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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 96 99
Rank change year-on-year +23 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 66 26 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.75% 1.39% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 1.48% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 19 24
10th Percentile £474 £470 £478
25th Percentile £543 £481 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -1.89%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £778
90th Percentile £803 £731 £906
Central London median daily rate £650 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -1.89%
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 2,085 1,761 1,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.77% 94.07% 91.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 1,135 1,301
10th Percentile £368 £335 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 18
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.71
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% -7.46% -4.29%
75th Percentile £41.25 £56.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -28.74% -1.52% -5.71%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 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 4 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.55%) Apache
2 3 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.03%) Confluence
4 1 (1.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.52%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (45.45%) Azure
2 14 (21.21%) Power Platform
3 13 (19.70%) AWS
4 11 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 8 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.06%) GCP
8 3 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.03%) dbt
9 2 (3.03%) Prefect
9 2 (3.03%) SaaS
9 2 (3.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (3.03%) Serverless
10 1 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.52%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.70%) Metadata
1 13 (19.70%) Power BI
2 5 (7.58%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.06%) Data Lake
3 4 (6.06%) Data Mart
3 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.06%) Oracle Database
3 4 (6.06%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (4.55%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.03%) Big Data
5 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.03%) Pinecone
5 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.03%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Git
1 3 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.52%) ERwin
2 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (45.45%) Finance
2 20 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 17 (25.76%) Banking
4 11 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Front Office
7 2 (3.03%) Military
7 2 (3.03%) Retail
8 1 (1.52%) Advertising
8 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (56.06%) Architect
2 26 (39.39%) Data Architect
3 10 (15.15%) Data Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (10.61%) Lead
6 6 (9.09%) Analyst
6 6 (9.09%) Senior
7 5 (7.58%) Senior Architect
8 4 (6.06%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Senior Data Architect
9 3 (4.55%) Data Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) Salesforce Architect
10 2 (3.03%) AWS Architect
10 2 (3.03%) Business Analyst
10 2 (3.03%) Data Modeller
10 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (3.03%) Principal Architect
10 2 (3.03%) Systems Analyst
11 1 (1.52%) Banking Analyst
11 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) PySpark
2 4 (6.06%) REST
3 3 (4.55%) Middleware
3 3 (4.55%) SOAP
4 2 (3.03%) CrewAI
4 2 (3.03%) Kafka
4 2 (3.03%) LangChain
4 2 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (3.03%) LlamaIndex
4 2 (3.03%) PyTorch
4 2 (3.03%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.52%) .NET
5 1 (1.52%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.52%) JSON
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (1.52%) Snowpark
5 1 (1.52%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.52%) Visualforce
5 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 6 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.58%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.58%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (7.58%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.55%) Reference Data
6 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.03%) Fixed Income
6 2 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.03%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.52%) PMI
7 1 (1.52%) Pricing Data
7 1 (1.52%) Replication
7 1 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (57.58%) Analytics
1 38 (57.58%) Data Modelling
2 21 (31.82%) Data Governance
3 20 (30.30%) AI
4 18 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (27.27%) Data Engineering
5 15 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 15 (22.73%) Roadmaps
5 15 (22.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 14 (21.21%) DevOps
6 14 (21.21%) ETL
7 13 (19.70%) Data Strategy
7 13 (19.70%) Logical Data Model
8 12 (18.18%) Agile
9 11 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 11 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
10 10 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (15.15%) Migration
10 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (15.15%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 26 (39.39%) SQL
2 18 (27.27%) Python
3 6 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.55%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.03%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.52%) Java
6 1 (1.52%) Scala
6 1 (1.52%) SOQL
6 1 (1.52%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.03%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.52%) CBAP
5 1 (1.52%) CISA
5 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.09%) GDPR
3 3 (4.55%) QA
4 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.52%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.52%) NIST
4 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.52%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (28.79%) Databricks
1 19 (28.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.58%) Oracle
4 3 (4.55%) SAP
4 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.03%) Alteryx
5 2 (3.03%) Google
5 2 (3.03%) Informatica
5 2 (3.03%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.03%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.52%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.52%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.52%) IBM
6 1 (1.52%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.52%) Qualtrics
6 1 (1.52%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.52%) Workday