Senior Data Architect Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Senior Data Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Data Architect daily rate in the City of London is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 117 124
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.084% 0.059% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.063% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.40%
75th Percentile £738 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £725 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -8.40%

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 2,241 1,599 2,077
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 93.84% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,494 1,012 1,444
10th Percentile £355 £351 £346
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £551
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +0.09% -8.25%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £688
90th Percentile £771 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 15
10th Percentile £17.49 £19.25 £15.62
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £29.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.47% +32.22% -35.71%
75th Percentile £52.24 £52.50 £34.69
90th Percentile £65.00 £94.38 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.91% -22.86%

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Senior Data Architect job vacancy trend in the City of London

Senior Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in the City of London

Senior Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 10 June 2026, Senior 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 Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) DAMA DMBOK
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) Data Design
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) ERwin
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) PySpark

Senior 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) DAMA DMBOK
2 1 (50.00%) Data Design
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft