Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 212 206
Rank change year-on-year +54 -6 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 377 158 182
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.19% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 1.28% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 109 137
10th Percentile £453 £463 £495
25th Percentile £525 £545 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £715 £720 £750
90th Percentile £797 £800 £825
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 £38.96 £60.00
% change year-on-year +20.64% -35.07% +21.21%

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 18,855 12,329 15,074
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 92.62% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,181 8,231 9,873
10th Percentile £363 £331 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -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% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 202 178
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.00 £17.43
25th Percentile £21.95 £22.56 £24.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.81 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.42% -22.20% -7.65%
75th Percentile £64.81 £49.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.31 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.40%

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 6 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 6 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 +31 72 £620 +7.83% 43
West London -14 9 £600 -2.04% 8
South London - 3 £725 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 196 (51.99%) Data Architecture
2 160 (42.44%) Data Modelling
3 134 (35.54%) Azure
4 125 (33.16%) Analytics
5 120 (31.83%) Security Cleared
6 110 (29.18%) Data Governance
7 103 (27.32%) SC Cleared
8 102 (27.06%) AWS
9 100 (26.53%) Databricks
10 83 (22.02%) Migration
11 81 (21.49%) AI
12 79 (20.95%) Data Quality
13 67 (17.77%) Metadata
14 65 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 64 (16.98%) SQL
16 59 (15.65%) Logical Data Model
17 58 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
18 56 (14.85%) Data Lake
18 56 (14.85%) Integration Patterns
18 56 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 55 (14.59%) Data Warehouse
20 52 (13.79%) Microsoft
21 51 (13.53%) Data Transformation
22 50 (13.26%) Physical Data Model
23 48 (12.73%) Lakehouse
23 48 (12.73%) Snowflake
24 47 (12.47%) CI/CD
25 46 (12.20%) Roadmaps
26 45 (11.94%) Data Strategy
27 44 (11.67%) Data Engineering

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 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
1 17 (4.51%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.98%) Apache
3 6 (1.59%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.53%) Confluence
4 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.53%) 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
1 134 (35.54%) Azure
2 102 (27.06%) AWS
3 48 (12.73%) Snowflake
4 38 (10.08%) Power Platform
5 30 (7.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 28 (7.43%) GCP
7 22 (5.84%) dbt
8 21 (5.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (3.71%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.45%) Serverless
11 11 (2.92%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (2.12%) Amazon Kinesis
13 7 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.86%) Azure Databricks
14 6 (1.59%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (1.59%) GitHub
15 5 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.33%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.53%) DSL
2 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (17.77%) Metadata
2 56 (14.85%) Data Lake
3 55 (14.59%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (9.28%) Power BI
5 18 (4.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (3.98%) Data Vault
7 13 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (2.65%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (2.12%) Big Data
11 8 (2.12%) Delta Lake
11 8 (2.12%) Semantic Layer
11 8 (2.12%) Star Schema
11 8 (2.12%) Tableau
12 7 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.86%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.86%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.59%) ERwin
2 5 (1.33%) GitLab
3 4 (1.06%) Git
4 3 (0.80%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.53%) JIRA
5 2 (0.53%) MLflow
5 2 (0.53%) RStudio
General
1 80 (21.22%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.18%) Finance
3 49 (13.00%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.10%) Banking
6 22 (5.84%) Retail
7 10 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.86%) Marketing
9 6 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.33%) Billing
10 5 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.06%) Legal
12 2 (0.53%) Aviation
12 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.53%) Military
12 2 (0.53%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.27%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.27%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.84%) Terraform
2 21 (5.57%) PySpark
3 18 (4.77%) Kafka
4 9 (2.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (2.12%) REST
6 4 (1.06%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.80%) .NET
7 3 (0.80%) Apache Avro
8 2 (0.53%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.53%) Bootstrap
8 2 (0.53%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.53%) JSON
8 2 (0.53%) JWT
8 2 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.53%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (0.53%) pytest
8 2 (0.53%) React
8 2 (0.53%) SOAP
8 2 (0.53%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.63%) Cloud Native
1 25 (6.63%) Data Structures
2 14 (3.71%) Reinsurance
3 13 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.18%) AI Agents
5 11 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.65%) Reference Data
6 10 (2.65%) Taxonomies
7 9 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.39%) Replication
8 8 (2.12%) Data Fabric
8 8 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.33%) Digital Media
10 4 (1.06%) IoT
10 4 (1.06%) SCADA
11 3 (0.80%) Clustering
11 3 (0.80%) CMDB
11 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.27%) Linux
1 1 (0.27%) Windows
1 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (51.99%) Data Architecture
2 160 (42.44%) Data Modelling
3 125 (33.16%) Analytics
4 110 (29.18%) Data Governance
5 83 (22.02%) Migration
6 81 (21.49%) AI
7 65 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 59 (15.65%) Logical Data Model
9 58 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
10 56 (14.85%) Integration Patterns
10 56 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 51 (13.53%) Data Transformation
12 50 (13.26%) Physical Data Model
13 48 (12.73%) Lakehouse
14 47 (12.47%) CI/CD
15 46 (12.20%) Roadmaps
16 45 (11.94%) Data Strategy
17 44 (11.67%) Data Engineering
17 44 (11.67%) Decision-Making
18 43 (11.41%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 64 (16.98%) SQL
2 32 (8.49%) Python
3 6 (1.59%) Bicep
4 5 (1.33%) Java
5 4 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.06%) Scala
6 2 (0.53%) Cypher
6 2 (0.53%) R
6 2 (0.53%) SHACL
6 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.53%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 120 (31.83%) Security Cleared
2 103 (27.32%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.24%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.12%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.33%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.53%) Degree
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (20.95%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.10%) GDPR
3 7 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.06%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.80%) IFRS
5 3 (0.80%) NCSC
5 3 (0.80%) QA
5 3 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.53%) GRC
6 2 (0.53%) GxP
6 2 (0.53%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.53%) 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
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 (1.59%) Grafana
2 2 (0.53%) Argo
2 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.27%) Control-M
3 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 100 (26.53%) Databricks
2 52 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.63%) Oracle
4 10 (2.65%) Google
5 9 (2.39%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.12%) Foundry
7 7 (1.86%) Informatica
8 6 (1.59%) Palantir
9 5 (1.33%) Confluent
9 5 (1.33%) SAP
9 5 (1.33%) Talend
10 4 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.06%) Sparx
11 3 (0.80%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.80%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.80%) Workday
12 2 (0.53%) GoldenSource
12 2 (0.53%) IBM
12 2 (0.53%) Teradata