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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 102 104
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 37 21 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.61% 1.20% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.28% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 12 20
10th Percentile £468 £472 £474
25th Percentile £513 £506 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £558 £725
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -23.10% +10.69%
75th Percentile £788 £696 £925
90th Percentile £837 £724 -
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £725
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 1,962 1,638 1,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.19% 93.28% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 1,037 1,404
10th Percentile £357 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £809
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
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 3 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 (5.41%) Apache
1 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.70%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (8.11%) GCP
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (8.11%) SaaS
5 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.41%) Collibra
6 2 (5.41%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.70%) dbt
7 1 (2.70%) iPaaS
7 1 (2.70%) PaaS
7 1 (2.70%) Prefect
7 1 (2.70%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Metadata
2 6 (16.22%) Power BI
3 4 (10.81%) Data Lake
4 3 (8.11%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.41%) Data Vault
5 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.41%) Delta Lake
5 2 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.70%) DB2
6 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.70%) OLAP
6 1 (2.70%) Power Query
6 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.70%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) ERwin
General
1 13 (35.14%) Finance
2 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Banking
4 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Aviation
6 1 (2.70%) Back Office
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (54.05%) Architect
2 10 (27.03%) Data Architect
3 9 (24.32%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior
7 2 (5.41%) Data Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Data Modeller
7 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Lead
7 2 (5.41%) Snowflake Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Systems Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Data Integration Architect
8 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Principal Architect
8 1 (2.70%) Principal Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Architect
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) PySpark
2 1 (2.70%) .NET
2 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.41%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) FMCG
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) PMI
4 1 (2.70%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Data Modelling
2 13 (35.14%) Analytics
3 12 (32.43%) AI
4 10 (27.03%) Data Governance
5 8 (21.62%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (21.62%) ETL
5 8 (21.62%) Integration Patterns
6 7 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
6 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (18.92%) TOGAF
7 6 (16.22%) Agile
7 6 (16.22%) Data Lineage
7 6 (16.22%) Data Management
7 6 (16.22%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (16.22%) Migration
8 5 (13.51%) Data Engineering
8 5 (13.51%) Logical Data Model
8 5 (13.51%) Physical Data Model
8 5 (13.51%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) Scala
4 2 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (5.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Degree
2 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) CBAP
4 1 (2.70%) CISA
4 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.11%) QA
3 2 (5.41%) GDPR
4 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.70%) GRC
4 1 (2.70%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (2.70%) NIST
4 1 (2.70%) SEPA
4 1 (2.70%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (24.32%) Databricks
3 4 (10.81%) Salesforce
4 3 (8.11%) Google
4 3 (8.11%) Informatica
4 3 (8.11%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.70%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.70%) IBM
5 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Qualtrics
5 1 (2.70%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.70%) Workday