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 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 210 191
Rank change year-on-year +29 -19 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 305 166 235
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.56% 1.24% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.33% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 116 183
10th Percentile £462 £488 £503
25th Percentile £513 £534 £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 £603 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +0.52% -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 18,164 12,468 16,484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 93.32% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,941 8,412 11,793
10th Percentile £358 £331 £325
25th Percentile £440 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 190 304
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.86 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.74 £23.11 £20.24
Median hourly rate £39.25 £32.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +22.66% +15.07% -25.68%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £46.59
90th Percentile £80.63 £63.88 £67.70
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -8.95%

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 8 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 8 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 +30 60 £595 +0.51% 16
West London -10 8 £588 -6.00% 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 8 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.

1 156 (51.15%) Data Architecture
2 128 (41.97%) Data Modelling
3 110 (36.07%) Analytics
4 106 (34.75%) Azure
5 75 (24.59%) Databricks
6 73 (23.93%) Security Cleared
7 71 (23.28%) AWS
8 70 (22.95%) SC Cleared
9 64 (20.98%) Migration
10 62 (20.33%) AI
10 62 (20.33%) Data Governance
11 48 (15.74%) Metadata
12 47 (15.41%) SQL
13 45 (14.75%) Business Intelligence
14 43 (14.10%) ETL
14 43 (14.10%) Microsoft
15 42 (13.77%) Data Engineering
16 41 (13.44%) Data Quality
17 40 (13.11%) Data Lake
17 40 (13.11%) Integration Patterns
18 38 (12.46%) Data Warehouse
18 38 (12.46%) Machine Learning
19 37 (12.13%) Data Integration
19 37 (12.13%) Logical Data Model
19 37 (12.13%) Snowflake
20 36 (11.80%) Data Strategy
20 36 (11.80%) GCP
20 36 (11.80%) Roadmaps
21 35 (11.48%) Power Platform
22 34 (11.15%) 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 (3.93%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.95%) Palantir Foundry
3 7 (2.30%) Apache
4 6 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.66%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) Appian
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.66%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.33%) Maximo
3 1 (0.33%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 106 (34.75%) Azure
2 71 (23.28%) AWS
3 37 (12.13%) Snowflake
4 36 (11.80%) GCP
5 35 (11.48%) Power Platform
6 23 (7.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 17 (5.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (4.26%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.93%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (3.93%) Serverless
10 11 (3.61%) dbt
11 9 (2.95%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (2.30%) SaaS
13 6 (1.97%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (1.97%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (1.97%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (1.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) BGP
1 2 (0.66%) DSL
1 2 (0.66%) OSPF
1 2 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.66%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.33%) Firewall
2 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (15.74%) Metadata
2 40 (13.11%) Data Lake
3 38 (12.46%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (9.51%) Power BI
5 16 (5.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (3.93%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.61%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.61%) Data Vault
8 8 (2.62%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.62%) Big Data
8 8 (2.62%) Db2
9 7 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.30%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (2.30%) Star Schema
10 6 (1.97%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.97%) Metadata Repository
10 6 (1.97%) Tableau
11 5 (1.64%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 9 (2.95%) ERwin
2 5 (1.64%) GitLab
3 3 (0.98%) ER Studio
3 3 (0.98%) Git
3 3 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.66%) JIRA
5 1 (0.33%) MLflow
General
1 52 (17.05%) Finance
2 45 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.85%) Retail
5 19 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.23%) Banking
6 10 (3.28%) Marketing
7 7 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.31%) Legal
11 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Aviation
12 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.33%) Local Government
12 1 (0.33%) Military
12 1 (0.33%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.93%) Kafka
1 12 (3.93%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (3.28%) PySpark
3 6 (1.97%) .NET
4 4 (1.31%) Middleware
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Avro
5 3 (0.98%) Protocol Buffers
6 2 (0.66%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.66%) Bootstrap
6 2 (0.66%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.66%) JWT
6 2 (0.66%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.66%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.66%) pytest
6 2 (0.66%) React
6 2 (0.66%) REST
6 2 (0.66%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (0.66%) WebSockets
6 2 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.89%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.28%) Reference Data
3 9 (2.95%) Mainframe
4 8 (2.62%) AI Agents
4 8 (2.62%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.62%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.62%) Taxonomies
5 7 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.30%) NHS
5 7 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.97%) IoT
6 6 (1.97%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.31%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.31%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.31%) SCADA
9 3 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.62%) zOS
2 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (51.15%) Data Architecture
2 128 (41.97%) Data Modelling
3 110 (36.07%) Analytics
4 64 (20.98%) Migration
5 62 (20.33%) AI
5 62 (20.33%) Data Governance
6 45 (14.75%) Business Intelligence
7 43 (14.10%) ETL
8 42 (13.77%) Data Engineering
9 40 (13.11%) Integration Patterns
10 38 (12.46%) Machine Learning
11 37 (12.13%) Data Integration
11 37 (12.13%) Logical Data Model
12 36 (11.80%) Data Strategy
12 36 (11.80%) Roadmaps
13 34 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (10.82%) Data Pipeline
15 30 (9.84%) Data Migration
15 30 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 29 (9.51%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 47 (15.41%) SQL
2 27 (8.85%) Python
3 5 (1.64%) Scala
4 4 (1.31%) Java
5 3 (0.98%) Bicep
5 3 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (0.98%) R
5 3 (0.98%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.66%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.66%) Cypher
6 2 (0.66%) SHACL
6 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.33%) COBOL
7 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 73 (23.93%) Security Cleared
2 70 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.61%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.97%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.64%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.31%) Degree
6 4 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.66%) VCAP
8 2 (0.66%) VCDX
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.44%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.57%) GDPR
3 8 (2.62%) QA
4 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.98%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.66%) IFRS
5 2 (0.66%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.66%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.33%) GRC
6 1 (0.33%) HL7
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.66%) Docker
1 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (3.93%) Terraform
2 5 (1.64%) Grafana
3 3 (0.98%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.66%) Ansible
4 2 (0.66%) Argo
4 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 75 (24.59%) Databricks
2 43 (14.10%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.56%) Oracle
4 16 (5.25%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.93%) Foundry
6 9 (2.95%) Palantir
7 8 (2.62%) SAP
8 5 (1.64%) Google
8 5 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.98%) Confluent
10 2 (0.66%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.66%) Ariba
10 2 (0.66%) FactSet
10 2 (0.66%) IBM
10 2 (0.66%) IDERA
10 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.66%) Sparx
10 2 (0.66%) VMware
11 1 (0.33%) MapR
11 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow