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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 97 101
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 33 20 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.58% 1.13% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.23% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 10 24
10th Percentile £475 £508 £466
25th Percentile £506 £525 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £558 £718
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -22.30% +10.38%
75th Percentile £763 £716 £888
90th Percentile £844 £788 £925
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £718
% change year-on-year +1.77% -21.25% +10.38%

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 1,848 1,623 2,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.29% 91.95% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,279 1,035 1,497
10th Percentile £362 £368 £350
25th Percentile £444 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £674 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 12
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £19.03
25th Percentile £19.11 £26.25 £20.15
Median hourly rate £27.75 £33.58 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.35% +3.31% -13.91%
75th Percentile £46.29 £47.50 £43.07
90th Percentile £59.13 £112.00 £49.90
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -19.66% +16.86% -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 20 March 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%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.03%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) AWS
3 6 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 5 (15.15%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (9.09%) SaaS
5 3 (9.09%) Snowflake
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.06%) dbt
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.03%) Fivetran
7 1 (3.03%) iPaaS
7 1 (3.03%) PaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Serverless
7 1 (3.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) Metadata
2 6 (18.18%) Power BI
3 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
3 4 (12.12%) Data Vault
3 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (9.09%) Tableau
5 2 (6.06%) Delta Lake
5 2 (6.06%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (3.03%) MySQL
6 1 (3.03%) OLAP
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) ERwin
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 13 (39.39%) Finance
2 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Banking
4 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Aviation
4 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Back Office
6 1 (3.03%) Legal
6 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) Architect
2 10 (30.30%) Data Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Data Modeller
3 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Data Integration Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Data Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Tableau Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) PySpark
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) Middleware
2 1 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.06%) AI Agents
2 2 (6.06%) Data Fabric
2 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) FMCG
3 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Data Modelling
2 12 (36.36%) Analytics
3 10 (30.30%) AI
4 8 (24.24%) Data Governance
4 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
5 7 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (21.21%) Data Transformation
5 7 (21.21%) ETL
6 6 (18.18%) Data Management
6 6 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (18.18%) Physical Data Model
6 6 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
6 6 (18.18%) TOGAF
7 5 (15.15%) Data Engineering
7 5 (15.15%) Data Integration
7 5 (15.15%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (15.15%) Logical Data Model
7 5 (15.15%) Machine Learning
7 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (12.12%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) Scala
4 2 (6.06%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 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
4 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.03%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) Databricks
3 3 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.06%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Workday
5 1 (3.03%) Informatica
5 1 (3.03%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) SAP
5 1 (3.03%) Sitecore