Data Architect Contracts

Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 274 257
Rank change year-on-year +32 -17 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 417 533 965
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.95% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.01% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 374 635
10th Percentile £489 £513 £526
25th Percentile £540 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £676
Median % change year-on-year - -0.15% +12.67%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £763
90th Percentile £913 £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 10 6 0
10th Percentile £52.50 £35.75 -
25th Percentile - £42.56 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £64.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% - -
75th Percentile - £66.00 -
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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +28 369 £675 -3.57% 96
London +40 251 £700 - 45
Work from Home +40 146 £628 -7.04% 62
UK excluding London +16 120 £675 +3.85% 60
North of England +41 34 £550 -6.38% 21
Midlands +37 29 £580 -5.31% 9
South West -13 26 £663 -5.36% 5
West Midlands +29 24 £573 -4.58% 4
North West +37 23 £550 - 15
South East -15 14 £700 +5.66% 12
Yorkshire +21 12 £550 -8.33% 4
East of England +2 12 £850 +240.00% 2
Scotland +37 11 £691 -7.83% 7
East Midlands +11 5 £675 +8.00% 5
North East +14 3 £850 - 2
Wales +15 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 238 (57.07%) Data Modelling
2 179 (42.93%) Data Architecture
3 155 (37.17%) Azure
4 140 (33.57%) Data Governance
5 130 (31.18%) Data Warehouse
6 109 (26.14%) Data Strategy
7 107 (25.66%) Business Intelligence
8 98 (23.50%) Analytics
9 94 (22.54%) Finance
10 86 (20.62%) Data Management
11 84 (20.14%) Security Cleared
12 83 (19.90%) Data Integration
12 83 (19.90%) Data Quality
13 80 (19.18%) NoSQL
14 79 (18.94%) Migration
14 79 (18.94%) ETL
14 79 (18.94%) Social Skills
15 77 (18.47%) Microsoft
16 76 (18.23%) Metadata
17 74 (17.75%) Public Sector
18 73 (17.51%) AWS
19 70 (16.79%) SQL
20 66 (15.83%) Power Platform
20 66 (15.83%) Power BI
21 65 (15.59%) SC Cleared
22 59 (14.15%) Data Lake
22 59 (14.15%) Databricks
23 56 (13.43%) Data Migration
24 54 (12.95%) Agile
25 51 (12.23%) Reference Data

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 13 (3.12%) Apache Spark
1 13 (3.12%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.20%) Apache
2 5 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.20%) SAS
3 2 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 36 (8.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 10 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.72%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.48%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.24%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 155 (37.17%) Azure
2 73 (17.51%) AWS
3 66 (15.83%) Power Platform
4 27 (6.47%) GCP
5 24 (5.76%) Snowflake
6 23 (5.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (4.80%) Microsoft Purview
8 19 (4.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (3.84%) Azure Stack
10 15 (3.60%) Amazon S3
11 14 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (3.36%) Serverless
12 13 (3.12%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (2.40%) dbt
14 10 (2.40%) SaaS
15 9 (2.16%) Amazon EMR
16 6 (1.44%) OCI
17 5 (1.20%) GitHub
17 5 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (31.18%) Data Warehouse
2 80 (19.18%) NoSQL
3 76 (18.23%) Metadata
4 66 (15.83%) Power BI
5 59 (14.15%) Data Lake
6 47 (11.27%) Big Data
7 43 (10.31%) Data Vault
8 35 (8.39%) Metadata Repository
9 26 (6.24%) SQL Server
9 26 (6.24%) Tableau
10 17 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
10 17 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (3.84%) OLAP
11 16 (3.84%) OLTP
12 14 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (2.88%) BigQuery
13 12 (2.88%) Relational Database
14 11 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (2.64%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 27 (6.47%) ERwin
2 11 (2.64%) ER Studio
3 10 (2.40%) JIRA
4 7 (1.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (1.44%) Git
6 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.96%) kappa
7 3 (0.72%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.48%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.48%) Postman
8 2 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 94 (22.54%) Finance
2 79 (18.94%) Social Skills
3 74 (17.75%) Public Sector
4 34 (8.15%) Manufacturing
5 33 (7.91%) Marketing
6 32 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (6.95%) Telecoms
8 28 (6.71%) Banking
9 27 (6.47%) Electronics
10 17 (4.08%) Publishing
11 12 (2.88%) Retail
12 7 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.44%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.20%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Legal
15 3 (0.72%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.43%) JSON
2 21 (5.04%) XML
3 20 (4.80%) Kafka
4 18 (4.32%) REST
5 13 (3.12%) JSON Schema
6 7 (1.68%) PySpark
7 6 (1.44%) Apache Avro
8 4 (0.96%) Middleware
8 4 (0.96%) YAML
9 3 (0.72%) SOAP
9 3 (0.72%) Spring
9 3 (0.72%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.48%) ADO
10 2 (0.48%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.48%) CSS
10 2 (0.48%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.48%) jQuery
10 2 (0.48%) Node.js
10 2 (0.48%) Swagger
10 2 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.23%) Reference Data
2 37 (8.87%) Data Structures
3 20 (4.80%) Management Information System
3 20 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.68%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.68%) NHS
7 7 (1.68%) Taxonomies
8 6 (1.44%) Wiki
9 5 (1.20%) Data Fabric
9 5 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.20%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.20%) Freedom of Information Act
9 5 (1.20%) Industry 4.0
10 4 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.96%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (57.07%) Data Modelling
2 179 (42.93%) Data Architecture
3 140 (33.57%) Data Governance
4 109 (26.14%) Data Strategy
5 107 (25.66%) Business Intelligence
6 98 (23.50%) Analytics
7 86 (20.62%) Data Management
8 83 (19.90%) Data Integration
9 79 (18.94%) ETL
9 79 (18.94%) Migration
10 56 (13.43%) Data Migration
11 54 (12.95%) Agile
12 47 (11.27%) Data Design
13 43 (10.31%) Data Lineage
14 42 (10.07%) Roadmaps
15 40 (9.59%) UML
16 37 (8.87%) Data Protection
17 35 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
18 34 (8.15%) Data Mapping
19 33 (7.91%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 70 (16.79%) SQL
2 34 (8.15%) Python
3 17 (4.08%) Java
4 9 (2.16%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.72%) PL/SQL
5 3 (0.72%) R
6 2 (0.48%) C#
6 2 (0.48%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.48%) Scala
6 2 (0.48%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.24%) Bicep
7 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 65 (15.59%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.84%) DV Cleared
4 14 (3.36%) Degree
5 8 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.24%) CITP
9 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (19.90%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.43%) GDPR
3 9 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.96%) QA
5 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.24%) HL7
6 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (1.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (1.20%) Terraform
2 4 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.48%) Ambari
3 2 (0.48%) Ansible
3 2 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.48%) Oozie
Vendors
1 77 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 59 (14.15%) Databricks
3 47 (11.27%) Sparx
4 43 (10.31%) SAP
5 36 (8.63%) Oracle
6 22 (5.28%) Informatica
7 21 (5.04%) Google
8 16 (3.84%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.92%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.68%) Remedy
10 7 (1.68%) Talend
11 5 (1.20%) Autodesk
12 4 (0.96%) Ab Initio
12 4 (0.96%) Cloudera
13 3 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
13 3 (0.72%) Brio
13 3 (0.72%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.72%) Teradata
14 2 (0.48%) Ariba
14 2 (0.48%) IBM