Data Architecture Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Architecture
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 83 121
Rank change year-on-year -15 +38 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 28 38 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.59% 1.82% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.99% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 23
10th Percentile £480 £499 £413
25th Percentile £519 £564 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £688 £769 £738
90th Percentile £828 £825 £895
Central London median daily rate £625 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,644 1,914 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.36% 91.67% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,173 1,733
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £760 £782 £812
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -30.13%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Architecture job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the City of London

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Architecture

Data Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (10.71%) Apache
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) AWS
3 6 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 5 (17.86%) Snowflake
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (10.71%) dbt
5 3 (10.71%) GCP
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (7.14%) Serverless
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.57%) Collibra
7 1 (3.57%) Dagster
7 1 (3.57%) Fivetran
7 1 (3.57%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) Metadata
2 7 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (21.43%) Data Lake
3 6 (21.43%) Power BI
4 4 (14.29%) Data Vault
4 4 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (7.14%) Delta Lake
5 2 (7.14%) Tableau
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.57%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (3.57%) Parquet
6 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) ERwin
1 1 (3.57%) Postman
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Aviation
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Back Office
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Architect
2 8 (28.57%) Data Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Data Modeller
3 5 (17.86%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Snowflake Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Applications Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse Architect
6 1 (3.57%) DBA
6 1 (3.57%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) MACH
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
2 1 (3.57%) PySpark
2 1 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.14%) Data Fabric
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) FMCG
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Pricing Data
4 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Analytics
1 15 (53.57%) Data Modelling
2 8 (28.57%) Data Governance
2 8 (28.57%) Data Transformation
3 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (21.43%) ETL
4 6 (21.43%) Machine Learning
4 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (17.86%) AI
5 5 (17.86%) Data Design
5 5 (17.86%) Data Management
5 5 (17.86%) Dimensional Modelling
5 5 (17.86%) Integration Patterns
5 5 (17.86%) Metadata Management
5 5 (17.86%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (14.29%) Data Strategy
6 4 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) Java
3 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) MBA
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 4 (14.29%) GDPR
3 3 (10.71%) Solvency II
4 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Databricks
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 2 (7.14%) Sparx
4 1 (3.57%) Informatica
4 1 (3.57%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) Workday