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 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 188 175
Rank change year-on-year +3 -13 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 271 163 258
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.44% 1.33% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 1.42% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 114 197
10th Percentile £463 £488 £500
25th Percentile £513 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £715 £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% -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 17,467 11,455 16,568
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.56% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,526 7,752 11,944
10th Percentile £356 £341 £325
25th Percentile £433 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £762 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 164 328
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £15.98
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.14 £20.17
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.25 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% +15.97% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £46.59
90th Percentile £78.13 £64.63 £67.30
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
% change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +17 48 £550 -1.35% 21
West London -17 7 £575 -8.00% 2
South London - 2 £725 -
East London - 2 £675 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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.

1 143 (52.77%) Data Architecture
2 110 (40.59%) Data Modelling
3 100 (36.90%) Analytics
4 90 (33.21%) Azure
5 74 (27.31%) Databricks
6 64 (23.62%) AWS
7 62 (22.88%) Migration
8 61 (22.51%) Security Cleared
9 58 (21.40%) SC Cleared
10 51 (18.82%) Data Governance
11 48 (17.71%) SQL
12 47 (17.34%) AI
12 47 (17.34%) Microsoft
13 41 (15.13%) Metadata
14 39 (14.39%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (14.39%) Roadmaps
15 37 (13.65%) Data Engineering
16 35 (12.92%) Data Quality
16 35 (12.92%) ETL
16 35 (12.92%) Logical Data Model
17 34 (12.55%) Data Lake
17 34 (12.55%) Data Strategy
17 34 (12.55%) Integration Patterns
18 32 (11.81%) Data Migration
18 32 (11.81%) GCP
18 32 (11.81%) Power Platform
19 31 (11.44%) Event-Driven
20 29 (10.70%) CI/CD
21 28 (10.33%) Data Integration
21 28 (10.33%) Machine Learning

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 (4.80%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.32%) Palantir Foundry
3 6 (2.21%) Apache
4 3 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) Appian
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) 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 90 (33.21%) Azure
2 64 (23.62%) AWS
3 32 (11.81%) GCP
3 32 (11.81%) Power Platform
4 27 (9.96%) Snowflake
5 20 (7.38%) Amazon S3
5 20 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (6.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 18 (6.64%) Serverless
7 15 (5.54%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (5.17%) Amazon Kinesis
9 11 (4.06%) AWS Step Functions
10 10 (3.69%) dbt
11 9 (3.32%) Amazon EventBridge
11 9 (3.32%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.21%) Apigee
12 6 (2.21%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.21%) PowerApps
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%) DSL
2 1 (0.37%) Firewall
2 1 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (15.13%) Metadata
2 34 (12.55%) Data Lake
3 27 (9.96%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (9.59%) Power BI
5 20 (7.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (4.80%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (4.43%) Data Vault
8 11 (4.06%) Apache Iceberg
8 11 (4.06%) NoSQL
8 11 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (3.69%) BigQuery
9 10 (3.69%) Delta Lake
10 9 (3.32%) OLTP
10 9 (3.32%) Star Schema
11 8 (2.95%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.95%) Db2
12 7 (2.58%) Flink
12 7 (2.58%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (3.32%) ERwin
2 5 (1.85%) GitLab
3 4 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.11%) Git
5 2 (0.74%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.37%) JIRA
6 1 (0.37%) MLflow
General
1 44 (16.24%) Finance
2 36 (13.28%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.18%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.75%) Retail
5 17 (6.27%) Banking
6 16 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.95%) Marketing
8 7 (2.58%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Aviation
13 1 (0.37%) Legal
13 1 (0.37%) Local Government
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.54%) Kafka
2 11 (4.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (3.32%) Apache Avro
3 9 (3.32%) Protocol Buffers
4 7 (2.58%) PySpark
5 6 (2.21%) .NET
6 4 (1.48%) Middleware
7 2 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.74%) REST
7 2 (0.74%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.37%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.37%) FHIR
8 1 (0.37%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.37%) JWT
8 1 (0.37%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (0.37%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.37%) React
8 1 (0.37%) Snowpark
8 1 (0.37%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.06%) Data Structures
2 11 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.32%) Mainframe
3 9 (3.32%) Reference Data
4 8 (2.95%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.58%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.58%) NHS
5 7 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.21%) PACS
6 6 (2.21%) Reinsurance
6 6 (2.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.85%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.48%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.48%) IoT
9 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.95%) zOS
2 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (52.77%) Data Architecture
2 110 (40.59%) Data Modelling
3 100 (36.90%) Analytics
4 62 (22.88%) Migration
5 51 (18.82%) Data Governance
6 47 (17.34%) AI
7 39 (14.39%) Business Intelligence
7 39 (14.39%) Roadmaps
8 37 (13.65%) Data Engineering
9 35 (12.92%) ETL
9 35 (12.92%) Logical Data Model
10 34 (12.55%) Data Strategy
10 34 (12.55%) Integration Patterns
11 32 (11.81%) Data Migration
12 31 (11.44%) Event-Driven
13 29 (10.70%) CI/CD
14 28 (10.33%) Data Integration
14 28 (10.33%) Machine Learning
14 28 (10.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 27 (9.96%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 48 (17.71%) SQL
2 28 (10.33%) Python
3 7 (2.58%) Scala
4 6 (2.21%) T-SQL
5 5 (1.85%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.48%) Java
7 2 (0.74%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.74%) Bicep
7 2 (0.74%) R
8 1 (0.37%) COBOL
8 1 (0.37%) Cypher
8 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.37%) SHACL
8 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 58 (21.40%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.17%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.85%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.48%) Degree
5 4 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.74%) VCAP
7 2 (0.74%) VCDX
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.92%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.32%) GDPR
3 6 (2.21%) ISO 20022
3 6 (2.21%) QA
4 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.37%) GRC
4 1 (0.37%) HL7
4 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 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 12 (4.43%) Terraform
2 5 (1.85%) Grafana
3 3 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.74%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Argo
Vendors
1 74 (27.31%) Databricks
2 47 (17.34%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.64%) Oracle
4 15 (5.54%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.43%) Foundry
6 9 (3.32%) Confluent
6 9 (3.32%) Palantir
7 5 (1.85%) SAP
8 4 (1.48%) Google
8 4 (1.48%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.74%) Ariba
9 2 (0.74%) IBM
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%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.37%) FactSet
10 1 (0.37%) Infor
10 1 (0.37%) MapR