Data Architecture Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Architecture over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 221 223
Rank change year-on-year +19 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 143 263 528
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.97% 1.06% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.18% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 187 393
10th Percentile £447 £463 £488
25th Percentile £519 £525 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £750 £769 £750
90th Percentile £875 £818 £810
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.83 £35.25 £89.56
% change year-on-year -15.39% -60.64% +241.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Data Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Architecture trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
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 Architecture.

Data Architecture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Architecture over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Data Architecture daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
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 Architecture.

Data Architecture hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Architecture
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 9 (6.29%) Apache
1 9 (6.29%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.40%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.70%) CMS
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.40%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.70%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.70%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.70%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.70%) Shopify
4 1 (0.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.97%) Azure
2 21 (14.69%) AWS
3 17 (11.89%) Power Platform
4 15 (10.49%) dbt
4 15 (10.49%) GCP
5 10 (6.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (6.29%) SaaS
7 7 (4.90%) Snowflake
8 6 (4.20%) Azure Stack
8 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.50%) IaaS
9 5 (3.50%) PaaS
10 3 (2.10%) GitHub
11 2 (1.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.40%) Collibra
11 2 (1.40%) Serverless
12 1 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (21.68%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (12.59%) Metadata
3 17 (11.89%) Power BI
4 14 (9.79%) Data Lake
5 12 (8.39%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.29%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (6.29%) Apache Arrow
6 9 (6.29%) Apache Ignite
6 9 (6.29%) Big Data
6 9 (6.29%) Dremio
7 7 (4.90%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (4.20%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.50%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.10%) Data Vault
10 3 (2.10%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.10%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.40%) DB2
11 2 (1.40%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 14 (9.79%) ERwin
2 4 (2.80%) Git
2 4 (2.80%) JIRA
3 1 (0.70%) Ant
3 1 (0.70%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.70%) kappa
3 1 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.70%) Toad
General
1 40 (27.97%) Finance
2 39 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.78%) Public Sector
4 20 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (12.59%) Marketing
6 14 (9.79%) Banking
6 14 (9.79%) Retail
7 12 (8.39%) Manufacturing
8 11 (7.69%) Telecoms
9 10 (6.99%) Electronics
10 9 (6.29%) Front Office
10 9 (6.29%) Investment Banking
11 7 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (2.80%) German Language
13 4 (2.80%) Legal
14 3 (2.10%) French Language
15 2 (1.40%) Japanese Language
15 2 (1.40%) Korean Language
15 2 (1.40%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 83 (58.04%) Architect
2 64 (44.76%) Data Architect
3 19 (13.29%) Enterprise Architect
4 17 (11.89%) Lead
5 15 (10.49%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 13 (9.09%) Developer
6 13 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (7.69%) Senior
8 9 (6.29%) Azure Architect
8 9 (6.29%) Azure Data Architect
8 9 (6.29%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) Analyst
10 6 (4.20%) Senior Architect
11 5 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) Azure Data Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) Data Modeller
11 5 (3.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.39%) JSON
2 10 (6.99%) Pandas
3 9 (6.29%) gRPC
3 9 (6.29%) NumPy
3 9 (6.29%) Protocol Buffers
3 9 (6.29%) REST
3 9 (6.29%) SciPy
3 9 (6.29%) XML
4 5 (3.50%) SOAP
5 3 (2.10%) JSON Schema
5 3 (2.10%) Middleware
6 2 (1.40%) ADO
6 2 (1.40%) PySpark
6 2 (1.40%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (1.40%) XSD
6 2 (1.40%) XSLT
7 1 (0.70%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.70%) VML
7 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 12 (8.39%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (8.39%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.39%) Reference Data
3 10 (6.99%) Wiki
4 6 (4.20%) Derivative
4 6 (4.20%) Equities
4 6 (4.20%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.20%) Hedge funds
4 6 (4.20%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.40%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (1.40%) IoT
7 2 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.40%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.10%) Unix
2 2 (1.40%) Linux
2 2 (1.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (50.35%) Data Modelling
2 58 (40.56%) Data Governance
3 42 (29.37%) Agile
3 42 (29.37%) Analytics
4 39 (27.27%) Data Management
5 32 (22.38%) Data Strategy
6 31 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (20.98%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (20.98%) ETL
8 26 (18.18%) Master Data Management
9 24 (16.78%) Data Integration
10 18 (12.59%) Asset Management
10 18 (12.59%) Data Protection
10 18 (12.59%) Physical Data Model
10 18 (12.59%) Roadmaps
11 17 (11.89%) Migration
12 16 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (10.49%) Data Engineering
13 15 (10.49%) Data Lineage
13 15 (10.49%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.08%) Python
2 22 (15.38%) SQL
3 11 (7.69%) Java
4 10 (6.99%) TypeScript
5 9 (6.29%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.59%) Scala
7 7 (4.90%) Ruby
8 2 (1.40%) R
8 2 (1.40%) XPath
9 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (7.69%) Degree
2 8 (5.59%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (28.67%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.39%) GDPR
3 4 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.70%) CDISC
4 1 (0.70%) GxP
4 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.70%) HL7
4 1 (0.70%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (1.40%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.29%) Databricks
3 16 (11.19%) SAP
4 15 (10.49%) Informatica
4 15 (10.49%) Sparx
5 10 (6.99%) Oracle
6 6 (4.20%) Salesforce
7 5 (3.50%) Google
7 5 (3.50%) IBM
8 2 (1.40%) Adobe
8 2 (1.40%) Ariba
8 2 (1.40%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.40%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.40%) Snow
8 2 (1.40%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.40%) Workday
9 1 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.70%) Mercator
9 1 (0.70%) Pardot
9 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud