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 3 March 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 175 168
Rank change year-on-year -43 -7 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 184 189 252
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.44% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.54% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 135 193
10th Percentile £463 £500 £515
25th Percentile £513 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £724 £788 £775
90th Percentile £788 £800 £888
England median daily rate £582 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -6.92% -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £43.03
Median hourly rate - - £46.06
75th Percentile - - £49.08
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.22 £80.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year -5.32% +57.67% -27.06%

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 14,721 12,249 17,052
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.58% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,874 8,067 12,304
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 141 336
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.21 £15.97
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.66 £19.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year - +24.31% -19.56%
75th Percentile £60.12 £52.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -17.10%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -10 19 £723 -2.03% 8
South London - 3 £425 - 1
East London +2 2 £495 -20.80% 1
West London - 2 £613 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 March 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.

1 113 (61.41%) Data Architecture
2 98 (53.26%) Data Modelling
3 74 (40.22%) Analytics
4 62 (33.70%) Azure
5 55 (29.89%) Data Governance
5 55 (29.89%) SQL
6 53 (28.80%) AWS
7 44 (23.91%) Databricks
8 39 (21.20%) ETL
9 37 (20.11%) Data Quality
9 37 (20.11%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (19.57%) AI
10 36 (19.57%) Metadata
11 32 (17.39%) Data Strategy
11 32 (17.39%) Physical Data Model
11 32 (17.39%) Python
12 31 (16.85%) Microsoft
13 30 (16.30%) Data Integration
13 30 (16.30%) Migration
14 29 (15.76%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (15.76%) Logical Data Model
15 28 (15.22%) Security Cleared
16 26 (14.13%) Data Lake
17 25 (13.59%) Power Platform
17 25 (13.59%) SC Cleared
18 24 (13.04%) Agile
18 24 (13.04%) DevOps
18 24 (13.04%) Roadmaps
19 23 (12.50%) Data Engineering
20 22 (11.96%) Power BI

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 10 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (33.70%) Azure
2 53 (28.80%) AWS
3 25 (13.59%) Power Platform
4 20 (10.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (10.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 17 (9.24%) Snowflake
7 16 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 16 (8.70%) GCP
8 15 (8.15%) Serverless
9 13 (7.07%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (5.43%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (4.35%) dbt
13 7 (3.80%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (3.26%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (3.26%) Collibra
15 5 (2.72%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (2.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) Firewall
1 1 (0.54%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (20.11%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (19.57%) Metadata
3 26 (14.13%) Data Lake
4 22 (11.96%) Power BI
5 16 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (8.15%) Data Vault
6 15 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (7.61%) NoSQL
8 10 (5.43%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (5.43%) Tableau
9 9 (4.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (4.89%) Delta Lake
9 9 (4.89%) SQL Server
10 8 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (4.35%) Big Data
10 8 (4.35%) DB2
10 8 (4.35%) OLTP
10 8 (4.35%) Star Schema
11 7 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (3.80%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (4.89%) ERwin
2 4 (2.17%) Git
3 3 (1.63%) GitLab
3 3 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.54%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.65%) Finance
3 19 (10.33%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.43%) Banking
5 10 (5.43%) Retail
6 5 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.17%) Local Government
8 3 (1.63%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.61%) Kafka
2 8 (4.35%) PySpark
3 7 (3.80%) Apache Avro
3 7 (3.80%) Protocol Buffers
4 3 (1.63%) Middleware
5 2 (1.09%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.54%) .NET
6 1 (0.54%) ADO
6 1 (0.54%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.54%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.54%) FHIR
6 1 (0.54%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.54%) REST
6 1 (0.54%) SOAP
6 1 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.43%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.89%) Mainframe
4 8 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.80%) Reference Data
6 6 (3.26%) Reinsurance
7 5 (2.72%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.72%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.17%) Data Fabric
8 4 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.17%) PACS
8 4 (2.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.63%) IoT
9 3 (1.63%) Replication
9 3 (1.63%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.09%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.09%) FMCG
10 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.35%) zOS
2 2 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (61.41%) Data Architecture
2 98 (53.26%) Data Modelling
3 74 (40.22%) Analytics
4 55 (29.89%) Data Governance
5 39 (21.20%) ETL
6 36 (19.57%) AI
7 32 (17.39%) Data Strategy
7 32 (17.39%) Physical Data Model
8 30 (16.30%) Data Integration
8 30 (16.30%) Migration
9 29 (15.76%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (15.76%) Logical Data Model
10 24 (13.04%) Agile
10 24 (13.04%) DevOps
10 24 (13.04%) Roadmaps
11 23 (12.50%) Data Engineering
12 21 (11.41%) Architectural Patterns
12 21 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (11.41%) Machine Learning
13 20 (10.87%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 55 (29.89%) SQL
2 32 (17.39%) Python
3 6 (3.26%) Java
3 6 (3.26%) T-SQL
4 5 (2.72%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.17%) Scala
6 2 (1.09%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.09%) R
7 1 (0.54%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.54%) COBOL
7 1 (0.54%) Korn
7 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.54%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 28 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.61%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.72%) Degree
4 5 (2.72%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.72%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.63%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.54%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (20.11%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.43%) GDPR
3 8 (4.35%) QA
4 6 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.17%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.09%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (1.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (4.35%) Terraform
2 3 (1.63%) Grafana
3 2 (1.09%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (23.91%) Databricks
2 31 (16.85%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.80%) Confluent
5 5 (2.72%) Oracle
6 4 (2.17%) MicroStrategy
6 4 (2.17%) SAP
7 3 (1.63%) IBM
7 3 (1.63%) Informatica
7 3 (1.63%) Workday
8 2 (1.09%) Google
8 2 (1.09%) IDERA
9 1 (0.54%) Ariba
9 1 (0.54%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.54%) Percona
9 1 (0.54%) Sparx