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

6 months to
17 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 91 87
Rank change year-on-year +19 -4 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 77 28 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.59% 1.63% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 1.73% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 22 28
10th Percentile £459 £453 £504
25th Percentile £525 £475 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -14.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £734 £675 £778
90th Percentile £783 £717 £825
Central London median daily rate £650 £575 £675
% change year-on-year +12.96% -14.81% +3.85%

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.

6 months to
17 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,953 1,621 1,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.18% 94.52% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,346 1,108 1,209
10th Percentile £372 £328 £363
25th Percentile £456 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £686 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £773 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 17
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.90 £16.70
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.63 £23.13
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.04 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% -36.39% +36.00%
75th Percentile £27.35 £35.88 £112.00
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.91% -21.43% +27.27%

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 17 October 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 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 17 October 2026. 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
Moorgate - 1 £475 -
Data Architecture
Central London

Data Architecture Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Data Modelling62.3%48
2Analytics55.8%43
3Data Governance39.0%30
4Stakeholder Engagement32.5%25
5Data Engineering31.2%24
6Roadmaps29.9%23
7AI26.0%20
7Data Strategy26.0%20
9Migration24.7%19
10Business Intelligence23.4%18
10CI/CD23.4%18
10DevOps23.4%18
13Decision-Making22.1%17
14Data Transformation20.8%16
14Stakeholder Management20.8%16
16Logical Data Model19.5%15
17Lakehouse18.2%14
18Data Integration16.9%13
18ETL16.9%13
18Integration Patterns16.9%13