Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 213 211
Rank change year-on-year +64 -2 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 387 160 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.91% 1.19% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% 1.28% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 111 140
10th Percentile £455 £463 £499
25th Percentile £525 £532 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £711 £719 £765
90th Percentile £788 £800 £826
England median daily rate £625 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £118.86
England median hourly rate £47.00 £38.96 £60.00
% change year-on-year +20.64% -35.07% +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 18,864 12,478 15,318
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 92.79% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,207 8,342 10,099
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 200 181
10th Percentile £17.03 £17.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.14 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.16% -19.61% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £48.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.06 £76.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -

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 27 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 27 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 76 £614 +6.76% 46
West London -16 9 £600 -2.04% 8
South London - 3 £725 - 1
East London - 2 £675 - 2
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 199 (51.42%) Data Architecture
2 162 (41.86%) Data Modelling
3 132 (34.11%) Azure
4 127 (32.82%) Analytics
5 117 (30.23%) Security Cleared
6 108 (27.91%) Data Governance
7 104 (26.87%) AWS
8 103 (26.61%) Databricks
9 101 (26.10%) SC Cleared
10 87 (22.48%) Migration
11 81 (20.93%) AI
12 78 (20.16%) Data Quality
13 67 (17.31%) Metadata
14 65 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 64 (16.54%) SQL
16 57 (14.73%) Data Lake
16 57 (14.73%) Data Warehouse
16 57 (14.73%) Logical Data Model
17 56 (14.47%) Business Intelligence
17 56 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 54 (13.95%) Integration Patterns
19 51 (13.18%) Data Transformation
19 51 (13.18%) Snowflake
20 48 (12.40%) CI/CD
20 48 (12.40%) Data Strategy
20 48 (12.40%) Microsoft
20 48 (12.40%) Physical Data Model
21 47 (12.14%) Data Engineering
21 47 (12.14%) Lakehouse
21 47 (12.14%) Roadmaps

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 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
1 17 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.88%) Apache
3 9 (2.33%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.52%) Confluence
4 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.26%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.52%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.52%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 132 (34.11%) Azure
2 104 (26.87%) AWS
3 51 (13.18%) Snowflake
4 37 (9.56%) Power Platform
5 32 (8.27%) GCP
6 30 (7.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (5.94%) dbt
8 21 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (4.13%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.62%) Serverless
11 11 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (2.58%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.07%) Azure Databricks
15 7 (1.81%) Amazon MSK
16 6 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (1.55%) SaaS
17 5 (1.29%) Amazon EMR
17 5 (1.29%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) DSL
2 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (17.31%) Metadata
2 57 (14.73%) Data Lake
2 57 (14.73%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (8.53%) Power BI
4 20 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (3.88%) Data Vault
6 12 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.58%) Semantic Layer
7 10 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (2.33%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.33%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.07%) Big Data
9 8 (2.07%) Star Schema
9 8 (2.07%) Tableau
10 7 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.81%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.81%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 6 (1.55%) ERwin
2 5 (1.29%) GitLab
3 4 (1.03%) Git
4 3 (0.78%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.52%) JIRA
5 2 (0.52%) MLflow
5 2 (0.52%) RStudio
General
1 82 (21.19%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.76%) Finance
3 53 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.72%) Retail
6 23 (5.94%) Banking
7 11 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.58%) Marketing
9 6 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.29%) Billing
10 5 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.03%) Legal
12 2 (0.52%) Aviation
12 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.52%) Military
12 2 (0.52%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.26%) Police
13 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.43%) Terraform
2 20 (5.17%) PySpark
3 18 (4.65%) Kafka
4 12 (3.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.81%) REST
6 4 (1.03%) .NET
6 4 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.78%) Apache Avro
8 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.52%) Bootstrap
8 2 (0.52%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.52%) JSON
8 2 (0.52%) JWT
8 2 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.52%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (0.52%) React
8 2 (0.52%) SOAP
8 2 (0.52%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (0.52%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.20%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.62%) Reinsurance
4 13 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.84%) AI Agents
5 11 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.58%) Taxonomies
7 9 (2.33%) Reference Data
8 8 (2.07%) Data Fabric
8 8 (2.07%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.07%) Replication
9 7 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.55%) NHS
11 5 (1.29%) Digital Media
12 4 (1.03%) Clustering
12 4 (1.03%) IoT
12 4 (1.03%) SCADA
13 3 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.26%) Linux
1 1 (0.26%) Windows
1 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (51.42%) Data Architecture
2 162 (41.86%) Data Modelling
3 127 (32.82%) Analytics
4 108 (27.91%) Data Governance
5 87 (22.48%) Migration
6 81 (20.93%) AI
7 65 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
8 57 (14.73%) Logical Data Model
9 56 (14.47%) Business Intelligence
9 56 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 54 (13.95%) Integration Patterns
11 51 (13.18%) Data Transformation
12 48 (12.40%) CI/CD
12 48 (12.40%) Data Strategy
12 48 (12.40%) Physical Data Model
13 47 (12.14%) Data Engineering
13 47 (12.14%) Lakehouse
13 47 (12.14%) Roadmaps
14 45 (11.63%) Decision-Making
15 44 (11.37%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 64 (16.54%) SQL
2 33 (8.53%) Python
3 5 (1.29%) Bicep
3 5 (1.29%) Java
4 4 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.03%) Scala
5 2 (0.52%) Cypher
5 2 (0.52%) R
5 2 (0.52%) SHACL
5 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 117 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 101 (26.10%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.88%) DV Cleared
4 7 (1.81%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.55%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.29%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.52%) Degree
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.26%) CISSP
8 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (20.16%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.68%) GDPR
3 6 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.03%) QA
4 4 (1.03%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.78%) IFRS
5 3 (0.78%) NCSC
5 3 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.52%) GRC
6 2 (0.52%) GxP
6 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.52%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.26%) HL7
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.26%) Docker
1 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.29%) Grafana
2 2 (0.52%) Argo
2 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.26%) Control-M
3 1 (0.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 103 (26.61%) Databricks
2 48 (12.40%) Microsoft
3 27 (6.98%) Oracle
4 12 (3.10%) Foundry
4 12 (3.10%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.58%) Google
6 9 (2.33%) Palantir
7 7 (1.81%) Informatica
7 7 (1.81%) SAP
8 5 (1.29%) Confluent
8 5 (1.29%) Talend
9 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.03%) Sparx
10 3 (0.78%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.78%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.78%) Workday
11 2 (0.52%) Ariba
11 2 (0.52%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.52%) IBM