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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 97 108
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 49 26 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.04% 1.52% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 1.62% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 18 20
10th Percentile £463 £468 £475
25th Percentile £543 £478 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £558 £713
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -21.75% +7.55%
75th Percentile £759 £674 £888
90th Percentile £797 £749 £925
Central London median daily rate £650 £550 £725
% change year-on-year +18.18% -24.14% +9.43%
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 2,055 1,601 1,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.70% 93.74% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,015 1,375
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £450 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -2.30% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 15 13
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.70 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +8.57% -25.00%
75th Percentile £47.58 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £61.83 £78.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £28.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -4.39% +2.48% -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 12 June 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 (4.08%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.04%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.08%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.94%) Azure
2 14 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 9 (18.37%) AWS
4 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (10.20%) Snowflake
5 4 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (8.16%) GCP
6 3 (6.12%) SaaS
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.08%) dbt
7 2 (4.08%) Serverless
7 2 (4.08%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.04%) Collibra
8 1 (2.04%) Matillion
8 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.04%) Prefect
8 1 (2.04%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.53%) Power BI
2 10 (20.41%) Metadata
3 4 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.12%) Data Mart
4 3 (6.12%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.12%) Oracle Database
4 3 (6.12%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.08%) Pinecone
5 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (4.08%) Tableau
5 2 (4.08%) Weaviate
6 1 (2.04%) GIS
6 1 (2.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) ERwin
3 1 (2.04%) ER Studio
General
1 24 (48.98%) Finance
2 12 (24.49%) Banking
2 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.12%) Retail
6 1 (2.04%) Advertising
6 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (55.10%) Architect
2 17 (34.69%) Data Architect
3 7 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (12.24%) Lead
5 4 (8.16%) Analyst
5 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Senior
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Principal Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Data Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Systems Analyst
8 1 (2.04%) Cloud Consultant
8 1 (2.04%) Digital Architect
8 1 (2.04%) Digital Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) PySpark
2 2 (4.08%) CrewAI
2 2 (4.08%) LangChain
2 2 (4.08%) LlamaIndex
2 2 (4.08%) PyTorch
2 2 (4.08%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.04%) .NET
3 1 (2.04%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.04%) Kafka
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) Snowpark
3 1 (2.04%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.24%) AI Agents
3 4 (8.16%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.08%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.04%) PMI
6 1 (2.04%) Replication
6 1 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) Data Modelling
2 23 (46.94%) Analytics
3 18 (36.73%) AI
4 15 (30.61%) Data Governance
5 14 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (26.53%) Data Engineering
6 13 (26.53%) ETL
7 11 (22.45%) Data Strategy
7 11 (22.45%) Roadmaps
8 10 (20.41%) Migration
9 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
9 9 (18.37%) TOGAF
9 9 (18.37%) Use Case
10 8 (16.33%) Decision-Making
10 8 (16.33%) Integration Patterns
10 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (14.29%) Data Lineage
11 7 (14.29%) Machine Learning
11 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) SQL
2 11 (22.45%) Python
3 5 (10.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (6.12%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.08%) Java
5 2 (4.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.20%) Degree
3 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.08%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.04%) CBAP
4 1 (2.04%) CISA
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.49%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) QA
3 2 (4.08%) GDPR
4 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.04%) GRC
4 1 (2.04%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (2.04%) NIST
4 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.04%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (26.53%) Databricks
3 5 (10.20%) Oracle
3 5 (10.20%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.12%) Google
4 3 (6.12%) SAP
5 2 (4.08%) Alteryx
5 2 (4.08%) Informatica
6 1 (2.04%) HubSpot
6 1 (2.04%) IBM
6 1 (2.04%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.04%) Qualtrics
6 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.04%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.04%) Workday