Data Architect Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Data Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £575 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 80 126 123
Rank change year-on-year +46 -3 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 28 8 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.48% 0.35% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 0.37% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 42
10th Percentile - £510 £527
25th Percentile £450 £525 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £604
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -0.66% +6.43%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £697
90th Percentile £700 £660 £750
England median daily rate £675 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +14.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,731 2,140 3,429
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.59% 94.56% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,172 1,464 2,489
10th Percentile £259 £250 £228
25th Percentile £363 £381 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +5.26% +14.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 65 76
10th Percentile £12.08 £12.50 £12.44
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £14.88
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.14
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +16.69% +10.76%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £56.00 £23.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the West Midlands

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the West Midlands

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the West Midlands

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +17 14 £550 -8.33%
Birmingham +17 5 £500 -9.09% 4
Coventry - 5 £575 -
Shropshire - 1 £580 - 1
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 13 (46.43%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (42.86%) Migration
3 10 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (35.71%) Analytics
4 9 (32.14%) Roadmaps
4 9 (32.14%) Data Mining
4 9 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (28.57%) Data Management
5 8 (28.57%) CAD
6 7 (25.00%) ETL
6 7 (25.00%) Information Management
6 7 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
6 7 (25.00%) Power BI
7 6 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (21.43%) Data Analytics
7 6 (21.43%) Data Structures
7 6 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (21.43%) Degree
7 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
7 6 (21.43%) Azure
7 6 (21.43%) Data Quality
7 6 (21.43%) Data Modelling
7 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
7 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
8 5 (17.86%) Autodesk
8 5 (17.86%) Management Information System
8 5 (17.86%) Balanced Scorecard

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) Serverless
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Miro
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) Data Mining
1 9 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (25.00%) Power BI
3 5 (17.86%) Tableau
4 4 (14.29%) Metadata
5 3 (10.71%) OLAP
5 3 (10.71%) OLTP
6 2 (7.14%) Big Data
6 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
6 2 (7.14%) Data Vault
6 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
7 1 (3.57%) DB2
7 1 (3.57%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (3.57%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (3.57%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) kappa
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 13 (46.43%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Automotive
4 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) RESTful
1 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Data Structures
1 6 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (17.86%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.14%) NHS
4 2 (7.14%) Taxonomies
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Migration
2 10 (35.71%) Analytics
2 10 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (32.14%) Roadmaps
4 8 (28.57%) CAD
4 8 (28.57%) Data Management
5 7 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 7 (25.00%) ETL
5 7 (25.00%) Information Management
6 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
6 6 (21.43%) Data Analytics
6 6 (21.43%) Data Modelling
7 5 (17.86%) Balanced Scorecard
7 5 (17.86%) Coaching
7 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
7 5 (17.86%) Dimensional Modelling
7 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
7 5 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (17.86%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Autodesk
3 2 (7.14%) Informatica
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) Talend