Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £595, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 186 157
Rank change year-on-year -9 -29 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 231 172 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.34% 1.36% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 1.45% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 117 206
10th Percentile £463 £488 £519
25th Percentile £513 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £625 £705
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -11.35% +0.71%
75th Percentile £715 £750 £825
90th Percentile £788 £800 £925
England median daily rate £595 £603 £700
% change year-on-year -1.33% -13.93% -
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 £69.44 £80.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.74% +34.17% -14.29%

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 16,034 11,841 16,574
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 93.51% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,705 8,105 11,970
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £441
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 £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 143 339
10th Percentile £18.55 £21.22 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.00 £50.75 £44.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.75 £64.63
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £34.21
% change year-on-year +38.46% -5.00% -21.90%

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 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 15 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 +2 27 £595 -11.60% 14
East London -2 4 £585 -6.40% 1
South London - 3 £425 - 1
West London -22 2 £620 -0.80% 5
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 126 (54.55%) Data Architecture
2 102 (44.16%) Data Modelling
3 91 (39.39%) Analytics
4 68 (29.44%) Azure
5 64 (27.71%) AWS
6 55 (23.81%) Databricks
6 55 (23.81%) SQL
7 50 (21.65%) Data Governance
8 44 (19.05%) AI
9 43 (18.61%) Migration
10 39 (16.88%) Metadata
11 38 (16.45%) Data Strategy
11 38 (16.45%) Security Cleared
12 36 (15.58%) Data Quality
13 34 (14.72%) ETL
14 33 (14.29%) Data Engineering
14 33 (14.29%) SC Cleared
15 32 (13.85%) Business Intelligence
15 32 (13.85%) Microsoft
16 31 (13.42%) Data Lake
16 31 (13.42%) Data Warehouse
17 30 (12.99%) GCP
17 30 (12.99%) Physical Data Model
17 30 (12.99%) Python
18 29 (12.55%) Logical Data Model
18 29 (12.55%) Machine Learning
18 29 (12.55%) Roadmaps
19 28 (12.12%) Data Integration
20 26 (11.26%) Architectural Patterns
20 26 (11.26%) Power Platform

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 (5.19%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.16%) Palantir Foundry
3 4 (1.73%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.87%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.43%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 68 (29.44%) Azure
2 64 (27.71%) AWS
3 30 (12.99%) GCP
4 26 (11.26%) Power Platform
5 24 (10.39%) Snowflake
6 18 (7.79%) Amazon S3
6 18 (7.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (7.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 17 (7.36%) Serverless
8 14 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (5.19%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (3.90%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (3.90%) dbt
11 8 (3.46%) Amazon EventBridge
11 8 (3.46%) Amazon MSK
12 7 (3.03%) SaaS
13 6 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) BGP
1 2 (0.87%) OSPF
1 2 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.87%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (16.88%) Metadata
2 31 (13.42%) Data Lake
2 31 (13.42%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (8.66%) Amazon Redshift
3 20 (8.66%) Power BI
4 14 (6.06%) Data Vault
4 14 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (5.19%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.76%) Delta Lake
7 9 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (3.90%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (3.90%) DB2
7 9 (3.90%) OLTP
8 8 (3.46%) Big Data
8 8 (3.46%) BigQuery
8 8 (3.46%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.46%) Star Schema
8 8 (3.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (3.90%) ERwin
2 4 (1.73%) GitLab
3 3 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.87%) Git
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.43%) MLflow
5 1 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
General
1 40 (17.32%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.88%) Finance
3 27 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.09%) Retail
5 15 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.33%) Banking
7 7 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.60%) Marketing
9 5 (2.16%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.73%) Local Government
11 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.43%) Legal
12 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.49%) Kafka
2 9 (3.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (3.90%) PySpark
3 8 (3.46%) Apache Avro
3 8 (3.46%) Protocol Buffers
4 5 (2.16%) .NET
5 4 (1.73%) Middleware
6 2 (0.87%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.87%) REST
6 2 (0.87%) SOAP
7 1 (0.43%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.43%) FHIR
7 1 (0.43%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.43%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.36%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.63%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.33%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.33%) Mainframe
4 7 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.60%) NHS
5 6 (2.60%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.16%) PACS
6 5 (2.16%) Reinsurance
6 5 (2.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.73%) Data Fabric
7 4 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.73%) IoT
8 3 (1.30%) Replication
9 2 (0.87%) Clustering
9 2 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.87%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.90%) zOS
2 2 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (54.55%) Data Architecture
2 102 (44.16%) Data Modelling
3 91 (39.39%) Analytics
4 50 (21.65%) Data Governance
5 44 (19.05%) AI
6 43 (18.61%) Migration
7 38 (16.45%) Data Strategy
8 34 (14.72%) ETL
9 33 (14.29%) Data Engineering
10 32 (13.85%) Business Intelligence
11 30 (12.99%) Physical Data Model
12 29 (12.55%) Logical Data Model
12 29 (12.55%) Machine Learning
12 29 (12.55%) Roadmaps
13 28 (12.12%) Data Integration
14 26 (11.26%) Architectural Patterns
15 25 (10.82%) Agile
15 25 (10.82%) Data Pipeline
16 24 (10.39%) Event-Driven
17 23 (9.96%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 55 (23.81%) SQL
2 30 (12.99%) Python
3 7 (3.03%) Scala
4 6 (2.60%) Java
5 5 (2.16%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.16%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.87%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.87%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.87%) R
7 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.43%) Bicep
7 1 (0.43%) COBOL
7 1 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 38 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 33 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.49%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.16%) Degree
4 5 (2.16%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.87%) VCAP
6 2 (0.87%) VCDX
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.43%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (15.58%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.33%) GDPR
3 7 (3.03%) QA
4 5 (2.16%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.73%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.43%) HL7
7 1 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.87%) Docker
1 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (5.19%) Terraform
2 4 (1.73%) Grafana
2 4 (1.73%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.87%) Ansible
3 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (23.81%) Databricks
2 32 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.49%) Salesforce
4 13 (5.63%) Oracle
5 8 (3.46%) Confluent
5 8 (3.46%) Foundry
6 5 (2.16%) Palantir
6 5 (2.16%) SAP
7 4 (1.73%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (1.30%) IBM
9 2 (0.87%) Ariba
9 2 (0.87%) Google
9 2 (0.87%) IDERA
9 2 (0.87%) Informatica
9 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) VMware
10 1 (0.43%) MapR
10 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.43%) Sparx