Data Architect Contracts in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 196 216
Rank change year-on-year +34 +20 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 271 365 529
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.52% 1.34% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 1.41% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 276 356
10th Percentile £513 £550 £547
25th Percentile £563 £607 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.00%
75th Percentile £825 £775 £775
90th Percentile £925 £856 £825
England median daily rate £700 £700 £698
% change year-on-year - +0.36% +14.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect 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 26 April 2024. 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 +19 26 £681 +0.93% 5
East London - 2 £625 -
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 172 (63.47%) Data Modelling
2 126 (46.49%) Data Architecture
3 97 (35.79%) Azure
4 93 (34.32%) Data Governance
5 80 (29.52%) Business Intelligence
6 79 (29.15%) Data Warehouse
7 77 (28.41%) Data Integration
8 76 (28.04%) Data Strategy
9 68 (25.09%) Security Cleared
10 67 (24.72%) NoSQL
11 66 (24.35%) Finance
12 64 (23.62%) SC Cleared
13 58 (21.40%) Analytics
13 58 (21.40%) Public Sector
14 57 (21.03%) Metadata
15 56 (20.66%) ETL
15 56 (20.66%) Microsoft
16 53 (19.56%) AWS
16 53 (19.56%) Power Platform
16 53 (19.56%) Power BI
17 52 (19.19%) Data Quality
18 51 (18.82%) Sparx
19 48 (17.71%) SQL
20 43 (15.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
20 43 (15.87%) Social Skills
21 42 (15.50%) Data Vault
22 41 (15.13%) Oracle
22 41 (15.13%) Reference Data
23 40 (14.76%) UML
24 39 (14.39%) Data Management

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (5.54%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.69%) Apache
3 7 (2.58%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.48%) SAS
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (5.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 43 (15.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (4.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.74%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.37%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 97 (35.79%) Azure
2 53 (19.56%) AWS
2 53 (19.56%) Power Platform
3 23 (8.49%) Snowflake
4 21 (7.75%) GCP
5 16 (5.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (4.06%) OCI
8 10 (3.69%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.95%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.95%) dbt
11 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.21%) Serverless
13 5 (1.85%) GitHub
13 5 (1.85%) SaaS
14 4 (1.48%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (1.48%) PaaS
14 4 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (29.15%) Data Warehouse
2 67 (24.72%) NoSQL
3 57 (21.03%) Metadata
4 53 (19.56%) Power BI
5 42 (15.50%) Data Vault
6 38 (14.02%) Data Lake
7 30 (11.07%) Big Data
8 27 (9.96%) Metadata Repository
9 26 (9.59%) SQL Server
10 21 (7.75%) Tableau
11 15 (5.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (4.06%) BigQuery
14 9 (3.32%) OLAP
14 9 (3.32%) OLTP
15 8 (2.95%) Pentaho
15 8 (2.95%) Qlik Sense
15 8 (2.95%) QlikView
16 7 (2.58%) DynamoDB
16 7 (2.58%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 33 (12.18%) ERwin
2 14 (5.17%) ER Studio
3 7 (2.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.74%) Git
4 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.74%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.74%) Postman
General
1 66 (24.35%) Finance
2 58 (21.40%) Public Sector
3 43 (15.87%) Social Skills
4 33 (12.18%) Marketing
5 30 (11.07%) Manufacturing
6 29 (10.70%) Telecoms
7 27 (9.96%) Electronics
8 24 (8.86%) Banking
9 18 (6.64%) Publishing
10 17 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (4.06%) Retail
12 5 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.11%) Law
15 2 (0.74%) Advertising
15 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.74%) Legal
15 2 (0.74%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.64%) Kafka
2 17 (6.27%) JSON
3 12 (4.43%) JSON Schema
4 7 (2.58%) PySpark
5 6 (2.21%) Apache Avro
5 6 (2.21%) REST
5 6 (2.21%) XML
6 5 (1.85%) YAML
7 4 (1.48%) Middleware
8 3 (1.11%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.74%) ADO
9 2 (0.74%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.74%) CSS
9 2 (0.74%) DOM
9 2 (0.74%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.74%) HTML
9 2 (0.74%) jQuery
9 2 (0.74%) Node.js
9 2 (0.74%) Spring
9 2 (0.74%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.13%) Reference Data
2 17 (6.27%) Onboarding
3 14 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 13 (4.80%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.95%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.95%) Wiki
6 6 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.21%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
7 5 (1.85%) Freedom of Information Act
7 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.48%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.11%) Grid Computing
9 3 (1.11%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.74%) FMCG
10 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.74%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.74%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (63.47%) Data Modelling
2 126 (46.49%) Data Architecture
3 93 (34.32%) Data Governance
4 80 (29.52%) Business Intelligence
5 77 (28.41%) Data Integration
6 76 (28.04%) Data Strategy
7 58 (21.40%) Analytics
8 56 (20.66%) ETL
9 40 (14.76%) UML
10 39 (14.39%) Data Management
11 37 (13.65%) Migration
12 32 (11.81%) Data Design
13 31 (11.44%) Physical Data Model
13 31 (11.44%) Roadmaps
14 30 (11.07%) Agile
14 30 (11.07%) Data Lineage
15 28 (10.33%) Programme Management
16 27 (9.96%) Digital Marketing
17 25 (9.23%) Data Migration
17 25 (9.23%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 48 (17.71%) SQL
2 28 (10.33%) Python
3 9 (3.32%) T-SQL
4 6 (2.21%) Java
5 3 (1.11%) R
5 3 (1.11%) Scala
6 2 (0.74%) C#
6 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.74%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.74%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.37%) Bicep
7 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 68 (25.09%) Security Cleared
2 64 (23.62%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.69%) Degree
4 5 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.11%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (19.19%) Data Quality
2 28 (10.33%) GDPR
3 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.11%) QA
4 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (0.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.74%) Ambari
1 2 (0.74%) Ansible
1 2 (0.74%) Oozie
1 2 (0.74%) Terraform
2 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 56 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 51 (18.82%) Sparx
3 41 (15.13%) Oracle
4 37 (13.65%) Databricks
5 36 (13.28%) SAP
6 20 (7.38%) Informatica
7 18 (6.64%) Google
8 10 (3.69%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.69%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.85%) Talend
10 2 (0.74%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.74%) Adobe
10 2 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.74%) Ensighten
10 2 (0.74%) IBM
10 2 (0.74%) Monetate
10 2 (0.74%) Omniture
10 2 (0.74%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.74%) Tealium
10 2 (0.74%) Teradata