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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 206 196
Rank change year-on-year +42 -10 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 347 171 207
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.72% 1.25% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 1.35% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 116 155
10th Percentile £463 £481 £493
25th Percentile £525 £549 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £605 £693
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -12.71% -1.07%
75th Percentile £713 £725 £800
90th Percentile £775 £813 £920
England median daily rate £615 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +2.50% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £118.86
Median % change year-on-year - -45.31% +237.19%
England median hourly rate £47.00 £51.98 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -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 18,752 12,672 15,401
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 92.93% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,269 8,586 10,953
10th Percentile £363 £326 £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 £653 £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 353 201 213
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -6.25% -14.48%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £52.00
90th Percentile £78.71 £63.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.28 £43.90
% change year-on-year +71.23% -40.14% +2.09%

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 1 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 1 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 +37 67 £595 +5.22% 28
West London -9 8 £588 -6.00% 1
South London - 3 £725 -
East London - 2 £675 -
Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 173 (49.86%) Data Architecture
2 135 (38.90%) Data Modelling
3 118 (34.01%) Analytics
4 115 (33.14%) Azure
5 90 (25.94%) Security Cleared
6 86 (24.78%) SC Cleared
7 84 (24.21%) AWS
8 81 (23.34%) Data Governance
9 78 (22.48%) Databricks
10 67 (19.31%) AI
11 66 (19.02%) Migration
12 57 (16.43%) Data Quality
13 55 (15.85%) Business Intelligence
14 51 (14.70%) SQL
15 50 (14.41%) Metadata
16 49 (14.12%) Integration Patterns
17 47 (13.54%) Data Warehouse
18 45 (12.97%) Data Engineering
18 45 (12.97%) Data Lake
18 45 (12.97%) Logical Data Model
19 44 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 43 (12.39%) ETL
21 42 (12.10%) Data Integration
21 42 (12.10%) Microsoft
22 40 (11.53%) Stakeholder Management
23 39 (11.24%) Data Strategy
23 39 (11.24%) Machine Learning
23 39 (11.24%) Snowflake
24 36 (10.37%) CI/CD
24 36 (10.37%) GCP

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 19 (5.48%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.75%) Apache
3 9 (2.59%) Palantir Foundry
4 8 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.58%) Confluence
5 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.58%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.58%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.29%) Maximo
3 1 (0.29%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 115 (33.14%) Azure
2 84 (24.21%) AWS
3 39 (11.24%) Snowflake
4 36 (10.37%) GCP
5 35 (10.09%) Power Platform
6 20 (5.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (5.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (4.90%) Amazon S3
9 11 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (3.17%) dbt
9 11 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (3.17%) Serverless
10 10 (2.88%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.02%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (1.73%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (1.73%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.44%) SaaS
15 4 (1.15%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.58%) BGP
1 2 (0.58%) DSL
1 2 (0.58%) Network Security
1 2 (0.58%) OSPF
1 2 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.58%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (14.41%) Metadata
2 47 (13.54%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (12.97%) Data Lake
4 29 (8.36%) Power BI
5 16 (4.61%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (3.17%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.17%) Data Vault
7 11 (3.17%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.88%) Big Data
9 8 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.31%) Db2
10 7 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (2.02%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (2.02%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (1.73%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.73%) Star Schema
11 6 (1.73%) Tableau
12 5 (1.44%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.44%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 7 (2.02%) ERwin
2 6 (1.73%) GitLab
3 3 (0.86%) ER Studio
3 3 (0.86%) Git
3 3 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.58%) JIRA
5 1 (0.29%) MLflow
General
1 61 (17.58%) Finance
2 57 (16.43%) Social Skills
3 45 (12.97%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.07%) Retail
5 27 (7.78%) Banking
6 24 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.17%) Marketing
8 7 (2.02%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.02%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.15%) Legal
12 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.58%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Aviation
13 1 (0.29%) Local Government
13 1 (0.29%) Military
13 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.61%) Kafka
1 16 (4.61%) PySpark
2 12 (3.46%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (1.73%) .NET
4 4 (1.15%) Middleware
5 3 (0.86%) REST
5 3 (0.86%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (0.58%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.58%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.58%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.58%) Bootstrap
6 2 (0.58%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.58%) JWT
6 2 (0.58%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.58%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.58%) Protocol Buffers
6 2 (0.58%) pytest
6 2 (0.58%) React
6 2 (0.58%) WebSockets
6 2 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.20%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.90%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.17%) AI Agents
4 10 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.88%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.88%) Reference Data
5 9 (2.59%) Mainframe
5 9 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.31%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.31%) Taxonomies
7 7 (2.02%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.73%) Data Fabric
8 6 (1.73%) NHS
9 5 (1.44%) Digital Media
9 5 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.44%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.15%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.02%) zOS
2 2 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (49.86%) Data Architecture
2 135 (38.90%) Data Modelling
3 118 (34.01%) Analytics
4 81 (23.34%) Data Governance
5 67 (19.31%) AI
6 66 (19.02%) Migration
7 55 (15.85%) Business Intelligence
8 49 (14.12%) Integration Patterns
9 45 (12.97%) Data Engineering
9 45 (12.97%) Logical Data Model
10 44 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 43 (12.39%) ETL
12 42 (12.10%) Data Integration
13 40 (11.53%) Stakeholder Management
14 39 (11.24%) Data Strategy
14 39 (11.24%) Machine Learning
15 36 (10.37%) CI/CD
15 36 (10.37%) Roadmaps
16 34 (9.80%) Data Pipeline
17 30 (8.65%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 51 (14.70%) SQL
2 30 (8.65%) Python
3 6 (1.73%) Scala
4 5 (1.44%) Java
5 4 (1.15%) Bicep
6 3 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.58%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.58%) Cypher
7 2 (0.58%) R
7 2 (0.58%) SHACL
7 2 (0.58%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.58%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.29%) COBOL
8 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 90 (25.94%) Security Cleared
2 86 (24.78%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.31%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.44%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.44%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.86%) Degree
6 3 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.58%) VCAP
7 2 (0.58%) VCDX
8 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (16.43%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.48%) GDPR
3 6 (1.73%) QA
4 5 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.58%) GxP
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.58%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) NIST
6 2 (0.58%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.29%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.29%) GRC
7 1 (0.29%) HL7
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.58%) Docker
1 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (4.61%) Terraform
2 6 (1.73%) Grafana
3 3 (0.86%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.58%) Ansible
4 2 (0.58%) Argo
4 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 78 (22.48%) Databricks
2 42 (12.10%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.76%) Oracle
4 17 (4.90%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.46%) Foundry
6 9 (2.59%) Palantir
7 8 (2.31%) SAP
8 6 (1.73%) Google
9 5 (1.44%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.86%) Confluent
10 3 (0.86%) Workday
11 2 (0.58%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.58%) Ariba
11 2 (0.58%) IBM
11 2 (0.58%) IDERA
11 2 (0.58%) OneTrust
11 2 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.58%) Sparx
11 2 (0.58%) VMware