Data Architect Contracts 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 3 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 190 212
Rank change year-on-year -14 +22 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 165 235 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.26% 1.33% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.42% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 181 227
10th Percentile £488 £500 £550
25th Percentile £524 £569 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £728 £825 £788
90th Percentile £800 £925 £868
England median daily rate £600 £675 £691
% change year-on-year -11.11% -2.35% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.25
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £51.98 £60.00 £64.50
% change year-on-year -13.37% -6.98% +29.00%

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 12,238 16,553 23,993
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 93.92% 94.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,262 11,866 17,518
10th Percentile £332 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 312 271
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.60 £20.24 £22.95
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -25.84% +7.14%
75th Percentile £50.63 £46.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £67.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
% change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect 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 3 July 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 +2 18 £565 -19.29% 35
West London +5 1 £625 -10.71% 4
North London - 1 - - 1
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 96 (58.18%) Data Architecture
2 94 (56.97%) Data Modelling
3 77 (46.67%) Azure
4 70 (42.42%) Data Governance
5 63 (38.18%) AWS
6 61 (36.97%) SQL
7 58 (35.15%) ETL
8 47 (28.48%) Data Warehouse
8 47 (28.48%) Finance
9 44 (26.67%) Migration
10 41 (24.85%) Business Intelligence
10 41 (24.85%) Analytics
11 40 (24.24%) Security Cleared
12 39 (23.64%) GCP
13 36 (21.82%) Snowflake
14 35 (21.21%) Social Skills
15 34 (20.61%) SC Cleared
16 33 (20.00%) Data Lake
17 30 (18.18%) Python
18 29 (17.58%) Data Integration
19 28 (16.97%) Databricks
19 28 (16.97%) Data Strategy
19 28 (16.97%) Metadata
20 27 (16.36%) Power Platform
21 26 (15.76%) Data Quality
22 25 (15.15%) Data Transformation
22 25 (15.15%) Power BI
23 23 (13.94%) Data Management
24 21 (12.73%) Data Pipeline
24 21 (12.73%) Roadmaps

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.82%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.61%) Endur
3 1 (0.61%) Magento
3 1 (0.61%) Maximo
3 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 77 (46.67%) Azure
2 63 (38.18%) AWS
3 39 (23.64%) GCP
4 36 (21.82%) Snowflake
5 27 (16.36%) Power Platform
6 15 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (7.27%) dbt
8 9 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (5.45%) Collibra
9 8 (4.85%) SaaS
10 7 (4.24%) GitHub
11 6 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.42%) Amazon S3
13 4 (2.42%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (2.42%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.42%) Fivetran
14 3 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (1.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Network Security
1 1 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.61%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (28.48%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 28 (16.97%) Metadata
4 25 (15.15%) Power BI
5 18 (10.91%) BigQuery
6 15 (9.09%) SQL Server
7 13 (7.88%) Data Vault
8 11 (6.67%) Big Data
9 9 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (5.45%) NoSQL
10 7 (4.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (3.64%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (3.64%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (3.64%) Tableau
12 5 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (2.42%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.82%) Neo4j
14 3 (1.82%) Oracle Database
14 3 (1.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (6.67%) ERwin
2 5 (3.03%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.42%) GitLab
3 4 (2.42%) Liquibase
4 3 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.82%) Maven
5 2 (1.21%) JIRA
6 1 (0.61%) Git
General
1 47 (28.48%) Finance
2 35 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.48%) Banking
6 10 (6.06%) Retail
7 4 (2.42%) Back Office
7 4 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.42%) Marketing
7 4 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.82%) Legal
9 2 (1.21%) Front Office
9 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Local Government
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Military
10 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.88%) Kafka
2 6 (3.64%) Jinja
3 5 (3.03%) Spring
3 5 (3.03%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.42%) Middleware
5 3 (1.82%) Hibernate
5 3 (1.82%) JPA
5 3 (1.82%) Plotly
5 3 (1.82%) React
6 2 (1.21%) PySpark
7 1 (0.61%) ADO
7 1 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.61%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.61%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.61%) pytest
7 1 (0.61%) REST
7 1 (0.61%) SOAP
7 1 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.85%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.24%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.03%) Taxonomies
6 4 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.42%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.42%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.82%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (1.21%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.21%) Equities
8 2 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.21%) NHS
9 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.61%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (58.18%) Data Architecture
2 94 (56.97%) Data Modelling
3 70 (42.42%) Data Governance
4 58 (35.15%) ETL
5 44 (26.67%) Migration
6 41 (24.85%) Analytics
6 41 (24.85%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (17.58%) Data Integration
8 28 (16.97%) Data Strategy
9 25 (15.15%) Data Transformation
10 23 (13.94%) Data Management
11 21 (12.73%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (12.73%) Roadmaps
12 20 (12.12%) Decision-Making
13 19 (11.52%) Data Security
14 17 (10.30%) Agile
15 16 (9.70%) Visualisation
16 15 (9.09%) Data Migration
16 15 (9.09%) Machine Learning
16 15 (9.09%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (36.97%) SQL
2 30 (18.18%) Python
3 11 (6.67%) Java
4 5 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.03%) PL/SQL
4 5 (3.03%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.42%) C
5 4 (2.42%) C++
5 4 (2.42%) Perl
6 3 (1.82%) Bicep
6 3 (1.82%) C#
7 2 (1.21%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.21%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.61%) Bash
8 1 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 34 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.85%) Azure Certification
3 8 (4.85%) Degree
4 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.21%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.21%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.61%) ISEB
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.61%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.76%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.88%) GDPR
3 8 (4.85%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.21%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.61%) GxP
5 1 (0.61%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (2.42%) Docker
2 2 (1.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (16.97%) Databricks
2 19 (11.52%) Microsoft
3 16 (9.70%) Google
4 15 (9.09%) Informatica
5 12 (7.27%) Oracle
6 11 (6.67%) Talend
7 8 (4.85%) SAP
8 4 (2.42%) Sparx
9 3 (1.82%) IBM
10 2 (1.21%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.61%) Adobe
11 1 (0.61%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.61%) Aveksa
11 1 (0.61%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.61%) Foundry
11 1 (0.61%) Palantir
11 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.61%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.61%) Workday