 (1.29%) PaaS
16 5 (1.08%) Amazon EMR
16 5 (1.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) LAN
1 2 (0.43%) WAN
2 1 (0.22%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (28.66%) Data Warehouse
2 88 (18.97%) Metadata
3 82 (17.67%) NoSQL
4 74 (15.95%) Power BI
5 55 (11.85%) Data Lake
6 48 (10.34%) Big Data
7 45 (9.70%) Data Vault
8 36 (7.76%) Metadata Repository
9 29 (6.25%) SQL Server
9 29 (6.25%) Tableau
10 22 (4.74%) Relational Database
11 17 (3.66%) Snowflake Schema
12 16 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (3.23%) BigQuery
13 15 (3.23%) OLAP
13 15 (3.23%) OLTP
14 14 (3.02%) Data Mining
14 14 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
15 13 (2.80%) RDBMS
16 10 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 40 (8.62%) ERwin
2 14 (3.02%) ER Studio
3 7 (1.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.08%) JIRA
5 4 (0.86%) Git
5 4 (0.86%) kappa
6 3 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.43%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.43%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.43%) Postman
8 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 102 (21.98%) Finance
2 95 (20.47%) Social Skills
3 92 (19.83%) Public Sector
4 47 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.84%) Manufacturing
6 39 (8.41%) Marketing
7 36 (7.76%) Telecoms
8 33 (7.11%) Electronics
9 29 (6.25%) Banking
10 19 (4.09%) Retail
11 18 (3.88%) Publishing
12 10 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.65%) Automotive
16 3 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.65%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.65%) Law
16 3 (0.65%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.11%) JSON
2 22 (4.74%) XML
3 19 (4.09%) Kafka
3 19 (4.09%) REST
4 13 (2.80%) JSON Schema
5 7 (1.51%) PySpark
6 6 (1.29%) Apache Avro
7 5 (1.08%) Middleware
7 5 (1.08%) YAML
8 4 (0.86%) SOAP
9 3 (0.65%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.65%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.43%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.43%) DOM
10 2 (0.43%) HTML
10 2 (0.43%) jQuery
10 2 (0.43%) Node.js
10 2 (0.43%) Spring
10 2 (0.43%) Swagger
10 2 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.99%) Reference Data
2 39 (8.41%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.96%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (4.53%) Management Information System
5 20 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.88%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.80%) Wiki
9 12 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.72%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.51%) Taxonomies
12 6 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.08%) CMDB
13 5 (1.08%) Data Fabric
13 5 (1.08%) Freedom of Information
13 5 (1.08%) Freedom of Information Act
13 5 (1.08%) Industry 4.0
13 5 (1.08%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (57.11%) Data Modelling
2 208 (44.83%) Data Architecture
3 161 (34.70%) Data Governance
4 130 (28.02%) Data Strategy
5 118 (25.43%) Business Intelligence
6 100 (21.55%) Analytics
7 98 (21.12%) Data Integration
8 93 (20.04%) Data Management
9 82 (17.67%) ETL
10 80 (17.24%) Migration
11 57 (12.28%) Data Design
12 54 (11.64%) Data Migration
13 52 (11.21%) Agile
14 48 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (9.91%) Roadmaps
16 45 (9.70%) Data Lineage
17 43 (9.27%) Data Protection
18 40 (8.62%) Data Analysis
18 40 (8.62%) UML
19 39 (8.41%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 72 (15.52%) SQL
2 39 (8.41%) Python
3 11 (2.37%) Java
4 9 (1.94%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.65%) C#
5 3 (0.65%) R
5 3 (0.65%) Scala
6 2 (0.43%) Bicep
6 2 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.43%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.43%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.22%) LookML
7 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 98 (21.12%) Security Cleared
2 79 (17.03%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.53%) Degree
4 15 (3.23%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.22%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (19.40%) Data Quality
2 38 (8.19%) GDPR
3 9 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.86%) QA
5 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.22%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (0.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (0.86%) Terraform
2 3 (0.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.43%) Ambari
3 2 (0.43%) Ansible
3 2 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.43%) Oozie
Vendors
1 83 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 62 (13.36%) Sparx
3 58 (12.50%) Databricks
4 48 (10.34%) SAP
5 44 (9.48%) Oracle
6 30 (6.47%) Informatica
7 23 (4.96%) Google
8 20 (4.31%) ServiceNow
9 14 (3.02%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.29%) Remedy
10 6 (1.29%) Talend
11 5 (1.08%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.65%) Ab Initio
12 3 (0.65%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.65%) Brio
12 3 (0.65%) IBM
12 3 (0.65%) Teradata
13 2 (0.43%) Adobe
13 2 (0.43%) Nexthink
13 2 (0.43%) Omniture