Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £622, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 203 235
Rank change year-on-year -22 +32 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 145 188 195
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 1.21% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.29% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 134 141
10th Percentile £459 £500 £513
25th Percentile £520 £541 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £728 £761 £738
90th Percentile £831 £800 £800
England median daily rate £613 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -2.00% -7.41% +3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £36.81
25th Percentile - - £39.14
Median hourly rate - £118.86 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year - +158.08% -
75th Percentile - - £49.92
90th Percentile - - £50.42
England median hourly rate £83.00 £60.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +38.33% +21.21% -29.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,918 14,555 18,859
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 93.87% 93.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,569 9,408 13,666
10th Percentile £333 £338 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £792 £794
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 155 224
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.21
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £49.13 £57.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.94
% change year-on-year -37.13% -12.93% +53.13%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 -10 18 £622 -11.21% 35
South London -5 3 £425 -15.00% 2
West London -16 2 £613 -12.50% 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 November 2025, 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 94 (64.83%) Data Modelling
2 85 (58.62%) Data Architecture
3 65 (44.83%) Azure
4 62 (42.76%) Data Governance
5 46 (31.72%) AWS
5 46 (31.72%) ETL
6 45 (31.03%) SQL
7 43 (29.66%) Analytics
8 37 (25.52%) Python
9 34 (23.45%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (22.76%) Data Strategy
10 33 (22.76%) Power Platform
11 29 (20.00%) Metadata
12 27 (18.62%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (18.62%) Data Lake
12 27 (18.62%) Data Quality
12 27 (18.62%) Migration
13 26 (17.93%) Databricks
13 26 (17.93%) Microsoft
13 26 (17.93%) Physical Data Model
13 26 (17.93%) Power BI
14 25 (17.24%) Data Integration
15 23 (15.86%) Snowflake
16 22 (15.17%) Data Pipeline
16 22 (15.17%) Metadata Management
16 22 (15.17%) Roadmaps
17 21 (14.48%) AI
18 20 (13.79%) Data Management
18 20 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
19 19 (13.10%) Logical Data Model

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 8 (5.52%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.76%) Apache
4 2 (1.38%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.38%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.69%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 65 (44.83%) Azure
2 46 (31.72%) AWS
3 33 (22.76%) Power Platform
4 23 (15.86%) Snowflake
5 17 (11.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (11.72%) GCP
6 16 (11.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (8.28%) dbt
7 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (6.90%) Serverless
9 7 (4.83%) Collibra
10 5 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.45%) SaaS
11 4 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.07%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (2.07%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.07%) PaaS
13 2 (1.38%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (23.45%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (20.00%) Metadata
3 27 (18.62%) Data Lake
4 26 (17.93%) Power BI
5 17 (11.72%) Data Vault
6 11 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (6.90%) NoSQL
8 9 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (5.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (5.52%) Big Data
10 7 (4.83%) BigQuery
10 7 (4.83%) Relational Database
10 7 (4.83%) Spark SQL
11 6 (4.14%) SQL Server
12 5 (3.45%) Data Hub
12 5 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (2.76%) RDBMS
13 4 (2.76%) Tableau
14 3 (2.07%) Hadoop
14 3 (2.07%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 8 (5.52%) ERwin
2 3 (2.07%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.38%) GCC
3 2 (1.38%) Git
4 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) JIRA
4 1 (0.69%) Postman
4 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (37.24%) Social Skills
2 43 (29.66%) Finance
3 25 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 16 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.59%) Banking
5 11 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.45%) Local Government
7 4 (2.76%) Retail
8 3 (2.07%) Back Office
8 3 (2.07%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.07%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Front Office
9 2 (1.38%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.38%) Legal
9 2 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.59%) PySpark
2 8 (5.52%) Kafka
3 3 (2.07%) JSON
3 3 (2.07%) XML
4 2 (1.38%) .NET
5 1 (0.69%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.69%) ADO
5 1 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.69%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.59%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.83%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.76%) Data Fabric
5 4 (2.76%) Pricing Data
5 4 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.76%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.76%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.38%) Equities
7 2 (1.38%) FMCG
7 2 (1.38%) IoT
7 2 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.38%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.69%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (64.83%) Data Modelling
2 85 (58.62%) Data Architecture
3 62 (42.76%) Data Governance
4 46 (31.72%) ETL
5 43 (29.66%) Analytics
6 33 (22.76%) Data Strategy
7 27 (18.62%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (18.62%) Migration
8 26 (17.93%) Physical Data Model
9 25 (17.24%) Data Integration
10 22 (15.17%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (15.17%) Metadata Management
10 22 (15.17%) Roadmaps
11 21 (14.48%) AI
12 20 (13.79%) Data Management
12 20 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (13.10%) Logical Data Model
14 18 (12.41%) Data Engineering
15 16 (11.03%) Agile
15 16 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (31.03%) SQL
2 37 (25.52%) Python
3 14 (9.66%) Java
4 6 (4.14%) PL/SQL
5 5 (3.45%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.76%) C
6 4 (2.76%) C++
6 4 (2.76%) Perl
7 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.38%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.69%) Bash
8 1 (0.69%) C#
8 1 (0.69%) Korn
8 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.21%) Azure Certification
3 9 (6.21%) Degree
4 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.76%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.69%) MCP
7 1 (0.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.62%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.52%) GDPR
3 4 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.38%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.38%) QA
5 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.69%) GxP
5 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.45%) Terraform
2 2 (1.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (17.93%) Databricks
1 26 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.52%) Oracle
3 5 (3.45%) Google
3 5 (3.45%) Informatica
3 5 (3.45%) SAP
4 4 (2.76%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (2.07%) Sparx
5 3 (2.07%) Workday
6 2 (1.38%) Charles River
6 2 (1.38%) eFront
6 2 (1.38%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.38%) Talend
7 1 (0.69%) Ariba
7 1 (0.69%) Foundry
7 1 (0.69%) Palantir
7 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.69%) StreamSets