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 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 173 160
Rank change year-on-year -45 -13 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 193 175 262
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.38% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.48% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 121 201
10th Percentile £463 £500 £513
25th Percentile £513 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £725 £774 £825
90th Percentile £796 £800 £925
England median daily rate £588 £603 £700
% change year-on-year -2.49% -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 £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 15,474 11,829 16,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 93.61% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,350 8,097 12,160
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £443
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 242 150 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.19 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.52
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £61.00 £53.31 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £67.63 £65.00
England median hourly rate £40.54 £34.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year +18.85% +4.95% -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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -9 19 £638 -5.20% 17
South London - 3 £425 - 2
East London -4 2 £495 -20.80% 1
West London -15 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 27 March 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.

1 113 (58.55%) Data Architecture
2 96 (49.74%) Data Modelling
3 82 (42.49%) Analytics
4 61 (31.61%) Azure
5 56 (29.02%) AWS
5 56 (29.02%) SQL
6 51 (26.42%) Data Governance
7 50 (25.91%) Databricks
8 41 (21.24%) AI
9 37 (19.17%) Data Quality
10 36 (18.65%) ETL
10 36 (18.65%) Metadata
11 34 (17.62%) Data Strategy
12 33 (17.10%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (17.10%) Migration
12 33 (17.10%) Python
13 32 (16.58%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (16.58%) Security Cleared
14 31 (16.06%) Microsoft
15 30 (15.54%) Data Engineering
15 30 (15.54%) Physical Data Model
16 29 (15.03%) Data Lake
17 28 (14.51%) Data Integration
17 28 (14.51%) Logical Data Model
18 27 (13.99%) Machine Learning
18 27 (13.99%) SC Cleared
19 26 (13.47%) Roadmaps
20 25 (12.95%) Architectural Patterns
20 25 (12.95%) Power Platform
21 22 (11.40%) Agile

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 (6.22%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.07%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.52%) SAP MDM
2 1 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 61 (31.61%) Azure
2 56 (29.02%) AWS
3 25 (12.95%) Power Platform
4 21 (10.88%) GCP
4 21 (10.88%) Snowflake
5 19 (9.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (9.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (7.77%) Amazon S3
6 15 (7.77%) Serverless
7 14 (7.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.15%) Amazon Kinesis
9 8 (4.15%) dbt
10 7 (3.63%) Amazon EventBridge
10 7 (3.63%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.11%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (2.59%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.59%) SaaS
13 4 (2.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) BGP
1 2 (1.04%) OSPF
1 2 (1.04%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (1.04%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.52%) Firewall
2 1 (0.52%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.65%) Metadata
2 33 (17.10%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (15.03%) Data Lake
4 22 (11.40%) Power BI
5 15 (7.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (7.25%) Data Vault
6 14 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (6.74%) NoSQL
8 11 (5.70%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (5.18%) Delta Lake
10 9 (4.66%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (4.66%) Apache Iceberg
10 9 (4.66%) DB2
10 9 (4.66%) SQL Server
11 8 (4.15%) Big Data
11 8 (4.15%) OLTP
11 8 (4.15%) Star Schema
11 8 (4.15%) Tableau
12 7 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.66%) ERwin
2 3 (1.55%) Git
2 3 (1.55%) GitLab
2 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.52%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.52%) MLflow
3 1 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
General
1 42 (21.76%) Finance
1 42 (21.76%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.29%) Retail
3 15 (7.77%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.22%) Banking
6 6 (3.11%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.59%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.07%) Local Government
9 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.04%) Marketing
9 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.81%) Kafka
2 9 (4.66%) PySpark
3 7 (3.63%) Apache Avro
3 7 (3.63%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (2.07%) Middleware
5 2 (1.04%) .NET
5 2 (1.04%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.52%) ADO
6 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.52%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.52%) FHIR
6 1 (0.52%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.52%) REST
6 1 (0.52%) SOAP
6 1 (0.52%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.22%) Data Structures
2 11 (5.70%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.18%) Mainframe
4 8 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.11%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.11%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.59%) Data Fabric
6 5 (2.59%) Reinsurance
7 4 (2.07%) IoT
7 4 (2.07%) PACS
7 4 (2.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.55%) Replication
9 2 (1.04%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.04%) FMCG
9 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.66%) zOS
2 2 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (58.55%) Data Architecture
2 96 (49.74%) Data Modelling
3 82 (42.49%) Analytics
4 51 (26.42%) Data Governance
5 41 (21.24%) AI
6 36 (18.65%) ETL
7 34 (17.62%) Data Strategy
8 33 (17.10%) Migration
9 32 (16.58%) Business Intelligence
10 30 (15.54%) Data Engineering
10 30 (15.54%) Physical Data Model
11 28 (14.51%) Data Integration
11 28 (14.51%) Logical Data Model
12 27 (13.99%) Machine Learning
13 26 (13.47%) Roadmaps
14 25 (12.95%) Architectural Patterns
15 22 (11.40%) Agile
15 22 (11.40%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (10.88%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 56 (29.02%) SQL
2 33 (17.10%) Python
3 5 (2.59%) Java
3 5 (2.59%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.59%) Scala
3 5 (2.59%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.04%) Apex Code
4 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.04%) R
5 1 (0.52%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (0.52%) COBOL
5 1 (0.52%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 32 (16.58%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.77%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.59%) Degree
4 5 (2.59%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.59%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.04%) VCAP
7 2 (1.04%) VCDX
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.52%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (19.17%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.70%) GDPR
3 7 (3.63%) QA
4 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.07%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (1.04%) Docker
1 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (5.70%) Terraform
2 4 (2.07%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.55%) Grafana
4 2 (1.04%) Ansible
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (25.91%) Databricks
2 31 (16.06%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.66%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.63%) Confluent
5 4 (2.07%) MicroStrategy
5 4 (2.07%) Oracle
5 4 (2.07%) SAP
6 3 (1.55%) IBM
7 2 (1.04%) IDERA
7 2 (1.04%) Informatica
7 2 (1.04%) VMware
8 1 (0.52%) Ariba
8 1 (0.52%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.52%) Google
8 1 (0.52%) MapR
8 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.52%) Percona
8 1 (0.52%) Sparx