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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 89 101
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 56 26 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.29% 1.45% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 1.54% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 19 21
10th Percentile £468 £470 £485
25th Percentile £550 £481 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £565 £750
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -24.67% +12.15%
75th Percentile £759 £663 £875
90th Percentile £800 £715 £925
Central London median daily rate £650 £558 £763
% change year-on-year +16.59% -26.89% +14.02%
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 2,099 1,687 1,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.85% 93.88% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 1,080 1,349
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £451 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -2.62% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.02 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.43 £20.36
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.13 £50.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £66.25 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -21.08% +11.47% -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 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
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 (3.57%) Confluence
1 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.79%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.57%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.79%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (48.21%) Azure
2 15 (26.79%) Power Platform
3 12 (21.43%) AWS
4 8 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 6 (10.71%) GCP
6 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.36%) SaaS
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.57%) dbt
9 2 (3.57%) Serverless
9 2 (3.57%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.79%) Matillion
10 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.00%) Power BI
2 12 (21.43%) Metadata
3 4 (7.14%) Data Mart
3 4 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 4 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.36%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.36%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.57%) Big Data
5 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.57%) Pinecone
5 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (3.57%) Tableau
5 2 (3.57%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) JIRA
2 2 (3.57%) ERwin
3 1 (1.79%) ER Studio
General
1 28 (50.00%) Finance
2 15 (26.79%) Banking
3 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
4 8 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.36%) Retail
7 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Advertising
8 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Marketing
8 1 (1.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (57.14%) Architect
2 21 (37.50%) Data Architect
3 8 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (12.50%) Lead
5 5 (8.93%) Analyst
5 5 (8.93%) Senior
6 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Senior Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Data Architect
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Principal Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
9 1 (1.79%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 1 (1.79%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
9 1 (1.79%) Data Migration Lead
9 1 (1.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 1 (1.79%) Presales Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) PySpark
2 2 (3.57%) CrewAI
2 2 (3.57%) LangChain
2 2 (3.57%) LlamaIndex
2 2 (3.57%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.57%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.79%) .NET
3 1 (1.79%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.79%) Kafka
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.79%) REST
3 1 (1.79%) Snowpark
3 1 (1.79%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.71%) AI Agents
3 5 (8.93%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.57%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.79%) PMI
7 1 (1.79%) Replication
7 1 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) Data Modelling
2 30 (53.57%) Analytics
3 21 (37.50%) AI
4 17 (30.36%) Data Engineering
4 17 (30.36%) Data Governance
5 16 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (25.00%) ETL
7 13 (23.21%) Data Strategy
8 12 (21.43%) Roadmaps
9 11 (19.64%) Decision-Making
9 11 (19.64%) Migration
9 11 (19.64%) Use Case
10 10 (17.86%) CI/CD
10 10 (17.86%) TOGAF
11 9 (16.07%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (16.07%) Machine Learning
11 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
12 8 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
12 8 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.93%) SQL
2 12 (21.43%) Python
3 6 (10.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (5.36%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.57%) Java
5 2 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.93%) Degree
3 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.57%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.79%) CBAP
4 1 (1.79%) CISA
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (5.36%) QA
4 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.79%) GRC
4 1 (1.79%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.79%) NIST
4 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (32.14%) Databricks
2 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.71%) Oracle
4 5 (8.93%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.36%) Google
5 3 (5.36%) SAP
6 2 (3.57%) Alteryx
6 2 (3.57%) Informatica
6 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.79%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.79%) IBM
7 1 (1.79%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.79%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.79%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.79%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.79%) Workday