Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £586, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 203 186
Rank change year-on-year +34 -17 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 313 165 239
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.58% 1.22% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 1.30% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 114 184
10th Percentile £463 £488 £500
25th Percentile £513 £546 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £619 £696
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -11.00% -0.64%
75th Percentile £710 £738 £816
90th Percentile £788 £821 £925
England median daily rate £600 £600 £675
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -0.37%
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 £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 18,355 12,645 16,308
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.24% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,046 8,538 11,642
10th Percentile £359 £331 £330
25th Percentile £447 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 199 292
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.43 £22.83 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.50 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +7.69% -21.83%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.88 £63.75 £69.43
England median hourly rate £46.73 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.89% -30.00% -6.98%

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 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 16 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 +23 62 £595 +5.22% 19
West London -7 8 £588 -6.00% 5
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 16 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.

1 157 (50.16%) Data Architecture
2 131 (41.85%) Data Modelling
3 111 (35.46%) Analytics
4 106 (33.87%) Azure
5 77 (24.60%) Security Cleared
6 74 (23.64%) AWS
6 74 (23.64%) Databricks
6 74 (23.64%) SC Cleared
7 64 (20.45%) Data Governance
7 64 (20.45%) Migration
8 60 (19.17%) AI
9 49 (15.65%) Business Intelligence
9 49 (15.65%) Metadata
10 48 (15.34%) SQL
11 45 (14.38%) Data Quality
11 45 (14.38%) ETL
11 45 (14.38%) Integration Patterns
12 43 (13.74%) Data Lake
13 42 (13.42%) Microsoft
14 41 (13.10%) Data Engineering
14 41 (13.10%) Data Integration
15 39 (12.46%) Data Warehouse
15 39 (12.46%) Logical Data Model
16 38 (12.14%) Machine Learning
16 38 (12.14%) Snowflake
17 37 (11.82%) Data Strategy
18 36 (11.50%) GCP
18 36 (11.50%) Power Platform
18 36 (11.50%) Roadmaps
19 35 (11.18%) Stakeholder Management

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 14 (4.47%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.88%) Apache
2 9 (2.88%) Palantir Foundry
3 8 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.64%) Confluence
4 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.64%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Maximo
3 1 (0.32%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 106 (33.87%) Azure
2 74 (23.64%) AWS
3 38 (12.14%) Snowflake
4 36 (11.50%) GCP
4 36 (11.50%) Power Platform
5 22 (7.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (5.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (4.15%) Amazon S3
8 11 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.51%) dbt
8 11 (3.51%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (3.51%) Serverless
9 9 (2.88%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (2.24%) SaaS
11 6 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (1.92%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.60%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (1.60%) PaaS
13 4 (1.28%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.64%) BGP
1 2 (0.64%) DSL
1 2 (0.64%) OSPF
1 2 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.64%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.32%) Firewall
2 1 (0.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.65%) Metadata
2 43 (13.74%) Data Lake
3 39 (12.46%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (9.58%) Power BI
5 16 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (4.15%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.51%) BigQuery
8 10 (3.19%) Big Data
8 10 (3.19%) Data Vault
9 8 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.56%) Db2
10 7 (2.24%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (1.92%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.92%) Star Schema
11 6 (1.92%) Tableau
12 5 (1.60%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.60%) Flink
Development Applications
1 9 (2.88%) ERwin
2 6 (1.92%) GitLab
3 3 (0.96%) ER Studio
3 3 (0.96%) Git
3 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.64%) JIRA
5 1 (0.32%) MLflow
General
1 55 (17.57%) Finance
2 46 (14.70%) Social Skills
3 40 (12.78%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.95%) Retail
5 20 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.39%) Banking
6 10 (3.19%) Marketing
7 7 (2.24%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.92%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.28%) Legal
11 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Aviation
12 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.32%) Local Government
12 1 (0.32%) Military
12 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.15%) Kafka
2 12 (3.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (3.51%) PySpark
4 6 (1.92%) .NET
5 4 (1.28%) Middleware
6 3 (0.96%) REST
6 3 (0.96%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (0.64%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.64%) Apache Avro
7 2 (0.64%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.64%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.64%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.64%) JWT
7 2 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.64%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.64%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (0.64%) Snowpark
7 2 (0.64%) WebSockets
7 2 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.03%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.51%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.19%) Reference Data
4 8 (2.56%) AI Agents
4 8 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.56%) Mainframe
4 8 (2.56%) Taxonomies
5 7 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.92%) IoT
6 6 (1.92%) NHS
6 6 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.60%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.28%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.28%) SCADA
9 3 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.56%) zOS
2 2 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (50.16%) Data Architecture
2 131 (41.85%) Data Modelling
3 111 (35.46%) Analytics
4 64 (20.45%) Data Governance
4 64 (20.45%) Migration
5 60 (19.17%) AI
6 49 (15.65%) Business Intelligence
7 45 (14.38%) ETL
7 45 (14.38%) Integration Patterns
8 41 (13.10%) Data Engineering
8 41 (13.10%) Data Integration
9 39 (12.46%) Logical Data Model
10 38 (12.14%) Machine Learning
11 37 (11.82%) Data Strategy
12 36 (11.50%) Roadmaps
13 35 (11.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (10.54%) Data Pipeline
15 31 (9.90%) CI/CD
16 30 (9.58%) Data Migration
16 30 (9.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (15.34%) SQL
2 27 (8.63%) Python
3 6 (1.92%) Java
3 6 (1.92%) Scala
4 3 (0.96%) Bicep
4 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.96%) R
5 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.64%) Cypher
5 2 (0.64%) SHACL
5 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.64%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.32%) COBOL
6 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 77 (24.60%) Security Cleared
2 74 (23.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.19%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.60%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.28%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.28%) Degree
6 4 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.64%) VCAP
8 2 (0.64%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (14.38%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.75%) GDPR
3 8 (2.56%) QA
4 4 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.64%) IFRS
6 2 (0.64%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.64%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.64%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.32%) GRC
7 1 (0.32%) HL7
7 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.64%) Docker
1 2 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (4.15%) Terraform
2 6 (1.92%) Grafana
3 3 (0.96%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.64%) Ansible
4 2 (0.64%) Argo
4 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 74 (23.64%) Databricks
2 42 (13.42%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.39%) Oracle
4 16 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.83%) Foundry
6 9 (2.88%) Palantir
7 8 (2.56%) SAP
8 5 (1.60%) Google
8 5 (1.60%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.64%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.64%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.64%) Confluent
9 2 (0.64%) FactSet
9 2 (0.64%) IBM
9 2 (0.64%) IDERA
9 2 (0.64%) OneTrust
9 2 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.64%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.64%) Sparx
9 2 (0.64%) Workday