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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 93 109
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 25 36 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.43% 1.70% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.85% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 28
10th Percentile £450 £502 £411
25th Percentile £475 £572 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £653
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.45% +0.38%
75th Percentile £688 £769 £721
90th Percentile £720 £825 £803
Central London median daily rate £575 £675 £653
% change year-on-year -14.81% +3.45% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £100.00 - -

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 1,647 1,941 2,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.17% 91.90% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 1,225 1,883
10th Percentile £321 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £701
90th Percentile £764 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 16
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +8.00% -41.52%
75th Percentile £56.75 £82.19 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.07% +34.62% -38.10%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture 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 20 September 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
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 20 September 2025. 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Data Architecture
Central London

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (16.00%) Collibra
4 4 (16.00%) Snowflake
5 3 (12.00%) GCP
5 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (8.00%) dbt
6 2 (8.00%) SaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.00%) iPaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Metadata
2 6 (24.00%) Data Lake
3 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.00%) Delta Lake
4 3 (12.00%) Power BI
5 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
6 1 (4.00%) Big Data
6 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.00%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (4.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) ERwin
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.00%) Maven
1 1 (4.00%) Postman
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Back Office
4 2 (8.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) French Language
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Data Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Data Architect
4 5 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Senior
6 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Architect
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Business Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Data Product Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle Data Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Product Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared DBA
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) PySpark
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (4.00%) JPA
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) MACH
2 1 (4.00%) Spring
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Pricing Data
1 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
1 1 (4.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Data Modelling
2 9 (36.00%) Data Governance
3 8 (32.00%) Analytics
4 7 (28.00%) Data Strategy
4 7 (28.00%) ETL
5 6 (24.00%) Data Engineering
6 5 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (20.00%) Migration
6 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (16.00%) Agile
7 4 (16.00%) Data Ingestion
7 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (16.00%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (12.00%) Data Design
8 3 (12.00%) ERP
8 3 (12.00%) TOGAF
8 3 (12.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (16.00%) Scala
4 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) MBA
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Databricks
2 4 (16.00%) Informatica
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) Google
4 2 (8.00%) Sparx
5 1 (4.00%) Adobe
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce