Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £608, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 216 201
Rank change year-on-year +58 -15 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 377 161 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.20% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 1.29% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 111 147
10th Percentile £456 £463 £488
25th Percentile £525 £513 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £713 £723 £775
90th Percentile £788 £800 £875
England median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £118.86
Median % change year-on-year - -45.31% +180.50%
England median hourly rate £47.00 £51.98 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -13.37% +21.21%

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 18,843 12,491 15,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 92.75% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,159 8,370 10,243
10th Percentile £363 £331 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.35% -3.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 206 181
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.23% -13.57% -5.25%
75th Percentile £63.43 £51.81 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.54 £75.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.71
% change year-on-year +76.76% -46.16% +3.81%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +30 76 £608 +7.19% 48
West London -13 9 £600 -4.00% 9
South London - 3 £725 - 1
East London - 2 £675 - 2
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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.

1 187 (49.60%) Data Architecture
2 158 (41.91%) Data Modelling
3 131 (34.75%) Azure
4 126 (33.42%) Analytics
5 116 (30.77%) Security Cleared
6 107 (28.38%) Databricks
7 105 (27.85%) Data Governance
8 99 (26.26%) AWS
8 99 (26.26%) SC Cleared
9 87 (23.08%) Migration
10 84 (22.28%) AI
11 77 (20.42%) Data Quality
12 64 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
13 63 (16.71%) Metadata
13 63 (16.71%) SQL
14 60 (15.92%) Business Intelligence
15 57 (15.12%) Data Lake
16 56 (14.85%) Integration Patterns
16 56 (14.85%) Logical Data Model
17 55 (14.59%) Data Warehouse
18 54 (14.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 51 (13.53%) Snowflake
20 49 (13.00%) CI/CD
20 49 (13.00%) Data Engineering
21 48 (12.73%) Lakehouse
21 48 (12.73%) Microsoft
21 48 (12.73%) Roadmaps
22 47 (12.47%) Data Strategy
22 47 (12.47%) Data Transformation
22 47 (12.47%) Machine Learning

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 16 (4.24%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.71%) Apache
4 9 (2.39%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.53%) Confluence
5 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.53%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) Maximo
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 131 (34.75%) Azure
2 99 (26.26%) AWS
3 51 (13.53%) Snowflake
4 37 (9.81%) Power Platform
5 36 (9.55%) GCP
6 30 (7.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 22 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (5.31%) dbt
9 16 (4.24%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.71%) Serverless
11 12 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.18%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (2.65%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.39%) Azure Databricks
14 7 (1.86%) Amazon MSK
15 6 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.59%) SaaS
16 5 (1.33%) Amazon EMR
16 5 (1.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.53%) DSL
2 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (16.71%) Metadata
2 57 (15.12%) Data Lake
3 55 (14.59%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (8.75%) Power BI
5 20 (5.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (3.45%) BigQuery
6 13 (3.45%) Data Vault
7 12 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.65%) Semantic Layer
9 9 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (2.39%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.12%) Big Data
10 8 (2.12%) Star Schema
10 8 (2.12%) Tableau
11 7 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.86%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.86%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (1.59%) ERwin
2 5 (1.33%) GitLab
3 4 (1.06%) Git
4 3 (0.80%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.80%) MLflow
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.53%) JIRA
5 2 (0.53%) RStudio
General
1 76 (20.16%) Social Skills
2 64 (16.98%) Finance
3 52 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 29 (7.69%) Retail
5 26 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (6.10%) Banking
7 10 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (2.65%) Marketing
8 7 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.33%) Billing
9 5 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.06%) Legal
11 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.53%) Military
11 2 (0.53%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Law
12 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.27%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.84%) Terraform
2 21 (5.57%) PySpark
3 16 (4.24%) Kafka
4 12 (3.18%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.86%) REST
6 4 (1.06%) .NET
6 4 (1.06%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.80%) Apache Avro
7 3 (0.80%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (0.53%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.53%) Bootstrap
8 2 (0.53%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.53%) JWT
8 2 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.53%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (0.53%) pytest
8 2 (0.53%) React
8 2 (0.53%) SOAP
8 2 (0.53%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.16%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.84%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.45%) Reinsurance
4 12 (3.18%) AI Agents
5 10 (2.65%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.65%) Taxonomies
6 9 (2.39%) Reference Data
7 8 (2.12%) Data Fabric
7 8 (2.12%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.12%) Replication
8 7 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.59%) NHS
10 5 (1.33%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.06%) Clustering
11 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.06%) IoT
11 4 (1.06%) SCADA
12 3 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.27%) Linux
1 1 (0.27%) Windows
1 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (49.60%) Data Architecture
2 158 (41.91%) Data Modelling
3 126 (33.42%) Analytics
4 105 (27.85%) Data Governance
5 87 (23.08%) Migration
6 84 (22.28%) AI
7 64 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (15.92%) Business Intelligence
9 56 (14.85%) Integration Patterns
9 56 (14.85%) Logical Data Model
10 54 (14.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 49 (13.00%) CI/CD
11 49 (13.00%) Data Engineering
12 48 (12.73%) Lakehouse
12 48 (12.73%) Roadmaps
13 47 (12.47%) Data Strategy
13 47 (12.47%) Data Transformation
13 47 (12.47%) Machine Learning
14 46 (12.20%) Physical Data Model
15 43 (11.41%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 63 (16.71%) SQL
2 34 (9.02%) Python
3 5 (1.33%) Bicep
3 5 (1.33%) Java
4 4 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.06%) Scala
5 2 (0.53%) Cypher
5 2 (0.53%) R
5 2 (0.53%) SHACL
5 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 116 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 99 (26.26%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.71%) DV Cleared
4 7 (1.86%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.33%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.53%) Degree
7 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.27%) CISSP
8 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (20.42%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.31%) GDPR
3 6 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.06%) QA
4 4 (1.06%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.80%) IFRS
5 3 (0.80%) NCSC
5 3 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.53%) GRC
6 2 (0.53%) GxP
6 2 (0.53%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.53%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.27%) Docker
1 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.33%) Grafana
2 2 (0.53%) Argo
2 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.27%) Control-M
3 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 107 (28.38%) Databricks
2 48 (12.73%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.63%) Oracle
4 13 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.18%) Foundry
6 9 (2.39%) Google
6 9 (2.39%) Palantir
7 7 (1.86%) Informatica
7 7 (1.86%) SAP
8 5 (1.33%) Talend
9 4 (1.06%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.06%) Sparx
10 3 (0.80%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.80%) Confluent
10 3 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.80%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.80%) Workday
11 2 (0.53%) Ariba
11 2 (0.53%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.53%) IBM