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 17 October 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 209 244
Rank change year-on-year -11 +35 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 154 184 209
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.15% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.22% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 138 150
10th Percentile £463 £500 £513
25th Percentile £519 £515 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £719 £747 £738
90th Percentile £800 £800 £794
England median daily rate £600 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £36.55
25th Percentile - - £38.50
Median hourly rate - £118.86 £42.38
Median % change year-on-year - +180.50% -
75th Percentile - - £46.88
90th Percentile - - £49.20
England median hourly rate £60.98 £60.00 £50.28
% change year-on-year +1.63% +19.34% +0.56%

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 12,391 15,052 19,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 94.09% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,265 9,789 14,305
10th Percentile £337 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 168 212
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.89 £36.65 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.63% -9.51% +23.66%
75th Percentile £49.13 £59.06 £61.59
90th Percentile £67.75 £79.35 £76.23
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +66.53%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 0 22 £575 -17.86% 21
West London -5 2 £613 -12.50% 5
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 October 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 96 (62.34%) Data Modelling
2 90 (58.44%) Data Architecture
3 63 (40.91%) Azure
3 63 (40.91%) Data Governance
4 52 (33.77%) SQL
5 50 (32.47%) ETL
6 43 (27.92%) Analytics
6 43 (27.92%) AWS
7 41 (26.62%) Python
8 40 (25.97%) Data Warehouse
9 39 (25.32%) Migration
10 37 (24.03%) Business Intelligence
10 37 (24.03%) Power Platform
11 31 (20.13%) Power BI
12 29 (18.83%) Data Quality
12 29 (18.83%) Data Strategy
12 29 (18.83%) Snowflake
13 26 (16.88%) Data Integration
13 26 (16.88%) Physical Data Model
14 25 (16.23%) Data Lake
14 25 (16.23%) Microsoft
15 24 (15.58%) Databricks
16 22 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
16 22 (14.29%) GCP
16 22 (14.29%) Metadata
17 21 (13.64%) Roadmaps
18 20 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
19 19 (12.34%) AI
19 19 (12.34%) Data Management
20 18 (11.69%) Azure Data Factory

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 10 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.90%) Apache
3 4 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.30%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (1.30%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.65%) Endur
2 1 (0.65%) Maximo
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.65%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (40.91%) Azure
2 43 (27.92%) AWS
3 37 (24.03%) Power Platform
4 29 (18.83%) Snowflake
5 22 (14.29%) GCP
6 18 (11.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (9.74%) dbt
8 14 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (5.84%) Collibra
11 8 (5.19%) Serverless
12 5 (3.25%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.25%) Fivetran
13 4 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.60%) SaaS
14 3 (1.95%) Amazon EMR
14 3 (1.95%) Azure Functions
14 3 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (1.95%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (25.97%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (20.13%) Power BI
3 25 (16.23%) Data Lake
4 22 (14.29%) Metadata
5 18 (11.69%) Data Vault
6 11 (7.14%) BigQuery
6 11 (7.14%) SQL Server
7 9 (5.84%) Big Data
7 9 (5.84%) NoSQL
7 9 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (3.90%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.90%) Spark SQL
11 5 (3.25%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (3.25%) Data Hub
11 5 (3.25%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (3.25%) Star Schema
12 4 (2.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (5.19%) ERwin
2 5 (3.25%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.60%) GitLab
3 4 (2.60%) Liquibase
4 2 (1.30%) GCC
4 2 (1.30%) Git
5 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.65%) JIRA
5 1 (0.65%) Postman
5 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 49 (31.82%) Finance
3 20 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 17 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.09%) Banking
6 11 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.25%) Local Government
7 5 (3.25%) Retail
8 4 (2.60%) Back Office
8 4 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.95%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.95%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.95%) Legal
10 2 (1.30%) Front Office
10 2 (1.30%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Marketing
11 1 (0.65%) Military
11 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.14%) Kafka
2 10 (6.49%) PySpark
3 3 (1.95%) JSON
3 3 (1.95%) XML
4 2 (1.30%) .NET
4 2 (1.30%) Jinja
4 2 (1.30%) Spring
4 2 (1.30%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.65%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.65%) ADO
5 1 (0.65%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.65%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.65%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.65%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 13 (8.44%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.90%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.25%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.60%) Pricing Data
5 4 (2.60%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.95%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.95%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.30%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.30%) Equities
7 2 (1.30%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.30%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (62.34%) Data Modelling
2 90 (58.44%) Data Architecture
3 63 (40.91%) Data Governance
4 50 (32.47%) ETL
5 43 (27.92%) Analytics
6 39 (25.32%) Migration
7 37 (24.03%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (18.83%) Data Strategy
9 26 (16.88%) Data Integration
9 26 (16.88%) Physical Data Model
10 22 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (13.64%) Roadmaps
12 20 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (12.34%) AI
13 19 (12.34%) Data Management
14 18 (11.69%) Decision-Making
14 18 (11.69%) Logical Data Model
15 17 (11.04%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (10.39%) Data Engineering
17 15 (9.74%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (33.77%) SQL
2 41 (26.62%) Python
3 14 (9.09%) Java
4 6 (3.90%) PL/SQL
5 5 (3.25%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.60%) C
6 4 (2.60%) C++
6 4 (2.60%) Perl
7 2 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.30%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.30%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.65%) Bash
8 1 (0.65%) C#
8 1 (0.65%) Korn
8 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (11.04%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.74%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.49%) Degree
4 8 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) MCP
8 1 (0.65%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.83%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.84%) GDPR
3 5 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.30%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.30%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.30%) QA
5 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.65%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.60%) Terraform
2 2 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.58%) Databricks
3 10 (6.49%) Google
3 10 (6.49%) SAP
4 9 (5.84%) Oracle
4 9 (5.84%) Talend
5 7 (4.55%) Informatica
6 4 (2.60%) MicroStrategy
6 4 (2.60%) Workday
7 2 (1.30%) Charles River
7 2 (1.30%) eFront
7 2 (1.30%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.30%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.30%) Sparx
8 1 (0.65%) Ariba
8 1 (0.65%) Aveksa
8 1 (0.65%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.65%) Foundry
8 1 (0.65%) Palantir
8 1 (0.65%) Salesforce