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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 96 106
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 39 25 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.70% 1.44% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.54% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 18
10th Percentile £473 £460 £475
25th Percentile £513 £475 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £738
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -25.42% +12.60%
75th Percentile £763 £613 £913
90th Percentile £805 £719 £925
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £750
% change year-on-year +4.55% -26.67% +14.50%
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 1,940 1,624 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.72% 93.44% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,314 1,023 1,381
10th Percentile £360 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £28.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% +12.60% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -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 14 May 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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (41.03%) Azure
2 8 (20.51%) Power Platform
3 7 (17.95%) AWS
4 4 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (7.69%) GCP
5 3 (7.69%) SaaS
5 3 (7.69%) Snowflake
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (5.13%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.56%) Collibra
7 1 (2.56%) dbt
7 1 (2.56%) iPaaS
7 1 (2.56%) Prefect
7 1 (2.56%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) Metadata
2 8 (20.51%) Power BI
3 3 (7.69%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
3 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.13%) Data Vault
4 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.56%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (2.56%) Power Query
5 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.56%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.56%) Tableau
5 1 (2.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) ERwin
General
1 16 (41.03%) Finance
2 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Banking
4 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.69%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Aviation
6 1 (2.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Architect
2 13 (33.33%) Data Architect
3 6 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Data Modeller
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Banking Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Data Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Principal Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Risk Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Risk Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) PySpark
2 1 (2.56%) CrewAI
2 1 (2.56%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) LangChain
2 1 (2.56%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.56%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) AI Agents
1 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.13%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) PMI
3 1 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) Data Modelling
2 15 (38.46%) Analytics
3 14 (35.90%) AI
4 11 (28.21%) Data Governance
5 9 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
7 7 (17.95%) Data Lineage
7 7 (17.95%) ETL
7 7 (17.95%) Integration Patterns
7 7 (17.95%) TOGAF
8 6 (15.38%) Data Engineering
8 6 (15.38%) Data Management
8 6 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (15.38%) Logical Data Model
8 6 (15.38%) Migration
8 6 (15.38%) Physical Data Model
8 6 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
8 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (15.38%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) SQL
2 6 (15.38%) Python
3 3 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (5.13%) Scala
5 1 (2.56%) Java
5 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Degree
1 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) CBAP
4 1 (2.56%) CISA
4 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) GRC
3 1 (2.56%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.56%) SEPA
3 1 (2.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) Databricks
3 3 (7.69%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.13%) Informatica
4 2 (5.13%) SAP
5 1 (2.56%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.56%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.56%) IBM
5 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) Qualtrics
5 1 (2.56%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.56%) Workday