Big Data Architect Contracts in London

Big Data Architect
England > London

As of 28 August 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Big Data Architect daily rate in London.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 379 456
Rank change year-on-year +21 +77 +125
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Big Data Architect 1 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.007% 0.025% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.026% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £625
25th Percentile - £625 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £850
Median % change year-on-year - -23.53% +9.68%
75th Percentile - £675 £900
90th Percentile - - £915
England median daily rate - £563 £838
% change year-on-year - -32.84% +8.06%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,417 15,261 21,564
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.00% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,364 10,555 15,793
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 196 233
10th Percentile £17.04 £17.69 £18.23
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.29 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% -11.24% +8.48%
75th Percentile £49.94 £53.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £44.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -42.84% +0.32% +68.69%

Big Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Architect in London

Big Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Big Data Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Big Data Architect job vacancies in London

Big Data Architect
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London - 1 - -
Big Data Architect
England

Big Data Architect Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, Big 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 London region featuring Big Data Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (100.00%) Stress Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CodeQL

Big Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) CodeQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google