Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 202 224
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 163 185 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.23% 1.15% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.22% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 146 195
10th Percentile £463 £500 £534
25th Percentile £519 £541 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £724 £775 £750
90th Percentile £800 £875 £825
England median daily rate £600 £645 £681
% change year-on-year -6.98% -5.32% +1.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £36.55
25th Percentile £62.50 - £38.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £118.86 £42.38
Median % change year-on-year -45.31% +180.50% -
75th Percentile £67.50 - £46.88
90th Percentile - - £49.20
England median hourly rate £51.98 £60.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -13.37% +21.21% -1.00%

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 12,265 15,131 21,023
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.07% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,212 10,167 15,334
10th Percentile £325 £342 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £671 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 181 235
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.07
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -6.67% +15.03%
75th Percentile £50.25 £56.00 £63.88
90th Percentile £66.34 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +5 23 £567 -12.77% 19
West London -8 1 £625 -10.71% 4
North London - 1 - -
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 97 (59.51%) Data Modelling
2 94 (57.67%) Data Architecture
3 70 (42.94%) Data Governance
4 65 (39.88%) Azure
5 50 (30.67%) ETL
6 48 (29.45%) Finance
6 48 (29.45%) AWS
7 47 (28.83%) SQL
7 47 (28.83%) Social Skills
8 38 (23.31%) Migration
8 38 (23.31%) Analytics
9 37 (22.70%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (21.47%) Python
11 34 (20.86%) Business Intelligence
12 30 (18.40%) Power Platform
12 30 (18.40%) Data Strategy
13 29 (17.79%) Data Lake
13 29 (17.79%) Snowflake
14 28 (17.18%) Databricks
14 28 (17.18%) Microsoft
15 27 (16.56%) Metadata
16 26 (15.95%) Data Quality
16 26 (15.95%) GCP
17 25 (15.34%) Security Cleared
18 24 (14.72%) Roadmaps
19 23 (14.11%) Power BI
19 23 (14.11%) Data Integration
19 23 (14.11%) SC Cleared
20 22 (13.50%) Data Management
20 22 (13.50%) Data Pipeline

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.52%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.68%) Apache
3 5 (3.07%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.23%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.61%) Endur
3 1 (0.61%) Maximo
3 1 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 65 (39.88%) Azure
2 48 (29.45%) AWS
3 30 (18.40%) Power Platform
4 29 (17.79%) Snowflake
5 26 (15.95%) GCP
6 14 (8.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (8.59%) dbt
7 12 (7.36%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (6.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (6.13%) Collibra
10 6 (3.68%) SaaS
10 6 (3.68%) Serverless
11 5 (3.07%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.07%) Fivetran
12 3 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.84%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.61%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (22.70%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (17.79%) Data Lake
3 27 (16.56%) Metadata
4 23 (14.11%) Power BI
5 18 (11.04%) Data Vault
6 14 (8.59%) BigQuery
7 10 (6.13%) Big Data
7 10 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (6.13%) SQL Server
8 9 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (4.91%) NoSQL
10 7 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (3.68%) Spark SQL
11 6 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (3.07%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (3.07%) Data Hub
13 4 (2.45%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (2.45%) Star Schema
14 3 (1.84%) RDBMS
14 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (4.29%) ERwin
2 5 (3.07%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.45%) GitLab
3 4 (2.45%) Liquibase
4 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.84%) Maven
5 2 (1.23%) GCC
6 1 (0.61%) JIRA
6 1 (0.61%) Postman
General
1 48 (29.45%) Finance
2 47 (28.83%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.88%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.98%) Banking
6 10 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.29%) Back Office
8 6 (3.68%) Retail
9 5 (3.07%) Local Government
10 4 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.45%) Legal
11 3 (1.84%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.84%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.84%) Front Office
11 3 (1.84%) Marketing
12 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.61%) Law
13 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.61%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.75%) Kafka
2 9 (5.52%) PySpark
3 5 (3.07%) Spring
3 5 (3.07%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.84%) Hibernate
4 3 (1.84%) JPA
4 3 (1.84%) JSON
4 3 (1.84%) XML
5 2 (1.23%) .NET
5 2 (1.23%) Jinja
5 2 (1.23%) Middleware
6 1 (0.61%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.61%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.61%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.98%) Data Structures
2 12 (7.36%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.29%) Low-Code
3 7 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.45%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.45%) Pricing Data
6 3 (1.84%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (1.84%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.84%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) Equities
7 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.23%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.61%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (59.51%) Data Modelling
2 94 (57.67%) Data Architecture
3 70 (42.94%) Data Governance
4 50 (30.67%) ETL
5 38 (23.31%) Analytics
5 38 (23.31%) Migration
6 34 (20.86%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (18.40%) Data Strategy
8 24 (14.72%) Roadmaps
9 23 (14.11%) Data Integration
10 22 (13.50%) Data Management
10 22 (13.50%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (12.88%) Physical Data Model
12 20 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (11.04%) Decision-Making
14 17 (10.43%) Metadata Management
15 16 (9.82%) Agile
15 16 (9.82%) Data Transformation
16 15 (9.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 14 (8.59%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 47 (28.83%) SQL
2 35 (21.47%) Python
3 15 (9.20%) Java
4 5 (3.07%) PL/SQL
5 4 (2.45%) C
5 4 (2.45%) C++
5 4 (2.45%) Perl
5 4 (2.45%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.23%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.61%) Bash
7 1 (0.61%) C#
7 1 (0.61%) Korn
7 1 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.75%) Degree
4 7 (4.29%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.23%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.95%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.75%) GDPR
3 6 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.23%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.61%) GxP
5 1 (0.61%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (17.18%) Databricks
1 28 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.98%) Informatica
3 11 (6.75%) Google
3 11 (6.75%) Talend
4 10 (6.13%) SAP
5 7 (4.29%) Oracle
6 3 (1.84%) Sparx
7 2 (1.23%) Charles River
7 2 (1.23%) eFront
7 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.23%) SimCorp
8 1 (0.61%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.61%) Aveksa
8 1 (0.61%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.61%) Foundry
8 1 (0.61%) Palantir
8 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) StreamSets