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 22 August 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 197 208
Rank change year-on-year +43 +11 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 365 175 187
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 1.30% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 1.40% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 115 144
10th Percentile £463 £480 £500
25th Percentile £525 £548 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £660
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -7.69%
75th Percentile £710 £725 £775
90th Percentile £788 £800 £884
England median daily rate £620 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% -5.45%
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% -6.98%

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 18,800 12,476 15,278
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 92.97% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,209 8,395 10,644
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 207 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -12.66% -11.05%
75th Percentile £60.63 £49.63 £54.69
90th Percentile £79.13 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +5.88%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 68 £600 +9.09% 11
West London -14 9 £600 -4.00% 4
South London - 3 £725 - 1
East London - 2 £675 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 August 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.

1 181 (49.59%) Data Architecture
2 148 (40.55%) Data Modelling
3 129 (35.34%) Azure
4 121 (33.15%) Analytics
5 103 (28.22%) Security Cleared
6 97 (26.58%) AWS
6 97 (26.58%) Databricks
7 96 (26.30%) Data Governance
8 93 (25.48%) SC Cleared
9 81 (22.19%) Migration
10 78 (21.37%) AI
11 69 (18.90%) Data Quality
12 62 (16.99%) Business Intelligence
13 61 (16.71%) SQL
13 61 (16.71%) Stakeholder Management
14 55 (15.07%) Data Warehouse
15 53 (14.52%) Data Lake
15 53 (14.52%) Integration Patterns
15 53 (14.52%) Metadata
16 52 (14.25%) Logical Data Model
17 51 (13.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 50 (13.70%) Data Engineering
19 46 (12.60%) CI/CD
19 46 (12.60%) Data Strategy
20 45 (12.33%) Machine Learning
20 45 (12.33%) Microsoft
20 45 (12.33%) Snowflake
21 44 (12.05%) Data Integration
22 42 (11.51%) Roadmaps
23 41 (11.23%) ETL

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 18 (4.93%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.29%) Apache
2 12 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.47%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.55%) Confluence
4 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.55%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.55%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.27%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 129 (35.34%) Azure
2 97 (26.58%) AWS
3 45 (12.33%) Snowflake
4 41 (11.23%) Power Platform
5 37 (10.14%) GCP
6 27 (7.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 24 (6.58%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (4.38%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.11%) dbt
9 15 (4.11%) Serverless
10 12 (3.29%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.74%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.92%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.64%) Azure Machine Learning
14 6 (1.64%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.37%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.55%) BGP
1 2 (0.55%) DSL
1 2 (0.55%) Network Security
1 2 (0.55%) OSPF
1 2 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.55%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (15.07%) Data Warehouse
2 53 (14.52%) Data Lake
2 53 (14.52%) Metadata
3 35 (9.59%) Power BI
4 19 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (3.56%) BigQuery
6 12 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (3.29%) Data Vault
7 9 (2.47%) Big Data
7 9 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.19%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.19%) Tableau
9 7 (1.92%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (1.64%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (1.64%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.37%) Db2
11 5 (1.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (1.64%) ERwin
2 5 (1.37%) GitLab
3 4 (1.10%) Git
4 3 (0.82%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.82%) MLflow
5 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.55%) JIRA
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.27%) RStudio
General
1 70 (19.18%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.08%) Finance
3 50 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 32 (8.77%) Retail
5 26 (7.12%) Banking
6 23 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.01%) Marketing
8 8 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.10%) Legal
12 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.55%) Billing
13 2 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.55%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.27%) Law
14 1 (0.27%) Local Government
14 1 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.30%) Terraform
2 20 (5.48%) PySpark
3 17 (4.66%) Kafka
4 12 (3.29%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (1.64%) .NET
6 5 (1.37%) REST
7 3 (0.82%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (0.55%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.55%) Apache Avro
8 2 (0.55%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (0.55%) Bootstrap
8 2 (0.55%) JWT
8 2 (0.55%) Middleware
8 2 (0.55%) Model Context Protocol
8 2 (0.55%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (0.55%) pytest
8 2 (0.55%) React
8 2 (0.55%) Snowpark
8 2 (0.55%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.95%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.21%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.29%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.47%) Reference Data
6 9 (2.47%) Reinsurance
7 8 (2.19%) Taxonomies
8 6 (1.64%) Data Fabric
8 6 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.64%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.64%) NHS
8 6 (1.64%) Replication
9 5 (1.37%) Digital Media
10 4 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.10%) IoT
10 4 (1.10%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.10%) zOS
2 1 (0.27%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (49.59%) Data Architecture
2 148 (40.55%) Data Modelling
3 121 (33.15%) Analytics
4 96 (26.30%) Data Governance
5 81 (22.19%) Migration
6 78 (21.37%) AI
7 62 (16.99%) Business Intelligence
8 61 (16.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 53 (14.52%) Integration Patterns
10 52 (14.25%) Logical Data Model
11 51 (13.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 50 (13.70%) Data Engineering
13 46 (12.60%) CI/CD
13 46 (12.60%) Data Strategy
14 45 (12.33%) Machine Learning
15 44 (12.05%) Data Integration
16 42 (11.51%) Roadmaps
17 41 (11.23%) ETL
18 40 (10.96%) Data Transformation
18 40 (10.96%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 61 (16.71%) SQL
2 32 (8.77%) Python
3 5 (1.37%) Java
3 5 (1.37%) Scala
4 4 (1.10%) Bicep
5 3 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.55%) Cypher
6 2 (0.55%) R
6 2 (0.55%) SHACL
6 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.55%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 103 (28.22%) Security Cleared
2 93 (25.48%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.74%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.37%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.37%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.55%) Degree
8 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.55%) VCAP
8 2 (0.55%) VCDX
9 1 (0.27%) CISSP
9 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (18.90%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.75%) GDPR
3 6 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.37%) QA
5 4 (1.10%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.82%) IFRS
6 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.55%) GRC
7 2 (0.55%) GxP
7 2 (0.55%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.55%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.55%) NIST
8 1 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.27%) HL7
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.27%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.37%) Grafana
2 3 (0.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.55%) Ansible
3 2 (0.55%) Argo
3 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.27%) Control-M
Vendors
1 97 (26.58%) Databricks
2 45 (12.33%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.58%) Oracle
4 14 (3.84%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.29%) Foundry
6 9 (2.47%) Palantir
7 8 (2.19%) Google
7 8 (2.19%) SAP
8 5 (1.37%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.10%) Informatica
10 3 (0.82%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.82%) Confluent
10 3 (0.82%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.82%) VMware
10 3 (0.82%) Workday
11 2 (0.55%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.55%) FactSet
11 2 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.55%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.55%) Sparx