Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £611, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 216 218
Rank change year-on-year +53 +2 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 373 164 187
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.21% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 1.31% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 109 146
10th Percentile £456 £463 £494
25th Percentile £525 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -7.69% -7.96%
75th Percentile £711 £725 £772
90th Percentile £776 £800 £875
England median daily rate £625 £600 £645
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.98% -7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £118.86
Median % change year-on-year - -45.31% +180.50%
England median hourly rate £58.50 £51.98 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.54% -13.37% +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 18,953 12,528 15,198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 92.78% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,219 8,384 10,288
10th Percentile £363 £325 £347
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 207 184
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.61
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.02% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.38 £56.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £74.06
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +7.95%

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 10 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 10 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 +31 76 £608 +7.19% 19
West London -9 9 £600 -4.00% 5
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 10 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.

1 185 (49.60%) Data Architecture
2 158 (42.36%) Data Modelling
3 134 (35.92%) Azure
4 124 (33.24%) Analytics
5 112 (30.03%) Security Cleared
6 105 (28.15%) Databricks
7 103 (27.61%) Data Governance
8 100 (26.81%) AWS
9 98 (26.27%) SC Cleared
10 85 (22.79%) Migration
11 82 (21.98%) AI
12 74 (19.84%) Data Quality
13 66 (17.69%) SQL
14 65 (17.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 61 (16.35%) Business Intelligence
16 58 (15.55%) Metadata
17 57 (15.28%) Data Warehouse
18 56 (15.01%) Integration Patterns
19 55 (14.75%) Data Lake
19 55 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 54 (14.48%) Logical Data Model
21 51 (13.67%) Data Engineering
22 50 (13.40%) Snowflake
23 48 (12.87%) CI/CD
23 48 (12.87%) Machine Learning
24 47 (12.60%) Data Strategy
24 47 (12.60%) Data Transformation
25 46 (12.33%) Lakehouse
25 46 (12.33%) Physical Data Model
25 46 (12.33%) 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 (4.56%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.75%) Apache
4 9 (2.41%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.54%) Confluence
5 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.54%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.54%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 134 (35.92%) Azure
2 100 (26.81%) AWS
3 50 (13.40%) Snowflake
4 39 (10.46%) Power Platform
5 37 (9.92%) GCP
6 30 (8.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (6.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (5.36%) dbt
9 17 (4.56%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.75%) Serverless
11 11 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.95%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.41%) Azure Databricks
14 7 (1.88%) Amazon MSK
15 6 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
15 6 (1.61%) SaaS
16 5 (1.34%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) BGP
1 2 (0.54%) DSL
1 2 (0.54%) OSPF
1 2 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.54%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (15.55%) Metadata
2 57 (15.28%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (14.75%) Data Lake
4 34 (9.12%) Power BI
5 21 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (3.49%) BigQuery
7 12 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.22%) Data Vault
8 10 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.68%) Semantic Layer
9 9 (2.41%) Big Data
9 9 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (2.41%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.14%) NoSQL
10 8 (2.14%) Tableau
11 7 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.88%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.61%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (1.61%) ERwin
2 5 (1.34%) GitLab
3 4 (1.07%) Git
4 3 (0.80%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.80%) MLflow
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.54%) JIRA
5 2 (0.54%) RStudio
General
1 75 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 66 (17.69%) Finance
3 49 (13.14%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.04%) Retail
5 26 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (6.43%) Banking
7 11 (2.95%) Marketing
8 9 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.34%) Billing
9 5 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.07%) Legal
11 3 (0.80%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.80%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.54%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.27%) Aviation
13 1 (0.27%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Police
13 1 (0.27%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.17%) Terraform
2 20 (5.36%) PySpark
3 17 (4.56%) Kafka
4 12 (3.22%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (1.61%) REST
6 5 (1.34%) .NET
7 4 (1.07%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.80%) Apache Avro
8 3 (0.80%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (0.54%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.54%) Bootstrap
9 2 (0.54%) FastAPI
9 2 (0.54%) JWT
9 2 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.54%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (0.54%) pytest
9 2 (0.54%) React
9 2 (0.54%) Snowpark
9 2 (0.54%) WebSockets
9 2 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.97%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.63%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.49%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.49%) Reinsurance
4 12 (3.22%) AI Agents
4 12 (3.22%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.68%) Reference Data
5 10 (2.68%) Taxonomies
6 9 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.14%) Replication
8 7 (1.88%) Data Fabric
8 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.61%) NHS
10 5 (1.34%) Digital Media
10 5 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.07%) Clustering
11 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.07%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.27%) Linux
1 1 (0.27%) Windows
1 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (49.60%) Data Architecture
2 158 (42.36%) Data Modelling
3 124 (33.24%) Analytics
4 103 (27.61%) Data Governance
5 85 (22.79%) Migration
6 82 (21.98%) AI
7 65 (17.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 61 (16.35%) Business Intelligence
9 56 (15.01%) Integration Patterns
10 55 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 54 (14.48%) Logical Data Model
12 51 (13.67%) Data Engineering
13 48 (12.87%) CI/CD
13 48 (12.87%) Machine Learning
14 47 (12.60%) Data Strategy
14 47 (12.60%) Data Transformation
15 46 (12.33%) Lakehouse
15 46 (12.33%) Physical Data Model
15 46 (12.33%) Roadmaps
16 45 (12.06%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 66 (17.69%) SQL
2 34 (9.12%) Python
3 5 (1.34%) Java
3 5 (1.34%) Scala
4 4 (1.07%) Bicep
4 4 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.54%) Cypher
5 2 (0.54%) R
5 2 (0.54%) SHACL
5 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.54%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 112 (30.03%) Security Cleared
2 98 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.95%) DV Cleared
4 9 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.34%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.54%) Degree
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.54%) VCAP
7 2 (0.54%) VCDX
8 1 (0.27%) CISSP
8 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (19.84%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.36%) GDPR
3 6 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.07%) QA
4 4 (1.07%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.80%) IFRS
5 3 (0.80%) NCSC
5 3 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.54%) GRC
6 2 (0.54%) GxP
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.54%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.34%) Grafana
2 3 (0.80%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.54%) Ansible
3 2 (0.54%) Argo
3 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.27%) Control-M
Vendors
1 105 (28.15%) Databricks
2 43 (11.53%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.70%) Oracle
4 13 (3.49%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.22%) Foundry
6 10 (2.68%) Google
7 9 (2.41%) Palantir
8 7 (1.88%) Informatica
8 7 (1.88%) SAP
9 5 (1.34%) Talend
10 4 (1.07%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.80%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.80%) Confluent
11 3 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.80%) VMware
11 3 (0.80%) Workday
12 2 (0.54%) Ariba
12 2 (0.54%) GoldenSource
12 2 (0.54%) IBM
12 2 (0.54%) Teradata