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 January 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 189 189
Rank change year-on-year -36 0 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 154 181 227
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.29% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.38% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 126 176
10th Percentile £463 £500 £513
25th Percentile £513 £524 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +1.27%
75th Percentile £675 £775 £750
90th Percentile £765 £800 £863
England median daily rate £600 £624 £675
% change year-on-year -3.89% -7.52% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £43.55
25th Percentile - - £44.33
Median hourly rate - - £47.78
75th Percentile - - £50.33
90th Percentile - - £50.58
England median hourly rate £83.00 £80.50 £50.28
% change year-on-year +3.11% +60.11% -28.18%

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 13,358 13,119 16,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 93.56% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,859 8,445 12,227
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.43% -4.62%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 143 257
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.55 £23.80 £19.25
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +11.11% -7.35%
75th Percentile £62.63 £52.25 £53.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.35 £68.80
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £41.91
% change year-on-year -21.43% -16.48% +19.73%

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 January 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 17 January 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 -6 15 £613 -20.97% 6
South London +1 3 £425 -15.00%
East London -1 2 £495 -20.80% 1
West London - 2 £613 - 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 January 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 93 (60.39%) Data Modelling
2 92 (59.74%) Data Architecture
3 59 (38.31%) Azure
4 57 (37.01%) Analytics
5 55 (35.71%) Data Governance
6 48 (31.17%) SQL
7 45 (29.22%) AWS
8 42 (27.27%) Databricks
9 38 (24.68%) Python
10 36 (23.38%) ETL
11 34 (22.08%) Data Quality
12 32 (20.78%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (20.13%) Physical Data Model
14 29 (18.83%) Data Strategy
15 28 (18.18%) AI
16 27 (17.53%) Business Intelligence
17 26 (16.88%) Logical Data Model
17 26 (16.88%) Microsoft
17 26 (16.88%) Migration
17 26 (16.88%) Power Platform
18 25 (16.23%) Data Lake
19 23 (14.94%) Metadata
19 23 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
20 22 (14.29%) Agile
20 22 (14.29%) Data Integration
20 22 (14.29%) Roadmaps
21 21 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
21 21 (13.64%) DevOps
21 21 (13.64%) Power BI
21 21 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management

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 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.90%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.95%) Apache
4 2 (1.30%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.65%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 59 (38.31%) Azure
2 45 (29.22%) AWS
3 26 (16.88%) Power Platform
4 18 (11.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (11.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 17 (11.04%) Serverless
6 16 (10.39%) Amazon S3
7 15 (9.74%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (9.74%) Snowflake
8 11 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (6.49%) Amazon Kinesis
9 10 (6.49%) dbt
10 9 (5.84%) GCP
11 8 (5.19%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (4.55%) Collibra
13 6 (3.90%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (3.25%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (2.60%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (20.78%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (16.23%) Data Lake
3 23 (14.94%) Metadata
4 21 (13.64%) Power BI
5 17 (11.04%) Data Vault
6 16 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (9.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (6.49%) Delta Lake
8 10 (6.49%) NoSQL
8 10 (6.49%) Spark SQL
8 10 (6.49%) Tableau
9 9 (5.84%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (5.84%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (5.19%) OLTP
10 8 (5.19%) SQL Server
11 7 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (4.55%) Star Schema
12 6 (3.90%) Big Data
13 5 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.25%) ERwin
2 3 (1.95%) Git
3 2 (1.30%) GitLab
3 2 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.65%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.65%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.73%) Finance
3 20 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.84%) Banking
6 7 (4.55%) Retail
7 6 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.90%) Local Government
8 4 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.95%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.95%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.30%) Back Office
10 2 (1.30%) Front Office
11 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Legal
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.74%) Kafka
2 12 (7.79%) PySpark
3 7 (4.55%) Apache Avro
3 7 (4.55%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (1.30%) .NET
5 1 (0.65%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.65%) ADO
5 1 (0.65%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.65%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.65%) FHIR
5 1 (0.65%) JSON
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.65%) REST
5 1 (0.65%) SOAP
5 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.39%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.55%) Reinsurance
4 6 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.25%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.60%) Data Fabric
6 4 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.60%) PACS
6 4 (2.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.95%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.95%) Replication
8 2 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.30%) Equities
8 2 (1.30%) FMCG
8 2 (1.30%) IoT
8 2 (1.30%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.30%) Pricing Data
8 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.30%) zOS
2 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (60.39%) Data Modelling
2 92 (59.74%) Data Architecture
3 57 (37.01%) Analytics
4 55 (35.71%) Data Governance
5 36 (23.38%) ETL
6 31 (20.13%) Physical Data Model
7 29 (18.83%) Data Strategy
8 28 (18.18%) AI
9 27 (17.53%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (16.88%) Logical Data Model
10 26 (16.88%) Migration
11 23 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (14.29%) Agile
12 22 (14.29%) Data Integration
12 22 (14.29%) Roadmaps
13 21 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
13 21 (13.64%) DevOps
13 21 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (12.99%) Data Engineering
14 20 (12.99%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 48 (31.17%) SQL
2 38 (24.68%) Python
3 8 (5.19%) Java
4 6 (3.90%) T-SQL
5 5 (3.25%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.95%) Scala
7 2 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.30%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.30%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.65%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.65%) C#
8 1 (0.65%) Korn
8 1 (0.65%) R
8 1 (0.65%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (11.04%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.74%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.44%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.19%) Degree
5 5 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.65%) MCP
9 1 (0.65%) MySQL Certification
9 1 (0.65%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.08%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.84%) GDPR
3 6 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.60%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.60%) QA
5 2 (1.30%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.55%) Terraform
2 2 (1.30%) Grafana
3 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (27.27%) Databricks
2 26 (16.88%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.55%) Confluent
3 7 (4.55%) Oracle
4 4 (2.60%) MicroStrategy
4 4 (2.60%) SAP
5 3 (1.95%) Informatica
5 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.95%) Workday
6 2 (1.30%) Charles River
6 2 (1.30%) eFront
6 2 (1.30%) Google
6 2 (1.30%) IBM
6 2 (1.30%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.30%) Sparx
7 1 (0.65%) Ariba
7 1 (0.65%) Percona
7 1 (0.65%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.65%) Talend