Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 219 216
Rank change year-on-year +50 -3 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 362 156 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 1.17% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 1.26% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 111 140
10th Percentile £456 £463 £500
25th Percentile £525 £519 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £715 £715 £752
90th Percentile £800 £800 £814
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 £60.98 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.93% +1.63% +19.34%

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 19,058 12,391 15,104
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 92.55% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,335 8,277 9,836
10th Percentile £363 £335 £341
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 210 171
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £23.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.20 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -25.48% -9.88%
75th Percentile £64.25 £49.13 £59.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.75 £80.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% -6.89%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +22 69 £620 +8.58% 23
West London -17 7 £575 -6.12% 5
South London - 3 £725 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 190 (52.49%) Data Architecture
2 155 (42.82%) Data Modelling
3 132 (36.46%) Azure
4 123 (33.98%) Security Cleared
5 119 (32.87%) Analytics
6 113 (31.22%) Data Governance
7 103 (28.45%) SC Cleared
8 102 (28.18%) Databricks
9 93 (25.69%) AWS
10 82 (22.65%) Data Quality
11 81 (22.38%) AI
12 77 (21.27%) Migration
13 71 (19.61%) Metadata
14 62 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 58 (16.02%) SQL
16 57 (15.75%) Business Intelligence
16 57 (15.75%) Data Warehouse
16 57 (15.75%) Microsoft
17 56 (15.47%) Logical Data Model
18 55 (15.19%) Integration Patterns
18 55 (15.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 54 (14.92%) Data Lake
20 49 (13.54%) Data Transformation
21 48 (13.26%) Snowflake
22 47 (12.98%) Lakehouse
23 46 (12.71%) Physical Data Model
23 46 (12.71%) Roadmaps
24 43 (11.88%) CI/CD
25 42 (11.60%) Data Integration
25 42 (11.60%) Decision-Making

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 16 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (4.14%) Apache
2 15 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.55%) Confluence
4 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.55%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) Maximo
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 132 (36.46%) Azure
2 93 (25.69%) AWS
3 48 (13.26%) Snowflake
4 38 (10.50%) Power Platform
5 30 (8.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (6.35%) GCP
7 22 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (5.52%) dbt
9 14 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (3.04%) Microsoft Purview
11 10 (2.76%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.49%) Serverless
13 7 (1.93%) Azure Databricks
14 6 (1.66%) GitHub
15 5 (1.38%) Azure Machine Learning
15 5 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.10%) Amazon Kinesis
16 4 (1.10%) Amazon MSK
16 4 (1.10%) Azure Key Vault
16 4 (1.10%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.55%) DSL
2 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (19.61%) Metadata
2 57 (15.75%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (14.92%) Data Lake
4 38 (10.50%) Power BI
5 13 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (3.31%) Data Vault
7 11 (3.04%) Snowflake Schema
7 11 (3.04%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.49%) Semantic Layer
10 8 (2.21%) Big Data
11 7 (1.93%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.93%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.93%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.66%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (1.66%) ERwin
2 5 (1.38%) Git
3 3 (0.83%) ER Studio
3 3 (0.83%) GitLab
3 3 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.55%) JIRA
4 2 (0.55%) MLflow
4 2 (0.55%) RStudio
General
1 79 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.85%) Finance
3 44 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 27 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.63%) Banking
6 22 (6.08%) Retail
7 10 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.66%) Marketing
10 5 (1.38%) Billing
10 5 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.10%) Legal
12 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.55%) Military
13 2 (0.55%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.28%) Aviation
14 1 (0.28%) Law
14 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.52%) PySpark
1 20 (5.52%) Terraform
2 16 (4.42%) Kafka
3 8 (2.21%) REST
4 4 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.55%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.55%) Bootstrap
6 2 (0.55%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.55%) JSON
6 2 (0.55%) JWT
6 2 (0.55%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.55%) pytest
6 2 (0.55%) React
6 2 (0.55%) Snowpark
6 2 (0.55%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (0.55%) WebSockets
6 2 (0.55%) YAML
7 1 (0.28%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.35%) Data Structures
2 21 (5.80%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.14%) Reinsurance
4 13 (3.59%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.31%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.31%) Reference Data
5 12 (3.31%) Taxonomies
6 10 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.49%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.49%) Replication
8 8 (2.21%) Data Fabric
9 6 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.38%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.10%) IoT
11 4 (1.10%) SCADA
12 3 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.28%) Linux
1 1 (0.28%) Windows
1 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (52.49%) Data Architecture
2 155 (42.82%) Data Modelling
3 119 (32.87%) Analytics
4 113 (31.22%) Data Governance
5 81 (22.38%) AI
6 77 (21.27%) Migration
7 62 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 57 (15.75%) Business Intelligence
9 56 (15.47%) Logical Data Model
10 55 (15.19%) Integration Patterns
10 55 (15.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 49 (13.54%) Data Transformation
12 47 (12.98%) Lakehouse
13 46 (12.71%) Physical Data Model
13 46 (12.71%) Roadmaps
14 43 (11.88%) CI/CD
15 42 (11.60%) Data Integration
15 42 (11.60%) Decision-Making
16 41 (11.33%) Data Strategy
17 40 (11.05%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (16.02%) SQL
2 30 (8.29%) Python
3 6 (1.66%) Bicep
4 4 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.10%) Java
5 2 (0.55%) Cypher
5 2 (0.55%) R
5 2 (0.55%) SHACL
5 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.55%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 123 (33.98%) Security Cleared
2 103 (28.45%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.25%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.38%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.10%) Degree
9 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.28%) CISSP
11 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (22.65%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.63%) GDPR
3 7 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.10%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.83%) IFRS
5 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.83%) NCSC
5 3 (0.83%) QA
5 3 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.55%) GRC
6 2 (0.55%) GxP
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.55%) NIST
7 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.10%) Grafana
2 2 (0.55%) Argo
3 1 (0.28%) Control-M
3 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 102 (28.18%) Databricks
2 57 (15.75%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.97%) Oracle
4 10 (2.76%) Google
5 8 (2.21%) Informatica
6 7 (1.93%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.66%) Talend
8 5 (1.38%) Foundry
8 5 (1.38%) SAP
9 4 (1.10%) Palantir
9 4 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.10%) Sparx
10 3 (0.83%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.83%) Confluent
10 3 (0.83%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.83%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.83%) Workday
11 2 (0.55%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.55%) IBM
11 2 (0.55%) Teradata