Data Architecture Contracts in London

Data Architecture
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 173 183
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 209 243 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.67% 1.36% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.54% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 184 288
10th Percentile £464 £463 £500
25th Percentile £513 £554 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £853 £755
90th Percentile £825 £925 £825
England median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £68.25 - £34.33
25th Percentile £76.88 - £34.44
Median hourly rate £92.50 £35.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +164.29% -0.71% -61.22%
75th Percentile £96.88 - £36.31
90th Percentile £98.75 - £36.58
England median hourly rate £80.50 £29.83 £35.75
% change year-on-year +169.91% -16.57% -60.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in London

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in London

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in London

Data Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Architecture in London

Data Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Architecture in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Architecture in London

Data Architecture
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +1 22 £550 -24.14% 12
East London - 7 £625 -
West London +13 3 £600 +27.66% 27
South London - 2 £600 -
North London - 1 - -
Data Architecture
England

Data Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 20 (9.57%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.35%) Apache
4 4 (1.91%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Drupal
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.87%) Aladdin
3 5 (2.39%) SAP MDG
3 5 (2.39%) SAP MDG-S
4 4 (1.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.96%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.48%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 85 (40.67%) Azure
2 72 (34.45%) AWS
3 37 (17.70%) GCP
4 35 (16.75%) Snowflake
5 31 (14.83%) Power Platform
6 21 (10.05%) dbt
7 14 (6.70%) SaaS
8 13 (6.22%) Amazon S3
9 12 (5.74%) GitHub
10 11 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (4.78%) IaaS
11 10 (4.78%) Serverless
12 9 (4.31%) PaaS
13 8 (3.83%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.83%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.96%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.48%) DNS
2 1 (0.48%) Firewall
2 1 (0.48%) IPsec
2 1 (0.48%) Network Security
2 1 (0.48%) SSL
2 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (16.27%) Data Lake
2 34 (16.27%) Metadata
3 29 (13.88%) Power BI
4 20 (9.57%) Big Data
5 15 (7.18%) Tableau
6 14 (6.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (6.70%) Hadoop
7 12 (5.74%) NoSQL
7 12 (5.74%) Relational Database
8 11 (5.26%) BigQuery
9 9 (4.31%) Data Vault
9 9 (4.31%) SQL Server
10 8 (3.83%) Oracle Database
11 7 (3.35%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (2.87%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (2.39%) Neo4j
13 5 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (2.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (5.74%) ERwin
2 5 (2.39%) GitLab
2 5 (2.39%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.39%) JIRA
3 4 (1.91%) Liquibase
3 4 (1.91%) Maven
4 1 (0.48%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.48%) Git
4 1 (0.48%) MLflow
4 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 66 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 61 (29.19%) Finance
3 35 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (13.40%) Public Sector
5 22 (10.53%) Banking
6 9 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.83%) Retail
8 7 (3.35%) Back Office
9 6 (2.87%) Marketing
10 5 (2.39%) Local Government
11 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.96%) French Language
12 2 (0.96%) Front Office
12 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.48%) Law
13 1 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 130 (62.20%) Architect
2 93 (44.50%) Data Architect
3 25 (11.96%) Data Engineer
4 23 (11.00%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (10.05%) Lead
6 20 (9.57%) Senior
7 14 (6.70%) Analyst
8 12 (5.74%) Enterprise Architect
8 12 (5.74%) Senior Architect
9 11 (5.26%) Senior Data Architect
10 10 (4.78%) Azure Architect
11 8 (3.83%) Azure Data Architect
11 8 (3.83%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.83%) Data Analyst
12 7 (3.35%) Data Modeller
13 6 (2.87%) AWS Data Engineer
13 6 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.87%) Cloud Architect
14 5 (2.39%) Lead Data Engineer
14 5 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.22%) Kafka
2 11 (5.26%) React
3 8 (3.83%) Jinja
4 7 (3.35%) Node.js
5 6 (2.87%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.39%) Plotly
7 4 (1.91%) Middleware
7 4 (1.91%) Spring
7 4 (1.91%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.44%) D3.js
8 3 (1.44%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.44%) JPA
8 3 (1.44%) PySpark
9 2 (0.96%) .NET
9 2 (0.96%) Shiny
10 1 (0.48%) ADO
10 1 (0.48%) HTML
10 1 (0.48%) SAML
10 1 (0.48%) Web Services
10 1 (0.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.61%) Reference Data
2 14 (6.70%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (6.22%) Data Structures
4 11 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.35%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.87%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.39%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.91%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.44%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.96%) Equities
10 2 (0.96%) Freedom of Information
10 2 (0.96%) IoT
10 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.35%) Linux
2 5 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.96%) Unix
3 2 (0.96%) Windows
3 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (51.67%) Data Modelling
2 80 (38.28%) Data Governance
3 62 (29.67%) ETL
4 60 (28.71%) Analytics
5 48 (22.97%) Business Intelligence
6 45 (21.53%) Migration
7 40 (19.14%) Data Strategy
8 38 (18.18%) Data Integration
9 37 (17.70%) Roadmaps
10 34 (16.27%) Data Management
11 32 (15.31%) Agile
11 32 (15.31%) Data Pipeline
12 30 (14.35%) Data Engineering
12 30 (14.35%) Visualisation
13 27 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (12.44%) Data Security
14 26 (12.44%) Decision-Making
15 25 (11.96%) CI/CD
15 25 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (11.48%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 74 (35.41%) SQL
2 51 (24.40%) Python
3 10 (4.78%) Scala
4 7 (3.35%) Java
5 6 (2.87%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.39%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.91%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.91%) R
8 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.96%) Bicep
9 2 (0.96%) C#
10 1 (0.48%) Bash
10 1 (0.48%) Ruby
10 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.35%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.96%) Degree
4 10 (4.78%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (4.31%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.39%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.91%) SAP Certification
9 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.48%) ISEB
11 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.48%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (20.10%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.18%) GDPR
3 13 (6.22%) Accessibility
4 9 (4.31%) QA
5 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.48%) HL7
6 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (3.35%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.48%) HDFS
4 1 (0.48%) RACF
Systems Management
1 16 (7.66%) Terraform
2 13 (6.22%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.87%) Ansible
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (0.48%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.48%) Packer
4 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.53%) Databricks
3 19 (9.09%) Google
4 15 (7.18%) Oracle
4 15 (7.18%) SAP
5 14 (6.70%) Informatica
6 11 (5.26%) Sparx
7 9 (4.31%) BiZZdesign
7 9 (4.31%) Talend
8 6 (2.87%) IBM
8 6 (2.87%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.91%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.91%) VMware
10 3 (1.44%) Dell
10 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.96%) Adobe
11 2 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.96%) Sage
12 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow