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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 198 184
Rank change year-on-year +18 -14 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 295 161 237
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.53% 1.26% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 1.34% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 111 184
10th Percentile £456 £488 £502
25th Percentile £513 £523 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £715 £725 £825
90th Percentile £788 £800 £925
England median daily rate £600 £600 £675
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -0.55%
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 17,889 11,985 16,412
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 93.44% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,782 8,101 11,761
10th Percentile £358 £336 £325
25th Percentile £439 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 184 316
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.34 £20.17
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.70 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.34% +18.89% -26.51%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £45.18
90th Percentile £80.88 £63.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -9.83%

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 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 30 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 +23 57 £572 +2.65% 17
West London -10 7 £575 -8.00% 3
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 30 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.

1 153 (51.86%) Data Architecture
2 124 (42.03%) Data Modelling
3 109 (36.95%) Analytics
4 104 (35.25%) Azure
5 77 (26.10%) Databricks
6 71 (24.07%) Security Cleared
7 69 (23.39%) AWS
8 68 (23.05%) SC Cleared
9 64 (21.69%) Migration
10 59 (20.00%) Data Governance
11 58 (19.66%) AI
12 46 (15.59%) Microsoft
13 45 (15.25%) ETL
13 45 (15.25%) Metadata
13 45 (15.25%) SQL
14 41 (13.90%) Business Intelligence
14 41 (13.90%) Data Engineering
15 39 (13.22%) Data Quality
15 39 (13.22%) Roadmaps
16 38 (12.88%) Integration Patterns
16 38 (12.88%) Machine Learning
17 36 (12.20%) Data Lake
17 36 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
17 36 (12.20%) GCP
17 36 (12.20%) Logical Data Model
18 35 (11.86%) Data Strategy
19 34 (11.53%) Data Integration
19 34 (11.53%) Snowflake
20 33 (11.19%) Power Platform
21 32 (10.85%) Data Pipeline

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 (4.07%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.05%) Palantir Foundry
3 7 (2.37%) Apache
4 6 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Appian
5 1 (0.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.68%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 104 (35.25%) Azure
2 69 (23.39%) AWS
3 36 (12.20%) GCP
4 34 (11.53%) Snowflake
5 33 (11.19%) Power Platform
6 21 (7.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 19 (6.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (5.42%) Amazon S3
9 14 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.75%) Serverless
10 13 (4.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 12 (4.07%) dbt
12 11 (3.73%) Amazon Kinesis
13 7 (2.37%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (2.37%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (2.03%) Azure Machine Learning
14 6 (2.03%) PowerApps
14 6 (2.03%) SaaS
15 5 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) BGP
1 2 (0.68%) OSPF
1 2 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.68%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.34%) DSL
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (15.25%) Metadata
2 36 (12.20%) Data Lake
2 36 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (9.15%) Power BI
4 18 (6.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (4.07%) Data Vault
5 12 (4.07%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.73%) BigQuery
7 10 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (2.71%) Big Data
9 8 (2.71%) Db2
10 7 (2.37%) Apache Iceberg
10 7 (2.37%) Star Schema
11 6 (2.03%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.03%) OLTP
11 6 (2.03%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (2.03%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (3.39%) ERwin
2 4 (1.36%) GitLab
3 3 (1.02%) ER Studio
3 3 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.68%) Git
5 1 (0.34%) JIRA
5 1 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 51 (17.29%) Finance
2 43 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.88%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.14%) Retail
5 19 (6.44%) Banking
6 17 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.05%) Marketing
8 7 (2.37%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.03%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.02%) Legal
13 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.34%) Aviation
14 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.34%) Local Government
14 1 (0.34%) Military
14 1 (0.34%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.75%) Kafka
2 12 (4.07%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (3.05%) PySpark
4 6 (2.03%) .NET
5 5 (1.69%) Apache Avro
5 5 (1.69%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (1.36%) Middleware
7 2 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.68%) REST
7 2 (0.68%) Snowpark
7 2 (0.68%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.34%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.34%) FHIR
8 1 (0.34%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.34%) JWT
8 1 (0.34%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (0.34%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.34%) pytest
8 1 (0.34%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.39%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.05%) Mainframe
3 9 (3.05%) Reference Data
4 8 (2.71%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.37%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.37%) NHS
6 6 (2.03%) IoT
6 6 (2.03%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.03%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.03%) Reinsurance
6 6 (2.03%) Taxonomies
7 5 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.36%) PACS
8 4 (1.36%) SCADA
8 4 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.71%) zOS
2 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (51.86%) Data Architecture
2 124 (42.03%) Data Modelling
3 109 (36.95%) Analytics
4 64 (21.69%) Migration
5 59 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 58 (19.66%) AI
7 45 (15.25%) ETL
8 41 (13.90%) Business Intelligence
8 41 (13.90%) Data Engineering
9 39 (13.22%) Roadmaps
10 38 (12.88%) Integration Patterns
10 38 (12.88%) Machine Learning
11 36 (12.20%) Logical Data Model
12 35 (11.86%) Data Strategy
13 34 (11.53%) Data Integration
14 32 (10.85%) Data Pipeline
15 31 (10.51%) Data Migration
16 30 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 29 (9.83%) CI/CD
17 29 (9.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (15.25%) SQL
2 26 (8.81%) Python
3 5 (1.69%) Scala
4 4 (1.36%) Java
4 4 (1.36%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.02%) Bicep
6 2 (0.68%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.68%) R
7 1 (0.34%) COBOL
7 1 (0.34%) Cypher
7 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.34%) SHACL
7 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 71 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 68 (23.05%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.75%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.69%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.36%) Degree
6 4 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.68%) VCAP
8 2 (0.68%) VCDX
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.22%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.42%) GDPR
3 8 (2.71%) QA
4 4 (1.36%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.68%) IFRS
6 2 (0.68%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.68%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.34%) GRC
7 1 (0.34%) HL7
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.68%) Docker
1 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (4.07%) Terraform
2 4 (1.36%) Grafana
3 3 (1.02%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.68%) Ansible
4 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.34%) Argo
Vendors
1 77 (26.10%) Databricks
2 46 (15.59%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.44%) Oracle
4 16 (5.42%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.07%) Foundry
6 9 (3.05%) Palantir
7 7 (2.37%) SAP
8 5 (1.69%) Confluent
8 5 (1.69%) Google
9 4 (1.36%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.68%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.68%) Ariba
10 2 (0.68%) IBM
10 2 (0.68%) IDERA
10 2 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Sparx
10 2 (0.68%) VMware
11 1 (0.34%) FactSet
11 1 (0.34%) MapR
11 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow