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 10 February 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 184 168
Rank change year-on-year -53 -16 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 156 179 247
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 1.33% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.42% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 129 189
10th Percentile £463 £500 £523
25th Percentile £513 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £675 £775 £775
90th Percentile £775 £800 £888
England median daily rate £581 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -7.04% -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 £50.28
% change year-on-year -5.32% +60.11% -28.18%

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 13,893 12,599 17,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 93.62% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,248 8,064 12,487
10th Percentile £350 £332 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £776
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 138 334
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.65 £24.68 £19.01
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.81 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.03% +32.65% -15.73%
75th Percentile £60.75 £54.88 £48.70
90th Percentile £76.58 £79.35 £65.53
England median hourly rate £31.18 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.93% - -6.67%

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 10 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 10 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 -6 18 £613 -22.22% 7
South London - 3 £425 -
East London -1 2 £495 -20.80% 1
West London - 2 £613 - 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 96 (61.54%) Data Architecture
2 93 (59.62%) Data Modelling
3 62 (39.74%) Analytics
4 58 (37.18%) Azure
5 51 (32.69%) Data Governance
5 51 (32.69%) SQL
6 46 (29.49%) AWS
7 44 (28.21%) Databricks
8 39 (25.00%) ETL
9 34 (21.79%) Python
10 33 (21.15%) Data Quality
10 33 (21.15%) Data Warehouse
11 31 (19.87%) Microsoft
12 30 (19.23%) Data Strategy
13 29 (18.59%) AI
14 28 (17.95%) Metadata
14 28 (17.95%) Migration
14 28 (17.95%) Physical Data Model
15 26 (16.67%) Data Lake
16 25 (16.03%) Business Intelligence
16 25 (16.03%) Logical Data Model
17 24 (15.38%) Power Platform
18 23 (14.74%) DevOps
19 22 (14.10%) Agile
19 22 (14.10%) Data Engineering
19 22 (14.10%) Roadmaps
19 22 (14.10%) Security Cleared
19 22 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
20 21 (13.46%) Data Integration
20 21 (13.46%) Power BI

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 7 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.92%) Apache
4 1 (0.64%) Appian
4 1 (0.64%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.28%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.64%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 58 (37.18%) Azure
2 46 (29.49%) AWS
3 24 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 19 (12.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (12.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (10.26%) Serverless
5 16 (10.26%) Snowflake
6 15 (9.62%) Amazon S3
6 15 (9.62%) Microsoft Purview
7 10 (6.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 10 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (6.41%) GCP
8 9 (5.77%) dbt
9 8 (5.13%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (4.49%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (3.85%) Amazon MSK
11 6 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.21%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (3.21%) Collibra
12 5 (3.21%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.15%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (17.95%) Metadata
3 26 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 21 (13.46%) Power BI
5 16 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (9.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (8.33%) Data Vault
8 12 (7.69%) NoSQL
9 10 (6.41%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (6.41%) Tableau
10 9 (5.77%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (5.77%) Delta Lake
10 9 (5.77%) SQL Server
11 8 (5.13%) Apache Iceberg
11 8 (5.13%) OLTP
11 8 (5.13%) Spark SQL
12 7 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (4.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (4.49%) Star Schema
13 6 (3.85%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (5.13%) ERwin
2 3 (1.92%) Git
2 3 (1.92%) GitLab
3 2 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.64%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.64%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.79%) Finance
3 20 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.49%) Retail
6 6 (3.85%) Banking
7 5 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.92%) Local Government
10 2 (1.28%) Back Office
10 2 (1.28%) Front Office
10 2 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.64%) Legal
11 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.26%) Kafka
2 9 (5.77%) PySpark
3 7 (4.49%) Apache Avro
3 7 (4.49%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (1.28%) .NET
5 1 (0.64%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.64%) ADO
5 1 (0.64%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.64%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.64%) FHIR
5 1 (0.64%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.64%) REST
5 1 (0.64%) SOAP
5 1 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.26%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.41%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.49%) Reinsurance
4 6 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.85%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.21%) Data Fabric
5 5 (3.21%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.21%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.56%) IoT
6 4 (2.56%) PACS
6 4 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.92%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.92%) Replication
8 2 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.28%) Equities
8 2 (1.28%) FMCG
8 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.21%) zOS
2 2 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (61.54%) Data Architecture
2 93 (59.62%) Data Modelling
3 62 (39.74%) Analytics
4 51 (32.69%) Data Governance
5 39 (25.00%) ETL
6 30 (19.23%) Data Strategy
7 29 (18.59%) AI
8 28 (17.95%) Migration
8 28 (17.95%) Physical Data Model
9 25 (16.03%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (16.03%) Logical Data Model
10 23 (14.74%) DevOps
11 22 (14.10%) Agile
11 22 (14.10%) Data Engineering
11 22 (14.10%) Roadmaps
11 22 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (13.46%) Data Integration
13 20 (12.82%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (12.82%) Machine Learning
14 19 (12.18%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 51 (32.69%) SQL
2 34 (21.79%) Python
3 7 (4.49%) Java
4 6 (3.85%) T-SQL
5 5 (3.21%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.92%) Scala
7 2 (1.28%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.28%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.28%) R
8 1 (0.64%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.64%) C#
8 1 (0.64%) COBOL
8 1 (0.64%) Korn
8 1 (0.64%) SOQL
8 1 (0.64%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 22 (14.10%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.18%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.62%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.49%) Degree
5 5 (3.21%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.64%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.64%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (21.15%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.69%) GDPR
3 6 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.85%) QA
4 4 (2.56%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.28%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.13%) Terraform
2 3 (1.92%) Grafana
3 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (28.21%) Databricks
2 31 (19.87%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.49%) Confluent
4 6 (3.85%) Oracle
5 4 (2.56%) MicroStrategy
5 4 (2.56%) SAP
6 3 (1.92%) IBM
6 3 (1.92%) Informatica
6 3 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.92%) Workday
7 2 (1.28%) Charles River
7 2 (1.28%) eFront
7 2 (1.28%) Google
7 2 (1.28%) IDERA
7 2 (1.28%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.28%) Sparx
8 1 (0.64%) Ariba
8 1 (0.64%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.64%) Percona
8 1 (0.64%) Talend