Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £581, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 189 162
Rank change year-on-year -30 -27 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 208 167 267
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 1.33% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.42% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 116 204
10th Percentile £463 £500 £525
25th Percentile £513 £534 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £725 £774 £825
90th Percentile £788 £800 £925
England median daily rate £581 £609 £700
% change year-on-year -4.50% -13.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.50 £43.03
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year - +41.14% -
75th Percentile - £67.50 £49.08
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.22 £80.50 £53.03
% change year-on-year -5.32% +51.81% -24.25%

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 15,721 11,785 16,815
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 93.58% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,525 8,063 12,128
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £428 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
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 243 146 338
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.11 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.75 £46.77
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £63.98
England median hourly rate £42.00 £33.40 £32.50
% change year-on-year +25.75% +2.77% -24.42%

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 April 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 April 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 22 £595 -11.60% 17
East London +1 4 £585 -6.40% 1
South London - 3 £425 - 2
West London -23 1 £640 +2.40% 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 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.

1 118 (56.73%) Data Architecture
2 100 (48.08%) Data Modelling
3 86 (41.35%) Analytics
4 63 (30.29%) Azure
5 58 (27.88%) AWS
6 57 (27.40%) SQL
7 55 (26.44%) Databricks
8 52 (25.00%) Data Governance
9 43 (20.67%) AI
10 38 (18.27%) Data Quality
10 38 (18.27%) Metadata
11 37 (17.79%) ETL
12 36 (17.31%) Migration
13 34 (16.35%) Data Strategy
13 34 (16.35%) Data Warehouse
14 33 (15.87%) Python
15 32 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
15 32 (15.38%) Data Engineering
15 32 (15.38%) Security Cleared
16 31 (14.90%) Data Integration
16 31 (14.90%) Data Lake
16 31 (14.90%) Microsoft
17 29 (13.94%) Machine Learning
17 29 (13.94%) Physical Data Model
18 28 (13.46%) Roadmaps
19 27 (12.98%) Logical Data Model
19 27 (12.98%) SC Cleared
20 26 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
20 26 (12.50%) Power Platform
21 25 (12.02%) GCP

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 12 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.92%) Apache
4 3 (1.44%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.48%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.96%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.48%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (30.29%) Azure
2 58 (27.88%) AWS
3 26 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 25 (12.02%) GCP
4 25 (12.02%) Snowflake
5 20 (9.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (9.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 16 (7.69%) Serverless
8 14 (6.73%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (4.81%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (4.33%) dbt
12 8 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (3.37%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (3.37%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (3.37%) SaaS
14 6 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (2.40%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (2.40%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.96%) BGP
1 2 (0.96%) OSPF
1 2 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.96%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.48%) Firewall
2 1 (0.48%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.27%) Metadata
2 34 (16.35%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (14.90%) Data Lake
4 22 (10.58%) Power BI
5 17 (8.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (7.21%) Data Vault
7 13 (6.25%) NoSQL
7 13 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (5.29%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (4.81%) Delta Lake
10 9 (4.33%) DB2
11 8 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (3.85%) Apache Iceberg
11 8 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (3.85%) Big Data
11 8 (3.85%) OLTP
11 8 (3.85%) SQL Server
11 8 (3.85%) Star Schema
11 8 (3.85%) Tableau
12 7 (3.37%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 9 (4.33%) ERwin
2 3 (1.44%) Git
2 3 (1.44%) GitLab
2 3 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.48%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.48%) MLflow
3 1 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
General
1 43 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 42 (20.19%) Finance
3 19 (9.13%) Public Sector
3 19 (9.13%) Retail
4 14 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.77%) Banking
6 7 (3.37%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.88%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.40%) Marketing
9 4 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.92%) Local Government
10 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.17%) Kafka
2 8 (3.85%) PySpark
3 7 (3.37%) Apache Avro
3 7 (3.37%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (1.92%) Middleware
5 3 (1.44%) .NET
6 2 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.48%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.48%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.48%) FHIR
7 1 (0.48%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.48%) REST
7 1 (0.48%) SOAP
7 1 (0.48%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.77%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.81%) Mainframe
4 8 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.88%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.88%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.40%) Data Fabric
6 5 (2.40%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.92%) IoT
7 4 (1.92%) NHS
7 4 (1.92%) PACS
7 4 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.44%) Replication
9 2 (0.96%) Clustering
9 2 (0.96%) FMCG
9 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.33%) zOS
2 2 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (56.73%) Data Architecture
2 100 (48.08%) Data Modelling
3 86 (41.35%) Analytics
4 52 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 43 (20.67%) AI
6 37 (17.79%) ETL
7 36 (17.31%) Migration
8 34 (16.35%) Data Strategy
9 32 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
9 32 (15.38%) Data Engineering
10 31 (14.90%) Data Integration
11 29 (13.94%) Machine Learning
11 29 (13.94%) Physical Data Model
12 28 (13.46%) Roadmaps
13 27 (12.98%) Logical Data Model
14 26 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
15 24 (11.54%) Agile
15 24 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
15 24 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
16 22 (10.58%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (27.40%) SQL
2 33 (15.87%) Python
3 5 (2.40%) Java
3 5 (2.40%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.40%) Scala
3 5 (2.40%) T-SQL
4 2 (0.96%) Apex Code
4 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.96%) R
5 1 (0.48%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (0.48%) Bicep
5 1 (0.48%) COBOL
5 1 (0.48%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 32 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.98%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.21%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.40%) Degree
4 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.44%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.96%) VCAP
7 2 (0.96%) VCDX
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.48%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.27%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.29%) GDPR
3 7 (3.37%) QA
4 4 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.92%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (0.96%) Docker
1 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (5.77%) Terraform
2 4 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.44%) Grafana
4 2 (0.96%) Ansible
5 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (26.44%) Databricks
2 31 (14.90%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.77%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.37%) Confluent
5 6 (2.88%) SAP
6 5 (2.40%) Foundry
6 5 (2.40%) Oracle
7 4 (1.92%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (1.44%) Ariba
8 3 (1.44%) IBM
8 3 (1.44%) Palantir
9 2 (0.96%) IDERA
9 2 (0.96%) Informatica
9 2 (0.96%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.96%) VMware
10 1 (0.48%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.48%) Google
10 1 (0.48%) MapR
10 1 (0.48%) Percona
10 1 (0.48%) Sparx