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 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 209 236
Rank change year-on-year -22 +27 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 153 175 193
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.12% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.19% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 129 137
10th Percentile £456 £500 £520
25th Percentile £517 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £763 £738
90th Percentile £800 £803 £775
England median daily rate £600 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £36.81
25th Percentile - - £39.14
Median hourly rate - £118.86 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year - +158.08% -
75th Percentile - - £49.92
90th Percentile - - £50.42
England median hourly rate £60.98 £60.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +1.63% +21.21% -29.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,746 14,684 18,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.03% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,467 9,481 13,720
10th Percentile £332 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 155 210
10th Percentile £17.29 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £22.13 £24.15 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £40.17
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -6.64% +22.64%
75th Percentile £47.38 £59.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.54 £80.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +52.93%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 -1 21 £597 -14.79% 58
South London -2 3 £425 -15.00% 4
West London -12 2 £613 -12.50% 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, 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 98 (64.05%) Data Modelling
2 87 (56.86%) Data Architecture
3 63 (41.18%) Azure
4 62 (40.52%) Data Governance
5 50 (32.68%) SQL
6 47 (30.72%) AWS
6 47 (30.72%) ETL
7 45 (29.41%) Analytics
8 42 (27.45%) Python
9 36 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (22.22%) Migration
11 33 (21.57%) Power Platform
12 32 (20.92%) Data Strategy
13 29 (18.95%) Business Intelligence
14 28 (18.30%) Data Quality
14 28 (18.30%) Metadata
14 28 (18.30%) Physical Data Model
15 26 (16.99%) Data Lake
15 26 (16.99%) Power BI
16 25 (16.34%) Data Integration
16 25 (16.34%) Databricks
17 24 (15.69%) Microsoft
17 24 (15.69%) Snowflake
18 23 (15.03%) AI
18 23 (15.03%) Data Pipeline
18 23 (15.03%) Roadmaps
19 21 (13.73%) GCP
19 21 (13.73%) Logical Data Model
20 20 (13.07%) Agile
20 20 (13.07%) Metadata Management

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 (5.23%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.61%) Apache
4 2 (1.31%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.31%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.65%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.65%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 63 (41.18%) Azure
2 47 (30.72%) AWS
3 33 (21.57%) Power Platform
4 24 (15.69%) Snowflake
5 21 (13.73%) GCP
6 17 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (10.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (8.50%) dbt
9 12 (7.84%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (6.54%) Serverless
11 9 (5.88%) Collibra
12 6 (3.92%) SaaS
13 5 (3.27%) Amazon S3
14 4 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.96%) Amazon EMR
15 3 (1.96%) Azure Functions
15 3 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
15 3 (1.96%) PaaS
16 2 (1.31%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (18.30%) Metadata
3 26 (16.99%) Data Lake
3 26 (16.99%) Power BI
4 17 (11.11%) Data Vault
5 13 (8.50%) NoSQL
6 11 (7.19%) Big Data
6 11 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (5.88%) BigQuery
8 8 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (4.58%) Relational Database
9 7 (4.58%) Spark SQL
9 7 (4.58%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.27%) Data Hub
10 5 (3.27%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.61%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.96%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (5.23%) ERwin
2 5 (3.27%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.31%) GCC
3 2 (1.31%) Git
4 1 (0.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) JIRA
4 1 (0.65%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.65%) Postman
4 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 47 (30.72%) Finance
3 27 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 17 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.15%) Banking
6 12 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.27%) Local Government
8 4 (2.61%) Retail
9 3 (1.96%) Back Office
9 3 (1.96%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.96%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.31%) Front Office
10 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.31%) Legal
10 2 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.19%) Kafka
1 11 (7.19%) PySpark
2 3 (1.96%) JSON
2 3 (1.96%) XML
3 2 (1.31%) .NET
3 2 (1.31%) Spring
3 2 (1.31%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.65%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.65%) ADO
4 1 (0.65%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.65%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.65%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.65%) Jinja
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.19%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.58%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.61%) Pricing Data
6 4 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.61%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.61%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.96%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.31%) Equities
8 2 (1.31%) IoT
8 2 (1.31%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.31%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (64.05%) Data Modelling
2 87 (56.86%) Data Architecture
3 62 (40.52%) Data Governance
4 47 (30.72%) ETL
5 45 (29.41%) Analytics
6 34 (22.22%) Migration
7 32 (20.92%) Data Strategy
8 29 (18.95%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (18.30%) Physical Data Model
10 25 (16.34%) Data Integration
11 23 (15.03%) AI
11 23 (15.03%) Data Pipeline
11 23 (15.03%) Roadmaps
12 21 (13.73%) Logical Data Model
13 20 (13.07%) Agile
13 20 (13.07%) Metadata Management
13 20 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (12.42%) Data Management
15 18 (11.76%) Data Engineering
16 16 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (32.68%) SQL
2 42 (27.45%) Python
3 17 (11.11%) Java
4 6 (3.92%) PL/SQL
5 5 (3.27%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.61%) C
6 4 (2.61%) C++
6 4 (2.61%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.61%) Perl
7 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.31%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.65%) Bash
8 1 (0.65%) C#
8 1 (0.65%) Korn
8 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (13.07%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.88%) Degree
4 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.61%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.31%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.65%) MCP
7 1 (0.65%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.30%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.58%) GDPR
3 6 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.31%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.31%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.31%) QA
5 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.65%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (1.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.27%) Terraform
2 3 (1.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (16.34%) Databricks
2 24 (15.69%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.23%) Google
3 8 (5.23%) Oracle
4 5 (3.27%) Informatica
4 5 (3.27%) SAP
5 4 (2.61%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.96%) Sparx
6 3 (1.96%) Talend
6 3 (1.96%) Workday
7 2 (1.31%) Charles River
7 2 (1.31%) eFront
7 2 (1.31%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.65%) Ariba
8 1 (0.65%) Foundry
8 1 (0.65%) Palantir
8 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.65%) StreamSets