Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 189 177
Rank change year-on-year +14 -12 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 272 160 252
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.48% 1.32% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.41% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 111 190
10th Percentile £463 £488 £506
25th Percentile £513 £531 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £698
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -14.04% -0.29%
75th Percentile £697 £725 £825
90th Percentile £788 £799 £925
England median daily rate £600 £600 £675
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £72.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -35.40% +21.25% -9.09%

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 17,077 11,323 16,346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 93.44% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,301 7,687 11,841
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.91% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 151 322
10th Percentile £18.79 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.42 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +25.81% +12.10% -23.18%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.88 £46.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £62.00 £65.03
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.50
% change year-on-year +54.80% -22.48% -16.67%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +13 44 £572 +2.65% 13
West London -21 7 £575 -8.00% 2
East London - 4 £585 -
South London - 2 £725 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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.

1 141 (51.84%) Data Architecture
2 111 (40.81%) Data Modelling
3 100 (36.76%) Analytics
4 88 (32.35%) Azure
5 75 (27.57%) Databricks
6 65 (23.90%) AWS
7 63 (23.16%) Migration
8 57 (20.96%) Security Cleared
9 55 (20.22%) SQL
10 54 (19.85%) Data Governance
11 53 (19.49%) SC Cleared
12 47 (17.28%) Microsoft
13 43 (15.81%) AI
14 40 (14.71%) Roadmaps
15 39 (14.34%) Data Quality
16 38 (13.97%) Metadata
17 37 (13.60%) Business Intelligence
18 36 (13.24%) Data Engineering
19 35 (12.87%) Data Strategy
20 34 (12.50%) ETL
20 34 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
21 33 (12.13%) Data Lake
21 33 (12.13%) GCP
22 31 (11.40%) Data Migration
22 31 (11.40%) Integration Patterns
23 30 (11.03%) CI/CD
24 29 (10.66%) Event-Driven
24 29 (10.66%) Power Platform
25 28 (10.29%) Data Warehouse
25 28 (10.29%) Python

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 13 (4.78%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.31%) Palantir Foundry
3 6 (2.21%) Apache
4 3 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.74%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 88 (32.35%) Azure
2 65 (23.90%) AWS
3 33 (12.13%) GCP
4 29 (10.66%) Power Platform
5 27 (9.93%) Snowflake
6 21 (7.72%) Amazon S3
7 19 (6.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (6.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (6.62%) Serverless
9 15 (5.51%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (5.15%) Amazon Kinesis
11 11 (4.04%) AWS Step Functions
12 10 (3.68%) Amazon MSK
12 10 (3.68%) dbt
13 9 (3.31%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.21%) Apigee
15 6 (2.21%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (2.21%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.74%) BGP
1 2 (0.74%) OSPF
1 2 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.74%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.37%) Firewall
2 1 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.97%) Metadata
2 33 (12.13%) Data Lake
3 28 (10.29%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (8.46%) Power BI
5 22 (8.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (5.15%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (4.41%) Data Vault
7 12 (4.41%) Delta Lake
7 12 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.04%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (3.68%) BigQuery
10 9 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.31%) DB2
10 9 (3.31%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.31%) OLTP
10 9 (3.31%) Star Schema
10 9 (3.31%) Tableau
11 8 (2.94%) SQL Server
12 6 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.31%) ERwin
2 5 (1.84%) GitLab
3 4 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.74%) Git
5 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.37%) MLflow
General
1 42 (15.44%) Finance
2 35 (12.87%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.13%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.82%) Retail
5 17 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.15%) Banking
7 8 (2.94%) Marketing
8 7 (2.57%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.84%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.47%) Local Government
11 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Aviation
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.88%) Kafka
2 10 (3.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (3.31%) Apache Avro
3 9 (3.31%) Protocol Buffers
3 9 (3.31%) PySpark
4 6 (2.21%) .NET
5 4 (1.47%) Middleware
6 2 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.74%) REST
6 2 (0.74%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.37%) FHIR
7 1 (0.37%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.37%) SOAP
7 1 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.04%) Data Structures
2 11 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.68%) Mainframe
4 9 (3.31%) Reference Data
5 7 (2.57%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.57%) NHS
5 7 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.21%) PACS
6 6 (2.21%) Reinsurance
6 6 (2.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.84%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.47%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.10%) IoT
9 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.31%) zOS
2 2 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (51.84%) Data Architecture
2 111 (40.81%) Data Modelling
3 100 (36.76%) Analytics
4 63 (23.16%) Migration
5 54 (19.85%) Data Governance
6 43 (15.81%) AI
7 40 (14.71%) Roadmaps
8 37 (13.60%) Business Intelligence
9 36 (13.24%) Data Engineering
10 35 (12.87%) Data Strategy
11 34 (12.50%) ETL
11 34 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
12 31 (11.40%) Data Migration
12 31 (11.40%) Integration Patterns
13 30 (11.03%) CI/CD
14 29 (10.66%) Event-Driven
15 27 (9.93%) Data Integration
15 27 (9.93%) Data Management
15 27 (9.93%) Physical Data Model
16 26 (9.56%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 55 (20.22%) SQL
2 28 (10.29%) Python
3 7 (2.57%) Scala
4 5 (1.84%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.84%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.47%) Java
6 2 (0.74%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.74%) Bicep
6 2 (0.74%) R
7 1 (0.37%) COBOL
7 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 57 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 53 (19.49%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.15%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.84%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.84%) Degree
4 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.10%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.74%) VCAP
6 2 (0.74%) VCDX
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (14.34%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.94%) GDPR
3 7 (2.57%) QA
4 6 (2.21%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) GRC
6 1 (0.37%) HL7
6 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.74%) Docker
1 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (5.15%) Terraform
2 5 (1.84%) Grafana
3 3 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 75 (27.57%) Databricks
2 47 (17.28%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.88%) Oracle
4 15 (5.51%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.41%) Foundry
6 9 (3.31%) Confluent
6 9 (3.31%) Palantir
7 4 (1.47%) Google
7 4 (1.47%) SAP
8 3 (1.10%) IBM
8 3 (1.10%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.74%) Ariba
9 2 (0.74%) IDERA
9 2 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.74%) Sparx
9 2 (0.74%) VMware
10 1 (0.37%) Infor
10 1 (0.37%) Informatica
10 1 (0.37%) MapR
10 1 (0.37%) MuleSoft