Principal Data Architect Contracts in London

Principal Data Architect
England > London

The median Principal Data Architect daily rate in London is £558, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 389 492
Rank change year-on-year +38 +103 +100
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Data Architect 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.011% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.012% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £480 £783 -
25th Percentile £504 £819 £815
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £884 £830
Median % change year-on-year -36.86% +6.48% +34.96%
75th Percentile £623 £944 £845
90th Percentile £654 £978 -
England median daily rate £650 £884 £830
% change year-on-year -26.45% +6.48% +34.96%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Principal Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Data Architect in London

Principal Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Data Architect in London

Principal Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Principal Data Architect in London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Principal 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 Principal Data Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared

Principal 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google