Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £608, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 210 213
Rank change year-on-year +49 +3 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 370 161 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 1.21% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 1.30% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 106 144
10th Percentile £456 £471 £491
25th Percentile £525 £539 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £710 £725 £775
90th Percentile £780 £800 £875
England median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £118.86
Median % change year-on-year - -45.31% +180.50%
England median hourly rate £58.50 £51.98 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.54% -13.37% +21.21%

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 18,826 12,356 15,069
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 92.83% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,170 8,283 10,294
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 207 187
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.73
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.56
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.87% -12.86% -6.47%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.38 £55.50
90th Percentile £80.25 £66.34 £73.13
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £46.87
% change year-on-year +73.20% -46.34% +6.85%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 +29 74 £604 +1.92% 19
West London -9 9 £600 -4.00% 6
South London - 3 £725 - 2
East London - 2 £675 - 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 September 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.

1 183 (49.46%) Data Architecture
2 157 (42.43%) Data Modelling
3 132 (35.68%) Azure
4 122 (32.97%) Analytics
5 110 (29.73%) Security Cleared
6 105 (28.38%) Databricks
7 101 (27.30%) Data Governance
8 98 (26.49%) AWS
9 97 (26.22%) SC Cleared
10 85 (22.97%) Migration
11 81 (21.89%) AI
12 72 (19.46%) Data Quality
13 64 (17.30%) SQL
13 64 (17.30%) Stakeholder Management
14 60 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
15 58 (15.68%) Metadata
16 55 (14.86%) Data Warehouse
16 55 (14.86%) Integration Patterns
16 55 (14.86%) Logical Data Model
16 55 (14.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 54 (14.59%) Data Lake
18 51 (13.78%) Data Engineering
19 49 (13.24%) Snowflake
20 48 (12.97%) Machine Learning
21 47 (12.70%) CI/CD
21 47 (12.70%) Data Strategy
22 46 (12.43%) Data Integration
22 46 (12.43%) Data Transformation
22 46 (12.43%) Lakehouse
23 45 (12.16%) Physical Data Model

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 17 (4.59%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.78%) Apache
4 9 (2.43%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.54%) Confluence
5 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.54%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.54%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.27%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 132 (35.68%) Azure
2 98 (26.49%) AWS
3 49 (13.24%) Snowflake
4 38 (10.27%) Power Platform
5 36 (9.73%) GCP
6 29 (7.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 22 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (5.41%) dbt
9 17 (4.59%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.78%) Serverless
11 11 (2.97%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.43%) Azure Databricks
14 7 (1.89%) Amazon MSK
15 6 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.62%) Azure Machine Learning
16 5 (1.35%) AWS Step Functions
16 5 (1.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) BGP
1 2 (0.54%) DSL
1 2 (0.54%) OSPF
1 2 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.54%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (15.68%) Metadata
2 55 (14.86%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (14.59%) Data Lake
4 33 (8.92%) Power BI
5 21 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (3.51%) BigQuery
7 12 (3.24%) Data Vault
8 11 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (2.43%) Big Data
10 9 (2.43%) Semantic Layer
10 9 (2.43%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (2.43%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.16%) NoSQL
11 8 (2.16%) Tableau
12 7 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.62%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.62%) ERwin
2 5 (1.35%) GitLab
3 4 (1.08%) Git
4 3 (0.81%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.81%) MLflow
4 3 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.54%) JIRA
5 2 (0.54%) RStudio
General
1 74 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 66 (17.84%) Finance
3 49 (13.24%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.11%) Retail
5 26 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (6.49%) Banking
7 11 (2.97%) Marketing
8 9 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.35%) Billing
9 5 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.08%) Legal
11 3 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.54%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.27%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.22%) Terraform
2 19 (5.14%) PySpark
3 17 (4.59%) Kafka
4 12 (3.24%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (1.62%) REST
6 5 (1.35%) .NET
7 4 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.81%) Apache Avro
8 3 (0.81%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (0.54%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.54%) Bootstrap
9 2 (0.54%) JWT
9 2 (0.54%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (0.54%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (0.54%) pytest
9 2 (0.54%) React
9 2 (0.54%) Snowpark
9 2 (0.54%) SOAP
9 2 (0.54%) WebSockets
9 2 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.03%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.68%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.51%) Reinsurance
4 12 (3.24%) AI Agents
4 12 (3.24%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.70%) Reference Data
5 10 (2.70%) Taxonomies
6 8 (2.16%) Replication
7 7 (1.89%) Data Fabric
7 7 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.62%) NHS
9 5 (1.35%) Digital Media
9 5 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.08%) IoT
10 4 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.54%) zOS
2 1 (0.27%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (49.46%) Data Architecture
2 157 (42.43%) Data Modelling
3 122 (32.97%) Analytics
4 101 (27.30%) Data Governance
5 85 (22.97%) Migration
6 81 (21.89%) AI
7 64 (17.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
9 55 (14.86%) Integration Patterns
9 55 (14.86%) Logical Data Model
9 55 (14.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 51 (13.78%) Data Engineering
11 48 (12.97%) Machine Learning
12 47 (12.70%) CI/CD
12 47 (12.70%) Data Strategy
13 46 (12.43%) Data Integration
13 46 (12.43%) Data Transformation
13 46 (12.43%) Lakehouse
14 45 (12.16%) Physical Data Model
14 45 (12.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 64 (17.30%) SQL
2 34 (9.19%) Python
3 5 (1.35%) Java
3 5 (1.35%) Scala
4 4 (1.08%) Bicep
5 3 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.54%) Cypher
6 2 (0.54%) R
6 2 (0.54%) SHACL
6 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.54%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 110 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 97 (26.22%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 9 (2.43%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.62%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.35%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.54%) Degree
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.54%) VCAP
7 2 (0.54%) VCDX
8 1 (0.27%) CISSP
8 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (19.46%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.41%) GDPR
3 6 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.08%) QA
4 4 (1.08%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.81%) IFRS
5 3 (0.81%) NCSC
5 3 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.54%) GRC
6 2 (0.54%) GxP
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.54%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.35%) Grafana
2 3 (0.81%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.54%) Ansible
3 2 (0.54%) Argo
3 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.27%) Control-M
Vendors
1 105 (28.38%) Databricks
2 42 (11.35%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.76%) Oracle
4 13 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.24%) Foundry
6 10 (2.70%) Google
7 9 (2.43%) Palantir
8 8 (2.16%) SAP
9 7 (1.89%) Informatica
10 5 (1.35%) Talend
11 4 (1.08%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.81%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.81%) Confluent
12 3 (0.81%) MicroStrategy
12 3 (0.81%) VMware
12 3 (0.81%) Workday
13 2 (0.54%) Ariba
13 2 (0.54%) GoldenSource
13 2 (0.54%) IBM
13 2 (0.54%) Teradata