Data Architecture Contracts in the City of London

Data Architecture
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 98 117
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 27 24 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.60% 1.11% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.23% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 36
10th Percentile £468 £475 £463
25th Percentile £478 £563 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £700 £663
Median % change year-on-year -20.36% +5.66% +0.76%
75th Percentile £674 £875 £741
90th Percentile £749 £925 £791
Central London median daily rate £550 £713 £663
% change year-on-year -22.81% +7.55% +1.92%
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 1,584 1,957 3,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.62% 90.77% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,368 2,127
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £454 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.80%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 23
10th Percentile £18.15 £19.92 £14.45
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -25.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £41.48 £40.00 £53.25
90th Percentile £59.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -13.58%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in the City of London

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 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in the City of London

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in the City of London

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 30 May 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 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Magento
1 1 (3.70%) SAP MDG
1 1 (3.70%) SAP MDG-S
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Collibra
3 4 (14.81%) GCP
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) Boomi
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.70%) dbt
5 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (3.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Data Lake
2 7 (25.93%) Metadata
3 5 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (14.81%) Delta Lake
4 4 (14.81%) Power BI
5 2 (7.41%) Big Data
5 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.70%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.70%) SAP HANA
6 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.41%) Maven
2 1 (3.70%) ERwin
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Retail
5 2 (7.41%) Back Office
6 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.70%) French Language
6 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Azure Data Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Data Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Lead
3 5 (18.52%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Integration Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Data Integration Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Data Modeller
6 1 (3.70%) Lead Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Lead Data Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Product Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) GraphQL
1 3 (11.11%) Node.js
1 3 (11.11%) PySpark
1 3 (11.11%) React
2 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
2 2 (7.41%) JPA
2 2 (7.41%) Spring
2 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.70%) .NET
3 1 (3.70%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
1 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.70%) Reference Data
1 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 12 (44.44%) Data Governance
3 7 (25.93%) Data Strategy
3 7 (25.93%) ETL
4 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (18.52%) Data Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Data Management
5 5 (18.52%) ERP
5 5 (18.52%) Microservices
5 5 (18.52%) Migration
6 4 (14.81%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
7 3 (11.11%) Agile
7 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis
7 3 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (11.11%) Data Security
7 3 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) Scala
4 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Databricks
2 5 (18.52%) Informatica
3 3 (11.11%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (11.11%) Google
4 2 (7.41%) Adobe
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.41%) MuleSoft
4 2 (7.41%) Sparx
5 1 (3.70%) Dell
5 1 (3.70%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) SAP