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 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 200 178
Rank change year-on-year +19 -22 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 272 156 254
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 1.29% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 1.38% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 107 193
10th Percentile £463 £488 £501
25th Percentile £513 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £697 £731 £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% -9.09%

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 16,983 11,286 16,307
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 93.40% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,246 7,681 11,806
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £431 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £682
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 145 319
10th Percentile £19.19 £20.10 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.18 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.50 £30.81 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.23% +12.02% -23.61%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.75 £45.62
90th Percentile £76.58 £62.30 £65.23
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year +55.17% -22.00% -17.38%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +12 44 £572 +4.05% 21
West London -24 7 £575 -8.00% 4
East London - 4 £585 -
South London - 2 £725 - 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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.

1 141 (51.84%) Data Architecture
2 111 (40.81%) Data Modelling
3 100 (36.76%) Analytics
4 89 (32.72%) Azure
5 76 (27.94%) Databricks
6 65 (23.90%) AWS
7 63 (23.16%) Migration
8 57 (20.96%) Security Cleared
9 56 (20.59%) SQL
10 54 (19.85%) Data Governance
11 53 (19.49%) SC Cleared
12 47 (17.28%) Microsoft
13 42 (15.44%) AI
14 40 (14.71%) Data Quality
14 40 (14.71%) Roadmaps
15 38 (13.97%) Business Intelligence
15 38 (13.97%) Metadata
16 36 (13.24%) Data Engineering
17 35 (12.87%) Data Strategy
17 35 (12.87%) ETL
17 35 (12.87%) Logical Data Model
18 34 (12.50%) Data Lake
19 32 (11.76%) Data Migration
19 32 (11.76%) GCP
20 31 (11.40%) Integration Patterns
21 30 (11.03%) CI/CD
21 30 (11.03%) Power Platform
22 29 (10.66%) Event-Driven
22 29 (10.66%) Python
23 28 (10.29%) Data Integration

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 14 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.94%) Palantir Foundry
3 6 (2.21%) Apache
4 3 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.74%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 89 (32.72%) Azure
2 65 (23.90%) AWS
3 32 (11.76%) GCP
4 30 (11.03%) Power Platform
5 27 (9.93%) Snowflake
6 21 (7.72%) Amazon S3
7 20 (7.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (6.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 19 (6.99%) Serverless
9 18 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
11 14 (5.15%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (4.04%) AWS Step Functions
13 10 (3.68%) Amazon MSK
14 9 (3.31%) Amazon EventBridge
14 9 (3.31%) dbt
15 7 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (2.21%) Apigee
16 6 (2.21%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (2.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.74%) BGP
1 2 (0.74%) OSPF
1 2 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.74%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.37%) Firewall
2 1 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.97%) Metadata
2 34 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 28 (10.29%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (8.82%) Power BI
5 22 (8.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (5.15%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (4.41%) Data Vault
7 12 (4.41%) Delta Lake
7 12 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.04%) Apache Iceberg
8 11 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.31%) BigQuery
9 9 (3.31%) DB2
9 9 (3.31%) NoSQL
9 9 (3.31%) OLTP
9 9 (3.31%) Star Schema
9 9 (3.31%) Tableau
10 8 (2.94%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.31%) ERwin
2 5 (1.84%) GitLab
3 4 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.74%) Git
5 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.37%) MLflow
General
1 42 (15.44%) Finance
2 35 (12.87%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.82%) Retail
5 17 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.15%) Banking
7 8 (2.94%) Marketing
8 7 (2.57%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.84%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.47%) Local Government
11 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Aviation
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.88%) Kafka
2 10 (3.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (3.31%) Apache Avro
3 9 (3.31%) Protocol Buffers
3 9 (3.31%) PySpark
4 6 (2.21%) .NET
5 4 (1.47%) Middleware
6 2 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.74%) REST
6 2 (0.74%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.37%) FHIR
7 1 (0.37%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.37%) SOAP
7 1 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.41%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.68%) Mainframe
5 9 (3.31%) Reference Data
6 7 (2.57%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.57%) NHS
6 7 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.21%) PACS
7 6 (2.21%) Reinsurance
7 6 (2.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.84%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.47%) Data Fabric
9 4 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.10%) IoT
10 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.31%) zOS
2 2 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (51.84%) Data Architecture
2 111 (40.81%) Data Modelling
3 100 (36.76%) Analytics
4 63 (23.16%) Migration
5 54 (19.85%) Data Governance
6 42 (15.44%) AI
7 40 (14.71%) Roadmaps
8 38 (13.97%) Business Intelligence
9 36 (13.24%) Data Engineering
10 35 (12.87%) Data Strategy
10 35 (12.87%) ETL
10 35 (12.87%) Logical Data Model
11 32 (11.76%) Data Migration
12 31 (11.40%) Integration Patterns
13 30 (11.03%) CI/CD
14 29 (10.66%) Event-Driven
15 28 (10.29%) Data Integration
15 28 (10.29%) Physical Data Model
16 26 (9.56%) Data Management
16 26 (9.56%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 56 (20.59%) SQL
2 29 (10.66%) Python
3 8 (2.94%) Scala
4 5 (1.84%) Java
4 5 (1.84%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.84%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.74%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.74%) Bicep
5 2 (0.74%) R
6 1 (0.37%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (0.37%) COBOL
6 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 57 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 53 (19.49%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.51%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.84%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.84%) Degree
4 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.10%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.74%) VCAP
6 2 (0.74%) VCDX
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.94%) GDPR
3 7 (2.57%) QA
4 6 (2.21%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) GRC
6 1 (0.37%) HL7
6 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.74%) Docker
1 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (4.78%) Terraform
2 5 (1.84%) Grafana
3 3 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 76 (27.94%) Databricks
2 47 (17.28%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.88%) Oracle
3 16 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 11 (4.04%) Foundry
5 9 (3.31%) Confluent
6 8 (2.94%) Palantir
7 4 (1.47%) SAP
8 3 (1.10%) Google
8 3 (1.10%) IBM
8 3 (1.10%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.74%) Ariba
9 2 (0.74%) IDERA
9 2 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.74%) Sparx
9 2 (0.74%) VMware
10 1 (0.37%) Infor
10 1 (0.37%) Informatica
10 1 (0.37%) MapR
10 1 (0.37%) MuleSoft