Database Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Database Architect
England > London

The median Database Architect daily rate in London is £580, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 367 399
Rank change year-on-year -14 +32 +160
Contract jobs requiring a Database Architect 8 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.056% 0.013% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.014% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £550 £523 £574
25th Percentile £558 £556 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +2.04% -18.33%
75th Percentile - £706 £713
90th Percentile £583 £748 £848
England median daily rate £580 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -7.20% - -19.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,145 14,173 17,825
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 93.50% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 9,174 12,891
10th Percentile £340 £338 £329
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £683
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 152 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.19 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% +2.14% -
75th Percentile £56.63 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%

Database Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Database Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Database Architect job vacancy trend in London

Database Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Database Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Database Architect job vacancies in London

Database Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Database Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Database Architect job vacancies in London

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

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, Database 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 Database Architect in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) AWS
1 7 (87.50%) Migration
1 7 (87.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (75.00%) DB2
3 4 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
3 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (37.50%) Database Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (25.00%) SQL
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (12.50%) Azure
6 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (12.50%) Bicep
6 1 (12.50%) Data Encryption
6 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
6 1 (12.50%) ERwin
6 1 (12.50%) GDPR
6 1 (12.50%) High Availability
6 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
6 1 (12.50%) IaaS
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 1 (12.50%) MySQL
6 1 (12.50%) Network Security
6 1 (12.50%) PaaS

Database 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (75.00%) DB2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 1 (12.50%) MySQL
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ERwin
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Corporate Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Replication
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (37.50%) Database Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (12.50%) Data Encryption
5 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) RBAC
5 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft