Data Architect Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Data Architect daily rate in the City of London is £604, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 105 106
Rank change year-on-year +30 +1 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 63 18 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.69% 0.99% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.86% 1.05% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 10 14
10th Percentile £463 £472 £477
25th Percentile £513 £482 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 £534 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.19% -7.22% -15.75%
75th Percentile £738 £635 £697
90th Percentile £775 £692 £738
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% -8.42%

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 2,206 1,715 1,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 93.87% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 1,132 1,286
10th Percentile £363 £325 £365
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 14
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.62 £15.87
25th Percentile £17.89 £24.21 £20.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.73% +4.26% -26.03%
75th Percentile £32.57 £50.25 £89.06
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.83 £28.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.90% +4.26% -22.86%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Architect job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies 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 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the City of London

Data Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the City of London

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 22 August 2026, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 39 (61.90%) Azure
2 31 (49.21%) Analytics
3 27 (42.86%) Data Architecture
4 24 (38.10%) Data Modelling
5 20 (31.75%) Microsoft
6 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
6 19 (30.16%) Security Cleared
7 18 (28.57%) Databricks
8 17 (26.98%) Data Governance
8 17 (26.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (22.22%) Data Quality
10 14 (22.22%) Data Strategy
11 13 (20.63%) CI/CD
11 13 (20.63%) DevOps
12 12 (19.05%) AI
12 12 (19.05%) Migration
13 11 (17.46%) Roadmaps
14 10 (15.87%) Data Integration
14 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (15.87%) Logical Data Model
14 10 (15.87%) Power BI
14 10 (15.87%) Power Platform
15 9 (14.29%) AWS
15 9 (14.29%) Data Lake
15 9 (14.29%) Generative AI
15 9 (14.29%) Metadata
15 9 (14.29%) SQL
16 8 (12.70%) Data Engineering
16 8 (12.70%) Integration Patterns

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.76%) Apache
3 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (61.90%) Azure
2 10 (15.87%) Power Platform
3 9 (14.29%) AWS
4 7 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (9.52%) Snowflake
6 4 (6.35%) GCP
7 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (4.76%) Serverless
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) Power BI
2 9 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 9 (14.29%) Metadata
3 5 (7.94%) Data Mining
3 5 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.35%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.17%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.59%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.59%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.59%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.59%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.59%) ER Studio
1 1 (1.59%) MLflow
General
1 16 (25.40%) Finance
2 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.52%) Banking
5 4 (6.35%) Retail
6 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.59%) Marketing
7 1 (1.59%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) PySpark
2 4 (6.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (6.35%) Terraform
3 1 (1.59%) Kafka
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.59%) REST
3 1 (1.59%) Snowpark
3 1 (1.59%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 6 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.94%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.17%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.17%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.59%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.59%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (49.21%) Analytics
2 27 (42.86%) Data Architecture
3 24 (38.10%) Data Modelling
4 17 (26.98%) Data Governance
4 17 (26.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (22.22%) Data Strategy
7 13 (20.63%) CI/CD
7 13 (20.63%) DevOps
8 12 (19.05%) AI
8 12 (19.05%) Migration
9 11 (17.46%) Roadmaps
10 10 (15.87%) Data Integration
10 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (15.87%) Logical Data Model
11 9 (14.29%) Generative AI
12 8 (12.70%) Data Engineering
12 8 (12.70%) Integration Patterns
12 8 (12.70%) Machine Learning
13 7 (11.11%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.29%) SQL
2 6 (9.52%) Python
3 3 (4.76%) Bicep
4 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
1 19 (30.16%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.76%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.59%) CISSP
4 1 (1.59%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.94%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) NIST
3 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.59%) Docker
Vendors
1 20 (31.75%) Microsoft
2 18 (28.57%) Databricks
3 5 (7.94%) Oracle
4 2 (3.17%) OneTrust
4 2 (3.17%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.59%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.59%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.59%) IBM
5 1 (1.59%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) Workday