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 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 205 213
Rank change year-on-year +53 +8 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 388 161 182
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.91% 1.19% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 1.29% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 112 140
10th Percentile £456 £463 £499
25th Percentile £521 £517 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £711 £721 £775
90th Percentile £788 £800 £826
England median daily rate £625 £600 £635
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% -5.93%
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 18,993 12,497 15,203
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 92.71% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,277 8,357 10,071
10th Percentile £363 £331 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £670 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 208 179
10th Percentile £17.13 £17.00 £17.45
25th Percentile £21.97 £22.98 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -17.86% -6.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.17 £75.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%

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 24 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 24 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 +26 78 £608 +2.57% 50
West London -12 9 £600 -4.00% 7
South London - 3 £725 - 2
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 24 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.

1 197 (50.77%) Data Architecture
2 162 (41.75%) Data Modelling
3 134 (34.54%) Azure
4 132 (34.02%) Analytics
5 118 (30.41%) Security Cleared
6 110 (28.35%) Data Governance
7 109 (28.09%) Databricks
8 105 (27.06%) AWS
9 100 (25.77%) SC Cleared
10 90 (23.20%) Migration
11 86 (22.16%) AI
12 78 (20.10%) Data Quality
13 66 (17.01%) Metadata
14 65 (16.75%) SQL
14 65 (16.75%) Stakeholder Management
15 60 (15.46%) Business Intelligence
16 58 (14.95%) Integration Patterns
17 57 (14.69%) Data Lake
17 57 (14.69%) Data Warehouse
17 57 (14.69%) Logical Data Model
18 56 (14.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 55 (14.18%) Snowflake
20 51 (13.14%) Data Engineering
20 51 (13.14%) Data Transformation
21 49 (12.63%) CI/CD
21 49 (12.63%) Data Strategy
21 49 (12.63%) Lakehouse
21 49 (12.63%) Machine Learning
21 49 (12.63%) Microsoft
21 49 (12.63%) 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 (4.38%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (3.87%) Apache
4 9 (2.32%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.52%) Confluence
5 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.26%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.77%) 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
1 134 (34.54%) Azure
2 105 (27.06%) AWS
3 55 (14.18%) Snowflake
4 38 (9.79%) GCP
5 37 (9.54%) Power Platform
6 30 (7.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 22 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (5.67%) dbt
8 16 (4.12%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.61%) Serverless
10 12 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
11 10 (2.58%) Amazon Kinesis
12 9 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.32%) Azure Databricks
13 7 (1.80%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.55%) SaaS
15 5 (1.29%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (1.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) DSL
2 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (17.01%) Metadata
2 57 (14.69%) Data Lake
2 57 (14.69%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (8.51%) Power BI
4 20 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (3.87%) Data Vault
6 13 (3.35%) BigQuery
7 12 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.58%) Semantic Layer
8 10 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (2.32%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.06%) Big Data
10 8 (2.06%) Star Schema
10 8 (2.06%) Tableau
11 7 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.80%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.80%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (1.55%) ERwin
2 5 (1.29%) GitLab
3 4 (1.03%) Git
4 3 (0.77%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.77%) MLflow
4 3 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.52%) JIRA
5 2 (0.52%) RStudio
General
1 81 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.75%) Finance
3 52 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 30 (7.73%) Retail
5 26 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.93%) Banking
7 11 (2.84%) Marketing
8 10 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.80%) 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%) Law
13 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.67%) Terraform
2 21 (5.41%) PySpark
3 18 (4.64%) Kafka
4 12 (3.09%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.80%) REST
6 4 (1.03%) .NET
6 4 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.77%) Apache Avro
7 3 (0.77%) Spark Streaming
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%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (0.52%) pytest
8 2 (0.52%) React
8 2 (0.52%) SOAP
8 2 (0.52%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.96%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.93%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.61%) Reinsurance
4 13 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.84%) AI Agents
6 10 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.58%) Taxonomies
7 9 (2.32%) Reference Data
8 8 (2.06%) Data Fabric
8 8 (2.06%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.06%) Replication
9 7 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.55%) NHS
11 5 (1.29%) Digital Media
12 4 (1.03%) Clustering
12 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) IoT
12 4 (1.03%) SCADA
13 3 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.26%) Linux
1 1 (0.26%) Windows
1 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (50.77%) Data Architecture
2 162 (41.75%) Data Modelling
3 132 (34.02%) Analytics
4 110 (28.35%) Data Governance
5 90 (23.20%) Migration
6 86 (22.16%) AI
7 65 (16.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (15.46%) Business Intelligence
9 58 (14.95%) Integration Patterns
10 57 (14.69%) Logical Data Model
11 56 (14.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 51 (13.14%) Data Engineering
12 51 (13.14%) Data Transformation
13 49 (12.63%) CI/CD
13 49 (12.63%) Data Strategy
13 49 (12.63%) Lakehouse
13 49 (12.63%) Machine Learning
13 49 (12.63%) Roadmaps
14 48 (12.37%) Physical Data Model
15 44 (11.34%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 65 (16.75%) SQL
2 34 (8.76%) 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
1 118 (30.41%) Security Cleared
2 100 (25.77%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.87%) DV Cleared
4 7 (1.80%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.55%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
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 (20.10%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.67%) GDPR
3 6 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.03%) QA
4 4 (1.03%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.77%) IFRS
5 3 (0.77%) NCSC
5 3 (0.77%) 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%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
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
1 109 (28.09%) Databricks
2 49 (12.63%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.44%) Oracle
4 12 (3.09%) Foundry
4 12 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.58%) Google
6 9 (2.32%) Palantir
7 7 (1.80%) Informatica
7 7 (1.80%) SAP
8 5 (1.29%) Talend
9 4 (1.03%) Confluent
9 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.03%) Sparx
10 3 (0.77%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.77%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.77%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.77%) Workday
11 2 (0.52%) Ariba
11 2 (0.52%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.52%) IBM