Senior Data Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Data Architect
England > London

The median Senior Data Architect daily rate in London is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 385 435
Rank change year-on-year +23 +50 +133
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Architect 11 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.082% 0.087% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.092% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 16
10th Percentile £484 £315 £639
25th Percentile £513 £519 £659
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -11.11% -15.63%
75th Percentile £719 £678 £691
90th Percentile £763 £699 £794
England median daily rate £700 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -6.90%

All DemandTrendContract 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 12,424 15,192 21,327
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 94.08% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,326 10,369 15,591
10th Percentile £325 £349 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £684 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 186 232
10th Percentile £17.05 £17.69 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.28 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £34.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% -8.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £50.38 £55.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £66.34 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.23 £43.86
% change year-on-year -45.60% +5.40% +66.34%

Senior Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Architect in London

Senior Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Architect job vacancies in London

Senior Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Architect in London

Senior 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 Senior Data Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 6 September 2025. 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 +6 1 - - 6
Senior Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Architect in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) Data Modelling
3 7 (63.64%) Python
3 7 (63.64%) Migration
3 7 (63.64%) Data Architecture
3 7 (63.64%) AWS
4 6 (54.55%) Azure
4 6 (54.55%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (45.45%) Data Strategy
6 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
6 4 (36.36%) ETL
6 4 (36.36%) Google
6 4 (36.36%) Dimensional Modelling
6 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
6 4 (36.36%) BigQuery
6 4 (36.36%) GCP
7 3 (27.27%) Analytics
7 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (27.27%) Agile
7 3 (27.27%) Star Schema
7 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
7 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
7 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
7 3 (27.27%) GDPR
8 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
8 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
8 2 (18.18%) Data Munging
8 2 (18.18%) Mentoring

Senior 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 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) GCP
4 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
5 2 (18.18%) Collibra
5 2 (18.18%) dbt
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (36.36%) BigQuery
3 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
3 3 (27.27%) Star Schema
4 2 (18.18%) Metadata
4 2 (18.18%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (9.09%) Data Mining
5 1 (9.09%) Data Vault
5 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) ER Studio
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Back Office
3 1 (9.09%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Jinja
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Reinsurance
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Data Modelling
2 7 (63.64%) Data Architecture
2 7 (63.64%) Migration
3 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (45.45%) Data Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
4 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
4 4 (36.36%) Dimensional Modelling
4 4 (36.36%) ETL
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Analytics
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (18.18%) Conceptual Models
6 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (18.18%) Data Munging
6 2 (18.18%) Logical Data Model
6 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 2 (18.18%) Physical Data Model
6 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Informatica
2 2 (18.18%) Talend
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks