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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 103 88
Rank change year-on-year +36 -15 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 77 24 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.45% 1.38% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 1.46% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 20 28
10th Percentile £459 £445 £504
25th Percentile £525 £475 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £597 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% -11.63% +3.05%
75th Percentile £738 £688 £778
90th Percentile £797 £729 £825
Central London median daily rate £630 £597 £675
% change year-on-year +5.62% -11.63% +3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £100.00 -

All Process & 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 1,993 1,643 1,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.33% 94.21% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,101 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £325 £371
25th Percentile £456 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £773 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £50.59 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.30% -18.57% +30.84%

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 26 September 2026.

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
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Moorgate - 1 £475 -
Data Architecture
Central London

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 6 (7.79%) Apache
1 6 (7.79%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.30%) Confluence
4 1 (1.30%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.30%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (48.05%) Azure
2 19 (24.68%) AWS
3 16 (20.78%) Snowflake
4 15 (19.48%) Power Platform
5 10 (12.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (10.39%) GCP
7 6 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.79%) dbt
8 4 (5.19%) Azure Databricks
9 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (3.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (3.90%) Serverless
10 2 (2.60%) Prefect
10 2 (2.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (1.30%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (1.30%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.08%) Metadata
2 14 (18.18%) Power BI
3 9 (11.69%) Data Lake
3 9 (11.69%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
4 5 (6.49%) Oracle Database
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.19%) Data Mart
5 4 (5.19%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (3.90%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.60%) Big Data
7 2 (2.60%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.60%) Data Vault
7 2 (2.60%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.60%) Milvus
7 2 (2.60%) Pinecone
7 2 (2.60%) Tableau
7 2 (2.60%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Git
2 2 (2.60%) JIRA
3 1 (1.30%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.30%) MLflow
General
1 37 (48.05%) Finance
2 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 21 (27.27%) Banking
4 13 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.90%) Billing
7 3 (3.90%) Retail
8 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Front Office
8 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.60%) Marketing
8 2 (2.60%) Military
9 1 (1.30%) Advertising
9 1 (1.30%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.30%) Legal
9 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (55.84%) Architect
2 33 (42.86%) Data Architect
3 13 (16.88%) Data Engineer
4 8 (10.39%) Lead
5 7 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (7.79%) Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (5.19%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Senior
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Consultant
9 3 (3.90%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Data Modeller
9 3 (3.90%) Salesforce Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Data Architect
10 2 (2.60%) AWS Architect
10 2 (2.60%) Azure Architect
10 2 (2.60%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Data Architect
10 2 (2.60%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) PySpark
2 5 (6.49%) REST
3 4 (5.19%) SOAP
4 3 (3.90%) Middleware
5 2 (2.60%) CrewAI
5 2 (2.60%) JSON
5 2 (2.60%) Kafka
5 2 (2.60%) LangChain
5 2 (2.60%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (2.60%) LlamaIndex
5 2 (2.60%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.60%) Qwen
5 2 (2.60%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.60%) XML
6 1 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.30%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.30%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.30%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.99%) Data Structures
3 8 (10.39%) Product Ownership
4 7 (9.09%) AI Agents
5 6 (7.79%) Management Information System
6 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.90%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.60%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (2.60%) Hedge funds
8 2 (2.60%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.60%) Reinsurance
9 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.30%) PMI
9 1 (1.30%) Pricing Data
9 1 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (63.64%) Data Modelling
2 44 (57.14%) Analytics
3 31 (40.26%) Data Governance
4 26 (33.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 25 (32.47%) Data Engineering
6 20 (25.97%) AI
6 20 (25.97%) Roadmaps
7 19 (24.68%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (24.68%) CI/CD
7 19 (24.68%) Migration
8 18 (23.38%) Data Strategy
8 18 (23.38%) DevOps
9 16 (20.78%) Decision-Making
9 16 (20.78%) Logical Data Model
9 16 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (19.48%) Data Transformation
11 14 (18.18%) ETL
11 14 (18.18%) Lakehouse
12 13 (16.88%) Integration Patterns
13 12 (15.58%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 31 (40.26%) SQL
2 19 (24.68%) Python
3 6 (7.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.90%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.60%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.30%) Java
6 1 (1.30%) Scala
6 1 (1.30%) SOQL
6 1 (1.30%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.60%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.60%) Degree
3 2 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.30%) CBAP
4 1 (1.30%) CISA
4 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.30%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (31.17%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.49%) GDPR
3 3 (3.90%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.30%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.30%) NCSC
4 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.30%) SEPA
4 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (35.06%) Databricks
2 19 (24.68%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.09%) Oracle
3 7 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.19%) SAP
5 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.60%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.60%) Informatica
6 2 (2.60%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.60%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.30%) Google
7 1 (1.30%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.30%) IBM
7 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.30%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.30%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Talend
7 1 (1.30%) Teradata