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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 213 216
Rank change year-on-year +53 +3 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 364 162 187
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 1.21% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 1.30% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 106 145
10th Percentile £462 £471 £493
25th Percentile £525 £539 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -7.69% -7.96%
75th Percentile £710 £725 £775
90th Percentile £775 £800 £883
England median daily rate £622 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +3.67% -7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £118.86
Median % change year-on-year - -45.31% +180.50%
England median hourly rate £58.50 £51.98 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.54% -13.37% -9.09%

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 18,744 12,443 15,290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 92.96% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,120 8,377 10,481
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 208 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.28
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.85% -12.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £62.44 £50.88 £55.75
90th Percentile £80.63 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +72.96% -44.11% +2.86%

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 1 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 1 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 +29 69 £600 +5.82% 16
West London -8 10 £620 -0.80% 5
South London - 3 £725 - 2
East London - 2 £675 - 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 179 (49.18%) Data Architecture
2 151 (41.48%) Data Modelling
3 131 (35.99%) Azure
4 122 (33.52%) Analytics
5 107 (29.40%) Security Cleared
6 102 (28.02%) Databricks
7 98 (26.92%) Data Governance
8 97 (26.65%) AWS
8 97 (26.65%) SC Cleared
9 82 (22.53%) AI
10 81 (22.25%) Migration
11 70 (19.23%) Data Quality
12 64 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 63 (17.31%) SQL
14 61 (16.76%) Business Intelligence
15 56 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
16 55 (15.11%) Metadata
17 54 (14.84%) Integration Patterns
18 53 (14.56%) Data Lake
19 52 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
19 52 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 51 (14.01%) Data Engineering
21 48 (13.19%) Machine Learning
22 47 (12.91%) CI/CD
22 47 (12.91%) Data Strategy
23 46 (12.64%) Snowflake
24 44 (12.09%) Lakehouse
24 44 (12.09%) Roadmaps
25 43 (11.81%) Data Integration
26 42 (11.54%) Data Transformation

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 18 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.30%) Apache
4 9 (2.47%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.55%) Confluence
5 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.55%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.55%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.27%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 131 (35.99%) Azure
2 97 (26.65%) AWS
3 46 (12.64%) Snowflake
4 39 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 36 (9.89%) GCP
6 27 (7.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 22 (6.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (4.67%) Amazon S3
8 17 (4.67%) dbt
9 16 (4.40%) Serverless
10 11 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.02%) Microsoft Purview
11 10 (2.75%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.47%) Azure Databricks
13 7 (1.92%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.65%) Azure Machine Learning
15 5 (1.37%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (1.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.55%) BGP
1 2 (0.55%) DSL
1 2 (0.55%) OSPF
1 2 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.55%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 55 (15.11%) Metadata
3 53 (14.56%) Data Lake
4 34 (9.34%) Power BI
5 20 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (3.30%) BigQuery
6 12 (3.30%) Data Vault
7 11 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.47%) Big Data
8 9 (2.47%) Semantic Layer
8 9 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.20%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.20%) Tableau
10 7 (1.92%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.92%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (1.65%) ERwin
2 5 (1.37%) GitLab
3 4 (1.10%) Git
4 3 (0.82%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.82%) MLflow
4 3 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.55%) JIRA
5 2 (0.55%) RStudio
General
1 72 (19.78%) Social Skills
2 65 (17.86%) Finance
3 49 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.24%) Retail
5 26 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (6.32%) Banking
7 11 (3.02%) Marketing
8 9 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.10%) Legal
12 3 (0.82%) Billing
12 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.55%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.27%) Law
14 1 (0.27%) Military
14 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.59%) Terraform
2 20 (5.49%) PySpark
3 17 (4.67%) Kafka
4 12 (3.30%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.37%) .NET
5 5 (1.37%) REST
6 3 (0.82%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (0.55%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.55%) Apache Avro
7 2 (0.55%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.55%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.55%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.55%) JWT
7 2 (0.55%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.55%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (0.55%) pytest
7 2 (0.55%) React
7 2 (0.55%) WebSockets
7 2 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.42%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.49%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.30%) AI Agents
3 12 (3.30%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.02%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.75%) Reference Data
5 10 (2.75%) Reinsurance
6 9 (2.47%) Taxonomies
7 8 (2.20%) Replication
8 7 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.65%) Data Fabric
9 6 (1.65%) NHS
10 5 (1.37%) Digital Media
10 5 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.10%) IoT
11 4 (1.10%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.55%) zOS
2 1 (0.27%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (49.18%) Data Architecture
2 151 (41.48%) Data Modelling
3 122 (33.52%) Analytics
4 98 (26.92%) Data Governance
5 82 (22.53%) AI
6 81 (22.25%) Migration
7 64 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 61 (16.76%) Business Intelligence
9 54 (14.84%) Integration Patterns
10 52 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
10 52 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 51 (14.01%) Data Engineering
12 48 (13.19%) Machine Learning
13 47 (12.91%) CI/CD
13 47 (12.91%) Data Strategy
14 44 (12.09%) Lakehouse
14 44 (12.09%) Roadmaps
15 43 (11.81%) Data Integration
16 42 (11.54%) Data Transformation
16 42 (11.54%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 63 (17.31%) SQL
2 35 (9.62%) Python
3 5 (1.37%) Java
3 5 (1.37%) Scala
4 4 (1.10%) Bicep
5 3 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.55%) Cypher
6 2 (0.55%) R
6 2 (0.55%) SHACL
6 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.55%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 107 (29.40%) Security Cleared
2 97 (26.65%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.47%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.37%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.55%) Degree
8 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.55%) VCAP
8 2 (0.55%) VCDX
9 1 (0.27%) CISSP
9 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (19.23%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.77%) GDPR
3 6 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.10%) QA
4 4 (1.10%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.82%) IFRS
5 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.55%) GRC
6 2 (0.55%) GxP
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.55%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.37%) Grafana
2 3 (0.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.55%) Ansible
3 2 (0.55%) Argo
3 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.27%) Control-M
Vendors
1 102 (28.02%) Databricks
2 42 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.87%) Oracle
4 13 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.30%) Foundry
6 9 (2.47%) Google
6 9 (2.47%) Palantir
7 8 (2.20%) SAP
8 5 (1.37%) Informatica
9 4 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.82%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.82%) Confluent
10 3 (0.82%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.82%) Talend
10 3 (0.82%) VMware
10 3 (0.82%) Workday
11 2 (0.55%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.55%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.55%) IBM
11 2 (0.55%) Teradata