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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 91 100
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 43 25 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.86% 1.48% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 1.58% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 20
10th Percentile £464 £463 £475
25th Percentile £522 £475 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £629 £550 £713
Median % change year-on-year +14.34% -22.81% +8.78%
75th Percentile £763 £613 £888
90th Percentile £800 £719 £925
Central London median daily rate £604 £550 £725
% change year-on-year +9.80% -24.14% +10.69%
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 1,963 1,580 1,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.76% 93.60% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,342 993 1,378
10th Percentile £359 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +1.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -1.35% +1.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.18 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £29.58 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +15.41% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +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 22 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 (4.65%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (44.19%) Azure
2 9 (20.93%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) Power Platform
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (9.30%) GCP
5 4 (9.30%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.98%) SaaS
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (4.65%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.33%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.33%) Collibra
8 1 (2.33%) dbt
8 1 (2.33%) PaaS
8 1 (2.33%) Prefect
8 1 (2.33%) Serverless
8 1 (2.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Metadata
2 8 (18.60%) Power BI
3 3 (6.98%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (6.98%) Semantic Layer
3 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Pinecone
4 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Tableau
4 2 (4.65%) Weaviate
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.33%) Data Mart
5 1 (2.33%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.33%) Power Query
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) ERwin
General
1 18 (41.86%) Finance
2 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Banking
4 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.98%) Retail
7 1 (2.33%) Back Office
7 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (53.49%) Architect
2 15 (34.88%) Data Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Data Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (9.30%) Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Senior
6 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Solution Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Banking Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Data Modeller
7 1 (2.33%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Risk Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Risk Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) PySpark
2 2 (4.65%) CrewAI
2 2 (4.65%) LangChain
2 2 (4.65%) LlamaIndex
2 2 (4.65%) PyTorch
2 2 (4.65%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.33%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.33%) Kafka
3 1 (2.33%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) AI Agents
2 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.65%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) PMI
4 1 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) Data Modelling
2 16 (37.21%) Analytics
3 15 (34.88%) AI
4 12 (27.91%) Data Governance
5 10 (23.26%) ETL
6 9 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (20.93%) Roadmaps
7 8 (18.60%) Migration
8 7 (16.28%) Data Engineering
8 7 (16.28%) Data Lineage
8 7 (16.28%) Data Management
8 7 (16.28%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (16.28%) Integration Patterns
8 7 (16.28%) TOGAF
8 7 (16.28%) Translating Business Requirements
8 7 (16.28%) Use Case
9 6 (13.95%) Data Strategy
9 6 (13.95%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (13.95%) Logical Data Model
9 6 (13.95%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) SQL
2 8 (18.60%) Python
3 3 (6.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (6.98%) Scala
4 2 (4.65%) Java
5 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) SC Cleared
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) Degree
3 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.33%) CBAP
5 1 (2.33%) CISA
5 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.58%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.98%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) GRC
3 1 (2.33%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
3 1 (2.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Microsoft
2 10 (23.26%) Databricks
3 4 (9.30%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.98%) Google
5 2 (4.65%) Informatica
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle
5 2 (4.65%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.33%) HubSpot
6 1 (2.33%) IBM
6 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.33%) Qualtrics
6 1 (2.33%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.33%) Workday