Data Architect Contracts 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 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 156 194
Rank change year-on-year -29 +38 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 174 276 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.39% 1.55% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.66% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 210 276
10th Percentile £488 £513 £550
25th Percentile £525 £563 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% - -
75th Percentile £738 £825 £775
90th Percentile £799 £925 £856
England median daily rate £600 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.50 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +34.17% -9.09% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect 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 1 May 2025. 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 -9 13 £608 -10.83% 4
East London +16 3 £625 -
West London +11 1 £625 +19.05% 2
North London - 1 - -
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 98 (56.32%) Data Modelling
2 93 (53.45%) Data Architecture
3 70 (40.23%) Azure
4 65 (37.36%) AWS
5 61 (35.06%) Data Governance
6 50 (28.74%) SQL
7 48 (27.59%) Security Cleared
8 45 (25.86%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (25.86%) ETL
9 42 (24.14%) SC Cleared
10 39 (22.41%) Finance
11 38 (21.84%) Business Intelligence
11 38 (21.84%) Analytics
11 38 (21.84%) Social Skills
12 33 (18.97%) Snowflake
13 32 (18.39%) GCP
13 32 (18.39%) Migration
14 31 (17.82%) Data Integration
15 29 (16.67%) Data Lake
15 29 (16.67%) Data Strategy
16 28 (16.09%) Databricks
16 28 (16.09%) Metadata
16 28 (16.09%) Public Sector
17 26 (14.94%) Python
18 24 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
19 23 (13.22%) Data Transformation
19 23 (13.22%) Banking
19 23 (13.22%) Power Platform
20 22 (12.64%) Roadmaps
20 22 (12.64%) Data Quality

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.17%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.72%) Apache
4 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.57%) Endur
2 1 (0.57%) Magento
2 1 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 70 (40.23%) Azure
2 65 (37.36%) AWS
3 33 (18.97%) Snowflake
4 32 (18.39%) GCP
5 23 (13.22%) Power Platform
6 14 (8.05%) dbt
7 11 (6.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (5.17%) GitHub
9 8 (4.60%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.45%) SaaS
11 5 (2.87%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (2.87%) Collibra
12 4 (2.30%) Fivetran
12 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.30%) Serverless
13 3 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) DNS
1 1 (0.57%) Firewall
1 1 (0.57%) Network Security
1 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.57%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (25.86%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 28 (16.09%) Metadata
4 21 (12.07%) Power BI
5 13 (7.47%) BigQuery
6 11 (6.32%) Tableau
7 10 (5.75%) Data Vault
8 9 (5.17%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.02%) Big Data
10 6 (3.45%) Neo4j
10 6 (3.45%) NoSQL
10 6 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (2.87%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (2.87%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.87%) Flink
12 4 (2.30%) Hadoop
12 4 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (4.02%) ERwin
2 4 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.72%) GitLab
3 3 (1.72%) Liquibase
3 3 (1.72%) Maven
4 1 (0.57%) Git
4 1 (0.57%) JIRA
General
1 39 (22.41%) Finance
2 38 (21.84%) Social Skills
3 28 (16.09%) Public Sector
4 24 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (13.22%) Banking
6 8 (4.60%) Retail
7 4 (2.30%) Back Office
7 4 (2.30%) Marketing
7 4 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.15%) Front Office
9 2 (1.15%) Legal
9 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.57%) Automotive
10 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) Law
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.75%) Kafka
2 8 (4.60%) Jinja
3 6 (3.45%) Middleware
4 5 (2.87%) Plotly
4 5 (2.87%) React
5 3 (1.72%) D3.js
5 3 (1.72%) Hibernate
5 3 (1.72%) JPA
5 3 (1.72%) Spring
5 3 (1.72%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.15%) Shiny
7 1 (0.57%) ADO
7 1 (0.57%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.57%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.57%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.57%) JSON
7 1 (0.57%) pytest
7 1 (0.57%) REST
7 1 (0.57%) SOAP
7 1 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.20%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (6.32%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.60%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.60%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.30%) Fixed Income
4 4 (2.30%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.30%) Taxonomies
5 3 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.15%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.15%) Equities
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.57%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (56.32%) Data Modelling
2 93 (53.45%) Data Architecture
3 61 (35.06%) Data Governance
4 45 (25.86%) ETL
5 38 (21.84%) Analytics
5 38 (21.84%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (18.39%) Migration
7 31 (17.82%) Data Integration
8 29 (16.67%) Data Strategy
9 23 (13.22%) Data Transformation
10 22 (12.64%) Roadmaps
11 19 (10.92%) Visualisation
12 18 (10.34%) Data Security
13 17 (9.77%) Data Management
13 17 (9.77%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (9.77%) Data Visualisation
14 16 (9.20%) Decision-Making
15 15 (8.62%) CI/CD
15 15 (8.62%) Data Migration
16 13 (7.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 50 (28.74%) SQL
2 26 (14.94%) Python
3 5 (2.87%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.30%) Java
5 3 (1.72%) Bicep
5 3 (1.72%) C#
6 2 (1.15%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.15%) R
7 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.57%) Scala
7 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 42 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.60%) Degree
4 5 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.30%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.57%) ISEB
8 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.57%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.64%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.05%) GDPR
3 7 (4.02%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.15%) QA
5 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.57%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (3.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.45%) Terraform
3 2 (1.15%) MOM
4 1 (0.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (16.09%) Databricks
2 15 (8.62%) Informatica
2 15 (8.62%) Oracle
3 13 (7.47%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.90%) Google
4 12 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.75%) Talend
6 8 (4.60%) SAP
7 6 (3.45%) Sparx
8 5 (2.87%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.72%) IBM
10 2 (1.15%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.15%) Sage
11 1 (0.57%) Adobe
11 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.57%) Splunk
11 1 (0.57%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.57%) Workday