Data Architect Contracts in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 200 223
Rank change year-on-year +36 +23 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 269 347 510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.52% 1.32% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 1.39% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 262 334
10th Percentile £513 £550 £563
25th Percentile £563 £606 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £825 £788 £775
90th Percentile £925 £875 £850
England median daily rate £688 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -1.79% - +14.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,466 24,974 36,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.21% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,897 18,116 26,808
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £685 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 280 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.86 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.95 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Central London +19 25 £663 -1.85% 2
West London - 2 £525 - 3
East London - 2 £625 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 171 (63.57%) Data Modelling
2 123 (45.72%) Data Architecture
3 100 (37.17%) Azure
4 95 (35.32%) Data Governance
5 82 (30.48%) Business Intelligence
6 80 (29.74%) Data Warehouse
7 76 (28.25%) Data Integration
7 76 (28.25%) Data Strategy
8 69 (25.65%) Finance
9 68 (25.28%) NoSQL
10 66 (24.54%) Security Cleared
11 62 (23.05%) SC Cleared
12 59 (21.93%) Microsoft
13 58 (21.56%) Analytics
13 58 (21.56%) Metadata
14 57 (21.19%) Public Sector
14 57 (21.19%) ETL
15 56 (20.82%) AWS
16 55 (20.45%) Data Quality
17 54 (20.07%) Power Platform
17 54 (20.07%) Power BI
18 49 (18.22%) Sparx
19 47 (17.47%) SQL
20 43 (15.99%) Data Vault
21 42 (15.61%) Reference Data
22 41 (15.24%) UML
22 41 (15.24%) Social Skills
22 41 (15.24%) Data Lake
23 40 (14.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
24 38 (14.13%) Databricks

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 14 (5.20%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.97%) Apache
3 6 (2.23%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.49%) SAS
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (5.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 40 (14.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (4.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.74%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.37%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 100 (37.17%) Azure
2 56 (20.82%) AWS
3 54 (20.07%) Power Platform
4 21 (7.81%) GCP
5 20 (7.43%) Snowflake
6 16 (5.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.46%) Amazon Kinesis
8 11 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (3.35%) OCI
10 8 (2.97%) dbt
11 7 (2.60%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (2.23%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.23%) SaaS
12 6 (2.23%) Serverless
13 5 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (1.86%) GitHub
13 5 (1.86%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (29.74%) Data Warehouse
2 68 (25.28%) NoSQL
3 58 (21.56%) Metadata
4 54 (20.07%) Power BI
5 43 (15.99%) Data Vault
6 41 (15.24%) Data Lake
7 29 (10.78%) Big Data
8 27 (10.04%) Metadata Repository
8 27 (10.04%) SQL Server
9 20 (7.43%) Tableau
10 16 (5.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (4.09%) BigQuery
12 11 (4.09%) OLAP
12 11 (4.09%) OLTP
13 8 (2.97%) DynamoDB
13 8 (2.97%) Pentaho
13 8 (2.97%) Qlik Sense
13 8 (2.97%) QlikView
14 7 (2.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (11.90%) ERwin
2 12 (4.46%) ER Studio
3 7 (2.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.74%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.74%) Postman
5 1 (0.37%) Git
5 1 (0.37%) JIRA
General
1 69 (25.65%) Finance
2 57 (21.19%) Public Sector
3 41 (15.24%) Social Skills
4 35 (13.01%) Marketing
5 32 (11.90%) Manufacturing
6 31 (11.52%) Telecoms
7 29 (10.78%) Electronics
8 25 (9.29%) Banking
9 18 (6.69%) Publishing
10 15 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (4.46%) Retail
12 5 (1.86%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.12%) Law
15 2 (0.74%) Advertising
15 2 (0.74%) Legal
15 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.06%) Kafka
2 17 (6.32%) JSON
3 12 (4.46%) JSON Schema
4 7 (2.60%) PySpark
5 6 (2.23%) Apache Avro
5 6 (2.23%) XML
6 5 (1.86%) Middleware
6 5 (1.86%) REST
7 4 (1.49%) YAML
8 3 (1.12%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.74%) ADO
9 2 (0.74%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.74%) CSS
9 2 (0.74%) DOM
9 2 (0.74%) HTML
9 2 (0.74%) jQuery
9 2 (0.74%) Node.js
9 2 (0.74%) Spring
9 2 (0.74%) Swagger
10 1 (0.37%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.61%) Reference Data
2 16 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.58%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (5.20%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.83%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.97%) Wiki
7 6 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.86%) Freedom of Information
8 5 (1.86%) Freedom of Information Act
8 5 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.49%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.12%) Grid Computing
10 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.74%) FMCG
11 2 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (63.57%) Data Modelling
2 123 (45.72%) Data Architecture
3 95 (35.32%) Data Governance
4 82 (30.48%) Business Intelligence
5 76 (28.25%) Data Integration
5 76 (28.25%) Data Strategy
6 58 (21.56%) Analytics
7 57 (21.19%) ETL
8 41 (15.24%) UML
9 38 (14.13%) Data Management
9 38 (14.13%) Migration
10 32 (11.90%) Physical Data Model
10 32 (11.90%) Roadmaps
11 31 (11.52%) Data Lineage
12 30 (11.15%) Data Design
13 29 (10.78%) Agile
13 29 (10.78%) Digital Marketing
13 29 (10.78%) Programme Management
14 26 (9.67%) Data Migration
15 25 (9.29%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 47 (17.47%) SQL
2 24 (8.92%) Python
3 9 (3.35%) T-SQL
4 5 (1.86%) Java
5 3 (1.12%) R
6 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.74%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.74%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.37%) C#
7 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (24.54%) Security Cleared
2 62 (23.05%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.97%) Degree
4 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.12%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.37%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.37%) CITP
6 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (20.45%) Data Quality
2 29 (10.78%) GDPR
3 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.12%) QA
4 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (0.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.74%) Ambari
1 2 (0.74%) Ansible
1 2 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (0.74%) Oozie
2 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 59 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 49 (18.22%) Sparx
3 38 (14.13%) Databricks
3 38 (14.13%) SAP
4 37 (13.75%) Oracle
5 18 (6.69%) Google
6 17 (6.32%) Informatica
7 10 (3.72%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.97%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.86%) Talend
10 2 (0.74%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.74%) Adobe
10 2 (0.74%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.74%) Ensighten
10 2 (0.74%) IBM
10 2 (0.74%) Monetate
10 2 (0.74%) Omniture
10 2 (0.74%) Snow
10 2 (0.74%) Tealium
10 2 (0.74%) Teradata