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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 86 117
Rank change year-on-year -14 +31 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 29 40 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.60% 1.94% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.11% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 19
10th Percentile £475 £479 £413
25th Percentile £505 £525 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £775 £708
90th Percentile £915 £825 £740
Central London median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -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 1,650 1,897 2,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.76% 92.04% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,158 1,637
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £788 £804
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £43.33 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%

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 19 December 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 2 (6.90%) Apache
1 2 (6.90%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) Snowflake
4 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (10.34%) dbt
5 3 (10.34%) GCP
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (6.90%) Serverless
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.45%) Collibra
7 1 (3.45%) Dagster
7 1 (3.45%) Fivetran
7 1 (3.45%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Metadata
2 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (17.24%) Power BI
3 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
3 4 (13.79%) Data Vault
3 4 (13.79%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (6.90%) Delta Lake
4 2 (6.90%) Tableau
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.45%) Parquet
5 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) ERwin
1 1 (3.45%) Postman
General
1 13 (44.83%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Aviation
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Back Office
4 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Architect
2 8 (27.59%) Data Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Data Modeller
3 5 (17.24%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Snowflake Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Data Architect
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Data Migration Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Migration Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle Data Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) .NET
1 2 (6.90%) PySpark
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) MACH
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.90%) Data Fabric
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) FMCG
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Pricing Data
4 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.45%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Analytics
2 13 (44.83%) Data Modelling
3 8 (27.59%) Data Governance
3 8 (27.59%) Data Transformation
3 8 (27.59%) Roadmaps
4 7 (24.14%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (24.14%) ETL
4 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (20.69%) AI
5 6 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (20.69%) Machine Learning
5 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (17.24%) Dimensional Modelling
6 5 (17.24%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (17.24%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (13.79%) Data Design
7 4 (13.79%) Data Engineering
7 4 (13.79%) Metadata Management
7 4 (13.79%) Physical Data Model
7 4 (13.79%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) Scala
4 1 (3.45%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) MBA
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.79%) GDPR
3 3 (10.34%) Solvency II
4 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Databricks
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.45%) Informatica
4 1 (3.45%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Sparx
4 1 (3.45%) Workday