Data Architecture Contracts in the City of London

Data Architecture
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 98 104 123
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 21 23 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.20% 1.05% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.16% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 37
10th Percentile £472 £474 £465
25th Percentile £506 £548 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £725 £655
Median % change year-on-year -23.10% +10.69% -6.43%
75th Percentile £696 £925 £715
90th Percentile £724 - £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £725 £655
% change year-on-year -24.14% +10.69% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £100.00 - -

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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in the City of London

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the City of London

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the City of London

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the City of London

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 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Data Architecture
Central London

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) SAP MDG
1 3 (14.29%) SAP MDG-S
1 3 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Boomi
4 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) Collibra
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Metadata
2 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (14.29%) SAP HANA
3 2 (9.52%) Big Data
3 2 (9.52%) Power BI
4 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.52%) Maven
2 1 (4.76%) ERwin
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Back Office
2 2 (9.52%) Banking
2 2 (9.52%) Retail
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) French Language
3 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Architect
2 7 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (23.81%) Lead
4 4 (19.05%) Data Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Integration Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Integration Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Data Modeller
6 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Integration Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Data Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 3 (14.29%) Node.js
1 3 (14.29%) React
2 2 (9.52%) Hibernate
2 2 (9.52%) JPA
2 2 (9.52%) Spring
2 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Reference Data
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Data Governance
2 8 (38.10%) Data Modelling
3 7 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 6 (28.57%) Data Strategy
5 5 (23.81%) Data Management
5 5 (23.81%) Microservices
5 5 (23.81%) TOGAF
6 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (19.05%) ERP
6 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (14.29%) ArchiMate
7 3 (14.29%) Asset Management
7 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
7 3 (14.29%) Data Security
7 3 (14.29%) ETL
7 3 (14.29%) Information Management
7 3 (14.29%) Migration
7 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (14.29%) Reference Data Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Scala
3 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) TOGAF Certification
2 4 (19.05%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) SAP Certification
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (14.29%) SAP
3 2 (9.52%) Adobe
3 2 (9.52%) Databricks
3 2 (9.52%) Google
3 2 (9.52%) Informatica
3 2 (9.52%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.76%) Dell
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) Sparx