Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £591, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 203 187
Rank change year-on-year +32 -16 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 330 169 225
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.66% 1.24% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 1.34% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 117 172
10th Percentile £463 £485 £500
25th Percentile £518 £550 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £609 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -13.00% -
75th Percentile £710 £738 £825
90th Percentile £788 £845 £925
England median daily rate £608 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +1.29% -11.11% -
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 18,486 12,652 15,766
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 93.10% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,085 8,557 11,239
10th Percentile £363 £331 £338
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 197 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.20
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.09% -17.21%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.00 £51.88
90th Percentile £76.75 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.56 £26.50 £42.91
% change year-on-year +71.91% -38.24% -2.72%

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 24 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 24 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 +27 66 £595 +5.22% 23
West London -7 8 £588 -6.00% 4
South London - 2 £725 - 1
East London - 2 £675 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 164 (49.70%) Data Architecture
2 136 (41.21%) Data Modelling
3 116 (35.15%) Analytics
4 113 (34.24%) Azure
5 83 (25.15%) Security Cleared
6 79 (23.94%) AWS
6 79 (23.94%) SC Cleared
7 77 (23.33%) Databricks
8 71 (21.52%) Data Governance
9 65 (19.70%) Migration
10 62 (18.79%) AI
11 53 (16.06%) Business Intelligence
12 52 (15.76%) Data Quality
12 52 (15.76%) Metadata
12 52 (15.76%) SQL
13 48 (14.55%) Integration Patterns
14 46 (13.94%) Data Lake
14 46 (13.94%) ETL
15 45 (13.64%) Microsoft
16 44 (13.33%) Data Engineering
17 42 (12.73%) Data Integration
17 42 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
17 42 (12.73%) Logical Data Model
18 39 (11.82%) Machine Learning
19 38 (11.52%) Data Strategy
20 37 (11.21%) Roadmaps
20 37 (11.21%) Snowflake
20 37 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
21 36 (10.91%) GCP
21 36 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 19 (5.76%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.94%) Apache
3 9 (2.73%) Palantir Foundry
4 8 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.61%) Confluence
5 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.61%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.30%) Maximo
3 1 (0.30%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 113 (34.24%) Azure
2 79 (23.94%) AWS
3 37 (11.21%) Snowflake
4 36 (10.91%) GCP
5 35 (10.61%) Power Platform
6 22 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 20 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (4.85%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.64%) dbt
10 11 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (3.33%) Serverless
11 10 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.12%) SaaS
14 6 (1.82%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
14 6 (1.82%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.61%) BGP
1 2 (0.61%) DSL
1 2 (0.61%) Network Security
1 2 (0.61%) OSPF
1 2 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.61%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (15.76%) Metadata
2 46 (13.94%) Data Lake
3 42 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (8.79%) Power BI
5 16 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (3.94%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.33%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.33%) Data Vault
8 10 (3.03%) Big Data
9 9 (2.73%) Db2
10 8 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (2.12%) Semantic Layer
11 7 (2.12%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.82%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.82%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.82%) Tableau
13 5 (1.52%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 9 (2.73%) ERwin
2 6 (1.82%) GitLab
3 3 (0.91%) ER Studio
3 3 (0.91%) Git
3 3 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.61%) JIRA
5 1 (0.30%) MLflow
General
1 60 (18.18%) Finance
2 52 (15.76%) Social Skills
3 43 (13.03%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.48%) Retail
5 25 (7.58%) Banking
6 22 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.03%) Marketing
8 7 (2.12%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.82%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.21%) Legal
12 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.61%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Aviation
13 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.30%) Local Government
13 1 (0.30%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.55%) Kafka
1 15 (4.55%) PySpark
2 12 (3.64%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (1.82%) .NET
4 4 (1.21%) Middleware
5 3 (0.91%) REST
5 3 (0.91%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (0.61%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.61%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.61%) Bootstrap
6 2 (0.61%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.61%) JWT
6 2 (0.61%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.61%) Protocol Buffers
6 2 (0.61%) pytest
6 2 (0.61%) React
6 2 (0.61%) WebSockets
6 2 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.03%) Reference Data
4 9 (2.73%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.42%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.42%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.42%) Taxonomies
6 7 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.12%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.82%) IoT
7 6 (1.82%) NHS
7 6 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.52%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.21%) Data Fabric
9 4 (1.21%) Digital Media
9 4 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.21%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.42%) zOS
2 2 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (49.70%) Data Architecture
2 136 (41.21%) Data Modelling
3 116 (35.15%) Analytics
4 71 (21.52%) Data Governance
5 65 (19.70%) Migration
6 62 (18.79%) AI
7 53 (16.06%) Business Intelligence
8 48 (14.55%) Integration Patterns
9 46 (13.94%) ETL
10 44 (13.33%) Data Engineering
11 42 (12.73%) Data Integration
11 42 (12.73%) Logical Data Model
12 39 (11.82%) Machine Learning
13 38 (11.52%) Data Strategy
14 37 (11.21%) Roadmaps
14 37 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
15 36 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 34 (10.30%) Data Pipeline
17 33 (10.00%) CI/CD
18 30 (9.09%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 52 (15.76%) SQL
2 30 (9.09%) Python
3 6 (1.82%) Java
3 6 (1.82%) Scala
4 3 (0.91%) Bicep
4 3 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.91%) R
5 2 (0.61%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.61%) Cypher
5 2 (0.61%) SHACL
5 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.30%) COBOL
6 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 83 (25.15%) Security Cleared
2 79 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.12%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.52%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.21%) Degree
6 4 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.61%) VCAP
8 2 (0.61%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (15.76%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.06%) GDPR
3 8 (2.42%) QA
4 5 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.61%) IFRS
6 2 (0.61%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.61%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.61%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.30%) HL7
7 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.61%) Docker
1 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (4.24%) Terraform
2 6 (1.82%) Grafana
3 3 (0.91%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.61%) Ansible
4 2 (0.61%) Argo
4 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 77 (23.33%) Databricks
2 45 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.06%) Oracle
4 16 (4.85%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.64%) Foundry
6 9 (2.73%) Palantir
7 8 (2.42%) SAP
8 5 (1.52%) Google
8 5 (1.52%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.91%) Confluent
9 3 (0.91%) Workday
10 2 (0.61%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.61%) Ariba
10 2 (0.61%) IBM
10 2 (0.61%) IDERA
10 2 (0.61%) OneTrust
10 2 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.61%) Sparx
10 2 (0.61%) VMware