Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £608, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 211 212
Rank change year-on-year +59 +1 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 387 159 179
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.90% 1.19% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 1.28% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 110 139
10th Percentile £456 £463 £498
25th Percentile £525 £521 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £712 £724 £775
90th Percentile £788 £800 £828
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 £38.96 £60.00
% change year-on-year +20.64% -35.07% +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 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 18,988 12,399 15,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 92.71% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,280 8,291 10,016
10th Percentile £363 £331 £343
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 £660 £672 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 204 178
10th Percentile £17.32 £17.00 £17.43
25th Percentile £22.25 £22.98 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.04 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.76% -17.04% -6.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.00 £57.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.40 £75.38
England median hourly rate £42.58 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +69.28% -45.54% +2.62%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +34 78 £608 +2.57% 52
West London -14 9 £600 -4.00% 7
South London - 3 £725 - 1
East London - 2 £675 - 3
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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.

1 195 (50.39%) Data Architecture
2 161 (41.60%) Data Modelling
3 133 (34.37%) Azure
4 130 (33.59%) Analytics
5 118 (30.49%) Security Cleared
6 109 (28.17%) Data Governance
6 109 (28.17%) Databricks
7 104 (26.87%) AWS
8 100 (25.84%) SC Cleared
9 90 (23.26%) Migration
10 86 (22.22%) AI
11 78 (20.16%) Data Quality
12 66 (17.05%) Metadata
13 65 (16.80%) SQL
13 65 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 60 (15.50%) Business Intelligence
15 57 (14.73%) Data Lake
15 57 (14.73%) Data Warehouse
15 57 (14.73%) Integration Patterns
15 57 (14.73%) Logical Data Model
16 56 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 55 (14.21%) Snowflake
18 50 (12.92%) Data Engineering
18 50 (12.92%) Data Transformation
18 50 (12.92%) Roadmaps
19 49 (12.66%) CI/CD
19 49 (12.66%) Data Strategy
19 49 (12.66%) Lakehouse
19 49 (12.66%) Machine Learning
20 48 (12.40%) Microsoft

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 17 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (3.88%) Apache
4 9 (2.33%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.52%) Confluence
5 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.26%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.52%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.52%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 133 (34.37%) Azure
2 104 (26.87%) AWS
3 55 (14.21%) Snowflake
4 37 (9.56%) GCP
4 37 (9.56%) Power Platform
5 30 (7.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 22 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (5.68%) dbt
7 16 (4.13%) Amazon S3
8 14 (3.62%) Serverless
9 12 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (2.58%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.33%) Azure Databricks
12 7 (1.81%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.55%) SaaS
14 5 (1.29%) Amazon EMR
14 5 (1.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) DSL
2 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (17.05%) Metadata
2 57 (14.73%) Data Lake
2 57 (14.73%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (8.53%) Power BI
4 20 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (3.88%) Data Vault
6 13 (3.36%) BigQuery
7 12 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.58%) Semantic Layer
8 10 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (2.33%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.07%) Big Data
10 8 (2.07%) Star Schema
10 8 (2.07%) Tableau
11 7 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.81%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.81%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 6 (1.55%) ERwin
2 5 (1.29%) GitLab
3 4 (1.03%) Git
4 3 (0.78%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.78%) MLflow
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.52%) JIRA
5 2 (0.52%) RStudio
General
1 81 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.80%) Finance
3 52 (13.44%) Public Sector
4 30 (7.75%) Retail
5 26 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.94%) Banking
7 10 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (2.58%) Marketing
8 7 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.29%) Billing
9 5 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.03%) Legal
11 2 (0.52%) Aviation
11 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.52%) Military
11 2 (0.52%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Law
12 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.68%) Terraform
2 21 (5.43%) PySpark
3 18 (4.65%) Kafka
4 12 (3.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.81%) REST
6 4 (1.03%) .NET
6 4 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.78%) Apache Avro
7 3 (0.78%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.52%) Bootstrap
8 2 (0.52%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.52%) JWT
8 2 (0.52%) Model Context Protocol
8 2 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.52%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (0.52%) pytest
8 2 (0.52%) React
8 2 (0.52%) Snowpark
8 2 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.68%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.62%) Reinsurance
4 13 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.10%) AI Agents
6 10 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.58%) Taxonomies
7 9 (2.33%) Reference Data
8 8 (2.07%) Data Fabric
8 8 (2.07%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.07%) Replication
9 7 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.55%) NHS
11 5 (1.29%) Digital Media
12 4 (1.03%) Clustering
12 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) IoT
12 4 (1.03%) SCADA
13 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.26%) Linux
1 1 (0.26%) Windows
1 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (50.39%) Data Architecture
2 161 (41.60%) Data Modelling
3 130 (33.59%) Analytics
4 109 (28.17%) Data Governance
5 90 (23.26%) Migration
6 86 (22.22%) AI
7 65 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (15.50%) Business Intelligence
9 57 (14.73%) Integration Patterns
9 57 (14.73%) Logical Data Model
10 56 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 50 (12.92%) Data Engineering
11 50 (12.92%) Data Transformation
11 50 (12.92%) Roadmaps
12 49 (12.66%) CI/CD
12 49 (12.66%) Data Strategy
12 49 (12.66%) Lakehouse
12 49 (12.66%) Machine Learning
13 48 (12.40%) Physical Data Model
14 44 (11.37%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 65 (16.80%) SQL
2 34 (8.79%) Python
3 5 (1.29%) Bicep
3 5 (1.29%) Java
4 4 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.03%) Scala
5 2 (0.52%) Cypher
5 2 (0.52%) R
5 2 (0.52%) SHACL
5 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 118 (30.49%) Security Cleared
2 100 (25.84%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.88%) DV Cleared
4 7 (1.81%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.55%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.29%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.52%) Degree
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.26%) CISSP
8 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (20.16%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.43%) GDPR
3 6 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.03%) QA
4 4 (1.03%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.78%) IFRS
5 3 (0.78%) NCSC
5 3 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.52%) GRC
6 2 (0.52%) GxP
6 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.52%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.26%) HL7
7 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.26%) Docker
1 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.29%) Grafana
2 2 (0.52%) Argo
2 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.26%) Control-M
3 1 (0.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 109 (28.17%) Databricks
2 48 (12.40%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.46%) Oracle
4 13 (3.36%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.10%) Foundry
6 9 (2.33%) Google
6 9 (2.33%) Palantir
7 7 (1.81%) Informatica
7 7 (1.81%) SAP
8 5 (1.29%) Talend
9 4 (1.03%) Confluent
9 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.03%) Sparx
10 3 (0.78%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.78%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.78%) Workday
11 2 (0.52%) Ariba
11 2 (0.52%) IBM
11 2 (0.52%) Teradata