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 £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 102 115
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 15 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.80% 0.85% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.92% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 18
10th Percentile £457 £525 £595
25th Percentile £525 £661 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £700 £693
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +1.08% -1.07%
75th Percentile £789 £819 £738
90th Percentile £950 £825 £925
Central London median daily rate £613 £788 £675
% change year-on-year -22.22% +16.67% -3.57%

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 1,778 1,748 2,321
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 92.98% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 1,073 1,671
10th Percentile £341 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -2.98%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £788
Central London median daily rate £535 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.96% +2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 18
10th Percentile £20.02 £13.18 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.77 £20.00 £19.18
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.77% +13.54% -5.88%
75th Percentile £42.65 £58.19 £44.56
90th Percentile £52.80 £112.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.91
% change year-on-year -25.40% +30.09% +6.55%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 6 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (33.33%) AI
3 5 (33.33%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
4 4 (26.67%) Databricks
4 4 (26.67%) dbt
4 4 (26.67%) ETL
4 4 (26.67%) Generative AI
4 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
4 4 (26.67%) Snowflake
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) AWS
5 3 (20.00%) Data Design
5 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (20.00%) Power BI
5 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (20.00%) SQL
6 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (13.33%) Data Vault

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 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) dbt
2 4 (26.67%) Snowflake
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Collibra
5 1 (6.67%) Fivetran
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) Data Vault
3 2 (13.33%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Data Fabric
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) FMCG
1 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Pricing Data
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
2 6 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 5 (33.33%) AI
3 5 (33.33%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
4 4 (26.67%) ETL
4 4 (26.67%) Generative AI
4 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) Data Design
5 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (13.33%) Metadata Management
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Databricks
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (6.67%) Informatica
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.67%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) Talend
4 1 (6.67%) Workday