Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 196 186
Rank change year-on-year -22 -10 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 156 182 221
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 1.28% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.37% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 124 167
10th Percentile £463 £500 £518
25th Percentile £513 £525 £589
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +3.32%
75th Percentile £681 £776 £750
90th Percentile £775 £800 £850
England median daily rate £600 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £43.55
25th Percentile - - £44.33
Median hourly rate - £118.86 £47.78
Median % change year-on-year - +148.78% -
75th Percentile - - £50.33
90th Percentile - - £50.58
England median hourly rate £83.00 £80.50 £50.28
% change year-on-year +3.11% +60.11% -28.18%

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 13,233 13,287 16,926
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 93.40% 93.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,794 8,564 12,209
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £799 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 149 223
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.58 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.57 £35.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +2.94% -
75th Percentile £59.69 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £71.60
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% -21.35% +28.74%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -9 16 £613 -12.50% 15
South London -3 3 £425 -15.00%
East London +2 2 £495 -20.80% 1
West London - 2 £613 - 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 January 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 93 (59.62%) Data Modelling
2 90 (57.69%) Data Architecture
3 63 (40.38%) Azure
4 57 (36.54%) Data Governance
5 53 (33.97%) Analytics
6 47 (30.13%) SQL
7 44 (28.21%) AWS
8 39 (25.00%) Databricks
9 38 (24.36%) Python
10 35 (22.44%) ETL
11 34 (21.79%) Data Quality
12 32 (20.51%) Data Strategy
13 31 (19.87%) Data Warehouse
14 30 (19.23%) Physical Data Model
14 30 (19.23%) Power Platform
15 28 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (17.95%) Microsoft
16 27 (17.31%) Data Lake
17 25 (16.03%) AI
17 25 (16.03%) Migration
17 25 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
18 23 (14.74%) Data Integration
18 23 (14.74%) Logical Data Model
18 23 (14.74%) Metadata
18 23 (14.74%) Power BI
18 23 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
19 21 (13.46%) Agile
19 21 (13.46%) Roadmaps
20 20 (12.82%) DevOps
21 19 (12.18%) 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 8 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.92%) Apache
4 2 (1.28%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.64%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.64%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 63 (40.38%) Azure
2 44 (28.21%) AWS
3 30 (19.23%) Power Platform
4 18 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (10.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 16 (10.26%) Serverless
5 16 (10.26%) Snowflake
6 15 (9.62%) Amazon S3
7 11 (7.05%) dbt
8 10 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.77%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (5.77%) GCP
10 7 (4.49%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (4.49%) Collibra
11 6 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.56%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (2.56%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (19.87%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (17.31%) Data Lake
3 23 (14.74%) Metadata
3 23 (14.74%) Power BI
4 18 (11.54%) Data Vault
5 15 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (8.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (7.05%) Spark SQL
8 10 (6.41%) NoSQL
9 9 (5.77%) Delta Lake
9 9 (5.77%) Tableau
10 8 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (5.13%) Apache Iceberg
11 7 (4.49%) OLTP
11 7 (4.49%) SQL Server
12 6 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (3.85%) Big Data
12 6 (3.85%) Relational Database
12 6 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (2.56%) ERwin
2 3 (1.92%) Git
3 2 (1.28%) GCC
3 2 (1.28%) GitLab
3 2 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.64%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.64%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 38 (24.36%) Finance
3 24 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.77%) Banking
6 8 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.49%) Local Government
7 7 (4.49%) Retail
8 4 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.92%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.28%) Back Office
10 2 (1.28%) Front Office
10 2 (1.28%) Legal
11 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.97%) PySpark
2 13 (8.33%) Kafka
3 6 (3.85%) Apache Avro
3 6 (3.85%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (1.28%) .NET
4 2 (1.28%) JSON
4 2 (1.28%) XML
5 1 (0.64%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.64%) ADO
5 1 (0.64%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.64%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.64%) REST
5 1 (0.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.26%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.41%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.49%) Low-Code
3 7 (4.49%) Reinsurance
4 6 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.56%) Data Fabric
5 4 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.92%) PACS
6 3 (1.92%) Pricing Data
6 3 (1.92%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.92%) Replication
6 3 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.28%) Equities
7 2 (1.28%) FMCG
7 2 (1.28%) IoT
7 2 (1.28%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.64%) Windows
1 1 (0.64%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (59.62%) Data Modelling
2 90 (57.69%) Data Architecture
3 57 (36.54%) Data Governance
4 53 (33.97%) Analytics
5 35 (22.44%) ETL
6 32 (20.51%) Data Strategy
7 30 (19.23%) Physical Data Model
8 28 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (16.03%) AI
9 25 (16.03%) Migration
9 25 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (14.74%) Data Integration
10 23 (14.74%) Logical Data Model
10 23 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (13.46%) Agile
11 21 (13.46%) Roadmaps
12 20 (12.82%) DevOps
13 19 (12.18%) Data Engineering
13 19 (12.18%) Machine Learning
14 18 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 47 (30.13%) SQL
2 38 (24.36%) Python
3 10 (6.41%) Java
4 5 (3.21%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.92%) Scala
7 2 (1.28%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.28%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.28%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.64%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.64%) C#
8 1 (0.64%) Korn
8 1 (0.64%) R
8 1 (0.64%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (10.90%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.05%) Azure Certification
4 9 (5.77%) Degree
5 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.28%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.64%) MCP
9 1 (0.64%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.64%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (21.79%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.77%) GDPR
3 6 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.56%) QA
5 3 (1.92%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.28%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.49%) Terraform
2 2 (1.28%) Grafana
3 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (25.00%) Databricks
2 28 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.49%) Oracle
4 6 (3.85%) Confluent
4 6 (3.85%) SAP
5 4 (2.56%) Informatica
5 4 (2.56%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.92%) Workday
7 2 (1.28%) Charles River
7 2 (1.28%) eFront
7 2 (1.28%) Google
7 2 (1.28%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.28%) Sparx
8 1 (0.64%) Ariba
8 1 (0.64%) IBM
8 1 (0.64%) Percona
8 1 (0.64%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.64%) Talend