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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 214 209
Rank change year-on-year +49 -5 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 373 160 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 1.19% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 1.29% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 111 138
10th Percentile £456 £463 £496
25th Percentile £525 £548 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.00% -9.91%
75th Percentile £715 £715 £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 18,828 12,404 15,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 92.60% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,171 8,272 9,930
10th Percentile £363 £333 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -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% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 203 178
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £24.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.50 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +49.09% -23.08% -7.65%
75th Percentile £65.60 £49.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.11 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.70%

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 8 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 8 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 +27 70 £620 +7.83% 46
West London -10 9 £600 -2.04% 9
South London - 3 £725 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 195 (52.28%) Data Architecture
2 159 (42.63%) Data Modelling
3 135 (36.19%) Azure
4 127 (34.05%) Analytics
5 121 (32.44%) Security Cleared
6 112 (30.03%) Data Governance
7 103 (27.61%) Databricks
7 103 (27.61%) SC Cleared
8 101 (27.08%) AWS
9 82 (21.98%) AI
10 81 (21.72%) Data Quality
10 81 (21.72%) Migration
11 69 (18.50%) Metadata
12 64 (17.16%) SQL
12 64 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 60 (16.09%) Business Intelligence
14 58 (15.55%) Logical Data Model
15 57 (15.28%) Data Warehouse
15 57 (15.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 56 (15.01%) Data Lake
16 56 (15.01%) Integration Patterns
17 54 (14.48%) Microsoft
18 50 (13.40%) Data Transformation
18 50 (13.40%) Lakehouse
19 49 (13.14%) Physical Data Model
19 49 (13.14%) Snowflake
20 47 (12.60%) CI/CD
21 46 (12.33%) Roadmaps
22 43 (11.53%) Data Engineering
22 43 (11.53%) Data Integration

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 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
1 17 (4.56%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.02%) Apache
3 5 (1.34%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.54%) Confluence
4 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.54%) 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
1 135 (36.19%) Azure
2 101 (27.08%) AWS
3 49 (13.14%) Snowflake
4 40 (10.72%) Power Platform
5 30 (8.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 28 (7.51%) GCP
7 22 (5.90%) dbt
8 21 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (3.75%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.49%) Serverless
11 11 (2.95%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (2.14%) Amazon Kinesis
13 7 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.88%) Azure Databricks
14 6 (1.61%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (1.61%) GitHub
15 5 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.34%) Azure Machine Learning
15 5 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) DSL
2 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (18.50%) Metadata
2 57 (15.28%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (15.01%) Data Lake
4 37 (9.92%) Power BI
5 18 (4.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (4.02%) Data Vault
7 13 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (2.68%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (2.14%) Big Data
11 8 (2.14%) BigQuery
11 8 (2.14%) Delta Lake
11 8 (2.14%) Semantic Layer
11 8 (2.14%) Star Schema
11 8 (2.14%) Tableau
12 7 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.88%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.61%) ERwin
2 5 (1.34%) GitLab
3 4 (1.07%) Git
4 3 (0.80%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.54%) JIRA
5 2 (0.54%) MLflow
5 2 (0.54%) RStudio
General
1 81 (21.72%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.35%) Finance
3 47 (12.60%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.17%) Banking
5 23 (6.17%) Retail
6 10 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.88%) Marketing
8 5 (1.34%) Billing
8 5 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.07%) Legal
10 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Aviation
11 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.54%) Military
11 2 (0.54%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Police
12 1 (0.27%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.90%) Terraform
2 21 (5.63%) PySpark
3 18 (4.83%) Kafka
4 8 (2.14%) REST
5 6 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.07%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.80%) .NET
7 3 (0.80%) Apache Avro
8 2 (0.54%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.54%) Bootstrap
8 2 (0.54%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.54%) JSON
8 2 (0.54%) JWT
8 2 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.54%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (0.54%) pytest
8 2 (0.54%) React
8 2 (0.54%) SOAP
8 2 (0.54%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.70%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.43%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.75%) Reinsurance
4 13 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.22%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.95%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.68%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.68%) Reference Data
7 10 (2.68%) Taxonomies
8 9 (2.41%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.41%) Replication
9 8 (2.14%) Data Fabric
10 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.34%) Digital Media
12 4 (1.07%) IoT
12 4 (1.07%) SCADA
13 3 (0.80%) Clustering
13 3 (0.80%) CMDB
13 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.27%) Linux
1 1 (0.27%) Windows
1 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (52.28%) Data Architecture
2 159 (42.63%) Data Modelling
3 127 (34.05%) Analytics
4 112 (30.03%) Data Governance
5 82 (21.98%) AI
6 81 (21.72%) Migration
7 64 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (16.09%) Business Intelligence
9 58 (15.55%) Logical Data Model
10 57 (15.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 56 (15.01%) Integration Patterns
12 50 (13.40%) Data Transformation
12 50 (13.40%) Lakehouse
13 49 (13.14%) Physical Data Model
14 47 (12.60%) CI/CD
15 46 (12.33%) Roadmaps
16 43 (11.53%) Data Engineering
16 43 (11.53%) Data Integration
16 43 (11.53%) Data Strategy
16 43 (11.53%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 64 (17.16%) SQL
2 32 (8.58%) Python
3 6 (1.61%) Bicep
4 5 (1.34%) Java
5 4 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.07%) Scala
6 2 (0.54%) Cypher
6 2 (0.54%) R
6 2 (0.54%) SHACL
6 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.54%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 121 (32.44%) Security Cleared
2 103 (27.61%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.56%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.14%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.34%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.07%) Degree
9 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
11 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (21.72%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.17%) GDPR
3 7 (1.88%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.07%) 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 (0.54%) GRC
6 2 (0.54%) GxP
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.54%) 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 (1.61%) Grafana
2 2 (0.54%) Argo
2 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.27%) Control-M
3 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 103 (27.61%) Databricks
2 54 (14.48%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.17%) Oracle
4 11 (2.95%) Google
5 8 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.88%) Informatica
7 6 (1.61%) Foundry
8 5 (1.34%) Confluent
8 5 (1.34%) Palantir
8 5 (1.34%) SAP
8 5 (1.34%) Talend
9 4 (1.07%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.07%) Sparx
10 3 (0.80%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.80%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.80%) Workday
11 2 (0.54%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.54%) IBM
11 2 (0.54%) Teradata