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 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 184 187
Rank change year-on-year -48 +3 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 154 181 238
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 1.31% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.40% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 130 189
10th Percentile £463 £500 £525
25th Percentile £513 £524 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £678 £775 £775
90th Percentile £775 £800 £875
England median daily rate £582 £623 £675
% change year-on-year -6.68% -7.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £43.55
25th Percentile - - £44.33
Median hourly rate - - £47.78
75th Percentile - - £50.33
90th Percentile - - £50.58
England median hourly rate £83.00 £80.50 £50.28
% change year-on-year +3.11% +60.11% -28.18%

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 13,721 12,957 17,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 93.63% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,099 8,286 12,493
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 141 321
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.60 £24.50 £19.05
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £63.08 £53.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.11% +4.29%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -6 17 £650 -17.46% 7
South London -2 3 £425 -15.00%
East London -1 2 £495 -20.80% 1
West London - 2 £613 - 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 January 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 93 (60.39%) Data Architecture
2 92 (59.74%) Data Modelling
3 60 (38.96%) Azure
4 59 (38.31%) Analytics
5 51 (33.12%) Data Governance
6 50 (32.47%) SQL
7 45 (29.22%) AWS
8 44 (28.57%) Databricks
9 38 (24.68%) ETL
10 34 (22.08%) Data Quality
10 34 (22.08%) Python
11 32 (20.78%) Data Warehouse
12 30 (19.48%) Data Strategy
12 30 (19.48%) Microsoft
12 30 (19.48%) Physical Data Model
13 29 (18.83%) AI
14 26 (16.88%) Data Lake
14 26 (16.88%) Logical Data Model
14 26 (16.88%) Metadata
14 26 (16.88%) Migration
15 25 (16.23%) Business Intelligence
16 23 (14.94%) Agile
16 23 (14.94%) Data Engineering
16 23 (14.94%) Data Integration
16 23 (14.94%) DevOps
16 23 (14.94%) Power Platform
16 23 (14.94%) Roadmaps
16 23 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
17 22 (14.29%) Security Cleared
18 21 (13.64%) Data Pipeline

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 7 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.60%) Apache
3 2 (1.30%) Luigi
4 1 (0.65%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (1.30%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.65%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 60 (38.96%) Azure
2 45 (29.22%) AWS
3 23 (14.94%) Power Platform
4 19 (12.34%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (12.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (10.39%) Serverless
5 16 (10.39%) Snowflake
6 15 (9.74%) Microsoft Purview
7 14 (9.09%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.49%) Amazon Kinesis
8 10 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (6.49%) GCP
9 9 (5.84%) dbt
10 8 (5.19%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (3.90%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (3.25%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (3.25%) Collibra
13 5 (3.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (20.78%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (16.88%) Data Lake
2 26 (16.88%) Metadata
3 20 (12.99%) Power BI
4 15 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (9.09%) Data Vault
6 12 (7.79%) NoSQL
7 10 (6.49%) Tableau
8 9 (5.84%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (5.84%) Delta Lake
8 9 (5.84%) SQL Server
9 8 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (5.19%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (5.19%) OLTP
9 8 (5.19%) Spark SQL
10 7 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.90%) Big Data
11 6 (3.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (5.19%) ERwin
2 3 (1.95%) Git
3 2 (1.30%) GitLab
3 2 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.65%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.65%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 34 (22.08%) Finance
3 20 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.55%) Retail
6 6 (3.90%) Banking
7 5 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.25%) Local Government
8 4 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.30%) Back Office
9 2 (1.30%) Front Office
9 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.74%) Kafka
2 9 (5.84%) PySpark
3 7 (4.55%) Apache Avro
3 7 (4.55%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (1.30%) .NET
4 2 (1.30%) XML
5 1 (0.65%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.65%) ADO
5 1 (0.65%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.65%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.65%) FHIR
5 1 (0.65%) JSON
5 1 (0.65%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.65%) REST
5 1 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.39%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.55%) Reinsurance
4 6 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.25%) Data Fabric
5 5 (3.25%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.60%) IoT
6 4 (2.60%) PACS
6 4 (2.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.95%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.95%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.95%) Replication
8 2 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.30%) Equities
8 2 (1.30%) FMCG
8 2 (1.30%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.30%) zOS
2 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (60.39%) Data Architecture
2 92 (59.74%) Data Modelling
3 59 (38.31%) Analytics
4 51 (33.12%) Data Governance
5 38 (24.68%) ETL
6 30 (19.48%) Data Strategy
6 30 (19.48%) Physical Data Model
7 29 (18.83%) AI
8 26 (16.88%) Logical Data Model
8 26 (16.88%) Migration
9 25 (16.23%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (14.94%) Agile
10 23 (14.94%) Data Engineering
10 23 (14.94%) Data Integration
10 23 (14.94%) DevOps
10 23 (14.94%) Roadmaps
10 23 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
12 20 (12.99%) Machine Learning
12 20 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 50 (32.47%) SQL
2 34 (22.08%) Python
3 7 (4.55%) Java
4 6 (3.90%) T-SQL
5 5 (3.25%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.95%) Scala
7 2 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.30%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.30%) R
7 2 (1.30%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.65%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.65%) C#
8 1 (0.65%) Korn
8 1 (0.65%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 22 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.34%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.74%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.19%) Degree
5 5 (3.25%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.65%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.65%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.08%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.79%) GDPR
3 6 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.90%) QA
4 4 (2.60%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.30%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.55%) Terraform
2 2 (1.30%) Grafana
3 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (28.57%) Databricks
2 30 (19.48%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.55%) Confluent
4 6 (3.90%) Oracle
5 4 (2.60%) MicroStrategy
5 4 (2.60%) SAP
6 3 (1.95%) Informatica
6 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.95%) Workday
7 2 (1.30%) Charles River
7 2 (1.30%) eFront
7 2 (1.30%) Google
7 2 (1.30%) IBM
7 2 (1.30%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.30%) Sparx
8 1 (0.65%) Ariba
8 1 (0.65%) Percona
8 1 (0.65%) Talend