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 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 213 211
Rank change year-on-year +53 -2 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 375 164 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.23% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 1.33% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 110 147
10th Percentile £456 £463 £500
25th Percentile £525 £519 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £714 £724 £775
90th Percentile £788 £800 £875
England median daily rate £625 £600 £648
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.34% -4.78%
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 18,789 12,374 15,247
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 92.70% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,111 8,285 10,262
10th Percentile £363 £325 £343
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 £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 207 182
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.54
25th Percentile £21.95 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.50 £30.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.51% -12.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.25 £57.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £74.69
England median hourly rate £43.08 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +71.27% -47.05% +5.56%

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 14 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 14 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 +31 76 £608 +7.19% 35
West London -12 9 £600 -4.00% 9
South London - 3 £725 - 2
East London - 2 £675 - 3
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 185 (49.33%) Data Architecture
2 157 (41.87%) Data Modelling
3 132 (35.20%) Azure
4 124 (33.07%) Analytics
5 113 (30.13%) Security Cleared
6 106 (28.27%) Databricks
7 101 (26.93%) Data Governance
8 98 (26.13%) AWS
9 97 (25.87%) SC Cleared
10 86 (22.93%) Migration
11 82 (21.87%) AI
12 74 (19.73%) Data Quality
13 65 (17.33%) SQL
13 65 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 62 (16.53%) Business Intelligence
15 58 (15.47%) Metadata
16 56 (14.93%) Data Lake
16 56 (14.93%) Data Warehouse
17 55 (14.67%) Integration Patterns
17 55 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 53 (14.13%) Logical Data Model
19 49 (13.07%) Data Engineering
19 49 (13.07%) Snowflake
20 48 (12.80%) CI/CD
20 48 (12.80%) Data Strategy
20 48 (12.80%) Machine Learning
21 47 (12.53%) Data Transformation
21 47 (12.53%) Lakehouse
22 46 (12.27%) Roadmaps
23 45 (12.00%) Physical Data Model

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 (4.27%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.73%) Apache
4 9 (2.40%) 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 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.53%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.53%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 132 (35.20%) Azure
2 98 (26.13%) AWS
3 49 (13.07%) Snowflake
4 40 (10.67%) Power Platform
5 36 (9.60%) GCP
6 30 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 21 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (5.33%) dbt
9 16 (4.27%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.73%) Serverless
11 12 (3.20%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (2.67%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (2.40%) Azure Databricks
15 7 (1.87%) Amazon MSK
16 6 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (1.60%) Azure Machine Learning
16 6 (1.60%) SaaS
17 5 (1.33%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.53%) DSL
2 1 (0.27%) BGP
2 1 (0.27%) Network Security
2 1 (0.27%) OSPF
2 1 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (15.47%) Metadata
2 56 (14.93%) Data Lake
2 56 (14.93%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (9.33%) Power BI
4 20 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (3.47%) BigQuery
6 12 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (3.20%) Data Vault
7 10 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.67%) Semantic Layer
8 9 (2.40%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (2.40%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.13%) Big Data
9 8 (2.13%) Star Schema
9 8 (2.13%) Tableau
10 7 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.87%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (1.60%) ERwin
2 5 (1.33%) GitLab
3 4 (1.07%) 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 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 66 (17.60%) Finance
3 49 (13.07%) Public Sector
4 29 (7.73%) Retail
5 26 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (6.13%) Banking
7 10 (2.67%) Marketing
8 9 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.33%) Billing
10 5 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.07%) Legal
12 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.53%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.27%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.87%) Terraform
2 20 (5.33%) PySpark
3 15 (4.00%) Kafka
4 12 (3.20%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (1.60%) REST
6 5 (1.33%) .NET
7 4 (1.07%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.80%) Apache Avro
8 3 (0.80%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (0.53%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.53%) Bootstrap
9 2 (0.53%) JWT
9 2 (0.53%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (0.53%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (0.53%) pytest
9 2 (0.53%) React
9 2 (0.53%) Snowpark
9 2 (0.53%) SOAP
9 2 (0.53%) WebSockets
9 2 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.93%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.87%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.47%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.47%) Reinsurance
4 12 (3.20%) AI Agents
5 11 (2.93%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.67%) Reference Data
6 10 (2.67%) Taxonomies
7 8 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.13%) Replication
8 7 (1.87%) Data Fabric
8 7 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.60%) NHS
10 5 (1.33%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.07%) Clustering
11 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.07%) IoT
11 4 (1.07%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.27%) Linux
1 1 (0.27%) Windows
1 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (49.33%) Data Architecture
2 157 (41.87%) Data Modelling
3 124 (33.07%) Analytics
4 101 (26.93%) Data Governance
5 86 (22.93%) Migration
6 82 (21.87%) AI
7 65 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 62 (16.53%) Business Intelligence
9 55 (14.67%) Integration Patterns
9 55 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 53 (14.13%) Logical Data Model
11 49 (13.07%) Data Engineering
12 48 (12.80%) CI/CD
12 48 (12.80%) Data Strategy
12 48 (12.80%) Machine Learning
13 47 (12.53%) Data Transformation
13 47 (12.53%) Lakehouse
14 46 (12.27%) Roadmaps
15 45 (12.00%) Physical Data Model
16 44 (11.73%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 65 (17.33%) SQL
2 33 (8.80%) Python
3 5 (1.33%) Java
4 4 (1.07%) Bicep
4 4 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.07%) 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
1 113 (30.13%) Security Cleared
2 97 (25.87%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.47%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.60%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.33%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.27%) CISSP
8 1 (0.27%) Degree
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.27%) VCAP
8 1 (0.27%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (19.73%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.80%) GDPR
3 6 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.07%) QA
4 4 (1.07%) 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 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.33%) Grafana
2 2 (0.53%) Argo
2 2 (0.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.27%) Ansible
3 1 (0.27%) Control-M
Vendors
1 106 (28.27%) Databricks
2 44 (11.73%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.67%) Oracle
4 13 (3.47%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.20%) Foundry
6 9 (2.40%) Google
6 9 (2.40%) Palantir
7 7 (1.87%) Informatica
7 7 (1.87%) SAP
8 5 (1.33%) Talend
9 4 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.80%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.80%) Confluent
10 3 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.80%) Workday
11 2 (0.53%) Ariba
11 2 (0.53%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.53%) IBM
11 2 (0.53%) Teradata
11 2 (0.53%) VMware