Data Architect Contracts

Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect daily rate in the UK is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 280 252
Rank change year-on-year +38 -28 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 423 526 955
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.95% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.00% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 365 621
10th Percentile £475 £513 £525
25th Percentile £539 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.20%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £775
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 1
10th Percentile £52.50 £35.75 -
25th Percentile - £42.56 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £64.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +29.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile - £66.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +32.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 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 12 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 +31 377 £675 -3.57% 86
London +35 258 £700 - 36
Work from Home +34 140 £625 -6.54% 57
UK excluding London +12 119 £675 +3.85% 58
North of England +38 36 £550 -6.38% 24
Midlands +29 27 £600 -2.04% 6
North West +33 25 £543 -1.36% 16
South West -15 24 £638 -1.92% 6
West Midlands +31 22 £590 -1.67% 2
South East -7 17 £700 +6.67% 10
Yorkshire +18 12 £550 -8.33% 6
East of England +2 12 £850 +240.00% 3
Scotland +48 10 £683 -9.00% 6
East Midlands +6 5 £675 +8.00% 4
North East +11 3 £850 - 2
Wales - 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 235 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 184 (43.50%) Data Architecture
3 153 (36.17%) Azure
4 143 (33.81%) Data Governance
5 129 (30.50%) Data Warehouse
6 106 (25.06%) Analytics
6 106 (25.06%) Data Strategy
7 104 (24.59%) Business Intelligence
8 96 (22.70%) Finance
9 88 (20.80%) Migration
10 87 (20.57%) Data Management
11 86 (20.33%) Data Quality
12 84 (19.86%) Security Cleared
12 84 (19.86%) Social Skills
13 81 (19.15%) Data Integration
13 81 (19.15%) NoSQL
13 81 (19.15%) ETL
14 76 (17.97%) Metadata
15 75 (17.73%) Microsoft
15 75 (17.73%) SQL
16 74 (17.49%) AWS
17 73 (17.26%) Public Sector
18 68 (16.08%) Power Platform
19 65 (15.37%) Power BI
20 63 (14.89%) Data Lake
20 63 (14.89%) Data Migration
21 62 (14.66%) SC Cleared
22 61 (14.42%) Databricks
23 55 (13.00%) Agile
24 53 (12.53%) 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 14 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.18%) Apache
3 5 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.18%) SAS
4 2 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) Confluence
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (4.02%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 42 (9.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 10 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.71%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.47%) 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
1 153 (36.17%) Azure
2 74 (17.49%) AWS
3 68 (16.08%) Power Platform
4 24 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (5.44%) Snowflake
6 20 (4.73%) GCP
6 20 (4.73%) Microsoft Purview
7 18 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (3.78%) Azure Stack
9 14 (3.31%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (3.07%) Amazon Kinesis
10 13 (3.07%) Serverless
11 12 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.36%) SaaS
13 9 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (1.42%) dbt
15 5 (1.18%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 5 (1.18%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (30.50%) Data Warehouse
2 81 (19.15%) NoSQL
3 76 (17.97%) Metadata
4 65 (15.37%) Power BI
5 63 (14.89%) Data Lake
6 45 (10.64%) Big Data
7 44 (10.40%) Data Vault
8 37 (8.75%) Metadata Repository
9 27 (6.38%) SQL Server
10 25 (5.91%) Tableau
11 19 (4.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (4.02%) Snowflake Schema
13 15 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
14 14 (3.31%) Relational Database
15 12 (2.84%) Data Mining
15 12 (2.84%) OLAP
15 12 (2.84%) OLTP
16 11 (2.60%) DB2
16 11 (2.60%) Star Schema
17 10 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 29 (6.86%) ERwin
2 11 (2.60%) JIRA
3 10 (2.36%) ER Studio
4 7 (1.65%) Git
4 7 (1.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.71%) IntelliJ
5 3 (0.71%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.47%) kappa
6 2 (0.47%) Postman
6 2 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 96 (22.70%) Finance
2 84 (19.86%) Social Skills
3 73 (17.26%) Public Sector
4 33 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (7.57%) Manufacturing
6 31 (7.33%) Marketing
7 29 (6.86%) Banking
8 27 (6.38%) Telecoms
9 25 (5.91%) Electronics
10 17 (4.02%) Publishing
11 10 (2.36%) Retail
12 7 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.42%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.18%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.71%) Legal
16 3 (0.71%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.57%) JSON
2 21 (4.96%) Kafka
2 21 (4.96%) XML
3 18 (4.26%) REST
4 13 (3.07%) JSON Schema
5 7 (1.65%) PySpark
6 5 (1.18%) Apache Avro
7 4 (0.95%) Middleware
7 4 (0.95%) YAML
8 3 (0.71%) SOAP
8 3 (0.71%) Spring
8 3 (0.71%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.47%) ADO
9 2 (0.47%) DOM
9 2 (0.47%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.47%) HTML
9 2 (0.47%) jQuery
9 2 (0.47%) Node.js
9 2 (0.47%) Swagger
9 2 (0.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.53%) Reference Data
2 36 (8.51%) Data Structures
3 20 (4.73%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.78%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.65%) NHS
10 5 (1.18%) Data Fabric
10 5 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.18%) Freedom of Information
10 5 (1.18%) Freedom of Information Act
10 5 (1.18%) Industry 4.0
11 4 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.95%) Taxonomies
11 4 (0.95%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.95%) Wiki
12 3 (0.71%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.24%) Linux
1 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 184 (43.50%) Data Architecture
3 143 (33.81%) Data Governance
4 106 (25.06%) Analytics
4 106 (25.06%) Data Strategy
5 104 (24.59%) Business Intelligence
6 88 (20.80%) Migration
7 87 (20.57%) Data Management
8 81 (19.15%) Data Integration
8 81 (19.15%) ETL
9 63 (14.89%) Data Migration
10 55 (13.00%) Agile
11 50 (11.82%) Data Design
12 43 (10.17%) Roadmaps
13 42 (9.93%) Data Lineage
14 41 (9.69%) UML
15 36 (8.51%) Data Analysis
16 34 (8.04%) Data Mapping
16 34 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (17.73%) SQL
2 32 (7.57%) Python
3 18 (4.26%) Java
4 10 (2.36%) T-SQL
5 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.71%) R
7 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.47%) Scala
8 1 (0.24%) Bash
8 1 (0.24%) Bicep
8 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.24%) U-SQL
8 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (19.86%) Security Cleared
2 62 (14.66%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.49%) DV Cleared
4 14 (3.31%) Degree
5 8 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.24%) CITP
10 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (20.33%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.62%) GDPR
3 9 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.95%) QA
5 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.24%) HL7
6 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (1.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (1.18%) Terraform
2 4 (0.95%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.24%) Ambari
4 1 (0.24%) Ansible
4 1 (0.24%) Oozie
Vendors
1 75 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 61 (14.42%) Databricks
3 51 (12.06%) Sparx
4 43 (10.17%) SAP
5 38 (8.98%) Oracle
6 22 (5.20%) Informatica
7 16 (3.78%) Salesforce
8 14 (3.31%) Google
9 8 (1.89%) Remedy
9 8 (1.89%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.65%) Talend
11 5 (1.18%) Autodesk
12 4 (0.95%) Ab Initio
12 4 (0.95%) Cloudera
13 3 (0.71%) BiZZdesign
13 3 (0.71%) Brio
13 3 (0.71%) Teradata
14 2 (0.47%) Adobe
14 2 (0.47%) Ariba
14 2 (0.47%) Omniture