Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 198 169
Rank change year-on-year +23 -29 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 281 161 258
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 1.31% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 1.40% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 112 197
10th Percentile £461 £488 £500
25th Percentile £513 £524 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £715 £719 £825
90th Percentile £788 £799 £925
England median daily rate £600 £600 £675
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £72.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -35.40% +21.25% -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 17,520 11,482 16,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 93.52% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,559 7,780 11,924
10th Percentile £358 £342 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £677
90th Percentile £760 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 163 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.23 £24.66 £20.17
Median hourly rate £40.98 £34.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.53% +22.26% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.63 £46.59
90th Percentile £78.69 £64.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £39.50
% change year-on-year +54.99% -26.49% -12.22%

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 13 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 13 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 +15 49 £550 -1.35% 13
West London -18 7 £575 -8.00% 2
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 13 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.

1 149 (53.02%) Data Architecture
2 117 (41.64%) Data Modelling
3 106 (37.72%) Analytics
4 98 (34.88%) Azure
5 79 (28.11%) Databricks
6 66 (23.49%) AWS
7 65 (23.13%) Migration
8 63 (22.42%) Security Cleared
9 60 (21.35%) SC Cleared
10 54 (19.22%) Data Governance
11 52 (18.51%) AI
12 50 (17.79%) Microsoft
13 49 (17.44%) SQL
14 43 (15.30%) Business Intelligence
15 42 (14.95%) Metadata
16 40 (14.23%) ETL
16 40 (14.23%) Roadmaps
17 38 (13.52%) Data Engineering
17 38 (13.52%) Data Quality
18 37 (13.17%) Integration Patterns
19 36 (12.81%) Data Lake
20 35 (12.46%) Data Strategy
20 35 (12.46%) Logical Data Model
21 34 (12.10%) Data Migration
21 34 (12.10%) Power Platform
22 33 (11.74%) GCP
22 33 (11.74%) Machine Learning
23 31 (11.03%) Data Warehouse
23 31 (11.03%) Event-Driven
23 31 (11.03%) Snowflake

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 13 (4.63%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.20%) Palantir Foundry
3 6 (2.14%) Apache
4 5 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) Appian
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.71%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 98 (34.88%) Azure
2 66 (23.49%) AWS
3 34 (12.10%) Power Platform
4 33 (11.74%) GCP
5 31 (11.03%) Snowflake
6 21 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (7.12%) Amazon S3
7 20 (7.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (6.41%) Serverless
9 16 (5.69%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (4.98%) Amazon Kinesis
11 11 (3.91%) AWS Step Functions
11 11 (3.91%) dbt
12 9 (3.20%) Amazon EventBridge
12 9 (3.20%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.14%) Apigee
13 6 (2.14%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.71%) BGP
1 2 (0.71%) OSPF
1 2 (0.71%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.71%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.36%) DSL
2 1 (0.36%) Firewall
2 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (14.95%) Metadata
2 36 (12.81%) Data Lake
3 31 (11.03%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (9.96%) Power BI
5 21 (7.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (4.63%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (4.63%) Data Vault
7 11 (3.91%) Apache Iceberg
7 11 (3.91%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (3.56%) Delta Lake
9 9 (3.20%) OLTP
9 9 (3.20%) Star Schema
10 8 (2.85%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (2.85%) Db2
11 7 (2.49%) Flink
11 7 (2.49%) SQL Server
11 7 (2.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (3.20%) ERwin
2 5 (1.78%) GitLab
3 4 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.07%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.07%) Git
5 1 (0.36%) JIRA
5 1 (0.36%) MLflow
General
1 46 (16.37%) Finance
2 38 (13.52%) Social Skills
3 34 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.83%) Retail
5 17 (6.05%) Banking
6 16 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.85%) Marketing
8 7 (2.49%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.14%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Aviation
13 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.36%) Legal
13 1 (0.36%) Local Government
13 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.69%) Kafka
2 12 (4.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (3.20%) Apache Avro
3 9 (3.20%) Protocol Buffers
4 8 (2.85%) PySpark
5 6 (2.14%) .NET
6 4 (1.42%) Middleware
7 2 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.71%) REST
7 2 (0.71%) Snowpark
7 2 (0.71%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.36%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.36%) FHIR
8 1 (0.36%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.36%) JWT
8 1 (0.36%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (0.36%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.36%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.41%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.91%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.20%) Mainframe
3 9 (3.20%) Reference Data
4 8 (2.85%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.49%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.49%) NHS
5 7 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.49%) Reinsurance
6 6 (2.14%) PACS
6 6 (2.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.78%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.42%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.42%) IoT
8 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.85%) zOS
2 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (53.02%) Data Architecture
2 117 (41.64%) Data Modelling
3 106 (37.72%) Analytics
4 65 (23.13%) Migration
5 54 (19.22%) Data Governance
6 52 (18.51%) AI
7 43 (15.30%) Business Intelligence
8 40 (14.23%) ETL
8 40 (14.23%) Roadmaps
9 38 (13.52%) Data Engineering
10 37 (13.17%) Integration Patterns
11 35 (12.46%) Data Strategy
11 35 (12.46%) Logical Data Model
12 34 (12.10%) Data Migration
13 33 (11.74%) Machine Learning
14 31 (11.03%) Event-Driven
15 29 (10.32%) CI/CD
15 29 (10.32%) Data Integration
15 29 (10.32%) Data Pipeline
16 28 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 49 (17.44%) SQL
2 28 (9.96%) Python
3 7 (2.49%) Scala
4 6 (2.14%) T-SQL
5 5 (1.78%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.42%) Java
7 3 (1.07%) Bicep
8 2 (0.71%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.71%) R
9 1 (0.36%) COBOL
9 1 (0.36%) Cypher
9 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.36%) SHACL
9 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 63 (22.42%) Security Cleared
2 60 (21.35%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.69%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.78%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.78%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.42%) Degree
6 3 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.71%) VCAP
7 2 (0.71%) VCDX
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.52%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.27%) GDPR
3 6 (2.14%) ISO 20022
3 6 (2.14%) QA
4 3 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
5 1 (0.36%) HL7
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (0.71%) Docker
1 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (4.63%) Terraform
2 5 (1.78%) Grafana
3 3 (1.07%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.07%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.71%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Argo
Vendors
1 79 (28.11%) Databricks
2 50 (17.79%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.76%) Oracle
4 16 (5.69%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.27%) Foundry
6 9 (3.20%) Confluent
6 9 (3.20%) Palantir
7 6 (2.14%) SAP
8 4 (1.42%) Google
8 4 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.71%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.71%) Ariba
9 2 (0.71%) IBM
9 2 (0.71%) IDERA
9 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.71%) Sparx
9 2 (0.71%) VMware
10 1 (0.36%) FactSet
10 1 (0.36%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.36%) MapR