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 £593, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 110 122
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 21 20 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.19% 0.95% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 1.01% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 25
10th Percentile £468 £468 £588
25th Percentile £482 £503 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £663 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% -1.85% -3.57%
75th Percentile £684 £747 £738
90th Percentile £732 £816 £788
Central London median daily rate £567 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -16.00% - -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 1,653 1,976 2,818
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 94.18% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,248 1,946
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 12
10th Percentile £17.35 £16.49 £16.65
25th Percentile £23.98 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -23.94% -14.97%
75th Percentile £53.50 £85.63 £44.87
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £67.13
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.57% - -15.66%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect 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 18 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) AWS
3 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 7 (33.33%) Migration
3 7 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 7 (33.33%) SQL
3 7 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 7 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 6 (28.57%) Data Quality
4 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 5 (23.81%) Agile
5 5 (23.81%) Banking
5 5 (23.81%) Analytics
6 4 (19.05%) GCP
6 4 (19.05%) Collibra
6 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven
6 4 (19.05%) Data Strategy
6 4 (19.05%) Python
6 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 3 (14.29%) Informatica
7 3 (14.29%) ETL
7 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (14.29%) Spring
7 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (14.29%) dbt
7 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
7 3 (14.29%) Metadata

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) Collibra
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 3 (14.29%) dbt
4 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.52%) SaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.76%) Fivetran
6 1 (4.76%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (14.29%) Metadata
3 2 (9.52%) Big Data
3 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.52%) Power BI
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%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
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%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) Maven
1 1 (4.76%) Postman
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
1 3 (14.29%) Spring
1 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) Hibernate
2 1 (4.76%) JPA
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Pricing Data
2 1 (4.76%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 7 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 7 (33.33%) Migration
1 7 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 6 (28.57%) Data Architecture
3 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) Analytics
4 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (19.05%) Data Strategy
4 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven
5 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (14.29%) ETL
5 3 (14.29%) Metadata Management
5 3 (14.29%) Microservices
5 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (9.52%) FinOps
6 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) SDLC
6 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) 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 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Databricks
1 3 (14.29%) Informatica
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Talend