Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 198 201
Rank change year-on-year +34 +3 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 351 177 192
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.75% 1.31% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 1.41% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 116 151
10th Percentile £463 £480 £500
25th Percentile £525 £545 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £670
Median % change year-on-year - -10.45% -6.29%
75th Percentile £710 £725 £778
90th Percentile £789 £800 £913
England median daily rate £620 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £118.86
Median % change year-on-year - -45.31% +237.19%
England median hourly rate £58.50 £51.98 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.54% -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 18,720 12,511 15,211
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 92.93% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,168 8,419 10,680
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 205 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.90 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -12.66% -10.86%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.50 £54.69
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +8.43%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +39 66 £600 +6.19% 10
West London -12 9 £600 -4.00% 2
South London - 3 £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 18 August 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.

1 174 (49.57%) Data Architecture
2 142 (40.46%) Data Modelling
3 122 (34.76%) Azure
4 118 (33.62%) Analytics
5 98 (27.92%) Security Cleared
6 90 (25.64%) AWS
6 90 (25.64%) SC Cleared
7 88 (25.07%) Data Governance
8 85 (24.22%) Databricks
9 71 (20.23%) Migration
10 70 (19.94%) AI
11 62 (17.66%) Data Quality
12 57 (16.24%) Business Intelligence
13 55 (15.67%) SQL
14 52 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
15 51 (14.53%) Data Lake
16 50 (14.25%) Stakeholder Management
17 49 (13.96%) Integration Patterns
17 49 (13.96%) Logical Data Model
18 48 (13.68%) Data Engineering
18 48 (13.68%) Metadata
18 48 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 43 (12.25%) Data Integration
19 43 (12.25%) Data Strategy
19 43 (12.25%) Machine Learning
20 42 (11.97%) Microsoft
20 42 (11.97%) Snowflake
21 40 (11.40%) ETL
22 39 (11.11%) Power Platform
23 38 (10.83%) Roadmaps

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 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.42%) Apache
3 10 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.56%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.57%) Confluence
5 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.28%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.57%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.57%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) Maximo
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 122 (34.76%) Azure
2 90 (25.64%) AWS
3 42 (11.97%) Snowflake
4 39 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 35 (9.97%) GCP
6 24 (6.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (6.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (4.56%) Amazon S3
9 13 (3.70%) dbt
10 12 (3.42%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.13%) Serverless
12 10 (2.85%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.99%) Amazon MSK
15 6 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.71%) Azure Machine Learning
15 6 (1.71%) PowerApps
16 5 (1.42%) AWS Step Functions
16 5 (1.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.57%) BGP
1 2 (0.57%) DSL
1 2 (0.57%) Network Security
1 2 (0.57%) OSPF
1 2 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.57%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
2 51 (14.53%) Data Lake
3 48 (13.68%) Metadata
4 33 (9.40%) Power BI
5 17 (4.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (3.70%) BigQuery
7 12 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.42%) Data Vault
8 9 (2.56%) Big Data
8 9 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.28%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.99%) Tableau
11 6 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
12 5 (1.42%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.42%) Db2
12 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.42%) Flink
12 5 (1.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (1.71%) ERwin
2 5 (1.42%) GitLab
3 3 (0.85%) ER Studio
3 3 (0.85%) Git
4 2 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.57%) JIRA
4 2 (0.57%) MLflow
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
General
1 64 (18.23%) Finance
1 64 (18.23%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.25%) Public Sector
3 31 (8.83%) Retail
4 27 (7.69%) Banking
5 21 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.13%) Marketing
7 7 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.71%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.14%) Legal
10 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.57%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Law
12 1 (0.28%) Local Government
12 1 (0.28%) Military
12 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.13%) PySpark
2 17 (4.84%) Kafka
3 12 (3.42%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (1.71%) .NET
5 3 (0.85%) Middleware
5 3 (0.85%) REST
5 3 (0.85%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (0.57%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.57%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.57%) Bootstrap
6 2 (0.57%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.57%) JWT
6 2 (0.57%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.57%) Protocol Buffers
6 2 (0.57%) pytest
6 2 (0.57%) React
6 2 (0.57%) Snowpark
6 2 (0.57%) WebSockets
6 2 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.13%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.13%) AI Agents
3 11 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.28%) Taxonomies
7 7 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.99%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.99%) Reference Data
7 7 (1.99%) Reinsurance
8 6 (1.71%) Data Fabric
8 6 (1.71%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.71%) NHS
9 5 (1.42%) Digital Media
9 5 (1.42%) Replication
10 4 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.14%) zOS
2 1 (0.28%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (49.57%) Data Architecture
2 142 (40.46%) Data Modelling
3 118 (33.62%) Analytics
4 88 (25.07%) Data Governance
5 71 (20.23%) Migration
6 70 (19.94%) AI
7 57 (16.24%) Business Intelligence
8 50 (14.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 49 (13.96%) Integration Patterns
9 49 (13.96%) Logical Data Model
10 48 (13.68%) Data Engineering
10 48 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 43 (12.25%) Data Integration
11 43 (12.25%) Data Strategy
11 43 (12.25%) Machine Learning
12 40 (11.40%) ETL
13 38 (10.83%) Roadmaps
14 37 (10.54%) CI/CD
14 37 (10.54%) Physical Data Model
15 36 (10.26%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 55 (15.67%) SQL
2 30 (8.55%) Python
3 5 (1.42%) Java
3 5 (1.42%) Scala
4 4 (1.14%) Bicep
5 3 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.57%) Cypher
6 2 (0.57%) R
6 2 (0.57%) SHACL
6 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 98 (27.92%) Security Cleared
2 90 (25.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.85%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.99%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.42%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.42%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.57%) Degree
7 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.57%) VCAP
7 2 (0.57%) VCDX
8 1 (0.28%) CISSP
8 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (17.66%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.70%) GDPR
3 6 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.42%) QA
5 4 (1.14%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.85%) IFRS
6 3 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.57%) GRC
7 2 (0.57%) GxP
7 2 (0.57%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.57%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.57%) NIST
8 1 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.28%) HL7
8 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.28%) NCSC
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (4.84%) Terraform
2 5 (1.42%) Grafana
3 3 (0.85%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.57%) Ansible
4 2 (0.57%) Argo
4 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.28%) Control-M
Vendors
1 85 (24.22%) Databricks
2 42 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.84%) Oracle
4 15 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.42%) Foundry
6 9 (2.56%) Palantir
7 8 (2.28%) SAP
8 7 (1.99%) Google
9 5 (1.42%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.85%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.85%) Confluent
10 3 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.85%) VMware
10 3 (0.85%) Workday
11 2 (0.57%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.57%) Ariba
11 2 (0.57%) FactSet
11 2 (0.57%) Informatica
11 2 (0.57%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.57%) Teradata