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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 97 107
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 33 19 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.48% 1.08% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.16% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 10 23
10th Percentile £461 £486 £475
25th Percentile £509 £516 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £558 £725
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -23.10% +11.54%
75th Percentile £781 £707 £900
90th Percentile £840 £743 £925
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £725
% change year-on-year +4.55% -24.14% +11.54%
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 1,914 1,634 2,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.06% 92.79% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,316 1,043 1,421
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £574 £550
% change year-on-year -4.14% +4.32% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -33.77%
75th Percentile £52.16 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.59% +8.00% -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 19 April 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 (6.06%) Apache
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.03%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) Power Platform
4 4 (12.12%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (9.09%) SaaS
5 3 (9.09%) Snowflake
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.06%) dbt
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (6.06%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.03%) Azure AI
7 1 (3.03%) Collibra
7 1 (3.03%) Dagster
7 1 (3.03%) Fivetran
7 1 (3.03%) Prefect
7 1 (3.03%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) Metadata
2 7 (21.21%) Power BI
3 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
3 4 (12.12%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (9.09%) Data Vault
4 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (6.06%) Delta Lake
5 2 (6.06%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.06%) Tableau
6 1 (3.03%) MySQL
6 1 (3.03%) OLAP
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (3.03%) Power Query
6 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.03%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) ERwin
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 13 (39.39%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Banking
4 3 (9.09%) Aviation
4 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.03%) Back Office
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Legal
6 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Data Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Data Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Data Modeller
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Business Systems Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Data Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Data Integration Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Principal Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Principal Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) PySpark
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) AI Agents
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) FMCG
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Data Modelling
2 13 (39.39%) Analytics
3 11 (33.33%) AI
4 8 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (24.24%) Data Governance
4 8 (24.24%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (24.24%) ETL
5 7 (21.21%) Data Transformation
5 7 (21.21%) TOGAF
6 6 (18.18%) Data Engineering
6 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (18.18%) Logical Data Model
6 6 (18.18%) Physical Data Model
6 6 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
6 6 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (15.15%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (15.15%) Machine Learning
7 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (15.15%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) SQL
2 4 (12.12%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) Scala
4 2 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (6.06%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.09%) Solvency II
3 2 (6.06%) GDPR
3 2 (6.06%) QA
4 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.03%) GRC
4 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (3.03%) NIST
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Databricks
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Google
2 3 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 3 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (6.06%) Informatica
4 1 (3.03%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Qualtrics
4 1 (3.03%) Sitecore
4 1 (3.03%) Workday