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 £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 105 101
Rank change year-on-year +23 -4 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 50 13 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.07% 0.75% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.20% 0.80% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 7 17
10th Percentile £463 £485 £492
25th Percentile £513 £490 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -16.30% -
75th Percentile £719 £651 £925
90th Percentile £775 £695 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £558 £700
% change year-on-year -1.35% -20.36% +3.70%

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 2,277 1,618 2,047
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 93.63% 95.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,519 1,023 1,414
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £451 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -2.30% -5.83%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £791
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £20.35 £16.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £23.16 £32.83 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.44% +44.29% -35.00%
75th Percentile £42.83 £63.75 £32.03
90th Percentile £59.72 £92.13 £45.13
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -9.27% +11.24% -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 23 June 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 23 June 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 25 (50.00%) Azure
2 20 (40.00%) Analytics
3 18 (36.00%) Data Architecture
3 18 (36.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (36.00%) Security Cleared
4 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 14 (28.00%) Data Modelling
6 13 (26.00%) Databricks
7 10 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (20.00%) Data Strategy
7 10 (20.00%) Migration
8 9 (18.00%) Data Governance
8 9 (18.00%) Data Management
8 9 (18.00%) Metadata
8 9 (18.00%) Power BI
8 9 (18.00%) Power Platform
9 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
9 8 (16.00%) Data Integration
9 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
10 7 (14.00%) AI
10 7 (14.00%) AWS
10 7 (14.00%) Data Quality
10 7 (14.00%) Event-Driven
10 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (14.00%) Machine Learning
10 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (12.00%) Generative AI
11 6 (12.00%) Integration Patterns
11 6 (12.00%) Operational Stability
12 5 (10.00%) Data Engineering

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 2 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 25 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (14.00%) AWS
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (6.00%) GCP
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (6.00%) Serverless
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (4.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) Metadata
1 9 (18.00%) Power BI
2 5 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 5 (10.00%) Data Mining
3 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.00%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (4.00%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (4.00%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.00%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (2.00%) Big Data
6 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.00%) GIS
6 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (2.00%) ERwin
General
1 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing
5 1 (2.00%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.00%) PySpark
3 1 (2.00%) Kafka
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (2.00%) REST
3 1 (2.00%) Snowpark
3 1 (2.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Analytics
2 18 (36.00%) Data Architecture
3 14 (28.00%) Data Modelling
4 10 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (20.00%) Data Strategy
4 10 (20.00%) Migration
5 9 (18.00%) Data Governance
5 9 (18.00%) Data Management
6 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 8 (16.00%) Data Integration
6 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
7 7 (14.00%) AI
7 7 (14.00%) Event-Driven
7 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (14.00%) Machine Learning
7 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (12.00%) Generative AI
8 6 (12.00%) Integration Patterns
8 6 (12.00%) Operational Stability
9 5 (10.00%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (4.00%) Bicep
2 2 (4.00%) Python
3 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (36.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.00%) Degree
3 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (26.00%) Databricks
3 5 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.00%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.00%) OneTrust
5 1 (2.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow