Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £598, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 206 195
Rank change year-on-year +27 -11 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 307 168 235
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.56% 1.24% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.33% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 118 183
10th Percentile £462 £488 £503
25th Percentile £513 £528 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £600 £696
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -13.79% -0.57%
75th Percentile £715 £725 £825
90th Percentile £788 £800 £925
England median daily rate £606 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +1.04% -11.11% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
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 18,298 12,595 16,588
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.29% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,030 8,505 11,864
10th Percentile £358 £331 £325
25th Percentile £440 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 194 304
10th Percentile £18.03 £18.83 £16.07
25th Percentile £24.74 £23.00 £20.44
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.75 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +22.83% +14.17% -25.68%
75th Percentile £62.84 £50.50 £46.59
90th Percentile £80.13 £63.75 £68.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -9.09%

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 9 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 9 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 +34 60 £595 +0.51% 25
West London -11 8 £588 -6.00% 7
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 9 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.

1 158 (51.47%) Data Architecture
2 130 (42.35%) Data Modelling
3 110 (35.83%) Analytics
4 105 (34.20%) Azure
5 74 (24.10%) Databricks
6 73 (23.78%) Security Cleared
7 72 (23.45%) AWS
8 70 (22.80%) SC Cleared
9 64 (20.85%) Migration
10 62 (20.20%) AI
10 62 (20.20%) Data Governance
11 50 (16.29%) Metadata
12 46 (14.98%) Business Intelligence
12 46 (14.98%) SQL
13 43 (14.01%) ETL
14 42 (13.68%) Microsoft
15 41 (13.36%) Data Engineering
15 41 (13.36%) Data Quality
15 41 (13.36%) Integration Patterns
16 40 (13.03%) Data Lake
16 40 (13.03%) Data Warehouse
17 39 (12.70%) Logical Data Model
18 38 (12.38%) Machine Learning
18 38 (12.38%) Snowflake
19 37 (12.05%) Data Integration
19 37 (12.05%) Data Strategy
19 37 (12.05%) Roadmaps
20 36 (11.73%) GCP
21 34 (11.07%) Power Platform
21 34 (11.07%) Stakeholder Management

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 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.93%) Palantir Foundry
3 7 (2.28%) Apache
4 6 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.65%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) Appian
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.65%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.33%) Maximo
3 1 (0.33%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 105 (34.20%) Azure
2 72 (23.45%) AWS
3 38 (12.38%) Snowflake
4 36 (11.73%) GCP
5 34 (11.07%) Power Platform
6 22 (7.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (4.23%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.91%) Serverless
10 11 (3.58%) dbt
10 11 (3.58%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (2.93%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (2.28%) SaaS
13 6 (1.95%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (1.95%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (1.95%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.63%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (1.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.65%) BGP
1 2 (0.65%) DSL
1 2 (0.65%) OSPF
1 2 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.65%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.33%) Firewall
2 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (16.29%) Metadata
2 40 (13.03%) Data Lake
2 40 (13.03%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (9.12%) Power BI
4 16 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (3.91%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.58%) BigQuery
6 11 (3.58%) Data Vault
7 8 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (2.61%) Big Data
7 8 (2.61%) Db2
8 7 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (2.28%) Semantic Layer
8 7 (2.28%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (2.28%) Star Schema
9 6 (1.95%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.95%) Metadata Repository
9 6 (1.95%) Tableau
10 5 (1.63%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 9 (2.93%) ERwin
2 5 (1.63%) GitLab
3 3 (0.98%) ER Studio
3 3 (0.98%) Git
3 3 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.65%) JIRA
5 1 (0.33%) MLflow
General
1 53 (17.26%) Finance
2 45 (14.66%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.03%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.79%) Retail
5 20 (6.51%) Banking
6 19 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.26%) Marketing
8 7 (2.28%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.95%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.30%) Legal
12 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Aviation
13 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.33%) Local Government
13 1 (0.33%) Military
13 1 (0.33%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.91%) Kafka
1 12 (3.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (3.26%) PySpark
3 6 (1.95%) .NET
4 4 (1.30%) Middleware
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Avro
5 3 (0.98%) Protocol Buffers
6 2 (0.65%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.65%) Bootstrap
6 2 (0.65%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.65%) JWT
6 2 (0.65%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.65%) pytest
6 2 (0.65%) React
6 2 (0.65%) REST
6 2 (0.65%) Snowpark
6 2 (0.65%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (0.65%) WebSockets
6 2 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.84%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.26%) Reference Data
3 9 (2.93%) Data Structures
3 9 (2.93%) Mainframe
4 8 (2.61%) AI Agents
4 8 (2.61%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.61%) Taxonomies
5 7 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.28%) NHS
5 7 (2.28%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.95%) IoT
6 6 (1.95%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.30%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.30%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.30%) SCADA
9 3 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.61%) zOS
2 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (51.47%) Data Architecture
2 130 (42.35%) Data Modelling
3 110 (35.83%) Analytics
4 64 (20.85%) Migration
5 62 (20.20%) AI
5 62 (20.20%) Data Governance
6 46 (14.98%) Business Intelligence
7 43 (14.01%) ETL
8 41 (13.36%) Data Engineering
8 41 (13.36%) Integration Patterns
9 39 (12.70%) Logical Data Model
10 38 (12.38%) Machine Learning
11 37 (12.05%) Data Integration
11 37 (12.05%) Data Strategy
11 37 (12.05%) Roadmaps
12 34 (11.07%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
14 31 (10.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 30 (9.77%) Data Migration
16 29 (9.45%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.98%) SQL
2 26 (8.47%) Python
3 5 (1.63%) Scala
4 4 (1.30%) Java
5 3 (0.98%) Bicep
5 3 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (0.98%) R
6 2 (0.65%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.65%) Cypher
6 2 (0.65%) SHACL
6 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.65%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.33%) COBOL
7 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 73 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 70 (22.80%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.26%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.95%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.63%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.30%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.30%) Degree
6 4 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.65%) VCAP
8 2 (0.65%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.36%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.86%) GDPR
3 8 (2.61%) QA
4 4 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.98%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.65%) IFRS
6 2 (0.65%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.65%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.33%) GRC
7 1 (0.33%) HL7
7 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.65%) Docker
1 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (3.91%) Terraform
2 5 (1.63%) Grafana
3 3 (0.98%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.65%) Ansible
4 2 (0.65%) Argo
4 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 74 (24.10%) Databricks
2 42 (13.68%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.51%) Oracle
4 16 (5.21%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.91%) Foundry
6 9 (2.93%) Palantir
7 8 (2.61%) SAP
8 5 (1.63%) Google
8 5 (1.63%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.98%) Confluent
10 2 (0.65%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.65%) Ariba
10 2 (0.65%) FactSet
10 2 (0.65%) IBM
10 2 (0.65%) IDERA
10 2 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.65%) Sparx
10 2 (0.65%) VMware
11 1 (0.33%) GoldenSource
11 1 (0.33%) MicroStrategy