Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 186 161
Rank change year-on-year -2 -25 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 238 173 277
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.38% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 1.47% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 116 210
10th Percentile £463 £488 £512
25th Percentile £513 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £620 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -11.43% -
75th Percentile £710 £738 £825
90th Percentile £788 £799 £925
England median daily rate £581 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -3.17% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £80.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -41.61% +34.17% -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 16,422 11,735 16,636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 93.50% 93.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,940 8,042 12,035
10th Percentile £350 £343 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £755 £800 £799
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 146 337
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.05 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.83 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% +26.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £63.16 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £31.64 £35.96
% change year-on-year +48.55% -12.01% -20.09%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +5 27 £595 -2.14% 7
West London -19 5 £600 -4.00% 4
East London -2 4 £585 -6.40%
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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.

1 124 (52.10%) Data Architecture
2 97 (40.76%) Data Modelling
3 89 (37.39%) Analytics
4 68 (28.57%) Azure
5 60 (25.21%) AWS
6 55 (23.11%) Databricks
7 53 (22.27%) SQL
8 50 (21.01%) Migration
9 46 (19.33%) Data Governance
10 40 (16.81%) AI
11 36 (15.13%) Data Quality
12 35 (14.71%) Microsoft
13 33 (13.87%) Data Strategy
13 33 (13.87%) Metadata
13 33 (13.87%) Security Cleared
14 32 (13.45%) Data Engineering
14 32 (13.45%) Data Lake
15 31 (13.03%) ETL
15 31 (13.03%) Roadmaps
16 30 (12.61%) GCP
17 29 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
17 29 (12.18%) SC Cleared
18 28 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
18 28 (11.76%) Logical Data Model
18 28 (11.76%) Python
19 26 (10.92%) Machine Learning
19 26 (10.92%) Physical Data Model
20 25 (10.50%) Architectural Patterns
20 25 (10.50%) Data Integration
21 24 (10.08%) CI/CD

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 11 (4.62%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.36%) Palantir Foundry
3 4 (1.68%) Apache
4 3 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.84%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.42%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 68 (28.57%) Azure
2 60 (25.21%) AWS
3 30 (12.61%) GCP
4 22 (9.24%) Power Platform
5 21 (8.82%) Amazon S3
5 21 (8.82%) Snowflake
6 20 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (7.98%) Serverless
8 18 (7.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.30%) Amazon Kinesis
11 13 (5.46%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (4.62%) AWS Step Functions
13 10 (4.20%) Amazon MSK
14 9 (3.78%) Amazon EventBridge
15 8 (3.36%) dbt
16 7 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (2.52%) Apigee
17 6 (2.52%) Azure Key Vault
17 6 (2.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.84%) BGP
1 2 (0.84%) OSPF
1 2 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.84%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.42%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.87%) Metadata
2 32 (13.45%) Data Lake
3 28 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (8.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (6.72%) Power BI
6 13 (5.46%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.04%) Data Vault
7 12 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (4.62%) Delta Lake
9 10 (4.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (4.20%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (4.20%) OLTP
10 9 (3.78%) DB2
10 9 (3.78%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.78%) Star Schema
10 9 (3.78%) Tableau
11 8 (3.36%) BigQuery
11 8 (3.36%) SQL Server
12 6 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.78%) ERwin
2 5 (2.10%) GitLab
3 4 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.84%) Git
5 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.42%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.42%) MLflow
5 1 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
General
1 39 (16.39%) Finance
2 33 (13.87%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.82%) Retail
5 14 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.20%) Banking
7 7 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.94%) Marketing
8 5 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.10%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.68%) Local Government
10 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.42%) Aviation
12 1 (0.42%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.72%) Kafka
2 10 (4.20%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (3.78%) Apache Avro
3 9 (3.78%) Protocol Buffers
4 8 (3.36%) PySpark
5 6 (2.52%) .NET
6 4 (1.68%) Middleware
7 2 (0.84%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.84%) REST
7 2 (0.84%) SOAP
8 1 (0.42%) FHIR
8 1 (0.42%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.42%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.46%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.20%) Mainframe
4 7 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.94%) NHS
5 6 (2.52%) PACS
5 6 (2.52%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (2.10%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.10%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.26%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.26%) IoT
8 3 (1.26%) Replication
9 2 (0.84%) Clustering
9 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.78%) zOS
2 2 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (52.10%) Data Architecture
2 97 (40.76%) Data Modelling
3 89 (37.39%) Analytics
4 50 (21.01%) Migration
5 46 (19.33%) Data Governance
6 40 (16.81%) AI
7 33 (13.87%) Data Strategy
8 32 (13.45%) Data Engineering
9 31 (13.03%) ETL
9 31 (13.03%) Roadmaps
10 29 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (11.76%) Logical Data Model
12 26 (10.92%) Machine Learning
12 26 (10.92%) Physical Data Model
13 25 (10.50%) Architectural Patterns
13 25 (10.50%) Data Integration
14 24 (10.08%) CI/CD
14 24 (10.08%) Event-Driven
15 23 (9.66%) Data Migration
15 23 (9.66%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 53 (22.27%) SQL
2 28 (11.76%) Python
3 8 (3.36%) Scala
4 5 (2.10%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.10%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.26%) Java
6 2 (0.84%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.84%) Bicep
6 2 (0.84%) R
7 1 (0.42%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.42%) COBOL
7 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.42%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 33 (13.87%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.18%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.10%) Degree
4 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.84%) VCAP
7 2 (0.84%) VCDX
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.42%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (15.13%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.20%) GDPR
3 7 (2.94%) QA
4 6 (2.52%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.42%) HL7
7 1 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (5.46%) Terraform
2 5 (2.10%) Grafana
3 3 (1.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.84%) Ansible
Vendors
1 55 (23.11%) Databricks
2 35 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.72%) Salesforce
4 14 (5.88%) Oracle
5 11 (4.62%) Foundry
6 9 (3.78%) Confluent
7 8 (3.36%) Palantir
8 5 (2.10%) SAP
9 3 (1.26%) Google
9 3 (1.26%) IBM
9 3 (1.26%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.84%) Ariba
10 2 (0.84%) IDERA
10 2 (0.84%) Informatica
10 2 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Sparx
10 2 (0.84%) VMware
11 1 (0.42%) MapR
11 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.42%) Percona