Data Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £650 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 193 241 218
Rank change year-on-year +48 -23 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 160 249 552
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.08% 1.01% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.06% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 179 391
10th Percentile £500 £540 £525
25th Percentile £550 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £727 £791 £750
90th Percentile £814 £880 £813
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £700
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,848 23,488 42,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.30% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,603 30,429
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 537 595
10th Percentile £14.26 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.37 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.83% +54.29% +44.33%
75th Percentile £64.88 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £68.55
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Data Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Architect.

Data Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Data Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Architect.

Data Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 99 (61.88%) Data Modelling
2 67 (41.88%) Data Architecture
3 63 (39.38%) Azure
4 53 (33.13%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (30.00%) Data Governance
6 43 (26.88%) Data Management
7 42 (26.25%) Business Intelligence
7 42 (26.25%) Data Quality
8 40 (25.00%) Finance
9 39 (24.38%) Analytics
9 39 (24.38%) Data Strategy
10 35 (21.88%) Social Skills
11 33 (20.63%) ETL
12 30 (18.75%) Microsoft
12 30 (18.75%) Public Sector
13 27 (16.88%) Agile
13 27 (16.88%) AWS
14 25 (15.63%) Data Protection
15 24 (15.00%) Physical Data Model
16 23 (14.38%) Migration
16 23 (14.38%) Databricks
17 21 (13.13%) Power BI
17 21 (13.13%) Power Platform
17 21 (13.13%) SQL
17 21 (13.13%) Security Cleared
17 21 (13.13%) NoSQL
18 20 (12.50%) Data Integration
18 20 (12.50%) Data Structures
18 20 (12.50%) Python
18 20 (12.50%) JSON

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.25%) SAS
2 1 (0.63%) Apache
2 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.88%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.63%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 63 (39.38%) Azure
2 27 (16.88%) AWS
3 21 (13.13%) Power Platform
4 15 (9.38%) GCP
5 11 (6.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (6.88%) Azure Stack
6 10 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.00%) dbt
7 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (5.00%) Snowflake
8 5 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.13%) Serverless
9 4 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.88%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) Firewall
1 1 (0.63%) LAN
1 1 (0.63%) Multicast
1 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (33.13%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (13.13%) NoSQL
2 21 (13.13%) Power BI
3 20 (12.50%) Metadata
4 18 (11.25%) Big Data
5 16 (10.00%) Data Lake
6 12 (7.50%) Snowflake Schema
7 11 (6.88%) SQL Server
8 8 (5.00%) BigQuery
9 7 (4.38%) OLAP
9 7 (4.38%) OLTP
9 7 (4.38%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (3.13%) Tableau
12 4 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (2.50%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (1.25%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 15 (9.38%) ERwin
2 2 (1.25%) Git
2 2 (1.25%) JIRA
2 2 (1.25%) Postman
2 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.63%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.63%) kappa
General
1 40 (25.00%) Finance
2 35 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 30 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.00%) Marketing
5 15 (9.38%) Manufacturing
6 14 (8.75%) Retail
7 13 (8.13%) Banking
8 12 (7.50%) Electronics
8 12 (7.50%) Telecoms
9 8 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.88%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Advertising
11 2 (1.25%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.63%) Games
12 1 (0.63%) Legal
12 1 (0.63%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.50%) JSON
2 12 (7.50%) XML
3 11 (6.88%) REST
4 7 (4.38%) JSON Schema
5 4 (2.50%) PySpark
6 3 (1.88%) Kafka
7 2 (1.25%) ADO
7 2 (1.25%) CSS
7 2 (1.25%) DOM
7 2 (1.25%) HTML
7 2 (1.25%) jQuery
7 2 (1.25%) Middleware
7 2 (1.25%) Node.js
7 2 (1.25%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.25%) Swagger
8 1 (0.63%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.63%) LDAP
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.63%) Spring
8 1 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 13 (8.13%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 12 (7.50%) Wiki
4 11 (6.88%) Reference Data
5 9 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (4.38%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.50%) NHS
8 3 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.88%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.25%) Grid Computing
9 2 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.25%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.63%) Clustering
10 1 (0.63%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.63%) Freedom of Information Act
10 1 (0.63%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (61.88%) Data Modelling
2 67 (41.88%) Data Architecture
3 48 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 43 (26.88%) Data Management
5 42 (26.25%) Business Intelligence
6 39 (24.38%) Analytics
6 39 (24.38%) Data Strategy
7 33 (20.63%) ETL
8 27 (16.88%) Agile
9 25 (15.63%) Data Protection
10 24 (15.00%) Physical Data Model
11 23 (14.38%) Migration
12 20 (12.50%) Data Integration
13 18 (11.25%) Data Lineage
13 18 (11.25%) Master Data Management
13 18 (11.25%) Microservices
14 17 (10.63%) Data Migration
15 16 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (9.38%) Data Mapping
17 14 (8.75%) Data Flow Diagram
Programming Languages
1 21 (13.13%) SQL
2 20 (12.50%) Python
3 3 (1.88%) Java
4 2 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.63%) C#
5 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.63%) R
5 1 (0.63%) Scala
5 1 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.88%) Degree
6 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (26.25%) Data Quality
2 19 (11.88%) GDPR
3 4 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.25%) QA
5 1 (0.63%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.88%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.88%) Terraform
2 2 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 30 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.38%) Databricks
3 19 (11.88%) SAP
4 15 (9.38%) Sparx
5 14 (8.75%) Google
6 8 (5.00%) Oracle
7 6 (3.75%) Salesforce
8 5 (3.13%) Informatica
9 3 (1.88%) Brio
10 2 (1.25%) Adobe
10 2 (1.25%) Ensighten
10 2 (1.25%) IBM
10 2 (1.25%) Monetate
10 2 (1.25%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.25%) Nexthink
10 2 (1.25%) Omniture
10 2 (1.25%) Optimizely
10 2 (1.25%) Snow
10 2 (1.25%) Tealium
11 1 (0.63%) Workday