Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 192 169
Rank change year-on-year +7 -23 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 270 159 252
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.47% 1.32% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.41% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 112 191
10th Percentile £463 £489 £500
25th Percentile £513 £534 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £712 £725 £825
90th Percentile £788 £799 £925
England median daily rate £600 £600 £675
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £72.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -35.40% +21.25% -6.98%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 17,049 11,286 16,405
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 93.51% 93.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,271 7,654 11,842
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £433 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £676
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £517 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -1.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 157 327
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% +15.07% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.00 £47.18
90th Percentile £76.74 £63.10 £67.40
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.57 £37.75
% change year-on-year +52.21% -21.68% -16.11%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 London.

Data Architect job vacancy trend in London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in London

Data Architect
Contract 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 Data Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 3 June 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +11 45 £550 -1.35% 35
West London -18 7 £575 -8.00% 2
South London - 2 £725 - 1
East London - 2 £675 -
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 June 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 London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 140 (51.85%) Data Architecture
2 112 (41.48%) Data Modelling
3 100 (37.04%) Analytics
4 90 (33.33%) Azure
5 76 (28.15%) Databricks
6 66 (24.44%) AWS
7 62 (22.96%) Migration
8 58 (21.48%) Security Cleared
9 54 (20.00%) SC Cleared
10 53 (19.63%) Data Governance
10 53 (19.63%) SQL
11 46 (17.04%) Microsoft
12 44 (16.30%) AI
13 40 (14.81%) Roadmaps
14 39 (14.44%) Data Quality
14 39 (14.44%) Metadata
15 37 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
16 36 (13.33%) Data Engineering
17 35 (12.96%) Data Strategy
18 34 (12.59%) Logical Data Model
19 33 (12.22%) Data Lake
19 33 (12.22%) ETL
19 33 (12.22%) GCP
20 32 (11.85%) Integration Patterns
21 31 (11.48%) CI/CD
22 30 (11.11%) Data Migration
22 30 (11.11%) Event-Driven
22 30 (11.11%) Power Platform
23 28 (10.37%) Data Warehouse
23 28 (10.37%) Python

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 13 (4.81%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.33%) Palantir Foundry
3 6 (2.22%) Apache
4 3 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.74%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 90 (33.33%) Azure
2 66 (24.44%) AWS
3 33 (12.22%) GCP
4 30 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 27 (10.00%) Snowflake
6 21 (7.78%) Amazon S3
7 20 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (7.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (6.67%) Serverless
10 15 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
11 14 (5.19%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (4.07%) AWS Step Functions
13 10 (3.70%) Amazon MSK
13 10 (3.70%) dbt
14 9 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (2.22%) Apigee
16 6 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.74%) BGP
1 2 (0.74%) OSPF
1 2 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.74%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.37%) Firewall
2 1 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (14.44%) Metadata
2 33 (12.22%) Data Lake
3 28 (10.37%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (8.89%) Power BI
5 22 (8.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (4.44%) Data Vault
7 12 (4.44%) Delta Lake
7 12 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.07%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (3.70%) BigQuery
10 9 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.33%) DB2
10 9 (3.33%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.33%) OLTP
10 9 (3.33%) Star Schema
11 8 (2.96%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.96%) Tableau
12 6 (2.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 9 (3.33%) ERwin
2 5 (1.85%) GitLab
3 4 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.74%) Git
5 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.37%) MLflow
General
1 42 (15.56%) Finance
2 36 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.89%) Retail
5 18 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.56%) Banking
7 8 (2.96%) Marketing
8 7 (2.59%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.85%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Aviation
12 1 (0.37%) Legal
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.93%) Kafka
2 10 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (3.70%) PySpark
3 9 (3.33%) Apache Avro
3 9 (3.33%) Protocol Buffers
4 6 (2.22%) .NET
5 4 (1.48%) Middleware
6 2 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.74%) REST
6 2 (0.74%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.37%) FHIR
7 1 (0.37%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.37%) SOAP
7 1 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.07%) Data Structures
2 11 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.70%) Mainframe
4 9 (3.33%) Reference Data
5 8 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.59%) NHS
6 7 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.22%) PACS
7 6 (2.22%) Reinsurance
7 6 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.85%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.48%) Data Fabric
9 4 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.48%) IoT
9 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.11%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.33%) zOS
2 2 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (51.85%) Data Architecture
2 112 (41.48%) Data Modelling
3 100 (37.04%) Analytics
4 62 (22.96%) Migration
5 53 (19.63%) Data Governance
6 44 (16.30%) AI
7 40 (14.81%) Roadmaps
8 37 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
9 36 (13.33%) Data Engineering
10 35 (12.96%) Data Strategy
11 34 (12.59%) Logical Data Model
12 33 (12.22%) ETL
13 32 (11.85%) Integration Patterns
14 31 (11.48%) CI/CD
15 30 (11.11%) Data Migration
15 30 (11.11%) Event-Driven
16 27 (10.00%) Data Integration
16 27 (10.00%) Physical Data Model
17 26 (9.63%) Data Management
17 26 (9.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 53 (19.63%) SQL
2 28 (10.37%) Python
3 7 (2.59%) Scala
4 5 (1.85%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.85%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.48%) Java
6 2 (0.74%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.74%) Bicep
7 1 (0.37%) COBOL
7 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 58 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.19%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.85%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.48%) Degree
6 3 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.74%) VCAP
7 2 (0.74%) VCDX
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (14.44%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.96%) GDPR
3 7 (2.59%) QA
4 6 (2.22%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) GRC
6 1 (0.37%) HL7
6 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.74%) Docker
1 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (5.19%) Terraform
2 5 (1.85%) Grafana
3 3 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 76 (28.15%) Databricks
2 46 (17.04%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.93%) Oracle
4 14 (5.19%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.44%) Foundry
6 9 (3.33%) Confluent
6 9 (3.33%) Palantir
7 4 (1.48%) Google
7 4 (1.48%) SAP
8 3 (1.11%) IBM
8 3 (1.11%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.74%) Ariba
9 2 (0.74%) IDERA
9 2 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.74%) Sparx
9 2 (0.74%) VMware
10 1 (0.37%) Infor
10 1 (0.37%) Informatica
10 1 (0.37%) MapR
10 1 (0.37%) MuleSoft