Data Architect Contracts in the City of London

Data Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Data Architect daily rate in the City of London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 127 156
Rank change year-on-year +20 +29 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 23 46 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.06% 1.29% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.36% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 30 23
10th Percentile £496 £524 £573
25th Percentile £550 £609 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -6.90% +26.64%
75th Percentile £925 £734 £775
90th Percentile - £788 £930
Central London median daily rate £663 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -1.85% -3.57% +22.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,072 3,394 4,002
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.05% 95.04% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,469 2,305 3,024
10th Percentile £350 £353 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £676
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £595 £563
% change year-on-year -7.56% +5.78% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 53
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in the City of London

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in the City of London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the City of London

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in the City of London

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 12 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 City of London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 16 (69.57%) Data Modelling
2 10 (43.48%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
3 8 (34.78%) Data Architecture
4 7 (30.43%) Azure
4 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
4 7 (30.43%) Metadata
5 6 (26.09%) Data Vault
5 6 (26.09%) Data Lineage
5 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
5 6 (26.09%) Analytics
5 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
6 5 (21.74%) UML
6 5 (21.74%) SharePoint
6 5 (21.74%) Publishing
6 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
6 5 (21.74%) Reference Data
6 5 (21.74%) Data Integration
6 5 (21.74%) Project Delivery
6 5 (21.74%) Sparx
6 5 (21.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (17.39%) Data Lake
7 4 (17.39%) Data Strategy
7 4 (17.39%) AWS
7 4 (17.39%) Finance
7 4 (17.39%) Data Management
7 4 (17.39%) ETL
7 4 (17.39%) Data Security

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 5 (21.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) SAS
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Lucidchart
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.35%) Vertex AI
4 1 (4.35%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (30.43%) Metadata
3 6 (26.09%) Data Vault
4 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
5 4 (17.39%) Data Lake
6 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
7 1 (4.35%) Big Data
7 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
7 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (4.35%) OLAP
7 1 (4.35%) OLTP
7 1 (4.35%) Parquet
7 1 (4.35%) Power BI
7 1 (4.35%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) ERwin
General
1 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
2 5 (21.74%) Publishing
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Avro
1 1 (4.35%) JSON
1 1 (4.35%) JSON Schema
1 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Data Modelling
2 8 (34.78%) Data Architecture
3 6 (26.09%) Analytics
3 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
3 6 (26.09%) Data Lineage
4 5 (21.74%) Data Integration
4 5 (21.74%) Project Delivery
4 5 (21.74%) UML
5 4 (17.39%) Data Management
5 4 (17.39%) Data Security
5 4 (17.39%) Data Strategy
5 4 (17.39%) ETL
6 3 (13.04%) Data Transformation
6 3 (13.04%) Dimensional Modelling
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.70%) Agile
7 2 (8.70%) Data Analysis
7 2 (8.70%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
1 5 (21.74%) Sparx
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Google