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 12 December 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 192 214
Rank change year-on-year -43 +22 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 147 198 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 1.27% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.36% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 138 155
10th Percentile £463 £500 £525
25th Percentile £513 £541 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -8.93% +3.70%
75th Percentile £724 £775 £738
90th Percentile £806 £800 £815
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 - - £43.55
25th Percentile - - £44.33
Median hourly rate - £118.86 £47.78
Median % change year-on-year - +148.78% -
75th Percentile - - £50.33
90th Percentile - - £50.58
England median hourly rate £83.00 £118.86 £50.28
% change year-on-year -30.17% +136.41% -28.18%

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 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

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 12 December 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 12 December 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 -1 19 £625 -10.71% 3
South London -3 3 £425 -15.00%
East London +3 2 £495 -20.80% 4
West London -12 2 £613 -12.50% 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 December 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 90 (61.22%) Data Modelling
2 82 (55.78%) Data Architecture
3 61 (41.50%) Data Governance
4 57 (38.78%) Azure
5 44 (29.93%) Analytics
5 44 (29.93%) AWS
5 44 (29.93%) SQL
6 39 (26.53%) ETL
6 39 (26.53%) Python
7 30 (20.41%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (19.05%) Data Strategy
8 28 (19.05%) Metadata
8 28 (19.05%) Migration
8 28 (19.05%) Power Platform
9 27 (18.37%) Data Quality
9 27 (18.37%) Physical Data Model
10 25 (17.01%) Databricks
11 24 (16.33%) Data Integration
12 23 (15.65%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (15.65%) Snowflake
13 22 (14.97%) AI
14 21 (14.29%) Data Lake
14 21 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
14 21 (14.29%) Metadata Management
14 21 (14.29%) Microsoft
14 21 (14.29%) Power BI
14 21 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (14.29%) Roadmaps
15 20 (13.61%) Logical Data Model
16 18 (12.24%) Data Engineering

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 8 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.72%) Apache
4 2 (1.36%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.68%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (38.78%) Azure
2 44 (29.93%) AWS
3 28 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 23 (15.65%) Snowflake
5 15 (10.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (10.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (9.52%) GCP
7 13 (8.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (8.16%) dbt
9 10 (6.80%) Serverless
10 8 (5.44%) Collibra
11 7 (4.76%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.40%) SaaS
13 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.72%) Azure Functions
14 3 (2.04%) Amazon EMR
14 3 (2.04%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
15 2 (1.36%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.41%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (19.05%) Metadata
3 21 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 21 (14.29%) Power BI
4 17 (11.56%) Data Vault
5 12 (8.16%) NoSQL
5 12 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.76%) Big Data
7 7 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.76%) Spark SQL
8 6 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (4.08%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.40%) Data Hub
9 5 (3.40%) Tableau
10 4 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (2.72%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.04%) OLTP
11 3 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (2.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (2.04%) ERwin
2 2 (1.36%) ER Studio
2 2 (1.36%) GCC
2 2 (1.36%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.68%) GitLab
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) Postman
3 1 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 40 (27.21%) Finance
3 25 (17.01%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.48%) Banking
6 8 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.08%) Local Government
8 3 (2.04%) Back Office
8 3 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.04%) Retail
9 2 (1.36%) Front Office
9 2 (1.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.12%) PySpark
2 8 (5.44%) Kafka
3 3 (2.04%) JSON
3 3 (2.04%) XML
4 2 (1.36%) .NET
5 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.68%) ADO
5 1 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.68%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.68%) REST
5 1 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.80%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.76%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.72%) Data Fabric
5 4 (2.72%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.72%) Pricing Data
5 4 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.72%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.72%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.36%) Equities
7 2 (1.36%) FMCG
7 2 (1.36%) IoT
7 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.36%) Replication
7 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.36%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) Windows
1 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (61.22%) Data Modelling
2 82 (55.78%) Data Architecture
3 61 (41.50%) Data Governance
4 44 (29.93%) Analytics
5 39 (26.53%) ETL
6 28 (19.05%) Data Strategy
6 28 (19.05%) Migration
7 27 (18.37%) Physical Data Model
8 24 (16.33%) Data Integration
9 23 (15.65%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (14.97%) AI
11 21 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (14.29%) Metadata Management
11 21 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (14.29%) Roadmaps
12 20 (13.61%) Logical Data Model
13 18 (12.24%) Data Engineering
13 18 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (11.56%) Agile
14 17 (11.56%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 44 (29.93%) SQL
2 39 (26.53%) Python
3 15 (10.20%) Java
4 6 (4.08%) PL/SQL
5 4 (2.72%) C
5 4 (2.72%) C++
5 4 (2.72%) Perl
6 2 (1.36%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.36%) Scala
6 2 (1.36%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.68%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.68%) C#
7 1 (0.68%) Korn
7 1 (0.68%) R
7 1 (0.68%) SOQL
7 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.84%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.80%) Degree
4 6 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.40%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) MCP
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.37%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.80%) GDPR
3 4 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.04%) QA
5 2 (1.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.36%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.40%) Terraform
2 1 (0.68%) Grafana
2 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (17.01%) Databricks
2 21 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.44%) Oracle
4 6 (4.08%) SAP
5 5 (3.40%) Informatica
6 4 (2.72%) Google
6 4 (2.72%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.04%) Workday
8 2 (1.36%) Charles River
8 2 (1.36%) eFront
8 2 (1.36%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.36%) Sparx
8 2 (1.36%) Talend
9 1 (0.68%) Ariba
9 1 (0.68%) IBM
9 1 (0.68%) Percona
9 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.68%) StreamSets