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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 89 119
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 29 39 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.70% 1.86% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.03% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 22
10th Percentile £475 £504 £413
25th Percentile £481 £567 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £675 £778 £715
90th Percentile £717 £825 £773
Central London median daily rate £575 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% -

All Process and 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 1,606 1,918 2,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.08% 91.60% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,173 1,745
10th Percentile £325 £372 £363
25th Percentile £418 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £750 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 17
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +54.55% -36.40%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £70.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -36.05%

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 4 November 2025.

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 1 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) Snowflake
4 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
5 4 (13.79%) GCP
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (10.34%) Collibra
6 3 (10.34%) dbt
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (6.90%) SaaS
7 2 (6.90%) Serverless
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (3.45%) Fivetran
8 1 (3.45%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) Metadata
2 7 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (17.24%) Data Lake
3 5 (17.24%) Power BI
4 4 (13.79%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (10.34%) Data Vault
5 3 (10.34%) Delta Lake
6 2 (6.90%) Tableau
7 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
7 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.45%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (3.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) ERwin
1 1 (3.45%) Postman
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Aviation
4 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Back Office
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Data Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Data Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Data Modeller
4 3 (10.34%) Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Data Architect
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Data Product Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle Data Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Product Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) PySpark
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) MACH
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Pricing Data
3 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.45%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Data Modelling
2 12 (41.38%) Analytics
3 9 (31.03%) Data Governance
4 8 (27.59%) ETL
5 7 (24.14%) Data Engineering
6 6 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (20.69%) Data Transformation
6 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (17.24%) Data Management
7 5 (17.24%) Data Strategy
7 5 (17.24%) Machine Learning
7 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
7 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (13.79%) Agile
8 4 (13.79%) Metadata Management
8 4 (13.79%) Migration
8 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (13.79%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (13.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) Scala
4 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) MBA
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) GDPR
3 2 (6.90%) Solvency II
4 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Databricks
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Informatica
4 2 (6.90%) Sparx
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.45%) Workday