Data Architecture Contracts in Central London

Data Architecture
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 108 117
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 22 25 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.10% 1.02% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.13% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 37
10th Percentile £474 £475 £465
25th Percentile £513 £555 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £655
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +10.69% -6.43%
75th Percentile £690 £925 £715
90th Percentile £723 - £768
London median daily rate £600 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
London median hourly rate £92.50 £35.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year +164.29% -0.71% -61.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in Central London

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in Central London

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in Central London

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in Central London

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architecture within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +6 21 £558 -23.10% 9
West End of London -2 1 £550 -
Camden - 1 £550 -
Southwark - 1 - -
Data Architecture
London

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) SAP MDG
1 3 (13.64%) SAP MDG-S
1 3 (13.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.55%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) Boomi
4 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) Collibra
5 1 (4.55%) dbt
5 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.55%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (18.18%) Metadata
2 3 (13.64%) Data Lake
2 3 (13.64%) SAP HANA
3 2 (9.09%) Big Data
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
4 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
4 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) Maven
2 1 (4.55%) ERwin
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Back Office
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) French Language
5 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Architect
2 7 (31.82%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Data Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Integration Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Integration Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Data Modeller
5 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Integration Architect
5 1 (4.55%) GCP Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) GraphQL
1 3 (13.64%) Node.js
1 3 (13.64%) React
2 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
2 2 (9.09%) JPA
2 2 (9.09%) Spring
2 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (4.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Reference Data
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Data Governance
2 9 (40.91%) Data Modelling
3 7 (31.82%) Roadmaps
4 6 (27.27%) Data Strategy
5 5 (22.73%) Data Management
5 5 (22.73%) Microservices
5 5 (22.73%) TOGAF
6 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (18.18%) ERP
6 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.64%) ArchiMate
7 3 (13.64%) Asset Management
7 3 (13.64%) Data Integration
7 3 (13.64%) Data Security
7 3 (13.64%) ETL
7 3 (13.64%) Information Management
7 3 (13.64%) Migration
7 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.64%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (13.64%) Reference Data Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Scala
3 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) TOGAF Certification
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) SAP Certification
3 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (13.64%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) Adobe
3 2 (9.09%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) Google
3 2 (9.09%) Informatica
3 2 (9.09%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) Dell
4 1 (4.55%) IBM
4 1 (4.55%) Sparx