Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £591, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 208 183
Rank change year-on-year +35 -25 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 311 165 238
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.57% 1.22% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 1.31% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 115 183
10th Percentile £463 £488 £500
25th Percentile £513 £541 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £600 £693
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -13.36% -1.07%
75th Percentile £710 £737 £819
90th Percentile £788 £808 £925
England median daily rate £600 £600 £675
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £118.86
Median % change year-on-year - -45.31% +237.19%
England median hourly rate £47.00 £51.98 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -13.37% -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 18,343 12,617 16,363
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.26% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,048 8,531 11,676
10th Percentile £359 £331 £330
25th Percentile £445 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £762 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 196 296
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.47 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.73 £22.98 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +13.27% -24.51%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £63.75 £69.13
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.78% -29.55% -6.98%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +32 62 £595 +5.22% 21
West London -7 8 £588 -6.00% 5
South London - 2 £725 -
East London - 2 £675 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 158 (50.80%) Data Architecture
2 132 (42.44%) Data Modelling
3 113 (36.33%) Analytics
4 106 (34.08%) Azure
5 76 (24.44%) Security Cleared
6 74 (23.79%) Databricks
7 73 (23.47%) AWS
7 73 (23.47%) SC Cleared
8 65 (20.90%) Migration
9 63 (20.26%) Data Governance
10 61 (19.61%) AI
11 50 (16.08%) Metadata
12 49 (15.76%) Business Intelligence
13 48 (15.43%) SQL
14 45 (14.47%) Data Quality
14 45 (14.47%) Integration Patterns
15 44 (14.15%) ETL
16 42 (13.50%) Data Lake
16 42 (13.50%) Microsoft
17 41 (13.18%) Data Engineering
17 41 (13.18%) Data Integration
18 40 (12.86%) Data Warehouse
18 40 (12.86%) Logical Data Model
19 38 (12.22%) Machine Learning
19 38 (12.22%) Snowflake
20 37 (11.90%) Data Strategy
21 36 (11.58%) GCP
21 36 (11.58%) Power Platform
21 36 (11.58%) Roadmaps
22 34 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management

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 (4.18%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.89%) Palantir Foundry
3 8 (2.57%) Apache
4 7 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.64%) Confluence
5 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.64%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Maximo
3 1 (0.32%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 106 (34.08%) Azure
2 73 (23.47%) AWS
3 38 (12.22%) Snowflake
4 36 (11.58%) GCP
4 36 (11.58%) Power Platform
5 22 (7.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (4.18%) Amazon S3
8 11 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.54%) dbt
8 11 (3.54%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (3.54%) Serverless
9 9 (2.89%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (2.25%) SaaS
11 6 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.93%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (1.93%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.61%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (1.61%) PaaS
13 4 (1.29%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.64%) BGP
1 2 (0.64%) DSL
1 2 (0.64%) OSPF
1 2 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.64%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.32%) Firewall
2 1 (0.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (16.08%) Metadata
2 42 (13.50%) Data Lake
3 40 (12.86%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (9.65%) Power BI
5 16 (5.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (4.18%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.54%) BigQuery
8 10 (3.22%) Data Vault
9 9 (2.89%) Big Data
10 8 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (2.57%) Db2
11 7 (2.25%) Semantic Layer
11 7 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.93%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.93%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.93%) Tableau
13 5 (1.61%) Data Mining
13 5 (1.61%) Flink
Development Applications
1 9 (2.89%) ERwin
2 6 (1.93%) GitLab
3 3 (0.96%) ER Studio
3 3 (0.96%) Git
3 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.64%) JIRA
5 1 (0.32%) MLflow
General
1 54 (17.36%) Finance
2 47 (15.11%) Social Skills
3 40 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.68%) Retail
5 20 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.43%) Banking
6 10 (3.22%) Marketing
7 7 (2.25%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.93%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Legal
11 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Aviation
12 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.32%) Local Government
12 1 (0.32%) Military
12 1 (0.32%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.86%) Kafka
1 12 (3.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (3.54%) PySpark
3 6 (1.93%) .NET
4 4 (1.29%) Middleware
5 3 (0.96%) REST
5 3 (0.96%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (0.64%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.64%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.64%) Bootstrap
6 2 (0.64%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.64%) JWT
6 2 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.64%) Protocol Buffers
6 2 (0.64%) pytest
6 2 (0.64%) React
6 2 (0.64%) Snowpark
6 2 (0.64%) WebSockets
6 2 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.54%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.22%) Reference Data
4 8 (2.57%) AI Agents
4 8 (2.57%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.57%) Mainframe
4 8 (2.57%) Taxonomies
5 7 (2.25%) NHS
5 7 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.93%) IoT
6 6 (1.93%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.61%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.29%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.29%) SCADA
9 3 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.57%) zOS
2 2 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (50.80%) Data Architecture
2 132 (42.44%) Data Modelling
3 113 (36.33%) Analytics
4 65 (20.90%) Migration
5 63 (20.26%) Data Governance
6 61 (19.61%) AI
7 49 (15.76%) Business Intelligence
8 45 (14.47%) Integration Patterns
9 44 (14.15%) ETL
10 41 (13.18%) Data Engineering
10 41 (13.18%) Data Integration
11 40 (12.86%) Logical Data Model
12 38 (12.22%) Machine Learning
13 37 (11.90%) Data Strategy
14 36 (11.58%) Roadmaps
15 34 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (10.29%) Data Pipeline
17 31 (9.97%) CI/CD
17 31 (9.97%) Data Migration
17 31 (9.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (15.43%) SQL
2 26 (8.36%) Python
3 5 (1.61%) Java
3 5 (1.61%) Scala
4 3 (0.96%) Bicep
4 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.96%) R
5 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.64%) Cypher
5 2 (0.64%) SHACL
5 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.64%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.32%) COBOL
6 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 76 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 73 (23.47%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.22%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.93%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.61%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.29%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.29%) Degree
6 4 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.64%) VCAP
8 2 (0.64%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (14.47%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.79%) GDPR
3 8 (2.57%) QA
4 4 (1.29%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.64%) IFRS
6 2 (0.64%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.64%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.64%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.32%) GRC
7 1 (0.32%) HL7
7 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.64%) Docker
1 2 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (4.18%) Terraform
2 6 (1.93%) Grafana
3 3 (0.96%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.64%) Ansible
4 2 (0.64%) Argo
4 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 74 (23.79%) Databricks
2 42 (13.50%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.43%) Oracle
4 16 (5.14%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.86%) Foundry
6 9 (2.89%) Palantir
7 8 (2.57%) SAP
8 5 (1.61%) Google
8 5 (1.61%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.64%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.64%) Confluent
9 2 (0.64%) FactSet
9 2 (0.64%) IBM
9 2 (0.64%) IDERA
9 2 (0.64%) OneTrust
9 2 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.64%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.64%) Sparx
9 2 (0.64%) VMware
9 2 (0.64%) Workday