Data Architect Contracts in the City of London

Data Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Data Architect daily rate in the City of London is £565, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 May 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 106 122
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 14 22 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.81% 1.02% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.07% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 30
10th Percentile £485 £494 £535
25th Percentile £490 £550 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £638 £675
Median % change year-on-year -11.37% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £679 £902 £736
90th Percentile £700 £925 £788
Central London median daily rate £558 £656 £675
% change year-on-year -15.05% -2.78% -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 1,617 2,059 3,364
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 95.06% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 1,447 2,287
10th Percentile £350 £350 £362
25th Percentile £463 £448 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -8.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £573 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.09% -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 23
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.59% -34.29% -5.41%
75th Percentile £47.50 £28.44 £58.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £40.00 £87.64
Central London median hourly rate £28.61 £26.41 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.35% -24.56% -6.04%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect 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 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the City of London

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect 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 20 May 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 6 (42.86%) Migration
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
3 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 4 (28.57%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Spring
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 3 (21.43%) Data Security
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Collibra
4 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Data Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) GDPR
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
5 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Data Development
5 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Thought Leadership

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) Collibra
5 1 (7.14%) Boomi
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Big Data
1 2 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Metadata
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (7.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (7.14%) ER Studio
General
1 4 (28.57%) Banking
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Spring
1 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 2 (14.29%) JPA
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Migration
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
3 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Data Security
4 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
5 2 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Data Development
5 2 (14.29%) FinOps
5 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) MOM
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft