Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 219 214
Rank change year-on-year +51 -5 +23
Contract Data Architect jobs 361 153 181
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 1.13% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 1.22% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 111 136
10th Percentile £456 £463 £500
25th Percentile £533 £526 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £756
90th Percentile £800 £800 £806
England median daily rate £625 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £118.86
England median hourly rate £47.00 £60.98 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.93% +1.63% +21.21%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
28 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract job adverts in London matching a recognised job title 18,918 12,527 14,722
% of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.80% 92.55% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,324 8,323 9,523
10th Percentile £363 £333 £345
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 219 161
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.25 £24.15
Median hourly rate £41.00 £26.78 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.10% -28.59% -7.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £80.75
England median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.27
% change year-on-year +65.84% -40.49% -7.88%

Data Architect Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract Data Architect job postings 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 Data Architect jobs in London over the 6 months to 28 October 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 Data Architect jobs within the London region over the 6 months to 28 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
Central London +29 70 £620 +3.94% 14
West London -11 6 £613 - 2
South London -6 3 £725 +61.11%
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, Data Architect contract job ads cited 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 Data Architect job ads across the London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Data Architecture54.3%196
2Data Modelling44.9%162
3Azure36.6%132
4Data Governance34.1%123
5Security Cleared33.8%122
6Analytics32.7%118
7Databricks29.1%105
8SC Cleared28.3%102
9AWS26.0%94
10Data Quality23.8%86
11AI22.4%81
12Migration20.5%74
13Metadata19.9%72
14Stakeholder Management17.5%63
15SQL16.9%61
16Business Intelligence15.8%57
16Data Warehouse15.8%57
16Logical Data Model15.8%57
16Microsoft15.8%57
16Stakeholder Engagement15.8%57
21Data Transformation15.0%54
21Integration Patterns15.0%54
23Data Lake14.7%53
24Snowflake14.1%51
25Roadmaps13.3%48
26Physical Data Model13.0%47
27Lakehouse12.7%46
28Data Strategy12.5%45
29Data Integration12.2%44
30CI/CD11.9%43

Data Architect Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Solutions Architect11.1%40
2Enterprise Data Architect7.8%28
3Azure Data Architect6.9%25
4Enterprise Architect6.4%23
5AWS Data Architect5.5%20
6Databricks Architect5.3%19
7Senior Data Architect5.0%18
8Platform Architect3.6%13
9Data Centre Architect2.8%10
9Lead Data Architect2.8%10
11Artificial Intelligence Architect2.5%9
11GCP Data Architect2.5%9
11Principal Data Architect2.5%9
14Data Modeller2.2%8
15Business Intelligence Architect1.7%6
16Data Warehouse Architect1.4%5
16Snowflake Architect1.4%5
18Migration Architect1.1%4
19Cloud Architect0.8%3
19Data Analytics Architect0.8%3
44 Data Architect jobs in London