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 5 May 2026.

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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 191 156
Rank change year-on-year +2 -35 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 245 172 277
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 1.37% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.47% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 117 212
10th Percentile £463 £488 £513
25th Percentile £513 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £620 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -11.43% -
75th Percentile £715 £738 £825
90th Percentile £800 £799 £925
England median daily rate £595 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -0.92% -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 16,515 11,740 16,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 93.40% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,986 8,049 11,935
10th Percentile £350 £341 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £754 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 145 336
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.33 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.00 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +26.00% -22.54%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.62 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.52% -16.12% -18.03%

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 5 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 5 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 +5 31 £595 -2.14% 19
West London -21 6 £588 -6.00% 5
East London -3 4 £585 -6.40%
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 129 (52.65%) Data Architecture
2 101 (41.22%) Data Modelling
3 92 (37.55%) Analytics
4 70 (28.57%) Azure
5 60 (24.49%) AWS
6 57 (23.27%) Databricks
7 55 (22.45%) SQL
8 51 (20.82%) Migration
9 47 (19.18%) Data Governance
10 39 (15.92%) AI
11 37 (15.10%) Microsoft
12 36 (14.69%) Data Quality
13 34 (13.88%) Data Engineering
13 34 (13.88%) Data Strategy
14 33 (13.47%) Data Lake
14 33 (13.47%) ETL
14 33 (13.47%) Metadata
14 33 (13.47%) Security Cleared
15 32 (13.06%) Business Intelligence
16 31 (12.65%) Roadmaps
17 30 (12.24%) GCP
18 29 (11.84%) Logical Data Model
18 29 (11.84%) Python
18 29 (11.84%) SC Cleared
19 28 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
20 26 (10.61%) Machine Learning
21 25 (10.20%) Data Integration
21 25 (10.20%) Physical Data Model
21 25 (10.20%) Power Platform
22 24 (9.80%) Data Migration

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 12 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.27%) Palantir Foundry
3 4 (1.63%) Apache
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.41%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.82%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.41%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 70 (28.57%) Azure
2 60 (24.49%) AWS
3 30 (12.24%) GCP
4 25 (10.20%) Power Platform
5 22 (8.98%) Amazon S3
5 22 (8.98%) Snowflake
6 20 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (7.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 19 (7.76%) Serverless
8 18 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.12%) Amazon Kinesis
10 14 (5.71%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (4.49%) AWS Step Functions
12 10 (4.08%) Amazon MSK
13 9 (3.67%) Amazon EventBridge
13 9 (3.67%) dbt
14 7 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.45%) Apigee
15 6 (2.45%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (2.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.82%) BGP
1 2 (0.82%) OSPF
1 2 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.82%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.41%) Firewall
2 1 (0.41%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.47%) Data Lake
1 33 (13.47%) Metadata
2 28 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (8.98%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (7.76%) Power BI
5 14 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (4.90%) Data Vault
6 12 (4.90%) Delta Lake
6 12 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.49%) Apache Iceberg
7 11 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (4.08%) OLTP
9 9 (3.67%) DB2
9 9 (3.67%) NoSQL
9 9 (3.67%) Star Schema
9 9 (3.67%) Tableau
10 8 (3.27%) BigQuery
10 8 (3.27%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.67%) ERwin
2 5 (2.04%) GitLab
3 4 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.82%) Git
5 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.41%) MLflow
5 1 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
General
1 42 (17.14%) Finance
2 34 (13.88%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.98%) Retail
5 15 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.08%) Banking
7 7 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.86%) Marketing
8 5 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.04%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.63%) Local Government
10 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Aviation
12 1 (0.41%) Legal
12 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.94%) Kafka
2 10 (4.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (3.67%) Apache Avro
3 9 (3.67%) Protocol Buffers
3 9 (3.67%) PySpark
4 6 (2.45%) .NET
5 4 (1.63%) Middleware
6 2 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.82%) REST
6 2 (0.82%) SOAP
6 2 (0.82%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.41%) FHIR
7 1 (0.41%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.31%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.08%) Mainframe
5 7 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.86%) NHS
5 7 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.45%) PACS
6 6 (2.45%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.45%) Reinsurance
6 6 (2.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.22%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.22%) IoT
8 3 (1.22%) Replication
9 2 (0.82%) Clustering
9 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.67%) zOS
2 2 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (52.65%) Data Architecture
2 101 (41.22%) Data Modelling
3 92 (37.55%) Analytics
4 51 (20.82%) Migration
5 47 (19.18%) Data Governance
6 39 (15.92%) AI
7 34 (13.88%) Data Engineering
7 34 (13.88%) Data Strategy
8 33 (13.47%) ETL
9 32 (13.06%) Business Intelligence
10 31 (12.65%) Roadmaps
11 29 (11.84%) Logical Data Model
12 26 (10.61%) Machine Learning
13 25 (10.20%) Data Integration
13 25 (10.20%) Physical Data Model
14 24 (9.80%) Data Migration
14 24 (9.80%) Event-Driven
14 24 (9.80%) Integration Patterns
14 24 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (9.39%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 55 (22.45%) SQL
2 29 (11.84%) Python
3 8 (3.27%) Scala
4 5 (2.04%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.04%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.22%) Java
6 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.82%) Bicep
6 2 (0.82%) R
7 1 (0.41%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.41%) COBOL
7 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.41%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 33 (13.47%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.84%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.71%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.04%) Degree
4 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.22%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.82%) VCAP
7 2 (0.82%) VCDX
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.41%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.69%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.08%) GDPR
3 7 (2.86%) QA
4 6 (2.45%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.41%) HL7
7 1 (0.41%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.82%) Docker
1 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (5.31%) Terraform
2 5 (2.04%) Grafana
3 3 (1.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 57 (23.27%) Databricks
2 37 (15.10%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.53%) Salesforce
4 14 (5.71%) Oracle
5 11 (4.49%) Foundry
6 9 (3.67%) Confluent
7 8 (3.27%) Palantir
8 6 (2.45%) SAP
9 3 (1.22%) Google
9 3 (1.22%) IBM
9 3 (1.22%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.82%) Ariba
10 2 (0.82%) IDERA
10 2 (0.82%) Informatica
10 2 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) VMware
11 1 (0.41%) Infor
11 1 (0.41%) MapR
11 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.41%) Percona