Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £608, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 213 215
Rank change year-on-year +59 +2 0
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 359 163 187
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 1.21% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 1.30% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 107 145
10th Percentile £463 £473 £493
25th Percentile £525 £541 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £710 £725 £775
90th Percentile £775 £800 £883
England median daily rate £621 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +3.50% -7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £118.86
Median % change year-on-year - -45.31% +180.50%
England median hourly rate £58.50 £51.98 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.54% -13.37% -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 18,774 12,520 15,286
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 92.97% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,129 8,428 10,485
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £773 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 208 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.28
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.41% -12.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.31 £50.88 £55.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +4.65%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +30 69 £600 +5.82% 12
West London -10 10 £620 -0.80% 7
South London - 3 £725 -
East London - 2 £675 - 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 August 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.

1 174 (48.47%) Data Architecture
2 147 (40.95%) Data Modelling
3 127 (35.38%) Azure
4 118 (32.87%) Analytics
5 106 (29.53%) Security Cleared
6 98 (27.30%) Databricks
7 96 (26.74%) AWS
7 96 (26.74%) SC Cleared
8 94 (26.18%) Data Governance
9 80 (22.28%) Migration
10 79 (22.01%) AI
11 67 (18.66%) Data Quality
12 62 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 61 (16.99%) Business Intelligence
14 59 (16.43%) SQL
15 55 (15.32%) Data Warehouse
16 53 (14.76%) Data Lake
16 53 (14.76%) Integration Patterns
17 52 (14.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 51 (14.21%) Data Engineering
18 51 (14.21%) Logical Data Model
18 51 (14.21%) Metadata
19 46 (12.81%) CI/CD
20 45 (12.53%) Machine Learning
20 45 (12.53%) Snowflake
21 44 (12.26%) Data Strategy
21 44 (12.26%) Lakehouse
22 42 (11.70%) Data Integration
22 42 (11.70%) Microsoft
23 41 (11.42%) Data Transformation

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 (5.01%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.34%) Apache
2 12 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.51%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.56%) Confluence
4 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.56%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.56%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) Maximo
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 127 (35.38%) Azure
2 96 (26.74%) AWS
3 45 (12.53%) Snowflake
4 39 (10.86%) Power Platform
5 35 (9.75%) GCP
6 26 (7.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 22 (6.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (4.74%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.46%) dbt
9 16 (4.46%) Serverless
10 11 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
11 10 (2.79%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.51%) Azure Databricks
13 7 (1.95%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
15 5 (1.39%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.56%) BGP
1 2 (0.56%) DSL
1 2 (0.56%) OSPF
1 2 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.56%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (15.32%) Data Warehouse
2 53 (14.76%) Data Lake
3 51 (14.21%) Metadata
4 34 (9.47%) Power BI
5 19 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (3.34%) BigQuery
6 12 (3.34%) Data Vault
7 11 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.51%) Big Data
8 9 (2.51%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.23%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.23%) Tableau
10 7 (1.95%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.67%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (1.67%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.39%) Flink
Development Applications
1 6 (1.67%) ERwin
2 5 (1.39%) GitLab
3 4 (1.11%) Git
4 3 (0.84%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.84%) MLflow
4 3 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.56%) JIRA
5 2 (0.56%) RStudio
General
1 69 (19.22%) Social Skills
2 63 (17.55%) Finance
3 49 (13.65%) Public Sector
4 31 (8.64%) Retail
5 24 (6.69%) Banking
6 23 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.06%) Marketing
8 7 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.11%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.11%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.11%) Legal
11 2 (0.56%) Billing
11 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.56%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Aviation
12 1 (0.28%) Law
12 1 (0.28%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.69%) Terraform
2 20 (5.57%) PySpark
3 17 (4.74%) Kafka
4 12 (3.34%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.39%) .NET
5 5 (1.39%) REST
6 3 (0.84%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (0.56%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.56%) Apache Avro
7 2 (0.56%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.56%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.56%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.56%) JWT
7 2 (0.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.56%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (0.56%) pytest
7 2 (0.56%) React
7 2 (0.56%) Snowpark
7 2 (0.56%) WebSockets
7 2 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.52%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.57%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.34%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.51%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.51%) Reference Data
6 9 (2.51%) Reinsurance
7 7 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.95%) Replication
7 7 (1.95%) Taxonomies
8 6 (1.67%) Data Fabric
8 6 (1.67%) NHS
9 5 (1.39%) Digital Media
9 5 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.11%) IoT
10 4 (1.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.56%) zOS
2 1 (0.28%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (48.47%) Data Architecture
2 147 (40.95%) Data Modelling
3 118 (32.87%) Analytics
4 94 (26.18%) Data Governance
5 80 (22.28%) Migration
6 79 (22.01%) AI
7 62 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 61 (16.99%) Business Intelligence
9 53 (14.76%) Integration Patterns
10 52 (14.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 51 (14.21%) Data Engineering
11 51 (14.21%) Logical Data Model
12 46 (12.81%) CI/CD
13 45 (12.53%) Machine Learning
14 44 (12.26%) Data Strategy
14 44 (12.26%) Lakehouse
15 42 (11.70%) Data Integration
16 41 (11.42%) Data Transformation
16 41 (11.42%) ETL
16 41 (11.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 59 (16.43%) SQL
2 32 (8.91%) Python
3 5 (1.39%) Java
3 5 (1.39%) Scala
4 4 (1.11%) Bicep
5 3 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.56%) Cypher
6 2 (0.56%) R
6 2 (0.56%) SHACL
6 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 106 (29.53%) Security Cleared
2 96 (26.74%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.51%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.95%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.39%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.39%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.56%) Degree
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.56%) VCAP
8 2 (0.56%) VCDX
9 1 (0.28%) CISSP
9 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (18.66%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.85%) GDPR
3 6 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.11%) QA
4 4 (1.11%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.84%) IFRS
5 3 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.56%) GRC
6 2 (0.56%) GxP
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.56%) NIST
7 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.28%) NCSC
7 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.39%) Grafana
2 3 (0.84%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.56%) Ansible
3 2 (0.56%) Argo
3 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.28%) Control-M
Vendors
1 98 (27.30%) Databricks
2 42 (11.70%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.96%) Oracle
4 13 (3.62%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.34%) Foundry
6 9 (2.51%) Palantir
7 8 (2.23%) Google
7 8 (2.23%) SAP
8 4 (1.11%) Informatica
8 4 (1.11%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.84%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.84%) Confluent
9 3 (0.84%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (0.84%) VMware
9 3 (0.84%) Workday
10 2 (0.56%) Ariba
10 2 (0.56%) OneTrust
10 2 (0.56%) Sparx
10 2 (0.56%) Talend
10 2 (0.56%) Teradata