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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 257 250
Rank change year-on-year +50 -7 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 621 308 400
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.03% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.11% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 209 282
10th Percentile £456 £454 £485
25th Percentile £513 £513 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £775
90th Percentile £775 £780 £913
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +10.91% -15.38% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 10
10th Percentile - £41.31 £52.50
25th Percentile £46.00 £44.85 -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £51.98 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -13.37% -6.98%
75th Percentile £64.00 £60.37 -
90th Percentile £69.00 £64.65 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 £38.96 £60.00
% change year-on-year +20.64% -35.07% -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 47,021 27,678 40,406
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.16% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,598 17,771 25,926
10th Percentile £325 £288 £281
25th Percentile £414 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,150 1,209 2,937
10th Percentile £15.38 £13.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.44 £16.37
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.38 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.08% -27.00% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +76.94% -37.13% -

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +37 539 £600 - 110
London +18 284 £575 -4.17% 66
UK excluding London +25 256 £610 +10.91% 67
Work from Home +11 177 £608 +1.29% 58
Midlands -7 68 £622 +3.67% 10
West Midlands -15 58 £638 +6.25% 6
North of England -61 54 £610 +10.91% 12
South West -1 39 £675 +50.00% 12
South East -37 39 £550 - 28
Yorkshire -33 33 £725 +16.00% 2
East of England -1 31 £505 -8.18% 2
Scotland -10 27 £600 +11.42% 4
North West -51 17 £575 +9.52% 10
East Midlands -10 10 £613 - 4
North East -30 7 £550 -26.67%
Wales -10 3 £768 +225.21%

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 315 (50.72%) Data Architecture
2 281 (45.25%) Data Modelling
3 219 (35.27%) Azure
4 204 (32.85%) Analytics
5 178 (28.66%) Security Cleared
6 157 (25.28%) Migration
7 154 (24.80%) Data Governance
8 153 (24.64%) SC Cleared
9 138 (22.22%) AWS
9 138 (22.22%) Databricks
10 126 (20.29%) ETL
11 112 (18.04%) Business Intelligence
12 110 (17.71%) Metadata
13 109 (17.55%) AI
14 104 (16.75%) Data Quality
14 104 (16.75%) SQL
15 103 (16.59%) Data Warehouse
15 103 (16.59%) Integration Patterns
16 90 (14.49%) Data Pipeline
17 89 (14.33%) Data Integration
17 89 (14.33%) Data Lake
18 87 (14.01%) Data Engineering
19 85 (13.69%) Microsoft
20 81 (13.04%) Power Platform
21 78 (12.56%) Logical Data Model
22 76 (12.24%) Data Management
23 75 (12.08%) Data Migration
24 73 (11.76%) Power BI
25 71 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 70 (11.27%) Roadmaps

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 22 (3.54%) SAS
2 18 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.25%) Palantir Foundry
4 13 (2.09%) Apache
4 13 (2.09%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.64%) Confluence
6 2 (0.32%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.16%) Appian
7 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.16%) iTrent
4 1 (0.16%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.16%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 219 (35.27%) Azure
2 138 (22.22%) AWS
3 81 (13.04%) Power Platform
4 68 (10.95%) GCP
5 50 (8.05%) Snowflake
6 44 (7.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 42 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (4.19%) Microsoft Purview
9 25 (4.03%) Amazon S3
9 25 (4.03%) Serverless
10 23 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (3.70%) dbt
11 16 (2.58%) SaaS
12 14 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 12 (1.93%) GitHub
14 11 (1.77%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (1.45%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (1.45%) Azure Machine Learning
16 8 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.64%) Firewall
2 3 (0.48%) DSL
3 2 (0.32%) BGP
3 2 (0.32%) DNS
3 2 (0.32%) Network Security
3 2 (0.32%) OSPF
3 2 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.32%) VPN
3 2 (0.32%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (17.71%) Metadata
2 103 (16.59%) Data Warehouse
3 89 (14.33%) Data Lake
4 73 (11.76%) Power BI
5 35 (5.64%) NoSQL
6 23 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (3.22%) BigQuery
9 19 (3.06%) SQL Server
10 18 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (2.74%) Big Data
12 16 (2.58%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 15 (2.42%) Delta Lake
14 14 (2.25%) Metadata Repository
15 13 (2.09%) Base SAS
15 13 (2.09%) Data Vault
15 13 (2.09%) Semantic Layer
15 13 (2.09%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (1.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (4.03%) ERwin
2 6 (0.97%) Git
3 5 (0.81%) GitLab
3 5 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.64%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.32%) JIRA
6 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.16%) MLflow
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 105 (16.91%) Finance
1 105 (16.91%) Social Skills
2 76 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 45 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (4.99%) Banking
5 27 (4.35%) Retail
6 10 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (1.61%) Financial Institution
6 10 (1.61%) Marketing
7 8 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (0.97%) Investment Banking
8 6 (0.97%) Legal
9 5 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.48%) Law
10 3 (0.48%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.48%) Military
10 3 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.32%) Local Government
11 2 (0.32%) Publishing
11 2 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.83%) Kafka
2 15 (2.42%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (2.09%) PySpark
4 7 (1.13%) .NET
4 7 (1.13%) Middleware
5 6 (0.97%) Apache Avro
5 6 (0.97%) FHIR
5 6 (0.97%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (0.81%) REST
7 4 (0.64%) JSON
8 3 (0.48%) LangChain
8 3 (0.48%) LangGraph
8 3 (0.48%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.32%) Snowpark
9 2 (0.32%) SOAP
9 2 (0.32%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (0.32%) XML
10 1 (0.16%) Spring
10 1 (0.16%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.83%) Data Structures
3 21 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (2.90%) Reference Data
5 16 (2.58%) Data Centre
5 16 (2.58%) NHS
6 13 (2.09%) IoT
7 11 (1.77%) AI Agents
7 11 (1.77%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.61%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.61%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.45%) Taxonomies
10 7 (1.13%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.13%) Reinsurance
10 7 (1.13%) SCADA
11 6 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.81%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.29%) zOS
2 1 (0.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (50.72%) Data Architecture
2 281 (45.25%) Data Modelling
3 204 (32.85%) Analytics
4 157 (25.28%) Migration
5 154 (24.80%) Data Governance
6 126 (20.29%) ETL
7 112 (18.04%) Business Intelligence
8 109 (17.55%) AI
9 103 (16.59%) Integration Patterns
10 90 (14.49%) Data Pipeline
11 89 (14.33%) Data Integration
12 87 (14.01%) Data Engineering
13 78 (12.56%) Logical Data Model
14 76 (12.24%) Data Management
15 75 (12.08%) Data Migration
16 71 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 70 (11.27%) Roadmaps
18 67 (10.79%) Machine Learning
19 62 (9.98%) Data Strategy
20 61 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (16.75%) SQL
2 55 (8.86%) Python
3 13 (2.09%) Java
4 7 (1.13%) Scala
5 6 (0.97%) Bicep
6 5 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (0.81%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.64%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.48%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.48%) R
9 2 (0.32%) Bash
9 2 (0.32%) COBOL
9 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.32%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.16%) C++
10 1 (0.16%) Cypher
10 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.16%) SHACL
10 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 178 (28.66%) Security Cleared
2 153 (24.64%) SC Cleared
3 23 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 23 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.06%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.58%) Degree
6 12 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.45%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.13%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.32%) VCAP
11 2 (0.32%) VCDX
12 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.16%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (16.75%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.83%) GDPR
3 15 (2.42%) QA
4 7 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.97%) HL7
6 5 (0.81%) IFRS
6 5 (0.81%) IFRS 17
6 5 (0.81%) ISO 20022
6 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.81%) SNOMED CT
6 5 (0.81%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.32%) NIST
7 2 (0.32%) SLA
8 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.16%) GRC
8 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.16%) NCSC
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.48%) Docker
3 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.32%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.32%) vSphere
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (3.54%) Terraform
2 9 (1.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.97%) Grafana
4 5 (0.81%) Ansible
4 5 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.48%) Argo
5 3 (0.48%) Istio
6 2 (0.32%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.16%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 138 (22.22%) Databricks
2 85 (13.69%) Microsoft
3 41 (6.60%) Oracle
4 23 (3.70%) SAP
5 20 (3.22%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.74%) Foundry
6 17 (2.74%) Informatica
7 15 (2.42%) Google
7 15 (2.42%) Palantir
7 15 (2.42%) Talend
8 8 (1.29%) Confluent
9 7 (1.13%) Sparx
10 4 (0.64%) NVIDIA
10 4 (0.64%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.64%) VMware
11 3 (0.48%) Denodo
11 3 (0.48%) IBM
11 3 (0.48%) Remedy
12 2 (0.32%) Ariba
12 2 (0.32%) Pure Storage