Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £623, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 208 215
Rank change year-on-year +40 +7 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 365 157 182
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 1.17% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 1.27% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 113 137
10th Percentile £456 £463 £500
25th Percentile £525 £545 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -4.00% -9.91%
75th Percentile £715 £713 £750
90th Percentile £800 £800 £805
England median daily rate £625 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £118.86
England median hourly rate £47.00 £60.98 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.93% +1.63% +19.34%

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 19,079 12,384 15,047
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 92.45% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,336 8,275 9,801
10th Percentile £363 £334 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 209 173
10th Percentile £16.96 £17.00 £17.30
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £24.15
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.85% -22.86% -13.58%
75th Percentile £65.30 £49.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £79.75
England median hourly rate £42.31 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.23% -41.51% -6.89%

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 October 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 October 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 +23 69 £620 +8.58% 44
West London -16 9 £600 -2.04% 7
South London - 3 £725 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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.

1 193 (52.88%) Data Architecture
2 158 (43.29%) Data Modelling
3 131 (35.89%) Azure
4 123 (33.70%) Security Cleared
5 120 (32.88%) Analytics
6 114 (31.23%) Data Governance
7 103 (28.22%) SC Cleared
8 102 (27.95%) Databricks
9 98 (26.85%) AWS
10 82 (22.47%) Data Quality
11 80 (21.92%) AI
12 79 (21.64%) Migration
13 71 (19.45%) Metadata
14 63 (17.26%) Stakeholder Management
15 62 (16.99%) SQL
16 59 (16.16%) Business Intelligence
17 57 (15.62%) Logical Data Model
18 56 (15.34%) Data Warehouse
19 55 (15.07%) Microsoft
20 54 (14.79%) Data Lake
20 54 (14.79%) Integration Patterns
20 54 (14.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 49 (13.42%) Data Transformation
21 49 (13.42%) Lakehouse
21 49 (13.42%) Snowflake
22 48 (13.15%) Physical Data Model
23 45 (12.33%) Roadmaps
24 44 (12.05%) CI/CD
25 42 (11.51%) Data Integration
25 42 (11.51%) Decision-Making

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 17 (4.66%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.11%) Apache
4 4 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.55%) Confluence
5 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.55%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 131 (35.89%) Azure
2 98 (26.85%) AWS
3 49 (13.42%) Snowflake
4 39 (10.68%) Power Platform
5 30 (8.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (6.30%) GCP
7 22 (6.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (5.75%) dbt
9 13 (3.56%) Amazon S3
9 13 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (3.29%) Serverless
11 11 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (1.92%) Azure Databricks
13 6 (1.64%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.64%) GitHub
14 5 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.10%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.55%) DSL
2 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (19.45%) Metadata
2 56 (15.34%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (14.79%) Data Lake
4 38 (10.41%) Power BI
5 16 (4.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (4.11%) Data Vault
7 11 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
8 10 (2.74%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.19%) Big Data
9 8 (2.19%) Semantic Layer
9 8 (2.19%) Star Schema
9 8 (2.19%) Tableau
10 7 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.92%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.92%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.92%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.64%) ERwin
2 5 (1.37%) Git
2 5 (1.37%) GitLab
3 3 (0.82%) ER Studio
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.55%) JIRA
4 2 (0.55%) MLflow
4 2 (0.55%) RStudio
General
1 79 (21.64%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.71%) Finance
3 44 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 27 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.58%) Banking
6 22 (6.03%) Retail
7 10 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.64%) Marketing
10 5 (1.37%) Billing
10 5 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.10%) Legal
12 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Aviation
13 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.55%) Military
13 2 (0.55%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.27%) Law
14 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.03%) Terraform
2 20 (5.48%) PySpark
3 18 (4.93%) Kafka
4 7 (1.92%) REST
5 4 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Avro
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.55%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.55%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.55%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.55%) JSON
7 2 (0.55%) JWT
7 2 (0.55%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.55%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (0.55%) pytest
7 2 (0.55%) React
7 2 (0.55%) Snowpark
7 2 (0.55%) WebSockets
7 2 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.30%) Data Structures
2 21 (5.75%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.84%) Reinsurance
4 13 (3.56%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.29%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.29%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.29%) Reference Data
5 12 (3.29%) Taxonomies
6 10 (2.74%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.47%) Replication
8 8 (2.19%) Data Fabric
9 6 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.37%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.10%) IoT
11 4 (1.10%) SCADA
12 3 (0.82%) Clustering
12 3 (0.82%) CMDB
12 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.27%) Linux
1 1 (0.27%) Windows
1 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (52.88%) Data Architecture
2 158 (43.29%) Data Modelling
3 120 (32.88%) Analytics
4 114 (31.23%) Data Governance
5 80 (21.92%) AI
6 79 (21.64%) Migration
7 63 (17.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 59 (16.16%) Business Intelligence
9 57 (15.62%) Logical Data Model
10 54 (14.79%) Integration Patterns
10 54 (14.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 49 (13.42%) Data Transformation
11 49 (13.42%) Lakehouse
12 48 (13.15%) Physical Data Model
13 45 (12.33%) Roadmaps
14 44 (12.05%) CI/CD
15 42 (11.51%) Data Integration
15 42 (11.51%) Decision-Making
16 41 (11.23%) Data Engineering
16 41 (11.23%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 62 (16.99%) SQL
2 33 (9.04%) Python
3 6 (1.64%) Bicep
4 4 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.10%) Java
5 3 (0.82%) Scala
6 2 (0.55%) Cypher
6 2 (0.55%) R
6 2 (0.55%) SHACL
6 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.55%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 123 (33.70%) Security Cleared
2 103 (28.22%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.21%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.19%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.37%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.10%) Degree
9 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
11 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (22.47%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.58%) GDPR
3 7 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.10%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.82%) IFRS
5 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.82%) NCSC
5 3 (0.82%) QA
5 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.55%) GRC
6 2 (0.55%) GxP
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.55%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.55%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
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 6 (1.64%) Grafana
2 2 (0.55%) Argo
2 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.27%) Control-M
3 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 102 (27.95%) Databricks
2 55 (15.07%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.48%) Oracle
4 10 (2.74%) Google
5 8 (2.19%) Informatica
6 7 (1.92%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.64%) Talend
8 5 (1.37%) Confluent
8 5 (1.37%) Foundry
8 5 (1.37%) SAP
9 4 (1.10%) Palantir
9 4 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.10%) Sparx
10 3 (0.82%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.82%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.82%) Workday
11 2 (0.55%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.55%) IBM
11 2 (0.55%) Teradata