Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £611, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 210 220
Rank change year-on-year +58 +10 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 389 161 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.91% 1.19% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% 1.29% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 112 140
10th Percentile £456 £463 £499
25th Percentile £525 £538 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £710 £721 £774
90th Percentile £788 £800 £826
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 £38.96 £60.00
% change year-on-year +20.64% -35.07% +21.21%

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 18,956 12,508 15,315
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 92.78% 93.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,254 8,364 10,110
10th Percentile £360 £331 £342
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 £658 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 203 182
10th Percentile £17.06 £17.00 £17.54
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.10% -19.57% -6.47%
75th Percentile £63.75 £48.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.46 £76.13
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +24 76 £614 +3.61% 51
West London -15 9 £600 -4.00% 9
South London - 3 £725 - 2
East London - 2 £675 - 2
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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.

1 200 (51.41%) Data Architecture
2 163 (41.90%) Data Modelling
3 134 (34.45%) Azure
4 129 (33.16%) Analytics
5 118 (30.33%) Security Cleared
6 109 (28.02%) Data Governance
7 106 (27.25%) AWS
8 105 (26.99%) Databricks
9 102 (26.22%) SC Cleared
10 88 (22.62%) Migration
11 82 (21.08%) AI
12 79 (20.31%) Data Quality
13 67 (17.22%) Metadata
14 66 (16.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 65 (16.71%) SQL
16 57 (14.65%) Data Lake
16 57 (14.65%) Data Warehouse
16 57 (14.65%) Logical Data Model
16 57 (14.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 56 (14.40%) Business Intelligence
18 54 (13.88%) Integration Patterns
19 52 (13.37%) Snowflake
20 51 (13.11%) Data Transformation
21 49 (12.60%) CI/CD
21 49 (12.60%) Data Strategy
21 49 (12.60%) Lakehouse
21 49 (12.60%) Microsoft
21 49 (12.60%) Roadmaps
22 48 (12.34%) Physical Data Model
23 47 (12.08%) Data Engineering

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 (4.63%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.11%) Apache
4 9 (2.31%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.51%) Confluence
5 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.26%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.51%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.51%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 134 (34.45%) Azure
2 106 (27.25%) AWS
3 52 (13.37%) Snowflake
4 37 (9.51%) Power Platform
5 34 (8.74%) GCP
6 30 (7.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (5.91%) dbt
8 22 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (4.11%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.60%) Serverless
11 12 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (2.57%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.31%) Azure Databricks
14 7 (1.80%) Amazon MSK
15 6 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.54%) SaaS
16 5 (1.29%) Amazon EMR
16 5 (1.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.51%) DSL
2 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (17.22%) Metadata
2 57 (14.65%) Data Lake
2 57 (14.65%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (8.48%) Power BI
4 20 (5.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (3.86%) Data Vault
6 12 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.57%) Semantic Layer
7 10 (2.57%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (2.31%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.31%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.06%) Big Data
9 8 (2.06%) Star Schema
9 8 (2.06%) Tableau
10 7 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.80%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.80%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 6 (1.54%) ERwin
2 5 (1.29%) GitLab
3 4 (1.03%) Git
4 3 (0.77%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.77%) MLflow
4 3 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.51%) JIRA
5 2 (0.51%) RStudio
General
1 83 (21.34%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.68%) Finance
3 53 (13.62%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.94%) Retail
5 23 (5.91%) Banking
6 11 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (2.83%) Marketing
7 6 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.29%) Billing
8 5 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.03%) Legal
10 2 (0.51%) Aviation
10 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.51%) Military
10 2 (0.51%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.26%) Law
11 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.66%) Terraform
2 21 (5.40%) PySpark
3 19 (4.88%) Kafka
4 12 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.80%) REST
6 4 (1.03%) .NET
6 4 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.77%) Apache Avro
7 3 (0.77%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (0.51%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.51%) Bootstrap
8 2 (0.51%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.51%) JSON
8 2 (0.51%) JWT
8 2 (0.51%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (0.51%) pytest
8 2 (0.51%) React
8 2 (0.51%) SOAP
8 2 (0.51%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.17%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.60%) Reinsurance
4 13 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.83%) AI Agents
5 11 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.57%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.57%) Taxonomies
7 9 (2.31%) Reference Data
8 8 (2.06%) Data Fabric
8 8 (2.06%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.06%) Replication
9 7 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.54%) NHS
11 5 (1.29%) Digital Media
12 4 (1.03%) Clustering
12 4 (1.03%) IoT
12 4 (1.03%) SCADA
13 3 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.26%) Linux
1 1 (0.26%) Windows
1 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (51.41%) Data Architecture
2 163 (41.90%) Data Modelling
3 129 (33.16%) Analytics
4 109 (28.02%) Data Governance
5 88 (22.62%) Migration
6 82 (21.08%) AI
7 66 (16.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 57 (14.65%) Logical Data Model
8 57 (14.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 56 (14.40%) Business Intelligence
10 54 (13.88%) Integration Patterns
11 51 (13.11%) Data Transformation
12 49 (12.60%) CI/CD
12 49 (12.60%) Data Strategy
12 49 (12.60%) Lakehouse
12 49 (12.60%) Roadmaps
13 48 (12.34%) Physical Data Model
14 47 (12.08%) Data Engineering
15 45 (11.57%) Decision-Making
15 45 (11.57%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 65 (16.71%) SQL
2 34 (8.74%) Python
3 5 (1.29%) Bicep
3 5 (1.29%) Java
4 4 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.03%) Scala
5 2 (0.51%) Cypher
5 2 (0.51%) R
5 2 (0.51%) SHACL
5 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.51%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 118 (30.33%) Security Cleared
2 102 (26.22%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.86%) DV Cleared
4 7 (1.80%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.29%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.51%) Degree
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.26%) CISSP
8 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (20.31%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.66%) GDPR
3 6 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.03%) QA
4 4 (1.03%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.77%) IFRS
5 3 (0.77%) NCSC
5 3 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.51%) GRC
6 2 (0.51%) GxP
6 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.51%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.51%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.26%) HL7
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.26%) Docker
1 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.29%) Grafana
2 2 (0.51%) Argo
2 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.26%) Control-M
3 1 (0.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 105 (26.99%) Databricks
2 49 (12.60%) Microsoft
3 27 (6.94%) Oracle
4 12 (3.08%) Foundry
4 12 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.57%) Google
6 9 (2.31%) Palantir
7 7 (1.80%) Informatica
7 7 (1.80%) SAP
8 5 (1.29%) Confluent
8 5 (1.29%) Talend
9 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.03%) Sparx
10 3 (0.77%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.77%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.77%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.77%) Workday
11 2 (0.51%) Ariba
11 2 (0.51%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.51%) IBM