Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 203 237
Rank change year-on-year -31 +34 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 146 198 197
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 1.24% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.33% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 142 146
10th Percentile £455 £500 £519
25th Percentile £519 £528 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £738
90th Percentile £808 £800 £800
England median daily rate £613 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -2.00% -7.41% +2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £36.81
25th Percentile - - £39.14
Median hourly rate - £118.86 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year - +158.08% -
75th Percentile - - £49.92
90th Percentile - - £50.42
England median hourly rate £83.00 £118.86 £49.50
% change year-on-year -30.17% +140.12% -29.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,117 14,903 18,392
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 93.66% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,695 9,654 13,305
10th Percentile £333 £340 £337
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -2.22% -2.51%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £768 £799 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 164 216
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.33 £21.69
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +3.76% +3.26%
75th Percentile £51.25 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.77 £81.05 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +38.46%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 18 £625 -10.71% 6
South London -5 3 £425 -15.00%
West London -12 2 £613 -12.50% 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 November 2025, 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 95 (65.07%) Data Modelling
2 84 (57.53%) Data Architecture
3 64 (43.84%) Data Governance
4 62 (42.47%) Azure
5 46 (31.51%) AWS
5 46 (31.51%) ETL
6 45 (30.82%) SQL
7 43 (29.45%) Analytics
8 38 (26.03%) Python
9 33 (22.60%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (21.23%) Data Strategy
11 30 (20.55%) Power Platform
12 29 (19.86%) Metadata
12 29 (19.86%) Migration
13 28 (19.18%) Data Quality
14 27 (18.49%) Databricks
14 27 (18.49%) Physical Data Model
15 26 (17.81%) Data Integration
16 24 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
16 24 (16.44%) Data Lake
17 23 (15.75%) AI
17 23 (15.75%) Data Pipeline
17 23 (15.75%) Microsoft
17 23 (15.75%) Power BI
18 22 (15.07%) Metadata Management
18 22 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
18 22 (15.07%) Roadmaps
18 22 (15.07%) Snowflake
19 21 (14.38%) Logical Data Model
20 18 (12.33%) 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 8 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.11%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.74%) Apache
4 2 (1.37%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.37%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.68%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (42.47%) Azure
2 46 (31.51%) AWS
3 30 (20.55%) Power Platform
4 22 (15.07%) Snowflake
5 17 (11.64%) GCP
6 16 (10.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (10.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (8.22%) dbt
8 12 (8.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (6.16%) Serverless
10 7 (4.79%) Collibra
11 6 (4.11%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.11%) SaaS
12 4 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.05%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (2.05%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (2.05%) Azure Functions
13 3 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (2.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (22.60%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (19.86%) Metadata
3 24 (16.44%) Data Lake
4 23 (15.75%) Power BI
5 17 (11.64%) Data Vault
6 12 (8.22%) NoSQL
7 11 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (6.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (5.48%) Big Data
10 7 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (4.79%) BigQuery
10 7 (4.79%) Relational Database
10 7 (4.79%) Spark SQL
11 5 (3.42%) Data Hub
11 5 (3.42%) SQL Server
12 4 (2.74%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.74%) Tableau
13 3 (2.05%) Neo4j
13 3 (2.05%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (4.79%) ERwin
2 3 (2.05%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.37%) GCC
3 2 (1.37%) Git
4 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.68%) JIRA
4 1 (0.68%) Postman
4 1 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 42 (28.77%) Finance
3 25 (17.12%) Public Sector
4 17 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.53%) Banking
6 10 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.74%) Local Government
7 4 (2.74%) Retail
8 3 (2.05%) Back Office
8 3 (2.05%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.05%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.37%) Front Office
9 2 (1.37%) Legal
9 2 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.53%) PySpark
2 8 (5.48%) Kafka
3 3 (2.05%) JSON
3 3 (2.05%) XML
4 2 (1.37%) .NET
5 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.68%) ADO
5 1 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.68%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.68%) REST
5 1 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.22%) Data Structures
2 11 (7.53%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.79%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.74%) Data Fabric
5 4 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.74%) Pricing Data
5 4 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.74%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.74%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.37%) Equities
7 2 (1.37%) FMCG
7 2 (1.37%) IoT
7 2 (1.37%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.37%) Replication
7 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.37%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (65.07%) Data Modelling
2 84 (57.53%) Data Architecture
3 64 (43.84%) Data Governance
4 46 (31.51%) ETL
5 43 (29.45%) Analytics
6 31 (21.23%) Data Strategy
7 29 (19.86%) Migration
8 27 (18.49%) Physical Data Model
9 26 (17.81%) Data Integration
10 24 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (15.75%) AI
11 23 (15.75%) Data Pipeline
12 22 (15.07%) Metadata Management
12 22 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (15.07%) Roadmaps
13 21 (14.38%) Logical Data Model
14 18 (12.33%) Agile
14 18 (12.33%) Data Engineering
15 17 (11.64%) Data Management
15 17 (11.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (30.82%) SQL
2 38 (26.03%) Python
3 14 (9.59%) Java
4 6 (4.11%) PL/SQL
5 4 (2.74%) C
5 4 (2.74%) C++
5 4 (2.74%) Perl
6 3 (2.05%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.37%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.37%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.68%) Bash
8 1 (0.68%) C#
8 1 (0.68%) Korn
8 1 (0.68%) Scala
8 1 (0.68%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (11.64%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.16%) Degree
4 7 (4.79%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.42%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) MCP
8 1 (0.68%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.18%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.53%) GDPR
3 4 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.37%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.37%) QA
5 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.68%) GxP
5 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.42%) Terraform
2 2 (1.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (18.49%) Databricks
2 23 (15.75%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.48%) Oracle
4 6 (4.11%) SAP
5 5 (3.42%) Google
5 5 (3.42%) Informatica
6 4 (2.74%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (2.05%) Sparx
7 3 (2.05%) Workday
8 2 (1.37%) Charles River
8 2 (1.37%) eFront
8 2 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.37%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.37%) Talend
9 1 (0.68%) Ariba
9 1 (0.68%) Foundry
9 1 (0.68%) Palantir
9 1 (0.68%) Percona
9 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.68%) StreamSets