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 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 183 156
Rank change year-on-year -2 -27 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 239 174 276
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.39% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 1.48% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 117 210
10th Percentile £463 £488 £513
25th Percentile £513 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £620 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -11.43% -
75th Percentile £715 £738 £825
90th Percentile £800 £799 £925
England median daily rate £588 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -2.08% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £80.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -41.61% +34.17% -9.09%

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 16,451 11,727 16,626
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 93.48% 93.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,958 8,033 12,023
10th Percentile £350 £341 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £755 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 143 336
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £23.90 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +22.26% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.78 £36.31
% change year-on-year +52.70% -15.22% -19.32%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +3 28 £595 -2.14% 16
West London -13 6 £588 -6.00% 5
East London -3 4 £585 -6.40%
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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.

1 126 (52.72%) Data Architecture
2 97 (40.59%) Data Modelling
3 90 (37.66%) Analytics
4 69 (28.87%) Azure
5 59 (24.69%) AWS
6 56 (23.43%) Databricks
7 54 (22.59%) SQL
8 50 (20.92%) Migration
9 45 (18.83%) Data Governance
10 39 (16.32%) AI
11 36 (15.06%) Microsoft
12 35 (14.64%) Data Quality
13 33 (13.81%) Data Engineering
13 33 (13.81%) Data Lake
13 33 (13.81%) Data Strategy
13 33 (13.81%) Security Cleared
14 32 (13.39%) ETL
14 32 (13.39%) Metadata
15 31 (12.97%) Roadmaps
16 30 (12.55%) Business Intelligence
16 30 (12.55%) GCP
17 29 (12.13%) SC Cleared
18 28 (11.72%) Data Warehouse
18 28 (11.72%) Logical Data Model
18 28 (11.72%) Python
19 26 (10.88%) Machine Learning
20 25 (10.46%) Data Integration
20 25 (10.46%) Physical Data Model
21 24 (10.04%) Integration Patterns
22 23 (9.62%) Architectural Patterns

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 11 (4.60%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.35%) Palantir Foundry
3 4 (1.67%) Apache
4 3 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.84%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.42%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (28.87%) Azure
2 59 (24.69%) AWS
3 30 (12.55%) GCP
4 23 (9.62%) Power Platform
5 21 (8.79%) Amazon S3
5 21 (8.79%) Snowflake
6 20 (8.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (7.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (7.53%) Serverless
9 17 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.28%) Amazon Kinesis
11 14 (5.86%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (4.60%) AWS Step Functions
13 10 (4.18%) Amazon MSK
14 9 (3.77%) Amazon EventBridge
15 8 (3.35%) dbt
16 7 (2.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (2.51%) Apigee
17 6 (2.51%) PowerApps
17 6 (2.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.84%) BGP
1 2 (0.84%) OSPF
1 2 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.84%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.42%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.81%) Data Lake
2 32 (13.39%) Metadata
3 28 (11.72%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (8.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (7.11%) Power BI
6 13 (5.44%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.02%) Data Vault
7 12 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (4.60%) Delta Lake
9 10 (4.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (4.18%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (4.18%) OLTP
10 9 (3.77%) DB2
10 9 (3.77%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.77%) Star Schema
10 9 (3.77%) Tableau
11 8 (3.35%) BigQuery
11 8 (3.35%) SQL Server
12 6 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.77%) ERwin
2 5 (2.09%) GitLab
3 4 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.84%) Git
5 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.42%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.42%) MLflow
5 1 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
General
1 40 (16.74%) Finance
2 32 (13.39%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.88%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.79%) Retail
5 15 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.18%) Banking
7 7 (2.93%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.93%) Marketing
8 5 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.09%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.67%) Local Government
10 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.42%) Aviation
12 1 (0.42%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.69%) Kafka
2 10 (4.18%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (3.77%) Apache Avro
3 9 (3.77%) Protocol Buffers
4 8 (3.35%) PySpark
5 6 (2.51%) .NET
6 4 (1.67%) Middleware
7 2 (0.84%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.84%) REST
7 2 (0.84%) SOAP
8 1 (0.42%) FHIR
8 1 (0.42%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.42%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.44%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.18%) Mainframe
4 7 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.93%) NHS
4 7 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.51%) PACS
5 6 (2.51%) Reference Data
5 6 (2.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (2.09%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.26%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.26%) IoT
8 3 (1.26%) Replication
9 2 (0.84%) Clustering
9 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.77%) zOS
2 2 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (52.72%) Data Architecture
2 97 (40.59%) Data Modelling
3 90 (37.66%) Analytics
4 50 (20.92%) Migration
5 45 (18.83%) Data Governance
6 39 (16.32%) AI
7 33 (13.81%) Data Engineering
7 33 (13.81%) Data Strategy
8 32 (13.39%) ETL
9 31 (12.97%) Roadmaps
10 30 (12.55%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (11.72%) Logical Data Model
12 26 (10.88%) Machine Learning
13 25 (10.46%) Data Integration
13 25 (10.46%) Physical Data Model
14 24 (10.04%) Integration Patterns
15 23 (9.62%) Architectural Patterns
15 23 (9.62%) CI/CD
15 23 (9.62%) Data Migration
15 23 (9.62%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 54 (22.59%) SQL
2 28 (11.72%) Python
3 8 (3.35%) Scala
4 5 (2.09%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.09%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.26%) Java
6 2 (0.84%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.84%) Bicep
6 2 (0.84%) R
7 1 (0.42%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.42%) COBOL
7 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.42%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 33 (13.81%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.13%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.86%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.09%) Degree
4 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.84%) VCAP
7 2 (0.84%) VCDX
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.42%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.64%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.18%) GDPR
3 7 (2.93%) QA
4 6 (2.51%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.42%) HL7
7 1 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (5.44%) Terraform
2 5 (2.09%) Grafana
3 3 (1.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.84%) Ansible
Vendors
1 56 (23.43%) Databricks
2 36 (15.06%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.69%) Salesforce
4 14 (5.86%) Oracle
5 11 (4.60%) Foundry
6 9 (3.77%) Confluent
7 8 (3.35%) Palantir
8 5 (2.09%) SAP
9 3 (1.26%) Google
9 3 (1.26%) IBM
9 3 (1.26%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.84%) Ariba
10 2 (0.84%) IDERA
10 2 (0.84%) Informatica
10 2 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) VMware
11 1 (0.42%) Infor
11 1 (0.42%) MapR
11 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.42%) Percona