Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 206 217
Rank change year-on-year +49 +11 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 377 160 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.19% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 1.28% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 110 140
10th Percentile £456 £463 £499
25th Percentile £525 £545 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £715 £719 £756
90th Percentile £796 £800 £825
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 18,867 12,514 15,213
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 92.70% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,183 8,360 9,987
10th Percentile £363 £333 £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 £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 411 206 177
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.40
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £24.15
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.14 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.16% -22.91% -3.31%
75th Percentile £64.25 £50.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +30 74 £620 +7.83% 45
West London -15 9 £600 -2.04% 7
South London - 3 £725 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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.

1 193 (51.19%) Data Architecture
2 158 (41.91%) Data Modelling
3 132 (35.01%) Azure
4 124 (32.89%) Analytics
5 121 (32.10%) Security Cleared
6 107 (28.38%) Data Governance
7 104 (27.59%) SC Cleared
8 103 (27.32%) AWS
9 99 (26.26%) Databricks
10 84 (22.28%) Migration
11 81 (21.49%) AI
12 78 (20.69%) Data Quality
13 65 (17.24%) Metadata
14 64 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
15 62 (16.45%) SQL
16 57 (15.12%) Business Intelligence
16 57 (15.12%) Logical Data Model
17 56 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 55 (14.59%) Data Lake
18 55 (14.59%) Data Warehouse
19 54 (14.32%) Integration Patterns
20 50 (13.26%) Data Transformation
20 50 (13.26%) Microsoft
21 48 (12.73%) Physical Data Model
22 47 (12.47%) Lakehouse
22 47 (12.47%) Snowflake
23 46 (12.20%) CI/CD
23 46 (12.20%) Data Strategy
23 46 (12.20%) Roadmaps
24 44 (11.67%) Data Engineering

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 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
1 17 (4.51%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.98%) Apache
3 6 (1.59%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.53%) Confluence
4 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.53%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 132 (35.01%) Azure
2 103 (27.32%) AWS
3 47 (12.47%) Snowflake
4 37 (9.81%) Power Platform
5 29 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 28 (7.43%) GCP
7 22 (5.84%) dbt
8 20 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (3.71%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.18%) Serverless
11 11 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.92%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (2.12%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (2.12%) Azure Databricks
13 7 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.59%) Amazon MSK
15 5 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
16 4 (1.06%) AWS Step Functions
16 4 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.53%) DSL
2 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (17.24%) Metadata
2 55 (14.59%) Data Lake
2 55 (14.59%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (9.02%) Power BI
4 18 (4.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (3.71%) Data Vault
6 11 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (2.39%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.12%) Big Data
9 8 (2.12%) Semantic Layer
9 8 (2.12%) Star Schema
9 8 (2.12%) Tableau
10 7 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.86%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.86%) Delta Lake
10 7 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.86%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.59%) ERwin
2 5 (1.33%) GitLab
3 4 (1.06%) Git
4 3 (0.80%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.53%) JIRA
5 2 (0.53%) MLflow
5 2 (0.53%) RStudio
General
1 80 (21.22%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.18%) Finance
3 50 (13.26%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.10%) Banking
5 23 (6.10%) Retail
6 10 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (1.86%) Marketing
8 6 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.33%) Billing
9 5 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.06%) Legal
11 2 (0.53%) Aviation
11 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.53%) Military
11 2 (0.53%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Police
12 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.31%) PySpark
1 20 (5.31%) Terraform
2 18 (4.77%) Kafka
3 11 (2.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (1.86%) REST
5 4 (1.06%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (0.80%) .NET
6 3 (0.80%) Apache Avro
7 2 (0.53%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.53%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.53%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.53%) JSON
7 2 (0.53%) JWT
7 2 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.53%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (0.53%) React
7 2 (0.53%) SOAP
7 2 (0.53%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (0.53%) WebSockets
7 2 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.63%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.37%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.71%) Reinsurance
4 13 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.18%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.92%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.65%) Taxonomies
8 9 (2.39%) Reference Data
9 8 (2.12%) Data Fabric
9 8 (2.12%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.12%) Replication
10 7 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.33%) Digital Media
12 4 (1.06%) IoT
12 4 (1.06%) SCADA
13 3 (0.80%) Clustering
13 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.27%) Linux
1 1 (0.27%) Windows
1 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (51.19%) Data Architecture
2 158 (41.91%) Data Modelling
3 124 (32.89%) Analytics
4 107 (28.38%) Data Governance
5 84 (22.28%) Migration
6 81 (21.49%) AI
7 64 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 57 (15.12%) Business Intelligence
8 57 (15.12%) Logical Data Model
9 56 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 54 (14.32%) Integration Patterns
11 50 (13.26%) Data Transformation
12 48 (12.73%) Physical Data Model
13 47 (12.47%) Lakehouse
14 46 (12.20%) CI/CD
14 46 (12.20%) Data Strategy
14 46 (12.20%) Roadmaps
15 44 (11.67%) Data Engineering
15 44 (11.67%) Decision-Making
16 43 (11.41%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 62 (16.45%) SQL
2 31 (8.22%) Python
3 5 (1.33%) Java
4 4 (1.06%) Bicep
4 4 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.06%) Scala
5 2 (0.53%) Cypher
5 2 (0.53%) R
5 2 (0.53%) SHACL
5 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 121 (32.10%) Security Cleared
2 104 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.24%) DV Cleared
4 7 (1.86%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.33%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.53%) Degree
7 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.27%) CISSP
8 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (20.69%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.84%) GDPR
3 6 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.06%) QA
4 4 (1.06%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.80%) IFRS
5 3 (0.80%) NCSC
5 3 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.53%) GRC
6 2 (0.53%) GxP
6 2 (0.53%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.53%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.27%) Docker
1 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.33%) Grafana
2 2 (0.53%) Argo
2 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.27%) Control-M
3 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 99 (26.26%) Databricks
2 50 (13.26%) Microsoft
3 26 (6.90%) Oracle
4 10 (2.65%) Google
5 9 (2.39%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.12%) Foundry
7 7 (1.86%) Informatica
8 6 (1.59%) Palantir
9 5 (1.33%) Confluent
9 5 (1.33%) SAP
9 5 (1.33%) Talend
10 4 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.06%) Sparx
11 3 (0.80%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.80%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.80%) Workday
12 2 (0.53%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.53%) GoldenSource
12 2 (0.53%) IBM