Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 197 187
Rank change year-on-year +27 -10 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 286 163 240
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.50% 1.28% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.37% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 114 185
10th Percentile £456 £488 £509
25th Percentile £513 £521 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £715 £725 £825
90th Percentile £788 £800 £925
England median daily rate £600 £600 £675
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -
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 17,759 11,870 16,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.49% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,724 8,036 11,854
10th Percentile £358 £336 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
90th Percentile £760 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 182 316
10th Percentile £18.48 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.11 £20.22
Median hourly rate £41.00 £32.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% +17.27% -25.21%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.38 £46.49
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £66.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.78
% change year-on-year +59.69% -29.15% -8.17%

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 26 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 26 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 +21 56 £550 -1.35% 13
West London -16 7 £575 -8.00% 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 26 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.

1 150 (52.45%) Data Architecture
2 121 (42.31%) Data Modelling
3 106 (37.06%) Analytics
4 101 (35.31%) Azure
5 76 (26.57%) Databricks
6 65 (22.73%) Security Cleared
7 64 (22.38%) AWS
8 63 (22.03%) Migration
9 62 (21.68%) SC Cleared
10 56 (19.58%) Data Governance
11 55 (19.23%) AI
12 45 (15.73%) Microsoft
13 44 (15.38%) SQL
14 43 (15.03%) ETL
14 43 (15.03%) Metadata
15 40 (13.99%) Business Intelligence
16 39 (13.64%) Data Engineering
16 39 (13.64%) Roadmaps
17 38 (13.29%) Data Quality
17 38 (13.29%) Integration Patterns
18 36 (12.59%) GCP
18 36 (12.59%) Machine Learning
19 34 (11.89%) Data Lake
19 34 (11.89%) Data Strategy
19 34 (11.89%) Data Warehouse
19 34 (11.89%) Logical Data Model
20 33 (11.54%) Data Integration
20 33 (11.54%) Power Platform
20 33 (11.54%) Snowflake
21 31 (10.84%) Data Migration

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 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.15%) Palantir Foundry
3 7 (2.45%) Apache
4 6 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Appian
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.70%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 101 (35.31%) Azure
2 64 (22.38%) AWS
3 36 (12.59%) GCP
4 33 (11.54%) Power Platform
4 33 (11.54%) Snowflake
5 21 (7.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 18 (6.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (5.24%) Amazon S3
8 14 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.90%) Serverless
9 13 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (3.85%) dbt
11 10 (3.50%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (2.45%) Amazon MSK
12 7 (2.45%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (2.10%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (2.10%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.10%) SaaS
14 5 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) BGP
1 2 (0.70%) OSPF
1 2 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.70%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.35%) DSL
2 1 (0.35%) Firewall
2 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.03%) Metadata
2 34 (11.89%) Data Lake
2 34 (11.89%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (9.44%) Power BI
4 17 (5.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (4.20%) Data Vault
5 12 (4.20%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.85%) BigQuery
7 10 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (2.80%) Db2
10 7 (2.45%) Apache Iceberg
10 7 (2.45%) Big Data
10 7 (2.45%) Star Schema
11 6 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.10%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.10%) Flink
11 6 (2.10%) Metadata Repository
11 6 (2.10%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (3.50%) ERwin
2 4 (1.40%) GitLab
3 3 (1.05%) ER Studio
3 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.70%) Git
5 1 (0.35%) JIRA
5 1 (0.35%) MLflow
General
1 50 (17.48%) Finance
2 43 (15.03%) Social Skills
3 35 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.39%) Retail
5 19 (6.64%) Banking
6 16 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.15%) Marketing
8 7 (2.45%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.10%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.05%) Legal
13 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.35%) Aviation
14 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.35%) Local Government
14 1 (0.35%) Military
14 1 (0.35%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.55%) Kafka
2 12 (4.20%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (2.80%) PySpark
4 6 (2.10%) .NET
5 5 (1.75%) Apache Avro
5 5 (1.75%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (1.40%) Middleware
7 2 (0.70%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.70%) REST
7 2 (0.70%) Snowpark
7 2 (0.70%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.35%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.35%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.35%) FHIR
8 1 (0.35%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.35%) JWT
8 1 (0.35%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (0.35%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.35%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.50%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.15%) Mainframe
3 9 (3.15%) Reference Data
4 8 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.45%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.45%) NHS
6 6 (2.10%) IoT
6 6 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.10%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.10%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.75%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.40%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.40%) PACS
8 4 (1.40%) SCADA
8 4 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.80%) zOS
2 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (52.45%) Data Architecture
2 121 (42.31%) Data Modelling
3 106 (37.06%) Analytics
4 63 (22.03%) Migration
5 56 (19.58%) Data Governance
6 55 (19.23%) AI
7 43 (15.03%) ETL
8 40 (13.99%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (13.64%) Data Engineering
9 39 (13.64%) Roadmaps
10 38 (13.29%) Integration Patterns
11 36 (12.59%) Machine Learning
12 34 (11.89%) Data Strategy
12 34 (11.89%) Logical Data Model
13 33 (11.54%) Data Integration
14 31 (10.84%) Data Migration
14 31 (10.84%) Data Pipeline
15 30 (10.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 29 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (9.79%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.38%) SQL
2 25 (8.74%) Python
3 6 (2.10%) Scala
4 4 (1.40%) Java
4 4 (1.40%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.05%) Bicep
6 2 (0.70%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.70%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.70%) R
7 1 (0.35%) COBOL
7 1 (0.35%) Cypher
7 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.35%) SHACL
7 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 62 (21.68%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.90%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.75%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.40%) Degree
5 4 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.70%) VCAP
6 2 (0.70%) VCDX
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.29%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.90%) GDPR
3 8 (2.80%) QA
4 4 (1.40%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
7 1 (0.35%) HL7
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.70%) Docker
1 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (4.20%) Terraform
2 4 (1.40%) Grafana
3 3 (1.05%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.70%) Ansible
4 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.35%) Argo
Vendors
1 76 (26.57%) Databricks
2 45 (15.73%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.64%) Oracle
4 16 (5.59%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.20%) Foundry
6 9 (3.15%) Palantir
7 6 (2.10%) SAP
8 5 (1.75%) Confluent
8 5 (1.75%) Google
9 4 (1.40%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.70%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.70%) Ariba
10 2 (0.70%) IBM
10 2 (0.70%) IDERA
10 2 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.70%) Sparx
10 2 (0.70%) VMware
11 1 (0.35%) GoldenSource
11 1 (0.35%) MapR
11 1 (0.35%) MicroStrategy