Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £586, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 199 193
Rank change year-on-year +27 -6 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 320 170 228
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.62% 1.25% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 1.34% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 119 174
10th Percentile £463 £486 £500
25th Percentile £513 £548 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £609 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -13.00% -
75th Percentile £708 £738 £822
90th Percentile £788 £815 £925
England median daily rate £600 £600 £675
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -
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 18,412 12,722 16,033
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.24% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,063 8,609 11,448
10th Percentile £360 £331 £331
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 199 263
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.15
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.83 £21.90
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.81 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +26.60% -2.85% -18.69%
75th Percentile £59.72 £50.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £70.90
England median hourly rate £45.56 £27.39 £41.27
% change year-on-year +66.34% -33.63% -6.22%

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 20 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 20 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% 24
West London -11 8 £588 -6.00% 6
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 20 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 (49.38%) Data Architecture
2 132 (41.25%) Data Modelling
3 110 (34.38%) Analytics
4 108 (33.75%) Azure
5 78 (24.38%) Security Cleared
6 75 (23.44%) SC Cleared
7 74 (23.13%) AWS
7 74 (23.13%) Databricks
8 67 (20.94%) Data Governance
9 64 (20.00%) Migration
10 61 (19.06%) AI
11 50 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
11 50 (15.63%) Metadata
12 49 (15.31%) SQL
13 47 (14.69%) Data Quality
14 45 (14.06%) ETL
14 45 (14.06%) Integration Patterns
15 43 (13.44%) Data Lake
16 42 (13.13%) Data Engineering
16 42 (13.13%) Microsoft
17 41 (12.81%) Data Integration
18 40 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
19 39 (12.19%) Logical Data Model
20 38 (11.88%) Data Strategy
20 38 (11.88%) Machine Learning
21 36 (11.25%) GCP
21 36 (11.25%) Power Platform
21 36 (11.25%) Snowflake
22 35 (10.94%) Roadmaps
22 35 (10.94%) 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 15 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.13%) Apache
3 9 (2.81%) Palantir Foundry
4 8 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.63%) Confluence
5 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.63%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.63%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.31%) Maximo
3 1 (0.31%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 108 (33.75%) Azure
2 74 (23.13%) AWS
3 36 (11.25%) GCP
3 36 (11.25%) Power Platform
3 36 (11.25%) Snowflake
4 22 (6.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (4.06%) Amazon S3
7 11 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (3.44%) dbt
7 11 (3.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (3.44%) Serverless
8 9 (2.81%) Amazon Kinesis
9 7 (2.19%) SaaS
10 6 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (1.88%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.56%) Amazon MSK
11 5 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.63%) BGP
1 2 (0.63%) DSL
1 2 (0.63%) OSPF
1 2 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.63%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.31%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (15.63%) Metadata
2 43 (13.44%) Data Lake
3 40 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (9.38%) Power BI
5 16 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (4.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (4.06%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.44%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.44%) Data Vault
8 10 (3.13%) Big Data
9 8 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.50%) Db2
10 7 (2.19%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (1.88%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.88%) Star Schema
11 6 (1.88%) Tableau
12 5 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.56%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 9 (2.81%) ERwin
2 6 (1.88%) GitLab
3 3 (0.94%) ER Studio
3 3 (0.94%) Git
3 3 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.63%) JIRA
5 1 (0.31%) MLflow
General
1 57 (17.81%) Finance
2 46 (14.38%) Social Skills
3 41 (12.81%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.75%) Retail
5 21 (6.56%) Banking
6 20 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.13%) Marketing
8 7 (2.19%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.25%) Legal
12 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Aviation
13 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.31%) Local Government
13 1 (0.31%) Military
13 1 (0.31%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.06%) Kafka
2 12 (3.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 12 (3.75%) PySpark
3 6 (1.88%) .NET
4 4 (1.25%) Middleware
5 3 (0.94%) REST
5 3 (0.94%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (0.63%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.63%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.63%) Bootstrap
6 2 (0.63%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.63%) JWT
6 2 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.63%) Protocol Buffers
6 2 (0.63%) pytest
6 2 (0.63%) React
6 2 (0.63%) WebSockets
6 2 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.88%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.75%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.13%) Reference Data
4 9 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.50%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.50%) Taxonomies
6 7 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.88%) IoT
7 6 (1.88%) NHS
7 6 (1.88%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.56%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.25%) Data Fabric
9 4 (1.25%) Digital Media
9 4 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.50%) zOS
2 2 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (49.38%) Data Architecture
2 132 (41.25%) Data Modelling
3 110 (34.38%) Analytics
4 67 (20.94%) Data Governance
5 64 (20.00%) Migration
6 61 (19.06%) AI
7 50 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
8 45 (14.06%) ETL
8 45 (14.06%) Integration Patterns
9 42 (13.13%) Data Engineering
10 41 (12.81%) Data Integration
11 39 (12.19%) Logical Data Model
12 38 (11.88%) Data Strategy
12 38 (11.88%) Machine Learning
13 35 (10.94%) Roadmaps
13 35 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
14 32 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (9.69%) CI/CD
16 30 (9.38%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 49 (15.31%) SQL
2 28 (8.75%) Python
3 6 (1.88%) Java
3 6 (1.88%) Scala
4 3 (0.94%) Bicep
4 3 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.94%) R
5 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.63%) Cypher
5 2 (0.63%) SHACL
5 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.31%) COBOL
6 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 78 (24.38%) Security Cleared
2 75 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.88%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.56%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.25%) Degree
6 4 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.63%) VCAP
8 2 (0.63%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.69%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.63%) GDPR
3 8 (2.50%) QA
4 4 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.63%) IFRS
6 2 (0.63%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.63%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.63%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.31%) GRC
7 1 (0.31%) HL7
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.63%) Docker
1 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (4.06%) Terraform
2 6 (1.88%) Grafana
3 3 (0.94%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.63%) Ansible
4 2 (0.63%) Argo
4 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 74 (23.13%) Databricks
2 42 (13.13%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.25%) Oracle
4 16 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.75%) Foundry
6 9 (2.81%) Palantir
7 8 (2.50%) SAP
8 5 (1.56%) Google
8 5 (1.56%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.94%) Workday
10 2 (0.63%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.63%) Ariba
10 2 (0.63%) Confluent
10 2 (0.63%) IBM
10 2 (0.63%) IDERA
10 2 (0.63%) OneTrust
10 2 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.63%) Sparx
10 2 (0.63%) VMware