Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 195 165
Rank change year-on-year -35 -30 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 169 175 255
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 1.31% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.40% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 126 195
10th Percentile £463 £500 £525
25th Percentile £513 £525 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £721 £784 £775
90th Percentile £781 £800 £888
England median daily rate £581 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -6.98% -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £43.55
25th Percentile - - £44.33
Median hourly rate - - £47.78
75th Percentile - - £50.33
90th Percentile - - £50.58
England median hourly rate £76.22 £80.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year -5.32% +57.67% -27.06%

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 14,261 12,530 17,199
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 93.61% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,512 8,078 12,404
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £787
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 139 338
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.95 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.02 £24.66 £19.10
Median hourly rate £34.75 £36.50 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% +26.41% -17.50%
75th Percentile £59.79 £53.75 £49.68
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.47 £66.30
England median hourly rate £31.65 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.57% - -12.01%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -3 21 £613 -22.22% 6
South London - 3 £425 -
East London -2 2 £495 -20.80% 2
West London - 2 £613 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 February 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.

1 103 (60.95%) Data Architecture
2 98 (57.99%) Data Modelling
3 69 (40.83%) Analytics
4 60 (35.50%) Azure
5 54 (31.95%) Data Governance
5 54 (31.95%) SQL
6 52 (30.77%) AWS
7 44 (26.04%) Databricks
8 40 (23.67%) ETL
9 37 (21.89%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (20.71%) AI
11 34 (20.12%) Data Quality
11 34 (20.12%) Metadata
12 33 (19.53%) Python
13 31 (18.34%) Data Strategy
14 30 (17.75%) Physical Data Model
15 29 (17.16%) Microsoft
15 29 (17.16%) Migration
16 28 (16.57%) Business Intelligence
17 27 (15.98%) Data Lake
17 27 (15.98%) Logical Data Model
18 26 (15.38%) Data Integration
18 26 (15.38%) Security Cleared
19 24 (14.20%) Agile
19 24 (14.20%) DevOps
19 24 (14.20%) Power Platform
20 23 (13.61%) Roadmaps
20 23 (13.61%) SC Cleared
21 22 (13.02%) Data Engineering
22 21 (12.43%) Data Pipeline

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 10 (5.92%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.59%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 60 (35.50%) Azure
2 52 (30.77%) AWS
3 24 (14.20%) Power Platform
4 19 (11.24%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (10.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 17 (10.06%) Snowflake
7 16 (9.47%) Amazon S3
8 15 (8.88%) Serverless
9 14 (8.28%) GCP
10 13 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (5.92%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (5.92%) dbt
13 8 (4.73%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (4.14%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (3.55%) Amazon MSK
15 6 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (3.55%) Collibra
16 5 (2.96%) Azure Key Vault
16 5 (2.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (21.89%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (20.12%) Metadata
3 27 (15.98%) Data Lake
4 21 (12.43%) Power BI
5 16 (9.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (8.28%) Data Vault
6 14 (8.28%) NoSQL
7 10 (5.92%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (5.92%) Tableau
8 9 (5.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (5.33%) Delta Lake
8 9 (5.33%) SQL Server
9 8 (4.73%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (4.73%) Big Data
9 8 (4.73%) OLTP
9 8 (4.73%) Spark SQL
9 8 (4.73%) Star Schema
10 7 (4.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.55%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (5.33%) ERwin
2 4 (2.37%) Git
3 3 (1.78%) GitLab
3 3 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.59%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 36 (21.30%) Finance
3 19 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.73%) Retail
6 7 (4.14%) Banking
7 5 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.78%) Local Government
10 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Back Office
11 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.59%) Front Office
11 1 (0.59%) Legal
11 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.88%) Kafka
2 9 (5.33%) PySpark
3 7 (4.14%) Apache Avro
3 7 (4.14%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (1.18%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.59%) .NET
5 1 (0.59%) ADO
5 1 (0.59%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.59%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.59%) FHIR
5 1 (0.59%) Middleware
5 1 (0.59%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.59%) REST
5 1 (0.59%) SOAP
5 1 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.47%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.33%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.14%) Reference Data
3 7 (4.14%) Reinsurance
4 6 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.55%) Mainframe
4 6 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.96%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.37%) Data Fabric
6 4 (2.37%) PACS
6 4 (2.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.78%) IoT
7 3 (1.78%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.78%) Replication
8 2 (1.18%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.18%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.55%) zOS
2 2 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (60.95%) Data Architecture
2 98 (57.99%) Data Modelling
3 69 (40.83%) Analytics
4 54 (31.95%) Data Governance
5 40 (23.67%) ETL
6 35 (20.71%) AI
7 31 (18.34%) Data Strategy
8 30 (17.75%) Physical Data Model
9 29 (17.16%) Migration
10 28 (16.57%) Business Intelligence
11 27 (15.98%) Logical Data Model
12 26 (15.38%) Data Integration
13 24 (14.20%) Agile
13 24 (14.20%) DevOps
14 23 (13.61%) Roadmaps
15 22 (13.02%) Data Engineering
16 21 (12.43%) Data Pipeline
16 21 (12.43%) Machine Learning
16 21 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
17 20 (11.83%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 54 (31.95%) SQL
2 33 (19.53%) Python
3 7 (4.14%) Java
4 6 (3.55%) T-SQL
5 5 (2.96%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.37%) Scala
7 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.18%) R
8 1 (0.59%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.59%) COBOL
8 1 (0.59%) Korn
8 1 (0.59%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 26 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.61%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.28%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.55%) Degree
4 6 (3.55%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (2.96%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.37%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.59%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.59%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (20.12%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.51%) GDPR
3 7 (4.14%) QA
4 6 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.37%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (1.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (4.73%) Terraform
2 3 (1.78%) Grafana
3 2 (1.18%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (26.04%) Databricks
2 29 (17.16%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.14%) Confluent
4 6 (3.55%) Oracle
4 6 (3.55%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.37%) MicroStrategy
5 4 (2.37%) SAP
6 3 (1.78%) IBM
6 3 (1.78%) Informatica
6 3 (1.78%) Workday
7 2 (1.18%) Google
7 2 (1.18%) IDERA
7 2 (1.18%) Sparx
8 1 (0.59%) Ariba
8 1 (0.59%) Charles River
8 1 (0.59%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.59%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.59%) Percona
8 1 (0.59%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.59%) Talend