Data Architect Contract Job Trends

Data Architect
UK

The median Data Architect daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 249 244
Rank change year-on-year +28 -5 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 580 312 424
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.06% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.15% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 214 296
10th Percentile £462 £457 £475
25th Percentile £513 £519 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -
75th Percentile £692 £700 £775
90th Percentile £789 £775 £913
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £575 £675
% change year-on-year +6.09% -14.81% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 10
10th Percentile - £48.38 £52.50
25th Percentile £46.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £80.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.25% +33.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £64.00 £82.25 -
90th Percentile £69.00 £83.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 £80.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -41.61% +34.17% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 46,065 27,116 40,535
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.32% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,032 17,461 26,079
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £621 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,078 1,132 2,932
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.87 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.79 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.70 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.23% -26.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -5.88%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the UK

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Architect job vacancies in the UK

Data Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Architect over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Architect in the UK

Data Architect
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 11 June 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
England +16 497 £600 - 126
London +3 271 £588 -2.08% 55
UK excluding London +8 227 £610 +6.09% 85
Work from Home +2 161 £604 +0.65% 74
Midlands -26 60 £613 +2.08% 14
West Midlands -25 51 £623 +3.75% 14
North of England -66 48 £600 +4.35% 32
South West 0 34 £725 +48.72% 18
South East -43 33 £575 +9.52% 17
East of England -3 29 £505 -20.78% 2
Yorkshire -35 29 £725 +16.00% 6
Scotland -7 25 £600 +11.42% 3
North West -49 15 £575 +9.52% 23
East Midlands -21 9 £613 -
North East -25 7 £550 -4.35% 3
Wales -10 3 £768 +225.21%

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 296 (51.03%) Data Architecture
2 257 (44.31%) Data Modelling
3 206 (35.52%) Azure
4 199 (34.31%) Analytics
5 161 (27.76%) Security Cleared
6 141 (24.31%) Data Governance
7 138 (23.79%) Databricks
8 136 (23.45%) SC Cleared
9 134 (23.10%) Migration
10 130 (22.41%) AWS
11 113 (19.48%) ETL
12 106 (18.28%) Business Intelligence
13 104 (17.93%) SQL
14 102 (17.59%) Metadata
15 100 (17.24%) AI
16 88 (15.17%) Data Warehouse
17 87 (15.00%) Data Quality
18 85 (14.66%) Data Lake
19 83 (14.31%) Microsoft
20 82 (14.14%) Data Integration
20 82 (14.14%) Integration Patterns
21 81 (13.97%) Data Pipeline
22 76 (13.10%) Data Engineering
22 76 (13.10%) Power Platform
23 75 (12.93%) Logical Data Model
24 74 (12.76%) Data Management
25 68 (11.72%) Data Migration
25 68 (11.72%) Power BI
26 66 (11.38%) Roadmaps
27 63 (10.86%) Data Strategy

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.41%) SAS
3 13 (2.24%) Palantir Foundry
4 12 (2.07%) Apache
4 12 (2.07%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.52%) Confluence
7 2 (0.34%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.17%) Appian
8 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.17%) iTrent
4 1 (0.17%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.17%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 206 (35.52%) Azure
2 130 (22.41%) AWS
3 76 (13.10%) Power Platform
4 59 (10.17%) GCP
5 47 (8.10%) Snowflake
6 44 (7.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 40 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 27 (4.66%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (4.66%) Serverless
9 26 (4.48%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.45%) dbt
12 16 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (2.59%) SaaS
14 14 (2.41%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (2.07%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 12 (2.07%) GitHub
16 10 (1.72%) Amazon EventBridge
17 9 (1.55%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.69%) Firewall
2 3 (0.52%) DSL
3 2 (0.34%) BGP
3 2 (0.34%) DNS
3 2 (0.34%) OSPF
3 2 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.34%) VPN
3 2 (0.34%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
4 1 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (17.59%) Metadata
2 88 (15.17%) Data Warehouse
3 85 (14.66%) Data Lake
4 68 (11.72%) Power BI
5 35 (6.03%) NoSQL
6 23 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (3.79%) SQL Server
8 18 (3.10%) Big Data
9 17 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (2.59%) BigQuery
10 15 (2.59%) Tableau
11 14 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (2.41%) Delta Lake
11 14 (2.41%) Metadata Repository
12 13 (2.24%) Data Vault
13 12 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (1.90%) Hadoop
14 11 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (1.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (3.45%) ERwin
2 6 (1.03%) Git
2 6 (1.03%) GitLab
2 6 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.17%) JIRA
4 1 (0.17%) MLflow
4 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 94 (16.21%) Social Skills
2 91 (15.69%) Finance
3 69 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 43 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.83%) Banking
6 26 (4.48%) Retail
7 11 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.72%) Marketing
9 9 (1.55%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.03%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.69%) Legal
13 3 (0.52%) Law
13 3 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.34%) Local Government
14 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.34%) Military
14 2 (0.34%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.34%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.17%) Kafka
2 14 (2.41%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (2.24%) PySpark
4 9 (1.55%) Apache Avro
4 9 (1.55%) Protocol Buffers
5 7 (1.21%) .NET
5 7 (1.21%) Middleware
6 5 (0.86%) FHIR
6 5 (0.86%) REST
7 4 (0.69%) JSON
8 3 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.34%) SOAP
9 2 (0.34%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (0.34%) XML
10 1 (0.17%) Django
10 1 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (0.17%) Spring
10 1 (0.17%) XBRL
10 1 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.24%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (3.10%) Reference Data
5 17 (2.93%) Data Centre
6 16 (2.76%) NHS
7 10 (1.72%) AI Agents
7 10 (1.72%) IoT
7 10 (1.72%) Mainframe
7 10 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.55%) Taxonomies
9 8 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.38%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (1.03%) PACS
11 6 (1.03%) Reinsurance
12 5 (0.86%) Autonomous Agent
12 5 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.38%) zOS
2 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (51.03%) Data Architecture
2 257 (44.31%) Data Modelling
3 199 (34.31%) Analytics
4 141 (24.31%) Data Governance
5 134 (23.10%) Migration
6 113 (19.48%) ETL
7 106 (18.28%) Business Intelligence
8 100 (17.24%) AI
9 82 (14.14%) Data Integration
9 82 (14.14%) Integration Patterns
10 81 (13.97%) Data Pipeline
11 76 (13.10%) Data Engineering
12 75 (12.93%) Logical Data Model
13 74 (12.76%) Data Management
14 68 (11.72%) Data Migration
15 66 (11.38%) Roadmaps
16 63 (10.86%) Data Strategy
16 63 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 59 (10.17%) Architectural Patterns
18 58 (10.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 104 (17.93%) SQL
2 57 (9.83%) Python
3 13 (2.24%) Java
4 9 (1.55%) T-SQL
5 8 (1.38%) Scala
6 6 (1.03%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.86%) Bicep
8 4 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.52%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.34%) Bash
10 2 (0.34%) COBOL
10 2 (0.34%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.34%) R
10 2 (0.34%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.17%) C++
11 1 (0.17%) Cypher
11 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.17%) SHACL
11 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 161 (27.76%) Security Cleared
2 136 (23.45%) SC Cleared
3 22 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 22 (3.79%) DV Cleared
4 20 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.93%) Degree
6 12 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.21%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.34%) VCAP
11 2 (0.34%) VCDX
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.17%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.31%) GDPR
3 12 (2.07%) QA
4 7 (1.21%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.21%) ISO 20022
5 5 (0.86%) HL7
5 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.69%) SNOMED CT
7 3 (0.52%) IFRS
7 3 (0.52%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.52%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.34%) NIST
8 2 (0.34%) SLA
9 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.52%) Docker
3 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.34%) vSphere
4 1 (0.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (3.79%) Terraform
2 7 (1.21%) Grafana
2 7 (1.21%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.03%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.86%) Ansible
5 3 (0.52%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.17%) Istio
7 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 138 (23.79%) Databricks
2 83 (14.31%) Microsoft
3 40 (6.90%) Oracle
4 22 (3.79%) SAP
5 19 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.10%) Informatica
7 16 (2.76%) Foundry
8 14 (2.41%) Palantir
8 14 (2.41%) Talend
9 13 (2.24%) Google
10 11 (1.90%) Confluent
11 6 (1.03%) Sparx
12 4 (0.69%) NVIDIA
12 4 (0.69%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.69%) VMware
13 3 (0.52%) Denodo
13 3 (0.52%) IBM
13 3 (0.52%) Remedy
14 2 (0.34%) IDERA
14 2 (0.34%) Pure Storage