Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £581, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 200 182
Rank change year-on-year +22 -18 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 296 165 236
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.53% 1.27% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 1.36% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 116 183
10th Percentile £456 £488 £501
25th Percentile £513 £524 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £715 £728 £825
90th Percentile £788 £800 £925
England median daily rate £600 £600 £675
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £51.98 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -13.37% -6.98%

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 17,928 12,127 16,543
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.39% 93.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 8,194 11,863
10th Percentile £358 £336 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 185 316
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.23 £23.45 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.25 £32.89 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% +18.93% -26.25%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.49
90th Percentile £80.38 £64.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +57.89% -28.75% -8.95%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 58 £595 +5.22% 31
West London -14 7 £575 -8.00% 7
South London - 2 £725 -
East London - 2 £675 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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.

1 153 (51.69%) Data Architecture
2 122 (41.22%) Data Modelling
3 109 (36.82%) Analytics
4 104 (35.14%) Azure
5 76 (25.68%) Databricks
6 70 (23.65%) AWS
6 70 (23.65%) Security Cleared
7 67 (22.64%) SC Cleared
8 64 (21.62%) Migration
9 61 (20.61%) AI
9 61 (20.61%) Data Governance
10 46 (15.54%) Metadata
11 44 (14.86%) ETL
11 44 (14.86%) Microsoft
11 44 (14.86%) SQL
12 43 (14.53%) Data Engineering
13 42 (14.19%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (13.18%) Machine Learning
15 38 (12.84%) Data Lake
15 38 (12.84%) Integration Patterns
16 37 (12.50%) Data Integration
16 37 (12.50%) Data Quality
16 37 (12.50%) Roadmaps
17 36 (12.16%) GCP
18 35 (11.82%) Data Strategy
18 35 (11.82%) Data Warehouse
18 35 (11.82%) Logical Data Model
18 35 (11.82%) Snowflake
19 33 (11.15%) Power Platform
20 32 (10.81%) Data Pipeline

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 12 (4.05%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.04%) Palantir Foundry
3 7 (2.36%) Apache
4 6 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.68%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.68%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 104 (35.14%) Azure
2 70 (23.65%) AWS
3 36 (12.16%) GCP
4 35 (11.82%) Snowflake
5 33 (11.15%) Power Platform
6 22 (7.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (4.73%) Amazon S3
9 13 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (4.39%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (4.39%) Serverless
10 11 (3.72%) dbt
11 10 (3.38%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (2.03%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (2.03%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (2.03%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (2.03%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.03%) SaaS
13 5 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) BGP
1 2 (0.68%) DSL
1 2 (0.68%) OSPF
1 2 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.68%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (15.54%) Metadata
2 38 (12.84%) Data Lake
3 35 (11.82%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (9.12%) Power BI
5 17 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (4.05%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.72%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.72%) Data Vault
8 10 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (2.70%) Big Data
10 8 (2.70%) Db2
10 8 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (2.03%) Apache Iceberg
12 6 (2.03%) Hadoop
12 6 (2.03%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (2.03%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (2.03%) Star Schema
12 6 (2.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (3.38%) ERwin
2 5 (1.69%) GitLab
3 3 (1.01%) ER Studio
3 3 (1.01%) Git
3 3 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.68%) JIRA
5 1 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 52 (17.57%) Finance
2 43 (14.53%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.45%) Retail
5 19 (6.42%) Banking
6 18 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.38%) Marketing
8 7 (2.36%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.03%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Legal
12 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.34%) Aviation
13 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.34%) Local Government
13 1 (0.34%) Military
13 1 (0.34%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.39%) Kafka
2 12 (4.05%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (3.04%) PySpark
4 6 (2.03%) .NET
5 4 (1.35%) Apache Avro
5 4 (1.35%) Middleware
5 4 (1.35%) Protocol Buffers
6 2 (0.68%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.68%) Bootstrap
6 2 (0.68%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.68%) JWT
6 2 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.68%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.68%) pytest
6 2 (0.68%) React
6 2 (0.68%) REST
6 2 (0.68%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (0.68%) WebSockets
6 2 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.09%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.38%) Reference Data
3 9 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.04%) Mainframe
4 8 (2.70%) AI Agents
4 8 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.70%) Taxonomies
5 7 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.36%) NHS
5 7 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.03%) IoT
6 6 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.35%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.35%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.35%) SCADA
9 3 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.70%) zOS
2 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (51.69%) Data Architecture
2 122 (41.22%) Data Modelling
3 109 (36.82%) Analytics
4 64 (21.62%) Migration
5 61 (20.61%) AI
5 61 (20.61%) Data Governance
6 44 (14.86%) ETL
7 43 (14.53%) Data Engineering
8 42 (14.19%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (13.18%) Machine Learning
10 38 (12.84%) Integration Patterns
11 37 (12.50%) Data Integration
11 37 (12.50%) Roadmaps
12 35 (11.82%) Data Strategy
12 35 (11.82%) Logical Data Model
13 32 (10.81%) Data Pipeline
14 31 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (10.14%) Data Migration
15 30 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (9.46%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.86%) SQL
2 27 (9.12%) Python
3 5 (1.69%) Scala
4 4 (1.35%) Java
4 4 (1.35%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.01%) Bicep
5 3 (1.01%) R
6 2 (0.68%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.68%) Cypher
6 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.68%) SHACL
6 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.34%) COBOL
7 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 70 (23.65%) Security Cleared
2 67 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.39%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.69%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.35%) Degree
6 4 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.68%) VCAP
8 2 (0.68%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.41%) GDPR
3 8 (2.70%) QA
4 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.01%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.68%) IFRS
5 2 (0.68%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.68%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) HL7
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.68%) Docker
1 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (4.05%) Terraform
2 5 (1.69%) Grafana
3 3 (1.01%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.68%) Ansible
4 2 (0.68%) Argo
4 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 76 (25.68%) Databricks
2 44 (14.86%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.42%) Oracle
4 16 (5.41%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.05%) Foundry
6 9 (3.04%) Palantir
7 8 (2.70%) SAP
8 5 (1.69%) Google
8 5 (1.69%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.35%) Confluent
10 2 (0.68%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.68%) Ariba
10 2 (0.68%) FactSet
10 2 (0.68%) IBM
10 2 (0.68%) IDERA
10 2 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Sparx
10 2 (0.68%) VMware
11 1 (0.34%) MapR
11 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow