Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £595, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 201 184
Rank change year-on-year +30 -17 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 336 172 222
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.68% 1.26% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 1.35% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 118 168
10th Percentile £463 £486 £500
25th Percentile £525 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £614 £698
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -12.11% -0.29%
75th Percentile £708 £738 £816
90th Percentile £788 £840 £925
England median daily rate £610 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +1.67% -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 18,596 12,715 15,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 93.07% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,167 8,604 11,147
10th Percentile £363 £331 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -0.23% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 199 233
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -7.09% -18.09%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.25 £52.00
90th Percentile £77.83 £64.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.50 £26.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.00% -38.84% -1.96%

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 26 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 26 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 +28 66 £595 +5.22% 21
West London -9 8 £588 -6.00% 3
South London - 3 £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 26 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.

1 167 (49.70%) Data Architecture
2 136 (40.48%) Data Modelling
3 115 (34.23%) Analytics
4 113 (33.63%) Azure
5 87 (25.89%) Security Cleared
6 83 (24.70%) SC Cleared
7 81 (24.11%) AWS
8 79 (23.51%) Databricks
9 72 (21.43%) Data Governance
10 66 (19.64%) Migration
11 63 (18.75%) AI
12 53 (15.77%) Business Intelligence
12 53 (15.77%) Data Quality
13 52 (15.48%) Metadata
14 51 (15.18%) SQL
15 48 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
16 46 (13.69%) Data Lake
17 45 (13.39%) Data Engineering
17 45 (13.39%) ETL
17 45 (13.39%) Microsoft
18 44 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
19 43 (12.80%) Data Integration
20 42 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
21 39 (11.61%) Machine Learning
21 39 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
22 38 (11.31%) Data Strategy
23 37 (11.01%) Roadmaps
23 37 (11.01%) Snowflake
23 37 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 35 (10.42%) GCP

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 18 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.57%) Apache
3 9 (2.68%) Palantir Foundry
4 8 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.60%) Confluence
5 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.60%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.30%) Maximo
3 1 (0.30%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 113 (33.63%) Azure
2 81 (24.11%) AWS
3 37 (11.01%) Snowflake
4 35 (10.42%) GCP
4 35 (10.42%) Power Platform
5 22 (6.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 21 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (5.06%) Amazon S3
8 11 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.27%) dbt
8 11 (3.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (3.27%) Serverless
9 10 (2.98%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.08%) Amazon MSK
11 7 (2.08%) SaaS
12 6 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (1.79%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.60%) BGP
1 2 (0.60%) DSL
1 2 (0.60%) Network Security
1 2 (0.60%) OSPF
1 2 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.60%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (15.48%) Metadata
2 46 (13.69%) Data Lake
3 44 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (8.63%) Power BI
5 16 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.27%) BigQuery
8 11 (3.27%) Data Vault
9 10 (2.98%) Big Data
10 9 (2.68%) Db2
11 8 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (2.08%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.79%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (1.79%) Star Schema
13 6 (1.79%) Tableau
14 5 (1.49%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 9 (2.68%) ERwin
2 6 (1.79%) GitLab
3 3 (0.89%) ER Studio
3 3 (0.89%) Git
3 3 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.60%) JIRA
5 1 (0.30%) MLflow
General
1 61 (18.15%) Finance
2 54 (16.07%) Social Skills
3 44 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.33%) Retail
5 25 (7.44%) Banking
6 23 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.98%) Marketing
8 7 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.19%) Legal
12 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Aviation
13 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.30%) Local Government
13 1 (0.30%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.76%) Kafka
2 15 (4.46%) PySpark
3 12 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (1.79%) .NET
5 4 (1.19%) Middleware
6 3 (0.89%) REST
6 3 (0.89%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (0.60%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.60%) Apache Avro
7 2 (0.60%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.60%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.60%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.60%) JWT
7 2 (0.60%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.60%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.60%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (0.60%) pytest
7 2 (0.60%) React
7 2 (0.60%) WebSockets
7 2 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.46%) Data Structures
3 10 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (2.98%) Reference Data
4 9 (2.68%) Mainframe
4 9 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.38%) Taxonomies
6 7 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.79%) IoT
7 6 (1.79%) NHS
7 6 (1.79%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.49%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.19%) Digital Media
9 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.19%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.38%) zOS
2 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (49.70%) Data Architecture
2 136 (40.48%) Data Modelling
3 115 (34.23%) Analytics
4 72 (21.43%) Data Governance
5 66 (19.64%) Migration
6 63 (18.75%) AI
7 53 (15.77%) Business Intelligence
8 48 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
9 45 (13.39%) Data Engineering
9 45 (13.39%) ETL
10 43 (12.80%) Data Integration
11 42 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
12 39 (11.61%) Machine Learning
12 39 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (11.31%) Data Strategy
14 37 (11.01%) Roadmaps
14 37 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 34 (10.12%) Data Pipeline
16 33 (9.82%) CI/CD
17 30 (8.93%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 51 (15.18%) SQL
2 29 (8.63%) Python
3 6 (1.79%) Scala
4 5 (1.49%) Java
5 3 (0.89%) Bicep
5 3 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.60%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.60%) Cypher
6 2 (0.60%) R
6 2 (0.60%) SHACL
6 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.30%) COBOL
7 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 87 (25.89%) Security Cleared
2 83 (24.70%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.98%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.49%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.49%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.19%) Degree
6 4 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.60%) VCAP
8 2 (0.60%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (15.77%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.65%) GDPR
3 7 (2.08%) QA
4 5 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.60%) IFRS
6 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.60%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.30%) HL7
7 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.60%) Docker
1 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (4.17%) Terraform
2 6 (1.79%) Grafana
3 3 (0.89%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.60%) Ansible
4 2 (0.60%) Argo
4 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 79 (23.51%) Databricks
2 45 (13.39%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.95%) Oracle
4 16 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.57%) Foundry
6 9 (2.68%) Palantir
7 8 (2.38%) SAP
8 5 (1.49%) Google
8 5 (1.49%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.89%) Confluent
9 3 (0.89%) Workday
10 2 (0.60%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.60%) Ariba
10 2 (0.60%) IBM
10 2 (0.60%) IDERA
10 2 (0.60%) OneTrust
10 2 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.60%) Sparx
10 2 (0.60%) VMware