Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 192 165
Rank change year-on-year +13 -27 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 261 165 264
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.46% 1.33% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.43% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 114 200
10th Percentile £463 £488 £512
25th Percentile £513 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £715 £738 £825
90th Percentile £788 £799 £925
England median daily rate £600 £600 £688
% change year-on-year - -12.73% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £72.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -35.40% +21.25% -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 16,586 11,567 16,351
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 93.33% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,005 7,920 11,814
10th Percentile £350 £344 £325
25th Percentile £429 £426 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £688
90th Percentile £754 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 143 323
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.42 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +25.93% -23.94%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £44.25
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £46.14 £30.20 £37.18
% change year-on-year +52.78% -18.77% -17.38%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +17 40 £595 +6.64% 18
West London -16 7 £575 -8.00% 2
East London - 4 £585 - 1
South London - 2 £725 - 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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.

1 134 (51.34%) Data Architecture
2 107 (41.00%) Data Modelling
3 97 (37.16%) Analytics
4 79 (30.27%) Azure
5 68 (26.05%) Databricks
6 61 (23.37%) AWS
7 60 (22.99%) Migration
8 55 (21.07%) SQL
9 49 (18.77%) Data Governance
10 46 (17.62%) Security Cleared
11 44 (16.86%) Microsoft
12 42 (16.09%) SC Cleared
13 40 (15.33%) AI
14 37 (14.18%) Data Quality
15 36 (13.79%) Roadmaps
16 35 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
16 35 (13.41%) Data Strategy
17 34 (13.03%) Data Engineering
17 34 (13.03%) ETL
18 33 (12.64%) Metadata
19 32 (12.26%) Data Lake
19 32 (12.26%) Logical Data Model
20 30 (11.49%) GCP
21 29 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
22 28 (10.73%) Data Integration
22 28 (10.73%) Data Migration
22 28 (10.73%) Python
23 27 (10.34%) CI/CD
23 27 (10.34%) Event-Driven
23 27 (10.34%) Integration Patterns

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 (4.60%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.07%) Palantir Foundry
3 4 (1.53%) Apache
4 3 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.77%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.38%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 79 (30.27%) Azure
2 61 (23.37%) AWS
3 30 (11.49%) GCP
4 27 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 24 (9.20%) Snowflake
6 22 (8.43%) Amazon S3
7 20 (7.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (7.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 19 (7.28%) Serverless
9 18 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (5.75%) Amazon Kinesis
10 15 (5.75%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (4.21%) AWS Step Functions
12 10 (3.83%) Amazon MSK
13 9 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
13 9 (3.45%) dbt
14 7 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.30%) Apigee
15 6 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (2.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.77%) BGP
1 2 (0.77%) OSPF
1 2 (0.77%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.77%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.38%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.64%) Metadata
2 32 (12.26%) Data Lake
3 29 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (8.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 21 (8.05%) Power BI
6 14 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (4.60%) Data Vault
7 12 (4.60%) Delta Lake
7 12 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.21%) Apache Iceberg
8 11 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (3.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.45%) BigQuery
10 9 (3.45%) DB2
10 9 (3.45%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.45%) OLTP
10 9 (3.45%) Star Schema
10 9 (3.45%) Tableau
11 8 (3.07%) SQL Server
12 6 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.45%) ERwin
2 5 (1.92%) GitLab
3 4 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.77%) Git
5 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.38%) MLflow
5 1 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
General
1 42 (16.09%) Finance
2 35 (13.41%) Social Skills
3 28 (10.73%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.20%) Retail
5 17 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.98%) Banking
7 8 (3.07%) Marketing
8 7 (2.68%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.92%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.53%) Local Government
11 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Aviation
13 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.51%) Kafka
2 10 (3.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (3.45%) Apache Avro
3 9 (3.45%) Protocol Buffers
3 9 (3.45%) PySpark
4 6 (2.30%) .NET
5 4 (1.53%) Middleware
6 3 (1.15%) REST
7 2 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.77%) SOAP
7 2 (0.77%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.38%) FHIR
8 1 (0.38%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.98%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.83%) Mainframe
5 8 (3.07%) Reference Data
6 7 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.68%) NHS
6 7 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.30%) PACS
7 6 (2.30%) Reinsurance
7 6 (2.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.92%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.15%) IoT
10 3 (1.15%) Replication
11 2 (0.77%) Clustering
11 2 (0.77%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.45%) zOS
2 2 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (51.34%) Data Architecture
2 107 (41.00%) Data Modelling
3 97 (37.16%) Analytics
4 60 (22.99%) Migration
5 49 (18.77%) Data Governance
6 40 (15.33%) AI
7 36 (13.79%) Roadmaps
8 35 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
8 35 (13.41%) Data Strategy
9 34 (13.03%) Data Engineering
9 34 (13.03%) ETL
10 32 (12.26%) Logical Data Model
11 28 (10.73%) Data Integration
11 28 (10.73%) Data Migration
12 27 (10.34%) CI/CD
12 27 (10.34%) Event-Driven
12 27 (10.34%) Integration Patterns
13 26 (9.96%) Physical Data Model
14 25 (9.58%) Machine Learning
15 24 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (21.07%) SQL
2 28 (10.73%) Python
3 8 (3.07%) Scala
4 5 (1.92%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.92%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.15%) Java
6 2 (0.77%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.77%) Bicep
6 2 (0.77%) R
7 1 (0.38%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.38%) COBOL
7 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 46 (17.62%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.36%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.92%) Degree
4 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.77%) VCAP
7 2 (0.77%) VCDX
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.38%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.18%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.45%) GDPR
3 7 (2.68%) QA
4 6 (2.30%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.38%) GRC
7 1 (0.38%) HL7
7 1 (0.38%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.77%) Docker
1 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (4.98%) Terraform
2 5 (1.92%) Grafana
3 3 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.15%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 68 (26.05%) Databricks
2 44 (16.86%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.13%) Salesforce
4 14 (5.36%) Oracle
5 11 (4.21%) Foundry
6 9 (3.45%) Confluent
7 8 (3.07%) Palantir
8 5 (1.92%) SAP
9 3 (1.15%) Google
9 3 (1.15%) IBM
9 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.77%) Ariba
10 2 (0.77%) IDERA
10 2 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.77%) VMware
11 1 (0.38%) Infor
11 1 (0.38%) Informatica
11 1 (0.38%) MapR
11 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.38%) Percona