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.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
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% 41
West London -17 7 £575 -6.12% 7
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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Data Architecture52.5%190
2Data Modelling42.8%155
3Azure36.5%132
4Security Cleared34.0%123
5Analytics32.9%119
6Data Governance31.2%113
7SC Cleared28.5%103
8Databricks28.2%102
9AWS25.7%93
10Data Quality22.7%82
11AI22.4%81
12Migration21.3%77
13Metadata19.6%71
14Stakeholder Management17.1%62
15SQL16.0%58
16Business Intelligence15.7%57
16Data Warehouse15.7%57
16Microsoft15.7%57
19Logical Data Model15.5%56
20Integration Patterns15.2%55
20Stakeholder Engagement15.2%55
22Data Lake14.9%54
23Data Transformation13.5%49
24Snowflake13.3%48
25Lakehouse13.0%47
26Physical Data Model12.7%46
26Roadmaps12.7%46
28CI/CD11.9%43
29Data Integration11.6%42
29Decision-Making11.6%42

Data Architect Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Solutions Architect10.8%39
2Enterprise Data Architect8.0%29
3Enterprise Architect6.6%24
4Azure Data Architect6.4%23
5Senior Data Architect5.8%21
6AWS Data Architect5.5%20
7Databricks Architect5.0%18
8Platform Architect4.7%17
9Lead Data Architect3.0%11
10Data Centre Architect2.8%10
11Artificial Intelligence Architect2.5%9
11Principal Data Architect2.5%9
13Data Modeller2.2%8
13GCP Data Architect2.2%8
15Business Intelligence Architect1.7%6
15Cloud Architect1.7%6
17Data Warehouse Architect1.4%5
17Snowflake Architect1.4%5
19Data Integration Architect1.1%4
19Migration Architect1.1%4
264 Data Architect jobs in London