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 3 September 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 216 215
Rank change year-on-year +54 -1 0
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 365 161 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 1.21% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 1.31% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 106 142
10th Percentile £457 £471 £489
25th Percentile £525 £539 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -7.69% -7.96%
75th Percentile £710 £725 £775
90th Percentile £775 £800 £875
England median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -7.14%
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% -9.09%

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 18,714 12,320 15,154
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 92.91% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,113 8,282 10,383
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
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 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 209 190
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.06 £17.84
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.50 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.87% -10.95% -8.67%
75th Percentile £62.13 £50.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £80.50 £65.11 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.86%

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 3 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 3 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 +30 71 £608 +7.19% 17
West London -9 9 £600 -4.00% 6
South London - 3 £725 - 2
East London - 2 £675 - 1
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 179 (49.04%) Data Architecture
2 152 (41.64%) Data Modelling
3 131 (35.89%) Azure
4 119 (32.60%) Analytics
5 108 (29.59%) Security Cleared
6 102 (27.95%) Databricks
7 98 (26.85%) Data Governance
8 97 (26.58%) SC Cleared
9 95 (26.03%) AWS
10 81 (22.19%) AI
10 81 (22.19%) Migration
11 69 (18.90%) Data Quality
12 65 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 61 (16.71%) SQL
14 60 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
15 56 (15.34%) Data Warehouse
16 55 (15.07%) Metadata
17 54 (14.79%) Integration Patterns
18 53 (14.52%) Data Lake
18 53 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 52 (14.25%) Logical Data Model
20 49 (13.42%) Data Engineering
21 48 (13.15%) Machine Learning
22 47 (12.88%) CI/CD
22 47 (12.88%) Data Strategy
23 46 (12.60%) Snowflake
24 44 (12.05%) Data Integration
24 44 (12.05%) Data Transformation
24 44 (12.05%) Lakehouse
24 44 (12.05%) 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 (4.66%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.56%) Apache
4 9 (2.47%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.55%) Confluence
5 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 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
1 131 (35.89%) Azure
2 95 (26.03%) AWS
3 46 (12.60%) Snowflake
4 38 (10.41%) Power Platform
5 37 (10.14%) GCP
6 27 (7.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 22 (6.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (4.93%) dbt
9 17 (4.66%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.84%) Serverless
11 11 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (2.74%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.47%) Azure Databricks
14 7 (1.92%) Amazon MSK
15 6 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.64%) Azure Machine Learning
16 5 (1.37%) AWS Step Functions
16 5 (1.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.55%) BGP
1 2 (0.55%) DSL
1 2 (0.55%) OSPF
1 2 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.55%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (15.34%) Data Warehouse
2 55 (15.07%) Metadata
3 53 (14.52%) Data Lake
4 33 (9.04%) Power BI
5 19 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (3.56%) BigQuery
7 12 (3.29%) Data Vault
8 11 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.47%) Big Data
9 9 (2.47%) Semantic Layer
9 9 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (2.19%) NoSQL
10 8 (2.19%) Tableau
11 7 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.92%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.64%) Delta Lake
13 5 (1.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
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
4 3 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.55%) JIRA
5 2 (0.55%) RStudio
General
1 73 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.08%) Finance
3 49 (13.42%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.22%) Retail
5 26 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (6.58%) Banking
7 11 (3.01%) Marketing
8 9 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.10%) Legal
11 3 (0.82%) Billing
11 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.55%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.27%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Military
13 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.30%) Terraform
2 19 (5.21%) PySpark
3 17 (4.66%) Kafka
4 12 (3.29%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.37%) .NET
5 5 (1.37%) REST
6 3 (0.82%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (0.82%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (0.55%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.55%) Apache Avro
7 2 (0.55%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.55%) JWT
7 2 (0.55%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.55%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (0.55%) pytest
7 2 (0.55%) React
7 2 (0.55%) Snowpark
7 2 (0.55%) WebSockets
7 2 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.12%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.48%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.29%) AI Agents
3 12 (3.29%) Data Centre
3 12 (3.29%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.74%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.74%) Reference Data
4 10 (2.74%) Reinsurance
5 9 (2.47%) Taxonomies
6 8 (2.19%) Replication
7 7 (1.92%) Data Fabric
7 7 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.64%) NHS
9 5 (1.37%) Digital Media
9 5 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.10%) IoT
10 4 (1.10%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.55%) zOS
2 1 (0.27%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (49.04%) Data Architecture
2 152 (41.64%) Data Modelling
3 119 (32.60%) Analytics
4 98 (26.85%) Data Governance
5 81 (22.19%) AI
5 81 (22.19%) Migration
6 65 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 60 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
8 54 (14.79%) Integration Patterns
9 53 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 52 (14.25%) Logical Data Model
11 49 (13.42%) Data Engineering
12 48 (13.15%) Machine Learning
13 47 (12.88%) CI/CD
13 47 (12.88%) Data Strategy
14 44 (12.05%) Data Integration
14 44 (12.05%) Data Transformation
14 44 (12.05%) Lakehouse
14 44 (12.05%) Roadmaps
15 41 (11.23%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 61 (16.71%) SQL
2 34 (9.32%) 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
1 108 (29.59%) Security Cleared
2 97 (26.58%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.47%) Azure Certification
4 8 (2.19%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.37%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.55%) Degree
8 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (18.90%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.75%) GDPR
3 6 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.10%) QA
4 4 (1.10%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.82%) IFRS
5 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.55%) GRC
6 2 (0.55%) GxP
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.55%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) NCSC
6 2 (0.55%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (0.82%) 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 (1.37%) 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
1 102 (27.95%) Databricks
2 42 (11.51%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.85%) Oracle
4 13 (3.56%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.29%) Foundry
6 10 (2.74%) Google
7 9 (2.47%) Palantir
8 8 (2.19%) SAP
9 5 (1.37%) Informatica
10 4 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.82%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.82%) Confluent
11 3 (0.82%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.82%) Talend
11 3 (0.82%) VMware
11 3 (0.82%) Workday
12 2 (0.55%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.55%) GoldenSource
12 2 (0.55%) IBM
12 2 (0.55%) Teradata