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 £597, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 101 124
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 21 23 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.25% 1.10% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.18% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 13
10th Percentile £468 £470 £553
25th Percentile £488 £519 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £597 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £684 £775 £730
90th Percentile £732 £825 £738
Central London median daily rate £597 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -14.79% +3.70% -3.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,576 1,943 2,666
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 93.32% 94.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 1,190 1,864
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £423 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £696
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.07 £25.06 £18.06
Median hourly rate £27.75 £57.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.74% +55.41% -8.64%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £48.25
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £63.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -2.78% -11.11%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025, 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 10 (47.62%) Data Modelling
2 9 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (38.10%) Azure
3 8 (38.10%) Migration
3 8 (38.10%) SQL
4 7 (33.33%) Analytics
4 7 (33.33%) AWS
4 7 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 6 (28.57%) AI
5 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 6 (28.57%) Data Quality
6 5 (23.81%) dbt
6 5 (23.81%) GCP
6 5 (23.81%) Machine Learning
6 5 (23.81%) Python
6 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
6 5 (23.81%) Snowflake
7 4 (19.05%) Agile
7 4 (19.05%) Databricks
7 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven
7 4 (19.05%) Generative AI
7 4 (19.05%) Power BI
7 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
8 3 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (14.29%) Collibra
8 3 (14.29%) Data Strategy
8 3 (14.29%) ETL
8 3 (14.29%) Kafka
8 3 (14.29%) Microsoft

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 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) dbt
3 5 (23.81%) GCP
3 5 (23.81%) Snowflake
4 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
5 3 (14.29%) Collibra
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (9.52%) SaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.76%) Fivetran
7 1 (4.76%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (19.05%) Power BI
3 2 (9.52%) Big Data
3 2 (9.52%) Data Vault
3 2 (9.52%) Metadata
3 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) ER Studio
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) Postman
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Back Office
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (9.52%) Spring
2 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) JSON
3 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Pricing Data
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Data Modelling
2 8 (38.10%) Migration
3 7 (33.33%) Analytics
3 7 (33.33%) Data Architecture
4 6 (28.57%) AI
4 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 5 (23.81%) Machine Learning
5 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
6 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven
6 4 (19.05%) Generative AI
7 3 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (14.29%) Data Strategy
7 3 (14.29%) ETL
7 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
8 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
8 2 (9.52%) Data Design
8 2 (9.52%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Databricks
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Informatica
3 2 (9.52%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Talend
4 1 (4.76%) Workday