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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 85 111
Rank change year-on-year -12 +26 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 27 32 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.47% 1.69% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.84% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 21
10th Percentile £440 £498 £413
25th Percentile £500 £569 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £688 £800 £738
90th Percentile £850 £825 £875
Central London median daily rate £575 £713 £650
% change year-on-year -19.30% +9.62% -

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 1,642 1,743 2,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.29% 92.03% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,059 1,548
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £767 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.73 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% +35.24% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.12 £94.94 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.08 £114.55 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

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 January 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
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 (7.41%) Apache
1 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) AWS
3 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (7.41%) dbt
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.70%) Collibra
7 1 (3.70%) Dagster
7 1 (3.70%) Fivetran
7 1 (3.70%) Prefect
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Metadata
2 6 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (18.52%) Power BI
4 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
4 4 (14.81%) Data Vault
5 3 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (11.11%) Tableau
6 2 (7.41%) Delta Lake
6 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (3.70%) MySQL
7 1 (3.70%) OLAP
7 1 (3.70%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) ERwin
General
1 12 (44.44%) Finance
2 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Aviation
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Back Office
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Data Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Data Modeller
4 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Data Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Data Integration Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Integration Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
1 2 (7.41%) PySpark
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) FMCG
4 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Analytics
2 12 (44.44%) Data Modelling
3 8 (29.63%) Data Governance
3 8 (29.63%) ETL
4 7 (25.93%) AI
4 7 (25.93%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (25.93%) Data Transformation
5 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 6 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (18.52%) Data Science
6 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
6 5 (18.52%) Physical Data Model
6 5 (18.52%) Regulatory Compliance
6 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (14.81%) Data Ingestion
7 4 (14.81%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) Scala
4 2 (7.41%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.70%) MBA
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 3 (11.11%) GDPR
2 3 (11.11%) Solvency II
3 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Databricks
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) Informatica
4 1 (3.70%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Workday