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 £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 104 107
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 16 11 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.76% 0.63% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.68% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 20
10th Percentile - £514 £546
25th Percentile £550 £555 £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £661 £710
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% -6.87% +5.19%
75th Percentile £806 £694 £925
90th Percentile £950 £823 -
Central London median daily rate £650 £673 £710
% change year-on-year -3.35% -5.28% +5.19%

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 1,992 1,616 2,218
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 92.61% 94.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,370 1,027 1,585
10th Percentile £350 £363 £340
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 17
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £19.05 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% +41.11% -35.71%
75th Percentile £49.83 £45.23 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £76.13 £49.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £26.41
% change year-on-year -15.77% +17.40% -24.56%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 10 (62.50%) Data Architecture
2 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (31.25%) Analytics
4 5 (31.25%) Azure
4 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
4 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (31.25%) Metadata
4 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
4 5 (31.25%) Power BI
4 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
5 4 (25.00%) AI
5 4 (25.00%) AWS
5 4 (25.00%) Data Design
5 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 4 (25.00%) Data Management
5 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (25.00%) SQL
5 4 (25.00%) TOGAF
6 3 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (18.75%) Business Strategy
6 3 (18.75%) Databricks
6 3 (18.75%) Generative AI
6 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark

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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
4 2 (12.50%) dbt
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Collibra
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (31.25%) Metadata
1 5 (31.25%) Power BI
2 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 2 (12.50%) Data Vault
2 2 (12.50%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) ERwin
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Fabric
2 1 (6.25%) FMCG
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Data Architecture
2 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (31.25%) Analytics
5 4 (25.00%) AI
5 4 (25.00%) Data Design
5 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 4 (25.00%) Data Management
5 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (25.00%) TOGAF
6 3 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (18.75%) Business Strategy
6 3 (18.75%) Generative AI
6 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (12.50%) ETL
7 2 (12.50%) Migration
7 2 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Databricks
3 2 (12.50%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (6.25%) Informatica
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) Workday