Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 195 180
Rank change year-on-year +18 -15 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 284 162 255
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.50% 1.30% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.39% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 112 195
10th Percentile £456 £488 £503
25th Percentile £513 £524 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £715 £719 £825
90th Percentile £788 £799 £925
England median daily rate £600 £600 £675
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £72.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -35.40% +21.25% -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 17,619 11,663 16,645
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 93.46% 93.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,614 7,915 11,939
10th Percentile £358 £338 £325
25th Percentile £435 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £521 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.56% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 170 327
10th Percentile £18.61 £19.18 £15.98
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.00 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £33.45 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +16.61% +20.26% -24.37%
75th Percentile £63.10 £51.07 £45.62
90th Percentile £79.00 £65.00 £66.70
England median hourly rate £45.50 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +58.26% -27.31% -12.11%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +17 54 £550 -1.35% 11
West London -18 7 £575 -8.00% 4
East London - 2 £675 -
South London - 2 £725 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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.

1 147 (51.76%) Data Architecture
2 119 (41.90%) Data Modelling
3 102 (35.92%) Analytics
4 96 (33.80%) Azure
5 73 (25.70%) Databricks
6 65 (22.89%) Security Cleared
7 64 (22.54%) AWS
8 63 (22.18%) Migration
9 62 (21.83%) SC Cleared
10 52 (18.31%) Data Governance
11 50 (17.61%) AI
12 46 (16.20%) Microsoft
12 46 (16.20%) SQL
13 42 (14.79%) Metadata
14 40 (14.08%) Business Intelligence
14 40 (14.08%) ETL
14 40 (14.08%) Roadmaps
15 37 (13.03%) Data Quality
15 37 (13.03%) Integration Patterns
16 36 (12.68%) Data Engineering
17 35 (12.32%) Logical Data Model
18 33 (11.62%) GCP
19 32 (11.27%) Data Migration
19 32 (11.27%) Data Strategy
19 32 (11.27%) Machine Learning
19 32 (11.27%) Power Platform
20 31 (10.92%) Data Integration
20 31 (10.92%) Data Lake
20 31 (10.92%) Data Warehouse
20 31 (10.92%) Snowflake

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 13 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.17%) Palantir Foundry
3 6 (2.11%) Apache
4 5 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Appian
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.70%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 96 (33.80%) Azure
2 64 (22.54%) AWS
3 33 (11.62%) GCP
4 32 (11.27%) Power Platform
5 31 (10.92%) Snowflake
6 19 (6.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (6.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (6.34%) Amazon S3
8 16 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (5.63%) Serverless
9 14 (4.93%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (4.23%) Amazon Kinesis
11 11 (3.87%) dbt
12 9 (3.17%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (2.82%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (2.46%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.11%) PowerApps
15 6 (2.11%) SaaS
16 5 (1.76%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) BGP
1 2 (0.70%) OSPF
1 2 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.70%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.35%) DSL
2 1 (0.35%) Firewall
2 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (14.79%) Metadata
2 31 (10.92%) Data Lake
2 31 (10.92%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (9.15%) Power BI
4 19 (6.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.87%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (3.87%) BigQuery
6 11 (3.87%) Data Vault
7 10 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.17%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (2.82%) Db2
9 8 (2.82%) Delta Lake
9 8 (2.82%) Star Schema
10 7 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (2.46%) Flink
10 7 (2.46%) OLTP
11 6 (2.11%) Metadata Repository
11 6 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (3.87%) ERwin
2 5 (1.76%) GitLab
3 4 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.06%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.70%) Git
6 1 (0.35%) JIRA
6 1 (0.35%) MLflow
General
1 50 (17.61%) Finance
2 41 (14.44%) Social Skills
3 35 (12.32%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.39%) Retail
5 18 (6.34%) Banking
6 16 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.82%) Marketing
8 7 (2.46%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.11%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Legal
11 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.35%) Local Government
12 1 (0.35%) Military
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.93%) Kafka
2 12 (4.23%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (2.46%) Apache Avro
3 7 (2.46%) Protocol Buffers
3 7 (2.46%) PySpark
4 6 (2.11%) .NET
5 4 (1.41%) Middleware
6 2 (0.70%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.70%) REST
6 2 (0.70%) Snowpark
6 2 (0.70%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.35%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.35%) FHIR
7 1 (0.35%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.35%) JWT
7 1 (0.35%) Model Context Protocol
7 1 (0.35%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.35%) pytest
7 1 (0.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.69%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.87%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.17%) Mainframe
3 9 (3.17%) Reference Data
4 8 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.46%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.46%) NHS
5 7 (2.46%) Reinsurance
6 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.76%) IoT
7 5 (1.76%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.76%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.76%) PACS
7 5 (1.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.76%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.41%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.82%) zOS
2 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (51.76%) Data Architecture
2 119 (41.90%) Data Modelling
3 102 (35.92%) Analytics
4 63 (22.18%) Migration
5 52 (18.31%) Data Governance
6 50 (17.61%) AI
7 40 (14.08%) Business Intelligence
7 40 (14.08%) ETL
7 40 (14.08%) Roadmaps
8 37 (13.03%) Integration Patterns
9 36 (12.68%) Data Engineering
10 35 (12.32%) Logical Data Model
11 32 (11.27%) Data Migration
11 32 (11.27%) Data Strategy
11 32 (11.27%) Machine Learning
12 31 (10.92%) Data Integration
13 29 (10.21%) CI/CD
13 29 (10.21%) Data Pipeline
14 28 (9.86%) Event-Driven
14 28 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 46 (16.20%) SQL
2 26 (9.15%) Python
3 7 (2.46%) Scala
4 4 (1.41%) Java
4 4 (1.41%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.06%) Bicep
5 3 (1.06%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.70%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.70%) R
7 1 (0.35%) COBOL
7 1 (0.35%) Cypher
7 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.35%) SHACL
7 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 62 (21.83%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.93%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.76%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.76%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.41%) Degree
6 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.70%) VCAP
7 2 (0.70%) VCDX
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.03%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.23%) GDPR
3 7 (2.46%) QA
4 5 (1.76%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) HL7
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (0.70%) Docker
1 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (4.58%) Terraform
2 5 (1.76%) Grafana
3 3 (1.06%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.70%) Ansible
5 1 (0.35%) Argo
Vendors
1 73 (25.70%) Databricks
2 46 (16.20%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.69%) Oracle
4 16 (5.63%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.23%) Foundry
6 9 (3.17%) Palantir
7 7 (2.46%) Confluent
8 6 (2.11%) SAP
9 4 (1.41%) Google
9 4 (1.41%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.70%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.70%) Ariba
10 2 (0.70%) IBM
10 2 (0.70%) IDERA
10 2 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.70%) Sparx
10 2 (0.70%) VMware
11 1 (0.35%) FactSet
11 1 (0.35%) MapR
11 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow